Remove Map change poll

[Blondin]

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[quote author=Lav link=topic=503.msg5589#msg5589 date=1325058492]
My 2 cents.

The main grief with map polling comes from cavalry and is entirely justified. I have myself faced this problem a couple of times: you take your pony to train mounted xp, you find a server without any players so as not to spoil anyone's game with your choice of maps, change the map to Beach Assault and start training. In time, a few other cavalry players join you and everything is nice.

But then, infantry players come and start those stupid polls to change the map. Majority of players are footmen in this mod, so this means that in time, you are guaranteed to be overwhelmed in polls and the map will be changed to Mountain Pass or Town. So after you put up some effort not to spoil other players' experience, other players come and spoil your experience. Just freaking great.

So what I think we need is just two servers dedicated to cavalry with only Beach Assault and Swadian Village maps available. Maybe as the number of cavalry players grows and the server pool expands, more servers will be cav-based (and their map selection will expand as well).

This obviously does not prevent infantrymen and archers from playing on cavalry maps, nor does it prevent horsemen joining the battle at Mountain Pass. However as horsemen will naturally flock to those two servers, they'll be more likely to outvote those pesky footmen. :-)