Hello guys.. this is my first thread on "general discussion" so here goes nothing! ummm, i was the owner of a WS map in NLC... Then as usual, people come in the map spawning on the top platform. While I was training by myself I noticed the person attacking mid air (which I thought was fishy/not going to say his ign)..then boom 3 minutes later he was the owner of the map and told ME TO CC. At first I was confused on what was going on and he said that the map owner system resets after 3 minutes. So he basically stole my map while I was training.... Is this a normal thing to do? It was my first time experiencing this.. Thanks guys!
im not sure if there was a bug he abused, but basically there is no way you lose mapowner if you have been atking within 3 minutes, because every atk you do resets the timer if you were the mapowner already
See my signature for a complete explanation of how ~mapowner works. But in summary, if you were mapowner, there is absolutely no way for someone to steal mapowner as long as you attacked 3 minutes after your last attack. This 3 minute timer resets the countdown every single time you attack. The only way that person took mapowner was because you failed to attack for three minutes. So rather than that person stealing your map while you were training, that person took mapowner while you were not attacking. Perhaps you were afk or perhaps you weren't attacking because you watching him, F6ing all the while, for three minutes or so. If the latter was true, you could have shown ~mapowner to him and, assuming you were mapowner, ordered him to cc. The order to cc isn't limiting to just people who are ksing. It also extends to people who are harassing you or are otherwise engaging in behavior that doesn't allow you to train in peace. The only circumstance I can think of that people don't have to comply with a mapowner's order to cc is if they are apparently afk, meaning not talking, not volitionally moving, or otherwise showing they are at their keyboard (F3ing, feeding pet, etc.) As far as if mapowner wars are a normal thing to do, they're more common in highly competitive maps such as GS2 and skeles. I only notice WS maps being full at TW and SG times, which seems to be 6 AM servertime to 16 PM servertime, or 10 PM PST to 8 AM PST. You might want to consider playing outside of these hours, but again, ~mapowner is a function designed to let players grind in peace. Just remember to attack every three minutes next time.
