Map-idea : no fixed frontlines.

your website is ugly.

How is it even possible to come up with such terrible ideas.

/-The idea behind is, that you have a map with 4 fields where the diagonal adjacent fields get obliterated alternately.
-/
thats cool.

if you provide the map
then i will provide the wupget.
if i provide a crown
will you provide a queen?

This could make for some rather interesting games... I suspect...

I like the idea, especially if all the metal comes from reclaimed asteroids and wreks

i just had an easy to implement idea of his vision on a map.

1st: the map has no metal spots (or very rare).
2nd: the map has asteorid shower, which go down in lines, which divide sections between players
3rd: these lines are the only source of metal (beside reclaim).
4th: these lines are moving, ending and starting somewhere else.

result: temporary impassable areas which needs to be hunted down. energy buildings must be moved over time. highly dynamic bases and metal management.

First, try making a pure reclaim map. It's quite possible, though puppies break it a little.

Then maybe see it that works before getting any more ambitious.

/-it would mean you basically can't make a base.-/
of course you could make a base, just not potato over the whole map.
The map would be divided into 4 rectangles like this:
1 2
3 4
players start at 1 & 4
after 5 minutes stuff in 2 & 3 is destroyed
after 10 minutes stuff in 1 & 4 is destroyed, and so on.
The imporant thing is you KNOW that the area eventually gets flooded/bombed/whatever. So you can prepare for it.
I dont think it would nessecarely be a trololo map.

reclaim only map:
exists, Wakka Wakka
iirc it was considerd "too porcy" and lame by zK players.
Not sure if that is correct, imo that was because
1) players did not know how to change resource amount (or zkl could not set mapoptions?)
and
2) it was played in large team or FFA games, instead of 1v1 like it was made for.
(most 1v1 games actually end before all stuff is reclaimed, 5v5 there is not nearly enough resources or space)

We need to think of a way to make the Quickmatcher accommodate "Special" maps and missions and bizarre gameplay. Putting things like this into the regular circulation on the main gameplay servers is a bad idea, but altogether leaving them out of the Quickmatcher is bad too.

Perhaps a "Special" server would be in order, including both FFA-specials and team-specials, with a Large Teams cap? A place for HotStepper and CattleandLoveplay and that teleport-map and overcrowded tinymap games and lava scripts and this asteroid thing?

Maybe that would get people to start turning Quickmatcher back on. Everybody's on Special but they want to play on Large Games? Quickmatcher to the rescue!

you mean something like:
!votehost mode=trollroom
!y -> moves you to trollroom if vote is successfully?

That would replace the juggler system.
I wuold prefer a fixed juggler system with average maxJuggling = 1 time per minute and about 5 times per 1/2 hour, prefer to not juggle players unless another room lacks players, recognice !jugglemeback which switches you back and don't juggle you to this host again for at least a hour and also exclude /away and spectrating players.

If you can implement a such a perfect system, head on it.

[color=grey]Offtopic:
Basically, you need to create possible game types and add each free player to each list as long as the player may wish to be juggled to there and create games from that list.
!jugglemeback and player preferences can exclude or include this possibility - see white-list/black-list.

The difficult part is, that you may hijack 1/2/3 player(s) for another game, but not 2/4/5 and you have to respect !jugglemeback as well as to choose another player from there for exchange.
The more difficult part is, that any hijacked player which wants to be juggled back, can cause a Snowball-Effect and cause more than one juggle action in one minute for other players - I think that this is the current issue.
I hope you see, why the preferences has to be set before executing juggler and !jugglemeback is most likely a stupid idea.

The tricks are 1. to wait for other games to get an all-ofline time for juggler actions (more available players), 2. predict when a game ends, dependent on the number of troll players, the current ingame time and maybe some code which evaluates the ingame status, 3. deside if you want to wait for that particular game to end.

Now as you see, how difficult it is, you may find a solution for which we can adore you.

Finally, you may want !jugglemeback, !dontjuggleme (gametype), !ialsoplay (gametype), !ilike (gametype) or !iwantnow (gametype) and provide a short list of commands which are sufficient and set settings which are supported by your code and the database (juggler settings).[/color]