I'll give you guys a tl;dr first just so you know whats up and can try things out for yourself.
There is now an active 1.6 NIPPER maps server that runs 24/7 and nearly always has people.
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Background:
I want to tell you guys what happened not long after that Minecraft fiasco from last year. I ended up on a Mexican Counter Strike server playing a few custom maps and after some time I became one of their mappers, and eventually one of the head admins.
About a month ago though me and the owner, Sinaloense, decided to add -the entire NIPPER map pack- to the mapcycle of his FUN server. Its been absolutely amazing because the server is almost -always- active and for lots of the people playing its their first time playing NIPPER maps ever. For many of them, its even their first years playing Counter Strike, a situation almost parallel to that of the old NIPPER maps server, Rock's Hideout 4.
Sinaloense and me talked a lot about wanting to eventually tell joe.to about this, considering me being an old joe.to regular and Sina being really fascinated with the old world of 1.6 and the NIPPER server. I know it was always a big dream of the old regs here, to have a NIPPER maps server that actually was active and had people consistently on it and its finally happened... after about 10 years.
Today I saw Kr@zzy, a friend of a friend from way way back randomly enter the server. I asked him if he knew Daniel(sonicdragonwerkz, the old reg who I still talk to) and it really was him. That inspired me to make this thread and not sit and wait until the "perfect" time to share.
That all being said, there's some things to understand about the server and the community, its definitely not a nostalgic recreation of the past. Its more its own thing but with a revitalization of NIPPER maps now at its core.
1. The server runs Sina's custom made FUN mod which is like a highly optimised(and much more fun) deathmatch gamemode but with randomized weapon loadouts instead of the really boring game breaking "choose your weapons" menu of other deathmatch mods.
2. Things are about 100x the intensity of what you'll remember. The rounds never stop, the action never stops, you play and fight until the 13 minutes of the map are over, people vote for the next map and we move on to the next. The maps used to go on for 25 minutes, but I personally lowered them to 13 because anything over 15 got people overwhelmed and frustrated. 25 minutes sounds great on big_city2, but 25 minutes in hallofdeath will make you go crazy.
3. Almost everyone speaks Spanish and only has a basic comprehension of English. So most will likely understand what you say but won't be able to respond beyond a "hello".
4. Car maps are popular and loved by the community, but if a car is completely bugged or falls out of bounds there's really no way to retrieve it unless an entire team dies and forces a round restart. Not too big a deal when the map time is purposely 13 minutes, but still is something to watch out for.
5. There are still some non-NIPPER maps from before the NIPPER map pack was added. Prior to about a month ago there were just a few NIPPER maps in a map cycle of about 40. Most of the non-NIPPER maps are still on the mapcycle and are occasionally chosen for play during the map votes. After the adding of the NIPPER map pack though, the mapcycle is more than 150, meaning NIPPER maps completely overshadow these maps and are the base of the server.
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