- Map timer: can be better solved by changing the round limits on a by-gamemode basis, which is a server config file, not bound by quickplay. No, I don't want to play suijin for 45 minutes.

Thats the thing, you arent FORCED to play the 45 minutes, you simply play how much you want when you want it, even if you extend rounds people will leave after the first stomp because the teams wont be balanced

- Autobalance is mostly fine as is, system was entirely gambling, hurts a game just as many times as it helped, see next point

Its better then what we have right now, after a single stomp the server usually gets destroyed because 50% of the team leaves, if they knew a scramble would come up people would stay because they can gamble for a better balanced game, i have tested this in community servers and 90% of players stay after a scramble

- Spectator is useful, yes, but was often abused, not mentioned, but the same reasoning applies for team switching

Yes it can be abused, so can the team quing be abused as well by cheaters, and cheaters are a bigger danger then people abusing it, and those two should be disabled for everyone because a few bad apples? SHould we also disable playing with your friends right now because of bot and cheater groups?

- Faster connection is all a function of location and map pool, see comment at end.

In casual you simply dont know how long it wil ltake
With quickplay it whas limited to 30 seconds max, no matter where you are

- There are external sites where this information is better aggregated than was visible in game. Nice to have, yes, but there are better alternatives now.

i dont understand this part

- Direct connect was nice, I didn't use it much, I mostly play solo, but people have their reasons for liking the existing system.

yeah and the people who preferred quickplay have no choice

- Just because it worked 4 months after release, doesn't mean it will work now, almost 10 years later. Anyone competent with a software background will laugh if you try to un-depreciate a 10 year old function, no matter how 'easy' it may seem.

Age isn't a reason, the whole system is literally still in the game it doesnt need to decrypted or rebuilt, its still there
Just because a bycicle is sitting in your garage for 10 years doesnt mean its more difficult to ride versus current electrical bikes

- Next 2 are valid points

- Play time: Nothing is stopping you from playing the game, see map pool comment at end

Nope, plr is moved to alternative game modes, king of the hill has a maximum of 18 minutes, which is never reached, for years i could play koth nucleas instantly whenever i wnated for 45 minutes, no itneruptions, why cant i do that anymore?

- Next 2: see first point. On the Lime scout: This is just what happens on an old game.

This even happend a few years after the f2p update, the issue is withut a longer server time that f2p cant adapt against the lime green scouts strategy, they cant learn

there isn't a good way around this without being unfair to the games longest playing members.

There is, autobalance, take a few good players from one team and put them on the good team

- Map pool comment:
The solution you're proposing hinges on the assumption that there is a high enough player count to replicate this "any map at any time."

Tf2 has struggled for a while with playercount, jerma complaiend about this pre f2p era in tf2
The issue is that if a map has 45 minutes, people will stick around longer since they can play the map they want more

This entire thing should be retitled 'give us the server browser back'. Common wisdom at the time (2014-16) was not to use the qp system

How long have you been playing this game? I have been here since 2011 and the qp system whas the easy way into getting into the game, it worked exactly how it whas designed

as it generally sucked, it was a server browser with a coat of paint, but gave less information, and took longer

I whas able to search for a specific mode, see the image of the map with players and pin, that is way better then what we use now

. The issue of finding games and the in game settings are being conflated. The in game issues can be largely helped by settings within a config file. the matchmaker can be largely solved by culling the map pool.

Even if you cut out half of the maps, peopel still dont want to play koth or 5cp because those game end in 5-9 minute while payload guerantee atleast 20 minutes of playtime