So this suggestion is as much a warning about an abusable nomination method that has been discovered. Basically, if you don't want a map to be nominated you can just nominate it before anyone else the second a new map loads. Then no one else can nominate it as it's removed from the menu. Then a second before map vote you change your nomination. It goes back into the pool/menu but no one has the chance to re-nominate it. This was happening for hours on the VSH server to prevent cinema from being nominated and it became pretty clear this is going to be a thing if it isn't adjusted and it was causing a lot of tension as people were figuring out it was somehow being prevented from making the vote list.
From what I have observed it seems that if you nominate a map you solely "own" that nomination unless you leave the server or nominate something else. If this is the case the simplest solution would probably be to allow multiple players to share a nomination. One thought to do this was to bypass the menu and nominate by name in chat [!nominate vsh_map], but that didn't seem to matter, it still would not show up in map votes as long as someone else owned it already and released it right before map vote. I was even able to sneak in a nomination by name after it was released and before map vote but it still didn't show up probably because of too many nominations already.
If that's not possible another solution could be to print the release of a nomination in chat and/or not allow nomination switches after an amount of time before map vote starts. However if the nominations are prioritized by time of nomination this could maybe still be abused by making sure the list is full when it gets re-nominated.
Could also randomize the map vote time so it's not as predictable. Have it some random time between 5 minute mark and 6 instead of right at 6 every time. Then it's probably a bad gamble to try to manipulate it as you'd end up being the nominator of the map you didn't want half the time.
From what I have observed it seems that if you nominate a map you solely "own" that nomination unless you leave the server or nominate something else. If this is the case the simplest solution would probably be to allow multiple players to share a nomination. One thought to do this was to bypass the menu and nominate by name in chat [!nominate vsh_map], but that didn't seem to matter, it still would not show up in map votes as long as someone else owned it already and released it right before map vote. I was even able to sneak in a nomination by name after it was released and before map vote but it still didn't show up probably because of too many nominations already.
If that's not possible another solution could be to print the release of a nomination in chat and/or not allow nomination switches after an amount of time before map vote starts. However if the nominations are prioritized by time of nomination this could maybe still be abused by making sure the list is full when it gets re-nominated.
Could also randomize the map vote time so it's not as predictable. Have it some random time between 5 minute mark and 6 instead of right at 6 every time. Then it's probably a bad gamble to try to manipulate it as you'd end up being the nominator of the map you didn't want half the time.
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