I know peoples have tendacy to think i hate when i give my opinion because im always honnest and contreversal, but there no hate here.
Just opinion that i think will bring more interess for peoples.
1: If we make a new ladder, remove the actual ladder first, i know some peoples want to keep this ladder for their bragging rights, but no one cares, at the end its just too complicated to have 2 ladder at the same time, even if one dosent work, just remove it.
2: Im all in with the ramdon map, i think in general peoples would like this, the only problem here, is, you throw us this maps like that the day 1 and you tell us here the ladder.. Before throwing maps that peoples dont know, you must let us know the map in advance before the ladder start, so peoples can pratice those maps before the ladder start. No one is interess to play a ladder if they dont even know the map yet, its like learning the map at same time of doing the ladder, it mean nothing at this point, so before season start, it would be better to present us the map pool selection. Here my idea, when a new season start, release 2x 7 map selection, one for the actual ladder, but also one for the future next season.. So peoples can play the ladder but they also can pratice the next season in normal games and learn the map before new season release.. If you dont want to do that way, release them at least 2 week befores the next season start.
3: Like i said, im all in with the random maps, but right now and especially for this season, i think you should just let peoples take whatever map they want, server is not really strong right now, and i think we must make sure peoples play the map they want for the moment, later when we will be ready and more peoples play the ladder we will switch for random if its required.
4: Random or low medium ressources is not a priority at all, i dont think peoples want to play these ressources at all, it's like water map, its a minority, and the majority dont want to be annoy by it, you should just remove these ressources period, if peoples want to play low or medium or whatever they will do it themself in a aggrement, but in general, everything should be high.
5: It's nice to show us the maps with images like you just did, but let's be honnest, we dont see anything bro, try to figure a way to make these maps images bigger and without a tag in middle of it, the goal of the images is to see the images properly so we can learn them, if we dont see nothing, there no reason to post it at all in that case.
6: Money is always a great prize, but the ultimate prize for everyone are the icons, you guys must work on something to give peoples some rewards other then money, if i was you, i would remove everyone master and grand master tag and legend tag. At the end of every season i will give back these icon to the 10 first position.
Number 1: Legend.
Number 2, 3, 4, 5, Grand Master.
Number 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Master.
And at the end of every season you re-organize the icons to their new proper owners.
I know you guys are stick to keep everything the server did in the last 20 years, but its actually the reason why peoples dont cares about this game, because when they came here and they see rewards are stock in the past, they dont feel like there any rewards for them anymore.
If someone is immature and mad at the point that he think an icon belong for him forever, then just too bad go play something else.
This server should not be taken in hostage by a bunch of ego maniak who think they deserve an icons for ever because they think they are neo in the matrix.
At the end thanks for the work and effort, but i think it still need some work and organization, still thanks.