Map Vote Rotation

[Sundance]

why not just do ranked votes, they kick ass and help prevent the exact problem described with more votes spread across a wide variety of options

Ranked voting is a good idea, but it might be a bit counterproductive if players can barely make the effort to click 1 button, never mind several ones to rank their vote.

How about weighted voting? Granted, the voting machine concept where you can rig the vote to change the map is a more IC version.

So like when people have their "favorite map in their settings" vs actually voting, I think the players who make the effort to vote should have their votes weighted. E.g: Actually voting = worth 2 votes (or maybe 1.5, but grr decimals) while just having your favorite map in settings nets you 1 vote.

Another idea altogether is to have 1/10 rounds be "Wildcard" where voting is disabled (or if that makes people salty, the vote carries over to the round after next) and a map is just randomly selected, discounting low/high pop maps depending on how busy it is.