I'm not aware of the problem you mentioned, I could always suggest any map just fine without auth, since when has it been like this? And does that happen on riga or on that other server, "classic rugby party" or something?

The maps might also seem repetitive because a while ago the behaviour of the mapbattle was altered in such a way that only maps fitting in size (depending on the amount of players) were auto-suggested, to avoid situations with 30 people on alloy and 7 on asgard. Afaik this measure was only very limited though to remove the "extremes" on both ends while keeping variety. I don't know anymore how many maps were in which pool or if maps were removed at all, i think obst can tell you more.
Nevertheless I think any map from any pool can still be manually suggested.

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Are these maps really the most popular/favorite? Or is it because the algorithms used to put maps into the rotation is broken and thats all we have a chance to play?

If no maps were suggested, the server will randomly select two maps out of the whole map pool and have you vote between them - not too much of a complicated algorithm. You could argue that maybe the last 3 maps or so could be excluded fom the map pool so they can't be randomly selected which i think is a nice idea, but the only other reason that comes to mind is people suggesting those popular maps all over again, which I think is in the nature of the game. I'm not a fan of akroseum but if people suggest it 300 times a day and it is also voted for, there's nothing you can do about that other than suggesting other, better maps yourself.

Before mapbattles became popular, there has also been a time in which the popular public servers would just play a fixed map rotation and not even enable anyone to influence that. This would guarantee variety and might be another solution to your concerns.

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Edit: 3rd request, because why not: please publish the current rigatoni source code (the changes from the already public spaghettimod). This used to be public in the Pastaland times but not anymore...

The original Pastaland modules can be found on Gustavo's github.

Furthermore, you can check out the additional spaghettimod scripts I created on my github.
Some of those are (maybe in a modified version) also currently active on Rigatoni Rugby, e.g. the code for the altered Rugby versions.

If you need anything else, I guess obst has to publish it. But I think the above links can help you out already

I agree with what you wrote in the first half about how masters should act etc., because that's pretty much common sense, and it almost looks like the master rules post we have in the masters section.

if you have no standards... you will get ugly results (as we do now).

With a group of 40+ masters, there are discrepancies when it comes to judgement. But that's why there are master guidelines, and I think they are mostly being followed. If there is negative feedback or specific complaints, that is being considered and talked about. You make it seem like "the vast majority" (most masters) are horrific, and that there are no standards, both of which isn't true.

if some masters refuse to follow a good, fair set of rules, it lowers the integrity of the entire group

Actually, you are the guy who keeps painting everyone as incompetent because of two or three lackers. If you just called out the masters you think are so bad, we could discuss this with them and improve the situation for everyone.

Also fyi, my personal opinion regarding your auth app wasn't that I thought you're running some conspiratorical agenda against Sauerbraten servers, but rather that if you can't even fix your own ping, you shouldn't be in a position to judge others' pings and pj's. I hope that is also in line with your own standards you described here.