[dann]

you can disable basevotes.

if you have 5 or 10 players on lets say goldrush or dustbowl to get your server going and there is a votemap to lets say cp_well or cp_badlands (two of the most unpopular maps) and it wins, you are going to lose at least a couple of players on map change.

Then the others are going to start playing the new map, after a few minutes of no new players joining since most players don't actively seek out and join servers playing well, badlands or granary(also nearly empty ones). They decide, hey this isn't any fun with 3 players and they disconnect for a new server.

This is why I figured you added this feature "sm_votemap_minimum - minimum votes required for successful votemap, -1 for disable votemap" whats the purpose of this feature if you already have "sm_votemap_ratio"?

mani had admin votes but you had an option to set minimum required votes for the voting to be successful.