Server Stuff Sunday 7/24/11

[Cain]

OK, as a result of spending all day yesterday, playing, tweaking, studying etc. I am trying the following things:

1) We moved the server back to Dallas, which in the past has proven to be best for most of our folks, balancing East Coast vs West Coast people.

2) Switched us back to Hardcore Mode.

3) Added Heavy Metal back to rotation, it has proven to be popular.

4) Installed a new plugin to regulate Recons, look at teamkills, and limit tanks with a small number of players. I believe this implementation of Recon limiting is better. Also NO Recons allowed when the player count is below 9, as I recall.

5) Added a rule to the recurring messages about the recon limit.

6) Added the TS3 Server info to the recurring messages.

7) Added a TS3 server message to the join message.

8 ) Experimenting with a new TS3 plugin that automatically switches you to the team channel, based on the team you are playing on. Post here if you have problems with it, and please be specific. The plugin is called "Odin" so you will hear "Odin moved you to Team channel 1"

As a side, note I really want everyone to play on the channel for your team, and I encourage you to type chat to the other team and your team, so we better interact with our non-CLR guests. PLEASE welcome folks and make our server a friendly place, like what attracted you here to begin with.

Take care, and have fun!

-- Cain

[baconoclock]

And on that note i need help jumpstarting, just me in here

[Schultzy]

Out of curiosity, how does the server handle tanks and recon limits now?

And the TK counter, does it automatically remove a player after X amount of TK's? I am finding that "Accidental TK's" can number up to 3-4 if the battle is going haywire - either from being ran over, Repair Tool glitch, or someone chasing your frag you just tossed. "Here boy, here boy! *whistles*" Out of curiosity, is it possible that it would remove a player if he TK's the same guy multiple times - say 2-3 times - rather than a collective count over multiple players? (re: someone raging because you took the chopper or something similar)

I am interested to see how this TS3 plugin works. I always disliked the "Mass channel" in TS3 for the sake that you've got some players calling everything out - which is great - but the entire enemy team hears it too. I know I for one used it to my advantage against Apache (poor guy) when he would call out where I was... I'd quickly relocate.
On the other side of the coin on the mass channel deal, I do like to socialize withe everyone. Double edged sword.

[Dead_And_Gone]

There is or was a TK limit. Admin's also watch for this and will take action as appropriate for TK'ers.
If a guy gets kicked/killed over and over for this, and still doesn't get the picture, we deal with it.

No tank limits. There is a recon limit.

[NateTheBrewer]

There is or was a TK limit. Admin's also watch for this and will take action as appropriate for TK'ers.
If a guy gets kicked/killed over and over for this, and still doesn't get the picture, we deal with it.

No tank limits. There is a recon limit.

There was a tank limit last night I think? Or maybe it was another server I went on... I thought it warned you to not use a tank after killing someone with it if there were less than 5 players on each team. Honestly didn't have a problem with that (5 v % doesn't really need it), but couldn't really tell if it was just suggestion or if it would start slaying you at a certain point.

The only place the tank limit may cause issue is on maps with choppers. If there are only a few people playing and the choppers are in the air, it would be nice to use tanks against them without the warning BUT if you were on with me last night you know its not a huge issue (whoever the 2 Russian players were last night when the server was emptying that stole the US chopper and were both in the air, you both lasted about 2 minutes against my AT4).

I like the changes so far - will try to get in the TS channel next time I play and the fiance is not in bed (headboard is on the other side of the wall to my PC).

Thanks!

[Apache Warrior]

I think the helicopters should be limited when the tanks are limited. Although on some maps the AA gun works great against them. Last night I shot down three choppers, one was ours that had been stolen, before a sniper got me.
Apache

[Qicmee]

4) Installed a new plugin to ... limit tanks with a small number of players. ...

Cain is still tweaking, but yes, the new plugin is intended to also limit tank use by small teams.

[Dead_And_Gone]

that's what Headphones are for.

It is a recommendation here that tanks aren't used until player count is up abit. A good tanker can dominate if only 3-4 players on the other team.

Cain works really hard to find the best balance of maps, admin tasks, and scripts/plugins to make this a smooth running ship. We just want people to have FUN and enjoy playing here. And, of course, KEEP coming BACK.

[baconoclock]

26/32. need lunch

[Cain]

The only part of the new plugin I really want is the recon limit.

The other stuff came along for the ride and we can tweak or remove it, no problem.

The TS3 plugin I want badly, the mass channel is bad for many reasons, so no more mas channel blabbing.

[Cain]

26/32. need lunch

[Schultzy]

It sounds like the tank limit is adjustable by amount of players. Is the sniper limit adjustable in the same manner?

Re: No tanks till 14 players in server, only 1-2 recons per team till 14, then allow maybe 2-3 when there are 18, and so on so forth?

Just curious. *shrugs*

[Cain]

It sounds like the tank limit is adjustable by amount of players. Is the sniper limit adjustable in the same manner?

Re: No tanks till 14 players in server, only 1-2 recons per team till 14, then allow maybe 2-3 when there are 18, and so on so forth?

Just curious. *shrugs*

Yes, it is all adjustable, many more options than the previous plugin.

Also, I grabbed recon on map start, and it let me keep it the whole map, but when others tried it killed them for reaching the recon limit. So apparently this plugins implementation of the sniper limits is superior to the other plugin.

So far, very little bitching about the recon limits and some great games.

[TheSilentAssassin]

Good stuff Cain! Super excited!

[baconoclock]

Can we turn on 3rd person vehicle driving again ? After we tried modified vanilla its been off