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Agurus · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: Negeitive point fixer

Can someone whip me up a plugin that fixes a players negetive score?
Instead of buying SCOREREST, and whiping their W:L, players can just do !fixscore or something like that too bot, and the bot will like take away 1.5 billion points (out of 2.1+billion).

I recall seeing this before somewere but not sure. If you need more info please ask.

-Ag
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Cerium · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject:

Just have it do it automatically whenever you receive a score update that gives a player negative points...
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Agurus · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:28 am Post subject:

How do you make it do it automaticly

Cerium · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject:

...umm...
The awesome power of event handling, perhaps?

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

Just don't have your settings high enough to get negative points.
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Cancer+ · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject:

yeah, knock your points down a bit.

Agurus · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:

Well they are low enough I just need a plugin that would fix it, overtime some JP get insanely high (4-5 hours+ games).

Chambahs · Power attack Joined: Jun 19 2005 Posts: 820 Offline

ill tell you the same thing i told kewlair and RS, there is no need to use big numbers for JP and other point rewards. If you have an average jackpot of 1m and your normal burst costs 100k, just do the math and lower it down. Example:

Current Settings:

- Average Jackpot in zone is 1 Mil
- Average Kills are 10k
- Goals are 50k
- Bursts are 100k to buy
- Prox is 10mil to buy

New Settings

- Average Jackpot in zone is 10K
- Average Kills are 100 points
- Goals are 500
- Bursts are 1k to buy
- Prox is 100k to buy

Just because someone has "A million gazillion super duper billion" points, doesnt make it stand out more. It just causes more problems. If everything is still in perportion with the numbers, it will be the same with no negative points bug.

Also, if this were done in your zone, there would be no need for "a plugin that fixes a players negetive score".

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

It didn't need 20 lines to explain that, but Chambahs is right. Too much inflation is bad for an economy.

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject:

Opps ignore this post.

Muskrat · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:04 am Post subject:

Yeah, say you had 200k bursts and 2 mill jps, just lower it to 20k jps and 2k bursts.

Also, lowering the prices proportionately will work.

Agurus · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

Yeah it isn't easy getting newbie players to understand the JP is at a lower ratio.

Chambahs · Power attack Joined: Jun 19 2005 Posts: 820 Offline

So? Everyone can adapt to it. If they can adapt to new gameplay and new setts/lvz/maps, why cant they adapt to their JP being lower than normal? Plus Mr. 102 pop, you have a few newbies to spare now, right?

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:03 am Post subject:

Just make an announcement in the news, if people don't understand, at least they'll accept it.

Agurus · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:32 am Post subject:

Yeah ok, I was never real good with the JP Meter settings but will give it a shot near the next scorerest.

And its Mr. 103

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newb · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject:

Agurus · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

It woudl take a while to get it through half the players head.

D1st0rt · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:22 am Post subject:

which gives a distinct advantage to the others who are capable of basic number manipulation
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Purge · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:47 am Post subject:

I made a real simple plugin for what you asked. Source included.

Agurus · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:52 am Post subject:

A little more info? Commands?

Purge · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:28 am Post subject:

Chambahs · Power attack Joined: Jun 19 2005 Posts: 820 Offline

but ag, if you think about it, thats kinda stupid, because there will just be a limit of 2.1bil, how can players try to get top points in your zone? (Which is pretty much the reason of flagging zones) Why dont you just lower the points like we suggested and then players can actually compete for top points, instead of all of them at 2bil and then switching aliases because they dont wanna go back to 600mil

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah, basically that plugin just removes the whole point of points altogether.

Cerium · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject:

I say you keep everything as is and change the name of your zone to "The Price is Right".

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D1st0rt · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject:

It checks EVERY SECOND? why not just check on PlayerEntered, ScoreUpdate, PlayerKill, FlagVictory, that type of thing.