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Chambahs · Guest Offline

I am currently in development with an ASSS zone, and it is almost complete except for the main module. I need a module that will dynamically change things in the public arena, im pretty sure after this module the zone will be able to open and be completed, so if anyone would like to help, please contact me or smong in anyway, thanks.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

Change what? The map? Settings? Spawn points? Warp points? Players?

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

Did Smong stop coding?
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Solo Ace · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject:

Smong became a Michael Jackson fan.

Chambahs · Guest Offline

well, i dont really wanna give out too much info, and smong said he doesnt wanna code it, and i cant force him so....meh...and yes he did turn into a MJ fan

, but 50% are you interested in helping us out? if so you could PM me your AIM or ICQ or something and we could talk about this in private?

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject:

You ask for help but won't say what you want help on? Afraid someone will steal your ideas? Hehe.
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50% Packetloss · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:25 am Post subject:

I doubt the idea(s) that you have is/are all that original anyway. Might as well say it so that people know what they are getting themselves into.
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Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:09 am Post subject:

Muskrat · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:16 am Post subject:

If you say so.

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

fine....here goes...

(big breath) i need someone to make me a module that will dynamically change the settings, lvz, and map in the public arena when told to. For example, the gameplay that i am running will have Ut Bomb Run, CTF, deathmatch, and a powernode game. For these gameplays i have 1 or 2 maps for each, and i also have a different lvz and regions for each map. After one game was done, the server would automatically recycle the arena and switch over to another gameplay. That is pretty much the basic idea, so now...if you are interested tell us, and we could get into precise detail. Thanks

Dr Brain · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

Just /?send all the players in the arena to the next one.

That should make it about 20x simpler to write.

i88gerbils · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

Not to mention not booting players out every 15 minutes or so.
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Smong · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject:

Off the top of my head changing pub's shouldn't be too hard. Change map and attachmodules settings, then recyclearena. The boring bit is going through every gametype module and adding support for this (since chambahs wants the arena change to be based on other factors, not just time passed).

Recyclearena seems to work on all clients, but /?send is restricted to cont.

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

I agree.. moving players between existing arenas is the best way to do this. You can write the gameplay modules to signal an event that the master mover module picks up, and moves people around. You can even set it up so that people are redirected to the active arena if they try to switch. It's true that moving clients without ?go only works on cont, but everyone should be using cont anyway.

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

Ok, so who wants to write it?

as long as something works and someone writes it, ill be fine, but then again, the whole thing about moving players to arenas is the simple fact that i dont want players split up in arenas, i want all of them to be in a main pub, meh...i dunno

Dr Brain · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:29 am Post subject:

If you make yourself a simple arena placing module that puts the incoming players into the active arena (you can just have it put them into the most populated arena, even) then you'll have 99% of your players in the right place.

Oh, and I thought that ?recyclearena was based on /?send...

i88gerbils · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:43 am Post subject:

If each gametype had a simple method for stopping it, then you could stop the game, and start the next. And if they each had their own portions on the map, then you could warp them there.

hmm.. that'd be interesting... *goes to put something in a todo file somewhere completely unrelated to this topic*

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

?recyclearena isn't really based on ?send. They both rely on the fact that cont accepts the "you're entering an arena" packet without requesting an arena change, but ?recyclearena is sort of a nasty hack: it sends the packet once, to put the players in a sort of suspended state, then internally unloads the arena and reloads it, and then sends the packet again, for real, to have them enter the new arena. ?send is somewhat cleaner: at least it only sends it once.

Chambahs: What's the difference if they're in a pub or a named arena, if they're all in the same place? It's not like the client even knows what its current arena name is. You can restrict arena movement as much as you want, even to the point of disabling ?go.

i88gerbils · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:52 am Post subject:

True. Look at HalfLife servers. Usually those change maps, but boot you in the process.

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

You guys think it will be a better way to run it for the players to vote on which map/gameplay? Like the players do in elim, they vote. Ive thought about that, and i thought that it would be too confuesing for newbs? Meh. I dunno