I would prefer having it so that it only skips the next map if it has been delayed twice.

Such as:

current map: Oneofthegreatestfailuresinmapmakinghistoryfort
Nextmap: Loserturbine

I buy new next map: Awesomefrontier
Nextmap: Loserturbine

Someone else buys next map: OkRush
Nextmap: SemicoolGranary

current map: Oneofthegreatestfailuresinmapmakinghistoryfort

We're continuesly working on the development of our spapoints plugin aswell as the rest of the community. As we're all doing this in our free time and unpaid you cannot expect development to be as quickly as you'd expect with companies and such. If you compare us with other communities i think its pretty save to say we're in the top leading communities who have their own development team inhouse. We build our community on 2 important things, 1; our community members (spa members, regulair players etc) who make it a nice place to play and a place that wants to be played on (hence the reserved slots which are earnable by being one of these regulairs), and that directly covers the second point, our spapoints system which should provide players with that bit more extras they don't recieve on other servers (because i don't know any were you can earn points to spend on reserved slots and map changes).

We're aware of the balance issue. As you can imagen if you want to sort this propperly you require a WHOLE lot of coding and mathical work on a plugin to make this work propperly. To give you a direction, a populair CS balancer took several months and 1500+ lines of code to develop, and this is relatively 'easy' because its on a game with pretty 'easy' game rules for each side (you don't have issue's such as switching a medic could already tip over the balance). We are working on resolving the teambalancing issue, but don't expect anything anytime soon and if it would come to work completely propperly. As with every game, the balancing issue is mostly a case for the players to deal with. As admins we're doing our best to keep things playable, but we can't be watching everything 24/7.

Can you make the following pls:

current map: badlands
nextmap: gold rush

I buy granary with my SpA Points so:

nextmap: granary

Now it would be:

map after nextmap: goldrush

But Id like it to be:

map after nextmap: any map but goldrush

So I dont actually delay goldrush (in this examble) but totally forget about it and play a decent map instead


That would probably lead into ppl spending even more points (ZOMFG Relentless bought granary and fucked goldrush, owww wait for my revenge, when granary starts I will insta-rebuy goldrush)

I just got the most brilliant ide ever. As the vmware and the likes continue to develop and as im more and more use to virtualizing everything and anything why not virtualize the TF2 servers as well. The principal that kind of "lit the lamp" was that there could be a single server environment that has some performance limitations, lets say 72 slots and/or 5 virtual TF2 servers. Then the people in those servers could vote on the map and the virtualisation layer would then create lets say 5 servers based on the most popular choices and spread the people among them, and the people that didnt get their way could be given a choice to join one of those.

All the virtual servers would have the same cycle, lets say 20 min, then the process would repeat.

On the second thought there should just be a Hypervisor for all the TF2 servers in SPA that would manage all that and the users could just do the voting, and be connected to the appropriate server based on the vote and the Hypervisor would do the rest.

It would revolutionize the whole resource management system.

Considering the scale though, it might be a task for Valve. And why stop at TF2 lets make it universal . I can see it now: "SPA, the community that revolutionized the gaming industry by developing that cutting edge server tools so desperately needed" - and getting filthy rich in the process

Hypervisor

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Yeh but even then its just a useless "layer" why would people join one big map to then lets say go through portals to a different map/ therefore a seperate server when they can do that effectively enough by... using the server list that is in use now :O

Hmm im not really getting deep into it, cause im at work but off the top of my head. Why are chatrooms still popular or the 3d interactive spaces like Sony and Ms are offering ? Interaction ofcourse, minigames, etc. Lets say the custom map would feature trains that take you to some map, youve got a ticket, with a time and meanwhile you can play minigames, trickjumps with scout class, duck hunt with sniper class, rocket jump obstacle course etc. Those could be done 1 vs 1 or againt time etc. There are endless possibilities. And thats just off the top of my head, 15 sec on thinking max

Stop shooting raw concepts down before anaylzing them, rather try to improve them, or suggest something else.

You should include realism in your concepts. Stuff that is within our power to create.

Is there a CV repository of SPA members somewhere ? Besides theres nothing that a motivated group of people cant do, tools can be acquired skills learned etc. But i know what you are getting at, you are the only one that does any coding and that has been limited to xml, php etc, maybe some source tweaking ?

Hint taken, ill tone it down, maybe open up a new thread for "The Ultimate Mod" or smth

I can't code at all.

Is there a CV repository of SPA members somewhere ? Besides theres nothing that a motivated group of people cant do, tools can be acquired skills learned etc. But i know what you are getting at, you are the only one that does any coding and that has been limited to xml, php etc, maybe some source tweaking ?

Hint taken, ill tone it down, maybe open up a new thread for "The Ultimate Mod" or smth

And that is good! Pure goodness in its purest form coming right from god's heart!

lol

imagine if saint would code somehow, how many things more he could break

I would love to see this system being able to work with your wc3 plugin.
You buy [item] for [xx] days for [xx] Spapoints. - it will then be added to your "wc3 loadout" and it auto equip/activate so you dont have to worry about buying immunity and so forth.
You can buy experience (xp) for [xx] points.
You can buy autobalance protect.
Maybe some special "Spapoint" features like a permanent/weekly bunnyhop feature, extended ammo slots and so forth.

i mean i dont wanna donate if only i can set a new map lol :p you get my drift <3
ONLY YOUR FANTASY SETS THE LIMIT!


ok im super stoned so imma go grap some food..peace out

-LL

I would love to see this system being able to work with your wc3 plugin.
You buy [item] for [xx] days for [xx] Spapoints. - it will then be added to your "wc3 loadout" and it auto equip/activate so you dont have to worry about buying immunity and so forth.
You can buy experience (xp) for [xx] points.
You can buy autobalance protect.
Maybe some special "Spapoint" features like a permanent/weekly bunnyhop feature, extended ammo slots and so forth.

i mean i dont wanna donate if only i can set a new map lol :p you get my drift <3
ONLY YOUR FANTASY SETS THE LIMIT!


ok im super stoned so imma go grap some food..peace out

-LL

Hi,

You've posted some interesting suggestions. I am not sure if we have anyone available who can change the SpA points code at the moment, but I'll look into it.

Until we managed to produce something, we could always agree on manually adding xp and such in the meanwhile.

Saint K.