Thats right, we're open to ALL suggestions as when it comes to our servers.
If you have a suggestion, please post below.
Note: That AWP & Auto sniper enablement is non-negiotable, it ain't happening!
This thread carries a strict NO FLAMING policy, if you have an idea, post it!
Some suggested topics: - Ranking Systems - Mods (of any kind) - Public wars - Special Nights
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Ok, just to summarise from the posts made so far:
* Map rotation based upon players/time of day I need that CRON plugin working again, although I think I may have issues with the map voting plugin. I'll look into this as well
* More maps!! We're dependant upon Lagmonster for this, as he gets us the extra spawn points which I add into maps. We need maps with 64 spawn points for 64 n00blets!!!
Map Suggestions so far:
- de_aztec_extendedNeeds more spawn points, tops out at 41 - de_warehouse Needs more spawn points, tops out at 31 - de_church_marq - Looking at
* Add Banners to Server If poss This killed the server last time, I will try again!!
* Set round times based upon map As it says if its office, set the round time for slightly longer, the same goes for the fy map.
* TeamSpeak Rooms for the Server On I'll sort this out shortly so that when on a different server, you'll join a different room
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* Look at adding player skins again - DONE! Not sure if we can as last time I tried this it killed the server with SM. Although I do miss them dearly. * Add live servers list to MOTD - Dismissed as cannot start games from the list, while in game =( I need to look at the code for this and then update the MOTD accordingly I am dissmissing the rocket scouts and hide/seek mod, as that will alter the game play too much.
* Update the MOTD with top 10 players -DONE! This is dependant upon the pyscho stats working again [#12]
* Re-do Pyscho stats - DONE Get this working again * More TS Rooms - DONE I've added a WoW room as requested by Chef
* Themed Nights - On Going Yup I agree, watch this space!!! I love rushing with +30 other players
* Enable AWP IF player count warrants it - Dismissed as a pain in the arse to do & reluctant to enable AWP at all Not sure on this one eother, but I will investigate.
* Sounds & Download - Well I added player skins, keeping away from sounds for now Yes, I agree we used to have a 22Mb download overhead just to get on the server, thats now gone, although 1 or 2 sounds may slip back in again. There is nothing we can do about custom maps, only ensure that they are http downloads and compressed for bzip2 (which they are)
* Map times Altered - DONE cs_italy now has 2min round times, mx_glass and the fy map now have 15min map times, similary de_dust2_unlimited is exetnded by 5 minutes to 40 mins
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I would like to have AWP's allowed but only 1 per team when there is at least 40-50 players on the server. I think this would spice things up a bit. I don't want to cause an argument by suggesting this!
Another thing that would be cool would to have theme nights/ special nights, I saw this one server before have a paintball night, where the bullets were paint. We could have knife nights, pistol nights, H3rb c4nn0n nights, all sorts!
The last suggestion from me at the moment would be to try and get the admin skins back, if they don't cause too much hassle. If not the skins just anything to make the Team MX admins/ members stand out a bit, Like having admin in white letters on the back of each player model for example. Just so us n00bs and n00blets stand out a bit.
That's all I have for the moment but I will have a think in game and report back if I have any more suggestions.
more maps, dont particularly care which ones, just a bit more variety.
also, looking at game monitor this morning, noticed lots of russian/german/spanish servers with 40+ people on at 9am, compared to the 4 of us on ours. how do they manage this??? doesn't their work day begin untill midday??
-Kill:Death Ratio instead of the current ranking thingymabob. -More maps! -Some of the ideas of Woody about them special theme nights thats a great idea! -Get AyBay on team MX
If you want to attract more players then generally you have to keep to maps that everyone knows as if someone is just looking for a random server to play on and stumble across ours then the fact they have to download a map may put them off. Although saying that, since we have a large player base and can max out any map then this isn't a problem during peak hours. Maybe have a look at the server stats and see when the player count dies. If possible you could put on well known maps that don't have to be downloaded for the hours when the server is empty.
Also, if someone has never played on the server before, how long does it take to download all the sound files? When I was playing on random servers this time last year, I was generally put off by any servers that had too many extra files to download. I basically just wanted to get in there and start shooting people! This isn't a dig at the sounds & music as I personally like them but from an objective point of view, if we're trying to attract new players to the server then a hefty initial download might put people off.
A decent ranking system is a must. Don't really care about it much myself but a lot of people like to see how they're doing.
I really like the idea of more themed nights. These don't necessarily have to be on the main server but we could advertise them there and hold them on the 100 tic. Obviously this would require more of your (Moggie's) time as to get the most out of it you'd need to be there to change maps & play music, etc. Perhaps you could delegate it to some of the core admins to oversee some of these nights if you're unavailable and give them the necessary commands.
If we're trying to increase the amount of regulars on our server then we need to have the attitude that every* player is a guest on our server that we're happy to have. We need to avoid the "count yourself lucky we let you play here and be thankful we don't ban your ass" attitude. By no means am I saying anyone is like that, I just want to reinforce the point that a friendly atmosphere will encourage people to make this their home. I played on the UK Training Ground(or was it Camp??) servers for a while but I was put off by the idiot admins(saying that, it was one of those servers where you could donate to get admin so nuff said really )
* excluding griefers, racists & hackers
This isn't server related but frequent news items help to show new visitors to the site that we are a very active community (I guess all the forum posts help as well )
I think most of what I've said is objective and aimed at increasing the amount of regular players and not my personal pleasure on the server. Personally I want friendly fire on but I know that ain't gonna happen!
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My suggestions are: - More bigger maps. Less Dust, i like dust but it gets annoying after a while. - Admin skins would be sweet. - Maybe stick that scout map we had a little while ago back on everynow and again.
Stabs McCool wrote ...
ive just noticed, this is the first post ive seen from manse
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Seems like a lot of people so far have mentioned these so please use/disregard as appropriate:
More maps: Old regular maps and new 'non-standard' ones too. Also depending upon how many people are actually on the server could effect what new maps come up in the 'votemap' window. If say there are 20 people on the server then only 'normal' or should I say small maps appear but if there are 40 people then the window will only show the larger maps?
Awps: 1 per team but have it round connected ie if say CT's are winning 4-1 then then next round only T's can buy an awp and only T's until the score is level.
Round timelimits: When on D2 as a T I have seen many times when there is only one CT camping, 5 T's running to a bombsite to plant and the timer runs out. Maybe just another 15 seconds per round would see more T wins on D2 and other maps. The final CT camper is usually a new person to the server who may not know what they are doing but it is highly frustrating for the T's!!
Admin 'slaps': Great for getting that last camper to shift and do something!!
Money: It is great getting 16k pretty much every round, so you can but everything you need and have change left, but the cash amounts given could also be attached to rounds won/lost. eg If CT's win they get say 4k and T's 6k, this may help to even out the game a little?
Team MX skins: It would be nice to see all Team MX have a 'MX' on their skin along with 'MX ADMIN' on the relevant ones. As a non MX player it does give some re-assurance that you're on a team with people who know what they are doing
Theme nights / pistol/knife rounds only etc: These I find are great fun !!
Rocket scouts / Holy nades: Any chnance of adding these now and again? Again these are great fun
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I say listen to syxx! Thats what happened with me! Saw the mx server for the 1st time so decided to go on it! Took to long to download all the extras so i quit downloading and then went another server! But i cam back on it now im in mx
-Admin skins would be great! -I agree with 1 awp per team! -Special nights would be cool!
Syxx wrote ... I really like the idea of more themed nights. These don't necessarily have to be on the main server but we could advertise them there and hold them on the 100 tic.
yep. i think the main server does alright on its own peak times, its between 2am and 1pm we need to fill it, like the bigger well known servers. we could do with splitting the theme nights between the two dervers.
Syxx wrote ... Obviously this would require more of your (Moggie's) time as to get the most out of it you'd need to be there to change maps & play music, etc. Perhaps you could delegate it to some of the core admins to oversee some of these nights if you're unavailable and give them the necessary commands.
moggie, riley major and now i can change map, although not many have 64 spawnpoints yet.... or do they?? we can also do music, but thats either shut off atm or im using the wrong command. other teamswapping and burning shennanigans is moggies domain only
Syxx wrote ... If we're trying to increase the amount of regulars on our server then we need to have the attitude that every* player is a guest on our server that we're happy to have. We need to avoid the "count yourself lucky we let you play here and be thankful we don't ban your ass" attitude. By no means am I saying anyone is like that, I just want to reinforce the point that a friendly atmosphere will encourage people to make this their home. I played on the UK Training Ground(or was it Camp??) servers for a while but I was put off by the idiot admins(saying that, it was one of those servers where you could donate to get admin so nuff said really ) * [i]excluding griefers, racists & hackers
indeed, but we do need zero tolerance on the griefers, racists & hackers not to mention spawnflashers (once is n00b, twice is twat) and those that are general nobs, as these people can make others give up and go elsewhere.
1. Look at adding player skins again Not sure if we can as last time I tried this it killed the server with SM. Although I do miss them dearly.
2. Enable AWP IF player count warrants it Not sure on this one eother, but I will investigate.
3. Map rotation based upon players/time of day I need that CRON plugin working again, although I think I may have issues with the map voting plugin. I'll look into this as well
4. More maps!! We're dependant upon Lagmonster for this, as he gets us the extra spawn points which I add into maps. We need maps with 64 spawn points for 64 n00blets!!!
Map Suggestions so far: - de_aztec_extended (being worked upon, thanks lagmonster!) - glassassaultii_glasserver (just PM'd lag about this) - css_miami_css (PM'd lag about this one too, it was one of my favs and it only needs 12 more spawn points!) - de_warehouse (uploading now, it already has 64 spawn points!) - fy_ski_dgtl_finall - Added
5. Themed Nights Yup I agree, watch this space!!! I love rushing with +30 other players
6. Sounds & Download Yes, I agree we used to have a 22Mb download overhead just to get on the server, thats now gone, although 1 or 2 sounds may slip back in again. There is nothing we can do about custom maps, only ensure that they are http downloads and compressed for bzip2 (which they are)
7. New players I agree Syxx, although many, many people stick on our servers because of the atmosphere, we need to ensure that this stays they it has always done! (ie no bitching about rates etc... And of cource excluding hackers and wingers, they deserve to be banned )
I am dissmissing the rocket scouts and hide/seek mod, as that will alter the game play too much.
Matt
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As you can see, Dust has too much presence and is generally played too much in my opinion
More maps is a must too methinks, The map selection i posted above pretty much covers is all right now.
Personally, I liked menace and office_unlimitted, Both which i havent seen lately.)
Themed nights
I have no idea what nights would be good to have, But im sure some people would like some random nights of gun game, zombie mod, scouts and knives etc etc.
Sure, Alot of people just want to play what they know, But most people are willing to try something new and have fun playing the game in a different way than simply CT v T with any weapon you like.
AWP
Personally, I dont think it should be added into the game. For me, Its the stupidest thing in source. Shoot someone in the toe with an AWP and they die instantly? C'mon now
Skins
Not a huge priority, But would be nice to be able to use them
Stu wrote ... Round timelimits: When on D2 as a T I have seen many times when there is only one CT camping, 5 T's running to a bombsite to plant and the timer runs out. Maybe just another 15 seconds per round would see more T wins on D2 and other maps.
tbh before psychstats dissappeared, they showed a 70% win percentage for the terrorists on dust2.
Abuse abuse commands (burn, beacon etc..) will only ever stay with me, they will never be part of core admin, nor will they ever be a paid for addition.
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I also think that promoting the website more would be a good idea! Maybe get one of our map makers to edit a few maps that we have on alot and put MX banners on the map!
6. Sounds & Download Yes, I agree we used to have a 22Mb download overhead just to get on the server, thats now gone, although 1 or 2 sounds may slip back in again. There is nothing we can do about custom maps, only ensure that they are http downloads and compressed for bzip2 (which they are)
I think that's a big step in the right direction for attracting more new players. The maps aren't a big deal as if someone new joins on dust2 and has fun with the 63 other n00bs then they will most definitely stick around for the downloads of maps like Atrocity & Nightfever!
MoggieX wrote ...
I am dissmissing the rocket scouts and hide/seek mod, as that will alter the game play too much.
Perhaps some kind of special night on the 100 tic server supervised by the appropriate person if you're not available/cba? I like Lost Ones idea of having Zombie Mod nights, etc. This wouldn't necessarily attract new players but will help to keep the regulars interested and again show that we have an extremely active community.
MҲ l safari jim wrote ...
we should do a core admin vs the rest night. 19 vs 45
I think we'd win, just slap everyone else to 1 hp
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AWPS - NEVER EVER!!!!! There a complete nightmare if your new to the game, DUST 2 example, a Decent T sniper can take out 4-5 CT's through the gap of the doors at mid. How many people are gonna stay for long if they can barely get out of spawn???
MAPS - To be popular, we need Dust on rotation thats pretty much a given. As someone has already mentioned a mixture between well known, heavy played maps and new unknown-ish maps should work well. (DE_KISMAYO for example)
SKINS - TBH i dont care, I get killed enough without having admin on my back, and that is just asking for me to be knifed even more!
P.S - the 1hp and 300hp night started my me on newyears morning are complete lies..........................................
dude sounds wicked and yea that glass map jay was on about thats the one ive been yelling about for the last couple days soo
- that glassy mappy thingy - ooo admin skin would be nice - defenatly zombie mod on certain Nights - more communication like TS but alittle more active whilst playing - oo should we get a n00blet to spam other servers Jwkz that would naughty tut tut - instaid of the website at the start of the server thingy which makes it slower we should jus have texts with daily updates and updateson the new suggestions
and well the rest ial get back later with see ya for now! TA TA
I think the only thing i can add, seen as though everything i would like has been covered by woody,is that alot of the time i have been on the server and there has been no1 to splash the cash for the noobs who were expecting to run around with a machine gun, deagle and full body armor and all the nades under the sun! Is there anyway cash could be automatically given out evry 2 or 3 rounds?
ahh, i see, but surely if we'll be havin themed nights and so on, it wont be so bad losing the pistol round for auto cash, and this is 1 thing admin dont really notice themselves bcos evrytime theyre on the cash is splashed.. ps. i do like pistol round, jus thinkin of noo-noobs!
i think that maybe a change of the site look might help, add a few more different maps e.g like surfs maps, zombie maps like only played on themed nights. The site might need help promoting, advertise it on other sites, like gaming sites.
i would also love to see some of the sounds which happens when some people get like m m m m m multikill lol. that would be awesome!
Got just one thing to say atm..as im going out..AWP..i love that gun to,but on our server, the carrier would easely pick 6-7 in no time agree...would be fun tough..pepole would rape each other to be the one to buy it..and peps would stay/camp in spawn to pick it up when the gunner dies...
Other maps..hell yea...but dont remove the dusts..its the masses choice of map..its wot most of em wants to play me thinks... And i would like to dress up in that umberella skin..pls..may i
Yeh. Dont get rid of dust just add some more choice so that its not constantly dust. I think awps are a bad idea. Even if its only 1 per team. Bitching and moaning over who gets the awp or whose had it for the last 15 rounds will begin to annoy me. It will also aid the camping n00bs who sit in t spawn getting headshot after headshot through double doors. I personally dont like the idea of surf maps being put on this server because there will be too many players and it would be frantic. I like the idea of getting cash every 3 rounds. Sounds like a good idea to me. After time noobs will get to grips that cash is auto given out every 3 rounds and will stop asking for it >.<.
Having theme nights on all the different servers on different nights is a good idea because it will populate and put good use to each of the servers.
Btw I actually want to make sweet passionate love to the 66 tick server because its the dogs dangleies.
Stabs McCool wrote ...
ive just noticed, this is the first post ive seen from manse
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