XDOOM

In order to organize this forum so its easier for development staff to find related information, there are new guidelines to post ideas in this zone ... For BOT improvements/problems start topic with: BOT: -> For problems please state as much specifics as possible For new tilesets/maps for main arena, start topic with: MAP/TILESET: For new bases for main arena, start topic with: BASE: For new events/subarenas, start topic with: EVENT: For overall zone improvement, start topic ZONE: For website related comments/suggestions, stat topic with: WEBSITE: For ASSS related questions - use the ASSS subforum Once your idea/problem/suggestion has been addressed/fixed/rejected the topic will be locked.

T-Man has developed a new website for devastation. Please visit http://www.devazone.net It is loaded with content - and coming soon there will live stats available for you to drool over to see whether you can #1 in kills, losses, flag points, kill points, total points and ratio. There are also new staff emails that you can use to contact staf members (includnig myself and tm_master)

jds its pretty much doing minor improvements - I like

Session Usage: 0 hours 33 minutes Total Usage: 6035 hours 3 minutes First played: 10-1-1998 14:50:24 UserId:35950

You'll be back And is it just me, or does it sound like rubberchicken has a man-crush on tm?

I dont know if 'project' is the right term for my evil plan ...

Maybe I'm wrong, but why ask someone to help, only to see their work go to waste? Once the work is done it wont go to waste. Hallowed, can you email me to xdoom_2000@hotmail.com all of your ASSS source code please. Anybody who is interested in taking up the ASSS challenge, I will give them full access to the zone and the ASSS source code.

Yeah since when did you tell me you quit.

excellent, cause its really annoying, vista things its a crash then tries to scan for solutions and blah blah blah.

In windows vista (32bit), I run DCME, close it properly - every time windows vista complains that DCME crashed. Its not properly closing.

Yes he does .. i'm missing an entire finger!

I think with my suggestions, I would bring back private freqs, and allow freqs/ with a max 5 person limit.

I scan it once a month and do a ?find or ask the bot !seen to see if anybody has been in lately.

Just tell me if you need anything

I agree that something radical needs to be done. I've always stressed trying to shrink the map, the number of bases, and condense the gameplay in order to make things more exciting. I have also stressed getting statistics set up, and getting new things going in pub (and not just having subarenas). The biggest problem are the hard-core people that I rely on (tm_master and SOS). Realistically, without them the zone is nothing, however with them making these changes is impossible. Now tm_master has done a lot for this zone, he has kept it going and has done a better job keeping players then I ever could, but keeping this style of gameplay doesn't work. Here are my 10 suggestions: 1. Smaller arena - maintain the closeness - and possibly just have much smaller single area bases within close proximity to the center area where you are basically flagging and just killing 2. KOTH in public - gets you bonus points 3. Shrink Jackpot sizes such that they match point levels retrieved from killing 4. No Flag Neuting - basically since the map is super small and there are no longer large bases the flag carrier has to try to last with their team to get the points 5. Get SOS to make bot that can keep track of scores and upload them to website (He doesn't want to) 6. Reduce the number of flags to less than 10 (i'm thinking 5) 7. Give a bonus to flag carriers (more speed, more power, level 4 bombs/bullets - I dont know what setting would work best). 8. Go back to the tileset I had before SOS changed the maps back 9. Give special awards/prizes (like extra credits) to top 5 players in score 10. Start playing even when tm isn't around. Basically, this combines everything good in deva and really adds to the compe!@#$%^&*iveness that you can get high scores by not winning flag games all the time. Heres the problem: I don;t have time to do something like that, i'm always too busy. So, if you like this idea (*Cough* JDS *cough*) make a subarena with map, settings, etc, and lets get something going - and get TM impressed with the idea by having all of us in this topic actually come to the zone all at the same time during normal hours to get more people interested!!!!!

Oh just excessivize it .. thats right I made up a word for this occasion. You get it to me, I'll make sure its added.

Look. As far as I am concerned, both sides did wrong on this one. What Hakaku quoted is what you should do. If there is EVER a problem - just because I am in spec all the time does not mean I am not there - just leave a ?message if I dont answer if theres any kind of problem. This kind of nonsense shouldn't even be on these forums. Topic locked.

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Does anybody know why tm_master hasn't been in deva for the past week? I haven't seen him, and he hasn't been on continuum according to ?find I was wondering whether there may be a particular reason why that I don't know about

yeah that explains everything happy bday

Seems like an interesting idea - I think it should go to its own subarena. JDS msg me in game and i'll see what I can do for ya

I vote you two.

I'm moving to the west coast on sunday again so I should be around more often later at night, and I might even try to play more since I won't have school

I think its like riding a bike, I still know how to put my fingers in the right spots on the keyboard ... but my problem is my keyboard layout has changed so the home/end/del/insert keys are in the wrong spots! I honestly don't actually play much, I just spec and make sure the zone stays up. tm does all the real work playing with everyone and making sure everybody is happy.