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Like i'd have time the night before or morning of halloween to post it. It'll be up tonight. I have to first download and use FACTS in order to create the no flag areas on the map for the as well. JDS if you aren't busy and u want to do that - go for it - create an image of the map as a bitemap and flood in any area of the maps where flags aren't allowed white (the entire outside map area). so I can upload that nice and easy too.

I just noticed that if I have people post bases as seperate topics it will get too messy. ATTACH ALL MAIN ARENA BASES HERE BASE CRITERIA: 1. Fits within the limits of the current zone map design 2. Properly Tiled 3. No Doors 4. Relatively Open Areas/Tunnels in the base - no area smaller than 3-4 tiles wide. 5. Large enough flag room to hold all 25 flags and then some. 6. Obvious to player the direction to flag room Please try to create bases for each corner of the map - as the entrance location has to change. --- PLEASE POST ONLY BASES HERE - DO NOT MAKE ADDED COMMENTS - ANY REPLY THAT DOES NOT INCLDUE AN ATTACHMENT WILL BE DELETE --- Post entire maps or event maps as a seperate topic in zone development Thanks

I don't think it can with just SS sets Teams 1 and 2 could - but I also don't like the idea up having teams spawn in a certain area because then you can just sit there and WAIT for them to spawn and kill them. Lots of vultures out there.

I will lock any topic that I think has been addressed or isn't a good idea. I do not want to delete them in case somebody wishses to refer to one that I may have locked but has a new idea to it. If I don't lock topics I won't remember what i've read/done

JDS WINS! 834 Was The Correct Answer. T-Man - oh so close. JDS wins whatever credits I promised - I'll give - tman some credits too for guessing 833 and 835. I'll do this once a month - or create a bot thing to do it for me - hmmmmmm I like that idea.

Closest Guess So Far: T-Man: 833 You may guess two more times.

I'd like to do that. But that would be annoying. So i'm just going to let them spawn whereever

Second Hint: It is larger than Mage's guess of 790 but smaller then the 999 guess. Everyone can have two more guesses.

I'm curious to know what it said before you edited it, Profanity.

not good if zone ever goes back to private freqs.

So, I've noticed that the least two attempts in getting a tournament set up hasn't worked. Would anybody be interested in setting up a 1-day dueling event? Basically the Rules are Simple: Show up at specified time. All players who show up are entered into the tournament. There will be several rounds depending on the number of players, say we have 9 players, labeled player1 to player9 Round 1: All players still here Moderator - randomly selects two playesr to battle. First player to 3 kills, wins. If there is a tie - go to sudden next. Example: player1 vs player 2 - player 2 wins player3 vs player 4 - player 4 wins player5 vs player 6 - player 5 wins player7 vs player 8 - player 7 wins player9 advances by deafult Round 2: player2,4,5,7,9 still in game Moderator - randomly select two players to battle - player who advanced by default must face somebody this round player2 vs player9 - player 2 wins player4 vs player7 - player 4 wins player5 advances by default Round 3: player2,4,5 still in game Moderator - randomly select two players to battle - player who advanced by default in previous round must face somebody this round - also possibily of doing a 3 player duel - last one to 3 deaths wins player4 vs player5 - player 5 wins player2 advances automatically Round 4: player2,5 still in game Moderator - last two players face off player2vsplayer5 - player 5 wins Player 5 is Champion

Nobody has guessed the correct number yet First hint: The closest guess was one of Gibbit's Anyone who already made 2 guesses can make another 2 guesses - anybody who did not guess at all can make only 2 still. I'll post a hint daily if nobody guesses correctly, each time narrowing it more and more

Until i'm done reprogramming the bot for SSCI Devastation I will not be programming anything that wouldn't be purely for the zone, I'm trying to boost it's population in my zone after all. For the statistics plugin that i;ve made I haven't even created the code necessary for it to be displayed online. I also have no idea for the bot how to backup the SQL table on scoreresets yet ... so my stats are at the moment purely based on the current stats of players. What i've programmed is very simple and not very advanced, and its using SOS's mervbot and wouldn't work on catid's mervbot as far as I know - so I don't know how many people are actually using SOS's versino vs catid's version. My bot should be done in 1-2 weeks - but I highly doubt my zone will start averaging 15-20 players a night anytime soon, so maybe summer 2008 I can look at this project since jan-april 08 i'll be too busy w/ school.

Total Days with Continuum sheilds = possible -> just gotta count total time player has most points. Credits -> will be available on website - but i'm leaving credits in a seperate table in database so you can't match it up w/ the other statistics.

Thats not worth it, if you die from a random sucks to be you, but that random will never be able to win the jackpot.

Starting a new topic here. I dont really like the idea of moving players Instead of using a seperate area as the 'hill' I want to use the center green area ... that little square right there in the middle 2 minute warning !koth to join the koth game (to join it costs 500,000 credits) koth begins - center area closed off by doors everybody who did !koth gets warped in there last player standing wins the total amount of credits available once you die you are out - and can resume whatever you were doing koth lasts maxmum 30-60 seconds - if there is more then 1 player left - then nobody wins KOTH and that jackpot will be left for the next game KOTH runs once every 15 minutes or something any player whom 'accidentally' warps into that area after getting killed or warping or whatever - well - basically will get killed KOTH will be renamed to KOTG (king of the greens)

T-man - it would be nice if I could see links on the website on where I go to post news and possibly other admin-related things if there are any.

Between 1 and 1000 If somebody guesses it correctly, they get 100 million credits. You are limited to two guesses.

Anywho, Gibbit, since i'm re-writin every plugin for the bot right now, I'll attempt to make a KOTH plugin too in a few weeks when I get all of the important plugins done (gonna get stuck on all of our games plugin) Just post what you want it to do on our zone dev forum - and give a description of what you want it to do

Looks like i'm the old fart of the group

Agreed I'll get the credit-reset stuff out of that plugin and put it with the buy stuff I'd like the plugin that shows where weapons are fired back too - but that will be something I do after I get ur game bot fixed and ur credit system modfied to my liking. I think why you are saying this is because there are so many displaying on the screen. I think we can have more - but we need to display less at a time. Here is my idea: !buy - only show the items a person can afford/or the 5 most popular ones (or have a seperate flag for most popular) !buy -showall -> add a flag so all can be displayed if somebody wants to see them all. For most people this should make the list much smaller. A rotation strategy is a possiblity. I am adding a .ini file for the credit system (this is where most of my modifications are coming from) such that the buy costs are no longer hard-coded - and the x/y coords for the basewarp plugin are not hard-coded since maps change. What I can also add to it is another set up options that gives you to the ability to enable/disable it. This way, all tm has to do is access the ftp, change the ini, restart the bot, and bam, only the options we wants to see on the buy list are there.

I have a plugin designed for SOS's version of MERVBOT that will add stats to a MySql database with these categories playername | squad | killpoints | flagpoints | totalpoints | wins | losses | ratio since that is about everything that I can get out of the bot easily. it is keyed by playername, I think I set the maxlength to 30 chars since I dont know how big a name can get to. I dont have any kind of website-related way of piping this information to the forums. The SQL is hard-coded, so you'll have to create the tables with the same naming conventions that I used - which i think is how it is set up above - and the table name would be called 'scores' I do not have anything set up for scoreresets and how to save the statistics after scoreresets. I have only done minor testing - the bot isn't working in my zone yet (SSCI Devastation) as I am still redoing a few of deva's other plugins before releasing all of the redone and new plugins to the zone. On the bright side, you can specify the sql connetion information in a text file - that isn't hardcoded - so once you format your db correctly then it'll work just fine in any zone. Everything is in C# using visual studio 2005

I think I can figure out something for bubble - I can do something like basically make the person invincible by flooding them with recharge so they basically have unlimted health and weapons for a few seconds -> but greatly reduce their speeds. Square might be harder unless theres a way to choose the coordinates a brick falls.

I have developed a statistics plugin so points/kills/losses/ratio/player squad will be available to the website once my bot is 100% complete and t-man has created a page on the website. Hopefully within the next week or two. If anyone has any suggestions on other stats to record (or that I can try to record) please let me know by replying to this topic. Just make suggestions - dont comment on other people's suggestions unless its absolutely warrneted as an improvement - and quote the original person on your post. FYI: The current jackpot will be recorded on the website - and I plan to find a way to record the top jackpots in deva to pipe that info to website as well

After looking through all of the posts, there are several BOT ideas that haven't been done yet that I think may work in the zone: 1. Trivia 2. Event Points - another statistic we could display on website 3. Keeping track of player's most used ships/weapons/etc 4. Buy Additions: a) square - create square of bricks around player (not going to do it) bubble - no damage to a ship for a period of time - but slowdown side effects and such c) freq - lets somebody buy a private freq for themself (done)