Spring RTS Engine

Well - we can at least agree that having active admins is a good thing.

But now that I'm an admin on TERA, ofc it appear to work for me because when I'm around there is an admin around... so I am taking what you say seriously.

If you want to know who the admins are, it is made public on the (slightly out of date) forum post with the TERA host rules: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=519280 I suspect that it is a coincidence (obscure spads setting idk?) that it only spews account ids when you ask the host, since t...

Oh I assumed you know, it's no secret :P I'm Sapphire/Bluestone (my original name on lobby, years ago, was silent_wings). The autohost rules on http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=519280 make it pretty clear that newbies should be treated well and that admins (I'm one) can punish players who ...

The rank limit which is on some autohosts is put there to combat smurfing, not to deny newbies entry. Although some players may be unfriendly to newbies, (in BA, at least) autohost owners are not. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask a newbie to play an hour of single player/tutorial/campaign befo...

My best idea to solve this is have autohosts only allow people onto them after they have maybe 1-3 hours ingame time (or something like that) AND have a singleplayer mode where people who've just created a new account can make up a few hours in tutorials/missions before trying online play. The only ...

Is ZK not an open source project? (I don't know.)

It's unfair to blame TERA - TERA has a two bar rank limit, whereas ACE and most of SPADS have 4 bar rank limits.

We are now able to make rank limits into autospec limits, imo we should do that.

But the real question is, do you own any uggboots?

limit of one account per IP/day would help to limit some smurfing This is completely unworkable - it would make testing mods/lobbies/lua very difficult for devs. And there are also legit reasons for using multiple accounts eg. some players are in >1 clans and many people have brothers/sisters/kids ...

BA mostly uses TERA, ACE, [x] & Princess - these are all regularly used (and sometimes, eg ACE, there are different hosts for the different kinds of BA games). Spads is basically a backup and those hosts are used less but they are used. Then there are the two dev hosts for testing BA/BAR. And th...

use the filter if you don't want to see them!

If you have random bugs with BA then here is something that may help you: 1) After any game, open up infolog.txt, it's in same folder as spring.exe. 2) Look for a section where it has lines like Failed to load: gui_advplayerslist.lua (duplicate name) Failed to load: gui_attack_aoe.lua (duplicate nam...

But luckily we have very few of these and most of our autohosts now have an active admin network. In my opinion 'agressive' smurfing isn't a problem that should be worrying us right now and we already have automated stuff that mostly takes case of linking accouts from payers who (for entirely accept...

Jazcash wrote:Getting sick of seeing all this spam

Another option that we incorporate uggboots into the spring project

I've checked through quite a lot of the trueskill data for big games whilst making chranks and I've never seen it behave badly on those (but I also looked through the games klap mentions and he is right that it is behaving wrongly in those - so maybe this issue is restricted to 1v1s).

With springlobby you have to wait 5 sec in between each login, but I'm not sure if that is server or SL forcing it.

Please post the infologs of the other players who are out of sync too, & demofiles as well if possible.

...stats ... custom end game screen with it :).

I like

We should not rank people on anything other than win/loss because we shouldn't be telling people what is/isn't important about how they play the game. Yes this make convergence slightly slower, but (i) trueskill converges pretty fast anyway (ii) we can still have chranks (iii) we've survived for yea...

That's already taken care of - the replay site gives different ratings for differen mods, and even with each mod different ratings for each kind of game (ffa, team ffa, big team, 1v1, ....)