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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: jitspoe on February 20, 2005, 01:40:13 AM
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Pickups will be held every 8 days so we cycle through all the days of the week hopefully giving everyone a chance to play.
Next pickup: Thursday, June 16th, 9:00PM EST
We talked about this some on IRC, but a few weeks have passed and it hasn't happened yet, so I'm starting it now, officially.
First pickup was Wednesday, Feb. 23rd, 9:00PM EST.
What's a pickup game? Well, it's kind of like pub "the way it was meant to be played." Preassigned teams, ffire on, good maps, match-style competition, but without the seriousness of a real match. We'll assign teams in #pbpickup on irc.enterthegame.com (http://irc://irc.enterthegame.com/pbpickup). If you can't get on IRC, post here and I'll PM you the password.
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Is the first one on wed or are you just spacing them far apart?
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This will be the first one, this Wednesday.
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Ffire on?
Yucky.
Maybe I'll try.
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How often will these matches b held?
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9:00pm EST = 2am GMT
as ever the european players are penalised for where they live, grrrreat.
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The days and time will change from week to week to accomodate different schedules/time zones. It's not possible to make everyone happy at once, sorry.
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Yes it is. Just give them drugs and tell them they're having fun.
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wut time would that be on the west coast jits?
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Subtract 3 hrs, so 6PM. Next week's pickup will be Thursday, May 3rd, 9PM EST, (6PM for you west-coasters).
Sorry, Rohypnol, but I can't do anything earlier on the weekdays because of work. We'll do some weekend matches at some point, though. Feel free to organize your own if you want.
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ffire is almost as entertaining as the new gun jamming feature...
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They both prevent spraying and camping...
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Tonight! Don't forget! ;)
Maps: shreds_pball1, summer, midnight2
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jitspoe count me in please i am off in 40 min. will be home at 830 cst please email me pc.
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Time for next week's? Maybe just keep moving it up 1 day? Friday at say 10:00pm EST?
Any other suggestions?
I wonder if it might be better to keep a consistent date, ie: always 9:00 on Wednesday... That would probably make it less confusing and easier for everyone to meet, but would exclude some people all the time.
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first suggestion ..make sure there is someon on irc to post password , thanks mr. bigt
second why not take a vote on map list
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I say we make it every 8 days. Sometimes at 9EST, 10EST, 8 EST...
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We need suggestions before we can vote... Also, it depends a bit on the player turnout. If we have like 9v9 we obviously need larger maps that can accomodate that kind of volume.
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that is correct so get started with a suggestions let me start lazy man :)
renior ubhillside2002 antioch and koth
dont be so critical
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Hmm, here's a few more: roundup, sphouse, encounter (though the middle flag kind of screws up the flagcapendsround), halfpipe, jump, midnight, midevil, mirror, palmtreea, sassult, siegecastle, ub_rooftop, pball_shreds1.
And, of course, the ones we've already played: hellsurvivors, brainstorm, castle1, summer, midnight2.
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Jump! Castle1! ub_rooftop! siegecastle!
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Pickup is this friday!
So... ub_rooftop, jump, and siegecastle sound good for this week's maps?
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CRAP! the one day I can't be here...
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i need pass code !!!! i need pass code!! i need pass code at home at 830 cst
jump was played last week :( antioch?
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AAH! I'M HOME!
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Sorry you couldn't make it, eiii. We had a great turnout -- played really well. I think next week's will be Saturday at 3:00PM EST -- that way people with the large time differences will be able to play.
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first suggestion ..make sure there is someon on irc to post password , thanks mr. bigt
No prob man im on irc a lot
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Oh yeah and it helps if you DONT TALK A LOT IN #pbpickup so i can see if anyone needs help ;)
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I'll probably just keep using "pickup" as the password unless we start having a problem with stragglers coming in mid-game.
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please make sure some one is on #pbpickup since you dont read these posts untill expost factos
or give us a time limit for posting request for pc :)
or do what you just said
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We need like a poll or something for choosing maps
here are my map choices
1. scsiege
2. threat
3. y2k
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excuse me but this was suggested
perhaps the winners of the pick up should be only allowed to vote, top three maps in :)
antioch
hillside 2k3
renoir
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Shazam22!
siegecastle
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well i won the pickup twice so booyah :P
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correction we helped you win last pick up (grabbing and holding the flag while you were killing , you kill bot you)
btw winner should get choice not just jitspoe :-*
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I think I'm going to make a random team assignment command for next pickup. Make things a little easier. :)
loial21: I can't find ubhillside2002. Where did you get it?
Oh, and the pickup after next will be pushed forward a day. I don't think having it on Easter Sunday would work out too well. :)
Edit: Since next week's pickup is at a reasonable time for you european players, you'd better show up -- probably won't happen again for another 5 weeks! :)
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what??? no pick up ?
lol spell check hmm..
sorry its it hillside3.bsp ...
Uni had mentioned he "wanted" to go back and change all his maps to ub_ :) sorry
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Reminder: Pickup tonight at 9PM EST. This is with daylight savings, so if you don't have daylight savings in your area, remember to subtract an hour. We'll be playing DirtyTaco's new map. First post updated with the details.
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Maps for pickup this wednesday: hillside3, mirrorr, scsiege. For mirrorr, download http://dpball.com/files/maps/mirrorspak1.zip and unzip into your paintball2 directory. Other maps available at http://dpball.com/files/
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claps hands in glee!!
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Going on 3 months and we have yet to repeat a map, lol.
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request* one of zimbo's map (name not known) "x " sumthing?
very tal map with a divider in the middle, has to long ramps on each side (extreme left/right)leading up aprox 60' to an exit points which lead back down into enemy base or a bunker up high. also has a series of "stairs" in the middle that allow top level access (this would be on top of the bunker) the flag is on a slightly raised base , enclosed by 10' to 12' which can be accessed by going to back of base or by jumping off barrell over wall and on to flag platform. Does not spawn with weapons and has only one cocker per side . Lots of fun
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towers....twin towers
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Don't think that's the one... there's a barrel texture over an entire wall, but no barrels around the flag...
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its not a barrel per say...more like a expended telephone cable reel........please forgive . twin towers ...perhaps
let me check but its fun, the stock of guns is compairable to midnight or battle 2 at worst (god help us) :)
*edit "expended telephone cable reel on its side" :)
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How did you check without knowing the map name?
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the edit?
lol, by playing it and forget the name
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Where did you play it? Go to that server and type maplist to see the maps in rotation. Then try loading some of them up to see which it is.
BTW, short word for "expended telephone cable reel on its side" is "spool." And use spell check. :)
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did use spell check all day yesterday....check server logs :)
I played it on a graph server in '05 and its no longer on rotation.
I will check the list of zimbu's .bsp
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lol he beat me to the gib...
box scores, highlights and player comments would be nice....
and you know this
btw nice server how much are you paying?
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I'd have to come up with some automated method for the scores I love you guys and all, but I'm not going to sit there and manually create records for all the pickup games. I might be able to process the demos and get scores for all the pickup games thus far...
... if I ever had the time to make program to do it.
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cany any one help jits with this? it would be nice to view the demos at least.
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Demos,
Can we please get someone to take care of this. I have 50 megs of web space. Anyone? Help?
Map suggestions.
I am now S8n greatest fan. Any one of his new maps . Fluid x also mad a tremendious map.
420 , speedfactor
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They're played on the test server, which is run on Apex.
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I apreciate you liking my maps Loial21 (notice i didn't say "latoya" :) )
But I'm not sure my three latest maps (the maps I hadn't ever really officially released but are on rotation on GT) are good for the pickup games.
1) Blarg: too tight with massively jumpy for FFIRE...lol...would be a hoot though.
2) Chilidog: possible, but everyone simply wants to fly across the ice.
3) Airtime: probably the most probable, but again, people seem to fixate on a jump and not the game.
These three maps were built as fun, jumpy, maps (except chilidog which was a study in manual terrain creation, but ended up being a super flying extravaganza).
If any one of these was to even be possibly considered I would say Airtime for game play, but lacks the pretty details (although every jump, landing, and placement was carefully planned). It has good r_speeds and could be incredibly competitive if people just got over trying to find all the jumps, and creating new ones (which really is fun!!!).
Jitspoe here they are if you want to have a look:
http://68.184.141.31/airtime.zip
http://68.184.141.31/chilidog.zip
http://www.logictechnologies.com/keith/stuff/blarg.zip
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Yeah, I think your more recent maps are a bit small for the 10+ players that usually show up for the pickups. If we have another small 3v3 turnout, they might work, but it's hard to plan for those. Last time I did and we played antioch3, like 10 more people showed up a couple minutes in, lol.
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Next pickup: Friday, April 29th 9:00PM EST, maps: badlands, sphouse, pball_shreds1
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Forgot to update this thread, but the next pickup is tonight. That is, if anybody shows up...
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Sorry I was late what maps did we play this week? Who won. etc
Next pick-up is at 8:00pm central on 6/31/05?
Will you have a test server Jits?
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We played shazamr and siegecastle. Blue/purple won.
And yes, the next pickup is Tuesday, the 31st.
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great pick up ....next is 6/8/05 ?
gg s8n
Maps suggestions?
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http://www.freewebs.com/eri3ch/evilpickup.JPG
:o
There wasn't even a new post when I went to click on it... I was just DRAWN to it. Next week's pickup will be EVIL!!
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Next pickup will be Wednesday the 8th, yes. Hopefully the new servers will be up so it won't be laggy like the last one.
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EVIL SERVERS!
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Close. EV1 servers. ;)
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NOW HE'S SPEAKING IN CRYPTIC MESSAGES! HE'S POSSESSSED!!!11!1!11one!1!1
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you need to there fun
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hah! That's the best representation of me ever.
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lama (er)
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Well, the new server's working out pretty sweet, so the next pickup should be lag free (well, less lag than usual).
I'm thinking maybe cameltoe, uhn, and mirror2 for maps.
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test server or evl?
please evl
and i will be about 15 late thanks
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paintball2://216.127.68.86:27910 pw pickup, maps are uhn, mirror2, and warehouse.
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Question: do you think we'd get a better turnout if we held this on the same day every week? Like every Wednesday night? Unfortunately participation has dropped significantly. I guess it may just be because it's not a new thing anymore and people take it for granted... There have been 3 or 4 people who have played almost every pickup, and now those 3 or 4 people are about all that show up.
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Count me in for the next pickup. When is it gonna be?
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On 7/16/05
8 o clock central time in usa
every 8 days
Post request for your favorite map here.
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I try to keep the very first post in this thread updated with the date/time.
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Sign me up then. You'll have to PM me the password. I don't have IRC, and I don't want to download a program for only one purpose.
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The password is always "pickup"
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*smacks forehead*
What's the point of a password then?
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Is it really necessary to "sign up" or can I just show up depending upon the time/date on which I can come? I will probably be attending my first pickup otherwise though :)
Mantis: I would think this would be because people who aren't supposed to be there would fill up all the spaces provided on the server and each of them that would walk in would need to be briefed on whats going on, etc.
As far as map requests, I can try but you may find my suggestions unacceptable since some of them are kind of old; Roundup, supb, and Jump or Tents perhaps?
This may be the last time Iron allows me to post (lol) for a good reason...so just a map update: I hope to have it finished before school starts. The r_speeds are ranging from 1000-7000 and it's becoming gigantic. I have already thought of the perfect person to let modify it also if I cannot drastically lower the r_speeds. The test version will be posted in 3 months and it will possibly become a 4-team map.
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roundup and jumps make good pickup maps -- we've played those before. Tents looks like it has an issue with the standalone, trans33+trans66 makes the textures use the alpha channel (so it can be used for fences and stuff). Unfortunately it looks like that's what was done with the glass here so you can't see through it. Also, I don't like the fact you have to climb a ladder to get to the flag -- if anybody's defending, you'd be pretty much guaranteed to get shot if you went after it.
I never cared for supb... for some reason it's really hard to see the yellow team on that map -- I think it's because the whole thing is practically fullbright. Plus there's only one path, so... bleh.
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Oooh...can we do Shock?!?
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Transparent bunkers are out for any pickup game I run. :)
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New player request is something you mmight want to think about. :)
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cough hello ?? tonight?
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20 min phaw with me it will take 50 im camping
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Well, I was hoping the player count would increase and we could start playing bigger maps and even get some 4-team pickups going on, but alas, the player count has dwindled to practically nothing, so I think I'm going to stop doing pickups for a while. I'll do them again when there's enough interest to make it worthwhile, but only having 2 or 3 people show up completely defeats the purpose of it. On the plus side, there are more people playing regularly on the pubs -- perhaps there's a correlation?
I need as much time as I can get to put into development to get the next version ready in time for dpcon anyway.
Of course, if somebody else wants to run a pickup, go for it.
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Sadly Jits,
Those pubs were playing maps that you want ban. At the time of and after the pick up while I was waiting for others (iron, eiii, taco.. etc) and you, the IOD server was Full and on Que,waiting for players which at the time was playing (one of my personal favorites) Ice and Pb_CUP (A fps training ranked map)
Any ice maps are ok with me but one with a layout you cant hide from is truly god like for honing FPS skills PERIOD. Any "logical" rebuttals?
See through bunkers can not hurt anyone BTW.
Just like jumping on a jump map. Does this not make you a better jumper?
Speaking of jump maps do you wish to ban them also? :)
This is the best way to make players better, period. Maps to improve the player specific ability. Thus map ranking.
The leet ranked maps should be reserved for stats, min amount of players per map (duh) and matches plus pickups and all other manorism of digital paintball ranking, simple as it seems, now getting this organized, thats different.
Thus you leet geeks that care post to be all "knowing" come in to place (eiii,taco,iron) . Contribute some more time into making this game, the way average-player friendly game, a FPS paintball standard. More over if you have time to post make time to play please. I peronsally miss kicking your ass ;)
Hosting pickups,
I can, but i need an abundance of maps for voted maps (on forum) which i have suggested.
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I'll be able to play next week, because I'm out of school then, but after July 1 I'll be gone for the summer... road trip across the country...
bleh...
(extra ellipse just for fun)
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Ok since jitspoe will be gone i will be other servers , if yall want just holla at meh I got ops at the very least
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Pick UP?
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hey when is this gna start back up?
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Good idea I think every thursday 8pm cst?
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jits, u starting this again? prob after build 15?
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when is the next pickugame :) ;) :) :) ;)
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NEVER!!!
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Jits, you should start up the pickup again. There's no reason you shouldn't. If you just don't want to do it, i'll do it for you. :P
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I think maybe this time around we should keep it on one day of the week -- say every Wednesday night?
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mm thats fine with me
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Theen... we might as well set one up for next Wensday. Maps? (Okay, one HAS to be arenaball pong. It just has to. Unless there's a better pong map...)
BTW, #pbpickup is alive again.
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wed 9pm cst?
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I think we'll go with EST. Wed, Sep 7, 9PM EST.
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(Okay, one HAS to be arenaball pong. It just has to. Unless there's a better pong map...)
there is one... BOK! my map it supports pong ;)
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Hm. I looked over BOK, and it actually might work well for pong. Just make some more forward spawns for each team, pong specific, and make it so that some brushes block off the secondary route in pong.
HINT: Use the 'gamemode' key.
Also, if more than 8 people show up, (yeah, right) I think we'll play NORMAL crimethink instead of Pong Arenaball.
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:/ block the secondary path in pong....
im not sure, its very hard to make that ball go up the base from the main way.
and what entity shoould i make the brush so i can give it a gamemode value?
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Just a normal brush will do. And also, for pong, make the base anywhere past the gate.
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A normal brush is worldspawn. You want a func_wall, though we should probably play-test the map to see if closing off the alternate path is even necessary.
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Well, If you get the ball about 1/4 of the way up the cave, then shoot it, it bounces straght into the goal.
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... if nobody's there to defend the goal.
Perhaps it would make a good DSM option. When there are lots of people, it's harder to score goals.
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The only way to "Defend" against that is to be standing in the exact spot. ;)
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ok i made the func_wall entity and compiled it.
it works!
and what do you mean by past the gate, like all inside the base?
im not sure about that :/
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Yes, ALL inside the base. BUT ONLY FOR PONG! You can't get a ball up a ladder. ;)
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you can kick it so it goes up all the way up the gate to the base ;)
but that would be very very very very hard.
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Oookay, cobo, we need that version of your map.
Also, THE PICKUP IS TODAY! If less than 6 people show up, it's not happening.
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Will 10:00PM EST work? I don't think I can make it by 9:00, and it seems most people come in late anyway...
Hm, I wonder if this forum has a way to post a time that will translate to whatever timezone the viewer has their options set to...
Also, my linux install is screwed up, so I haven't been able to build and test the new version on linux, so we won't be able to play pong tonight.
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Argh. I hate linux. I managed to get it to compile, but it consistently crashed when a second person connected. I tried to do a clean build, but my linux distro is so hosed now that it's missing all kinds of header files I used to have. I couldn't track some of them down. I really pushed the limit on my lunch break, so I had to get back to work. I'll get the old version up and running tonight, but I definitely won't be able to make it before 10:00 now.
And we still won't be able to play pong.
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I am there.
E I O , bring it !
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I play this game in the dorms at collage, and I'm decent at it. . .. I'd like to play in one of your pick up games. . . . when is the next game and how do I connect to it?
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There's almost always people available on the public servers online. If your college's network permits you may be able to access online servers.
Once you're in the game, from the main menu, choose play, then choose join a game. Press the update button to attempt to retrieve a list of servers online (if your college requires the use of proxies you may experience some difficulties here :().
Alternatively there's a live list of servers available at http://dpball.com/serverlist.php
You can connect to any of these by bringing the command console up within the game by pressing the ~ (tilde) and typing in the command:
connect ip.add.re.ss:port
ex: connect 69.93.11.66:27910
If it fails to connect for most of the servers it's likely that your college has blocked access to the internet game servers.
Let us know if you have any further problems.
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The pickup died. (Sniff)
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let me play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wow, talk about reviving dead threads. Don't ever do that again.
2 years... Wow.
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1yr 4mths
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Same thing.