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I'm voting for myself even if I'm drunk, i mean i totally deserve it after all its me, torch. And I vote for magnet too he was the best moderator so far.

There is another possibility - to write a custom client which will be connected 24/7 to your server and it will act as a pipe between the rcon and you. This solution comes at a cost of having one slot less for players, but it keeps the server unmodded.

Very interesting discussion going on, and many valid points too. I have read the older discussion about tweaking the laser and there are valid points there too. In my opinion laser bounces have nothing to do with luck - they are a coincidence, but so is a coincidence if I shoot a random rocket somewhere i dont see, but expect my enemy - not because i saw him, but because i am shooting at a place where player traffic is frequent. I'm talking about rocket spam, and if I hit while rocket spamming it's the same coincidence as if I hit with a missed laser shot. I am not comparing the laser to the rl here, just pointing out that luck-shots are possible with the rl too, but they happen less frequent, or are claimed not to be luck but intuition.

I think the main problem with the rifle is that it is superficial to all weapons - in means of attacking another player. You can attack at any range, from standing next to your opponent to being out of his sight, you are hitting instantly and do a solid 5 dmg. Most of the bounces which hit even when missed are a linear outcome of this situation - when you are standing too close to your opponent and miss, the bounce has a bigger chance of hitting back because the bounce is longer; if you shoot at someone from bigger distance the bounce is smaller, and usually at very low angle.

My proposed solution to this problem is to make the laser take damage based upon the length of the ray travelling from the weapon to the victim. The minimum damage would be 2 and maximum would be 5. Being out of hook range would be around 4 dmg to discourage the usage of this weapon in close combat. This would also encourage players to use the bounce on-purpose because you can deal more damage if you hit a close enemy with a bounce rather that with a direct hit. And maybe the bounce could deal 1 additional damage regardless of ray length. This surely wont prevent all luck-shots but I think it will help, since people wont use the rifle as an all-purpose hunting weapon, but only for certain situations like all the other weapons.

Thanks for the temporary sticky, I hope this will bring some of the (desired) attention here.

As a next step I could imagine advertising the game with a review like this in some USA-based magazines, since the game is not very popular there. So if anyone from the USA wants to make this game more popular, take a look around and search for some online communities/magazines that might be interested in featuring a review like this on their site/magazine.

A natural-developement would be to keep the servers running, while advertising the existence of this game to online-gaming communities based in the USA, plus advertising on existing european clan-sites. Then when the game is running with a stable player base for some time, people in the USA will start organizing clans, their sites, more servers and then it is "safe" to provide modded servers too.

For advertising in the USA you can try writing to some websites/magazines that focus on online games, and for the other part - advertising your servers on existing clan sites, I think people here are willing to help.

Heh, what do you call this, Irony ? People going offtopic in the thread of a moderator, thats like jumping into the Lion-cage in the zoo, because ur cookie fell there.

And now about moderation: I think you are doing a really good job, but some of the things AMN mentioned really annoy me too. I have an idea regarding this, but its not really related to moderation. Ill make a topic about that idea later.

On the other side, are there any other active moderators ? If not, the admin-mod team could sit down together (at irc perhaps) and talk about possible recruits. People who have a common sense and are willing to help etc.

First of all bumping a topic is not nice, so you shouldnt do it.

To host a server over the internet you need to be able to open ports. To open ports you need to be able to access your router's configuration. Go to http://portforward.com and select your router from the list to access a guide on how to forward ports for your router. ( If you can't find the exact model, try a random model from the same vendor which is similar to your router ).

Even then not all ISP's allow you to forward ports, so you may also want to connect your ISP and ask for information/help.

You may have more luck submitting the patch in the official release if this feature is really needed. I dont think many will download a client for just one feature. But thumbs up for the effort.

Imo this doesnt prevent all cheating because not all forms of cheating are a result of modified source, the second thing is I am not sure it is worth implementing this, since it has been said a lot of times that fighting cheaters is not worth it, I would rather see the devs developing the game for the good of us all, than having to fight cheaters. Seriously, who cares, play on moderated servers, thats all. But if you have the potential to code this just go for it, I'm not saying this is not needed, I just want to say that imho its an overkill for a not-that big problem.

Lol ? What reason do you need against pornographic and pedophile material on a forum visited by kids ?

It's disgusting, get a life.