[UPCOMING MOD] New mod: Captain Game (Page 1 of 2)

Yeah, you are right. The 2 leaders should have the same skill.
For doing so, I think there are 2 methods:
1) like you said, captain are voted by players.
2)an account system like LVL|X one. The players can register to the server, and the server, every time they play logged, store their average killing ratio (maybe also flag capturing ratio?). When a new captain game is called, the 2 leaders are choosen from logged player with the best ratio and, if there aren't, choosed randomly.
3)a teeworlds official account system, like you said. i don't like this idea because of the waiting time.
I vote for the second option, a lvl-x like account system. It may be stored in a simple txt files or in powerful databases. BTW, for database we need a powerful cooder too... xD

^^

Think about Qi lagging server, for example. Or Phonix one. I think it's the server name that makes the difference, nothing else. Usually pro players goes always in the same servers. And Lvl|x one got already a really realy good name.

This could be the best thing i ever heard

Tom said it MIGHT. That doesn't means he will do it.
I think he is the only one can do this mod at the best. He is one of the best modder. Let's him decide freely giving him space.
In a few words: your beta-testing must wait. XD

#restart - implemented
#lock_team - already in tw+
#setting back cfg - exec cmd -> implemented
#kick - implemented
#forcing spectator for all - already in tw+

#pause game - not yet implemented but can be done with 1 line of code (game.world->paused = true/false)
#force one player spectator - set_team id -1 -> implemented

I will right now fix the armor-dmg bug in tw+, add the pause thingie and add some basic mechanics for the captains choosing the players.
The mod will be on ctf+ / ictf+ / tdm+ / itdm+. To initialize the captain game simply vote for captain_start.

Gonna post it in the teeworlds+ thread when it's finished (should be today).

EDIT:
As I just remembered that the tw+ mod throws errors on linux machines I will simply start a new mod called Captain. (cctf, ctdm, cictf, citdm)

EDIT2:
Open dev server should be up from time to time.

That feature was in te+, insta+ and freeze.
But it did support spectator and kick.

Anyways, I will maybe implement an inactivity kick and spectator support, but still inactivity kicks are the better solution here, as the server slots shouldn't be filled with AFK players.

I gtg in about an hour. So i opened a 4-slots beta server. please come there and test the mod.

(My fastest mod... needed 3 hours of coding xD)

It only restarts when a captain leaves, not when a player leaves.

Things to come:
- A little survival game to get the captions dependant on their skill.
- Inactivity kick and some tweaks in cfg etc
- Many config tweaks like warmup (as you said)

Also the broadcast messages seem to go offscreen only on your screen... I didn't really realize that as I use widescreen.
Gonna make them use 2 lines.

Beta server remains up to test if the mod still got bugs / could crash.
Anyways, no serious (crash like) bugs so far...

You are right, I made up some thoughts for this in school already.
If someone joins spectator and a config variable (which can be 1: only to balance teams or 2: always) is set, the game is frozen and a vote starts to put the player inside.

Also about players leaving. When the team difference is same as a cfg variable (2 and higher), then the game also is gonna be frozen and a vote encounters for a teambalance. ^^

Good point, but Password shoudl change every week in the official thread because after a few while a lot of other people will get this password by friends, and they give it to her friends, and they give....

I did not read everything, but I think an account system only for captain games is too complicated, although it would keep noobs out. More a problem is in my opinion the fact that it is a mod, so it cannot run as vanilla ctf. I am not such a fan of mods, very often there are bugs and so on. I think if there are enough players who want to make a captain game, they can do everything they need with votes. If you really make such a mod, keep it as simple as possible, otherwise people will not play it.

My point is that I don't want to use a mod for that, we can do it with the voting system.

@ Tom94:
About locking teams, it is also possible in teeworlds, if you set some votes to have only 8, 10, 12 players for examples. And about forcing one player to spec, yes it is implemented, but how do you do that so it can easily be done by players? I don't think it is a good idea to set 16 different votes to kick id 1, 2, 3... We can imagine another gui option (like "kick, "option") to force spectator for one player.

@ Sn@ZzY:
I think you misunderstood me. Have you ever play some captain games? Because personally, I didn't see any aimbots, spammers in these games. Even if there was some, they were quickly kicked out of the game.The choices for the captains wern't bad. There is no solution to find, like I said a ratio system isn't a good criteria to know the level of a player. We are a small ctf community, we know each other, there is no problem for me. Anyway, I believe we know better than a computer who will be a good captain...

First off: I dont think that a Captain game needs a seperate gamemod. It reminds me of the race - when people came up with the idea of races it was just a simple ctf game with 1 score, and it was GOOD. Now that there exist 33 race mods with 72 entities and switches and teleports and all this blatant crap, races are BAD. So far, captain games are good, do not make them CRAP!

It would be much more easier to administer servers ( and organize captain games/clanwars ) with game-moderator accounts ! See this post and the post after it http://www.teeworlds.com/forum/viewtopi … 444#p49444