1.1 And The Readyroom
Windelkron
Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
<div class="IPBDescription">still restricted?</div> I remember when NS was coming out, one of the more-advertised features was the Readyroom -- we had a place for players to talk, change teams, etc, while preserving atmosphere. PTs would tell us sometimes people would be around the readyroom and just talk because it was fun, etc...
is this going to change?
The readyroom has already been "nerfed" by disabling team-joining (effectively making the readyroom pointless), and there's talk about auto-teaming people after 30 seconds of idling in the readyroom.
It's my opinion, and I hope other people share it, that the readyroom should be advocated as a social opportunity and a fun, unique aspect of NS, and not limited. Please make the readyroom like it was in 1.0? Please?
is this going to change?
The readyroom has already been "nerfed" by disabling team-joining (effectively making the readyroom pointless), and there's talk about auto-teaming people after 30 seconds of idling in the readyroom.
It's my opinion, and I hope other people share it, that the readyroom should be advocated as a social opportunity and a fun, unique aspect of NS, and not limited. Please make the readyroom like it was in 1.0? Please?
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Yes, I'm saying it changed from 1.0 -> 1.04. And I'm also pleading for it to be returned to 1.0 style in 1.1.
this option was nerfed in 1.04 (or 1.03, I forget which), mostly because people could (and did) switch teams easily, and then told their new teams the tactics that were discussed and were to be implemented by their former team, as well as defensive placements and such. A player could be a VERY effective spy this way, ruining all gameplay. At least, that's what I was told was the reason, and I KNOW for a fact it happened often.
As for ready-room idle, it HAS to be left up to server ops. They pay for the bandwith, and should be able to choose if people can sit all day in the RR or not. Other than that.......
[edit] just read what he typed. The readyroom hasn't been nerfed, teh ch34ters have been slowed down. Whenever the teams are horribly stacked I just rejoin [/edit]
is it true that you will retain classes in the rr, as in if you were a lerk you could still fly around and skulks could wall climb?
Uhm, you guys ever heared of the SCOREBOARD? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
You can't see the classes, but you can see who is on what team.
On our server I have not installed any Idle-Kicks or forced joins and probably never will... everybody is free to chose his team and if some people want to chat for a while they can chat.
Our clan was formed during a nice chat in the Ready Room btw, wich just shows how much "social" effect it has <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
-my2cent-
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jp/lerk=fly in ready room
skulk=climb
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Uhm, you guys ever heared of the SCOREBOARD? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
You can't see the classes, but you can see who is on what team.
On our server I have not installed any Idle-Kicks or forced joins and probably never will... everybody is free to chose his team and if some people want to chat for a while they can chat.
Our clan was formed during a nice chat in the Ready Room btw, wich just shows how much "social" effect it has <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
-my2cent-
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I think the guy meant that you can still see who is on what team when everyone is in the ready room. So you can see who was on your team after a game so you can congradulate them or such.
Te ready room is ment to be social. Keeping your abilities makes it even more social because you can do more than just run crouch straff and jump. The descision on a time limit should be up to the server admins. And also it should just make them join a random team, not just kick them. Once I was downloading the map from the server and 2 seconds after I entered the readyroom the server said I had been in the readyroom to long and kicked me. This **** me off becuase I didn't have a chance to join a team. I would have been perfectly happy if it sent me to random team. I usually go Random anyway unless I haven't been on a certain team all day.
P.S.: If I missed any "H"'s or "M"'s, sorry, I need a new keyboard. Seriously. No kidding.
I never once saw somebody join the other team to find the tactics being discussed.
How many tactics get discussed over teamchat in pubs anyway? <i>It's probably likely someone will press mm1 instead of mm2 and mess it up anyway.</i>
How many of them are so pivotal that having them exposed would utterly kill them ("rush the left door in 3, 2, 1..")? <i>Knowing what hive they start at or if they're relocating somewhere are pretty elementary things to find out, all it takes is a short scout of the map. Changing teams to inform about immediate tactical maneuvers also takes too long to be effective.</i>
And is it really bad for people to be able to inform the other team about things? <i>How about hiding gorges and jetpackers in vents that draw out the game for 15 minutes?</i>
I (and others) started a number of threads when the team switching was disabled. I am doing a search now to try and find it. Overall we came up with a number of good suggestions for server variables that would give the server operator full control on how team switching worked.
I am hoping and praying that those suggestions were included in the 1.1 feature.
Yup, as I expected, the topic I started seems to be "gone" or cannot be found via search. I sure hope a dev captured it as it had lots of good suggestions and a large amount of backing from the server op community.
Seriously though, I love Nancy's readyroom. Would love to see some more easter eggs in ready rooms, or pictures or what not...
Yea... defintely keep rr's <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Uhm, you guys ever heared of the SCOREBOARD? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
You can't see the classes, but you can see who is on what team.
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I think the guy meant that you can still see who is on what team when everyone is in the ready room. So you can see who was on your team after a game so you can congradulate them or such. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Uhm... there you won't even have to use the Scoreboard, just use your EYES <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Why do you think there are Marines, Aliens or even Eggs in the Ready Room? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Solaris / Sonja
[edit]: removed obsolete parts of the quoets