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Paintball 2: The Game => Server Discussion => Topic started by: SuperMAn on January 04, 2014, 12:29:43 PM
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Hello Everyone,
My paintball servers/website have just been moved to a new server. The new server is more powerful and uses the Xen virtualization platform as opposed to OpenVZ on the old one. This should (hopefully) stop all of the constant lag spikes you have all come to love.
Your ping should still be exactly the same, the only change you should notice is the lack of lagspikes =).
-Superman
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the classic pub idea is great but would be better without arm :)
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the classic pub idea is great but would be better without arm :)
Maplist can always be tweaked, I wasn't sure if I wanted a DM on there either. I will leave it like this for a while and see how it goes.
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the classic pub idea is great but would be better without arm :)
agreed. And add nhb.
The two speed servers should not have any common maps between them. One of them should be more noob-friendly with lots of camping, like wipa and italy, and the other should be more advanced, like pbcup_pforest and freedom.
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Thank you for taking off Easy Jump. It only had two maps.
Maximum 3 of your match servers are used at once. So it's okay to take off the match servers.
I haven't really seen people go on Supermans Speed 2, but it is a good idea.
I like the Classic Pub! Just take off arm, it's a DM map and it doesn't fit the regular CTF rotation.
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Maybe remove freedom from rotation. It's a good match map, but just horrible for a pub with larger amounts of people in my opinion.
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Remove dhemap. The visuals are horrible and there is no noob-friendly way to the flag.
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Remove dhemap. The visuals are horrible and there is no noob-friendly way to the flag.
dhemap isn't actually on the rotation in any of the servers. I only put it on last night to test the .ent I created with some actual players. And I must say the .ent worked great =p. You didn't mention anything about spawn-camping =).
Also edited first post with a bit more information.
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For Supermans Speed 2: Add london, carpathian, discovery, and pbcup_pforest. (unless any of those maps are already on speed #1) Remove napalm and daylight. Add neon just for a day or a few days to see how it plays and how much people like it. No doubt they will dislike it at first because of its complexity and it is hard to navigate, but once they've played it for a good 15 minutes, most people from my experience have figured out the basic layout.
For Suprrmans Pub: Add pbcup_renoir.
For all your servers, change "Supermans" to "Superman's". It makes more grammatical sense that way unless you are talking about multiple Supermans.
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For Supermans Speed 2: Add london, carpathian, discovery, and pbcup_pforest. (unless any of those maps are already on speed #1) Remove napalm and daylight. Add neon just for a day or a few days to see how it plays and how much people like it. No doubt they will dislike it at first because of its complexity and it is hard to navigate, but once they've played it for a good 15 minutes, most people from my experience have figured out the basic layout.
For Suprrmans Pub: Add pbcup_renoir.
For all your servers, change "Supermans" to "Superman's". It makes more grammatical sense that way unless you are talking about multiple Supermans.
carpathian and pbcup_pforest are both on Speed 1. I am happy with the rotation on both servers for now.
As for your other point I was taught in school that it would actually be Supermans' (Canadian thing I think). That confuses most people though so I just left it out. Using 's for a possessive just look off to me =p. If I changed it to anything it would be Supermans' Pub/Speed etc..
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In America, we use 's for singular possessive and s' for plural possessive. For example, if it belongs to the boys, it's "boys'" and if it belongs to Superman, it's "Superman's."
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In America, we use 's for singular possessive and s' for plural possessive. For example, if it belongs to the boys, it's "boys'" and if it belongs to Superman, it's "Superman's."
Did a bit of research and you are right. It must have changed since I learned it in grade school. I am about 90% sure I was taught that any possessive was always s'. I don't want to be promoting bad grammar so I will change them to "Superman's" =).
Also I just learned that my host has plans on Xen instead of OpenVZ so I am in the process of switching over. This should drastically improve performance and will hopefully completely eliminate those pesky lag spikes, which I believe are related to the OpenVZ virtualization platform.
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"S'" is only used when the word ends in an "s" already.
Hope the switch helps the lag spikes, though they don't seem to be as bad as of late. A while back they were unplayable.
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"S'" is only used when the word ends in an "s" already.
Hope the switch helps the lag spikes, though they don't seem to be as bad as of late. A while back they were unplayable.
They aren't as bad lately because of a recent Kloxo exploit. Because of this exploit my host has been automatically suspending servers that are using too much CPU. That is the reason why my servers went down a couple weeks ago. One of my jump servers crashed and it caused a CPU usage spike, it was caught by their auto suspension script.
Once it is switched over to Xen none of that will matter though since I will have 700Mhz+ of CPU all to myself =).
Edit: Paintball servers & website have been moved to the new server. Updated first post with a bit more information.
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Remove grave. No need for a siege map on a speed server.
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Remove grave. No need for a siege map on a speed server.
Speaking of Siege, can you add a North American Siege server? That would be awesome!
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Speaking of Siege, can you add an North American Siege server? That would be awesome!
i thought u was in english honorz
But in all seriousness, Superman's Siege is a good idea. That way you don't have to force grave onto Speed #2.
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i thought u was in english honorz
Whoops, at first I said "American Siege server" instead of "North American Siege server". I edited it to maintain all of North America, because I forgot Superman's servers were located in Canada.
But, since you care, I edited it for your sake. <3
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Remove grave. No need for a siege map on a speed server.
Siege maps are the only thing that make speed servers playable. :P
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I think you should have autobalance on because whenever I play it's the same thing... newbies switch to the winning team and it's super annoying
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i thought u was in english honorz
But in all seriousness, Superman's Siege is a good idea. That way you don't have to force grave onto Speed #2.
I think I will do this soon. I will probably move one of the jump servers over to the Buffalo host and add Superman's Siege to the one in Toronto.
I will probably replace grave with nolandr on the speed 2 rotation.
I think you should have autobalance on because whenever I play it's the same thing... newbies switch to the winning team and it's super annoying
I'm a bit hesitant to use auto balance.. The problem is that it only balances the number of players. It doesn't take score into account. I feel like whenever I play on a server with auto balance the teams are always very uneven. I suppose I could try it out for a while.. If people like it I could just disable it whenever I play.
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I'm a bit hesitant to use auto balance.. The problem is that it only balances the number of players. It doesn't take score into account. I feel like whenever I play on a server with auto balance the teams are always very uneven.
Well it's better than having 10 players in the winning team and 2 in the other.
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Well it's better than having 10 players in the winning team and 2 in the other.
Yeah I suppose so.. I usually switch to the losing team when this happens and the teams even out, at least for a few minutes until I have to switch again. I will enable it later today and we will see how it goes.
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How is the stat "score" tracked?
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How is the stat "score" tracked?
It is just a kill count. Grabs/Caps don't mean anything on GameTracker.
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It is just a kill count. Grabs/Caps don't mean anything on GameTracker.
Is it possible to implement caps/grabs as a stat for the software you're using, or is GameTracker not advanced enough for that? If it's possible, please implement it. If it's not possible, idk, maybe just keep it the way it is. Certain situations like these can be difficult because tracking kills only, just like ranking the in-game leaderboard based on kills, can be unhealthy for the minds of noobs. There is not enough glory in returning the flag, and just sitting in a comfortable place all day and shooting at passer-bys is a lot easier, and with this system, gives you more rewards. The result will surely be better and make gameplay experience more fun if capping is rewarded and kills is secondary to it.
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Is it possible to implement caps/grabs as a stat for the software you're using, or is GameTracker not advanced enough for that? If it's possible, please implement it. If it's not possible, idk, maybe just keep it the way it is. Certain situations like these can be difficult because tracking kills only, just like ranking the in-game leaderboard based on kills, can be unhealthy for the minds of noobs. There is not enough glory in returning the flag, and just sitting in a comfortable place all day and shooting at passer-bys is a lot easier, and with this system, gives you more rewards. The result will surely be better and make gameplay experience more fun if capping is rewarded and kills is secondary to it.
It's not possible using gametracker. I have used some log parser programs in the past that can generate stats, I haven't found a really good one yet though. sk89q created one but I haven't been able to get a hold of him. I'm not sure if any of the ones I've used in the past actually track grabs/caps though.
This is an example of QLOG: http://supermanspub.com/serverinfo/stats/kill_ratio.html
I could start tracking stats using it pretty easily, I wanted to test out sk89qs parser before doing all the work to implement it though.