Vote on map and game mode with ease

[13th_account]

Problem:
You like the standard CTF but don't mind playing HTF, Rambo or DM once in a while if a fun map comes up. But there aren't necessarily any good or populated servers for those game modes.

Solution:


Server hosts can choose to let us riffraff vote on the upcoming map from three randomly chosen maps from the server's mapslist.txt. This simple translucent box will appear whenever there's one minute left on a map and lasts for 15 seconds. Vote with the numbers 1, 2, 3, or Escape to close the box. The number of votes a map has received is shown in parenthesis to the right of the map name.

This voting system would preferably also benefit from another useful feature, that being to bind a map's filename to its game mode. Whenever the map changes to "htf_mapname" the game mode switches to HTF, when changing to "tdm_mapname" you get TDM. Same goes for "dm_", "pm_", "rambo_", "ctf_" and "inf_".

[Monsteri]

Uh, why create a new thread when there's already one active going with a very smiliar topic?

The idea's not bad, but I wouldn't want to create wallposts of the same thing in several threads.

[13th_account]

Didn't want to hijack someone else's topic and derail their idea. It's common forum courtesy.

[chutem]

I think this is a good implementation of smiluu's idea, and having it as nextmap vote near the end of each round will help bring the diversity in gammemodes that is required to keep soldat a bit more fresh. It's simplicity will make it easier to understand, and being there to be voted on automatically at the end of each round will mean it will actually be used. This idea would go well with smiluu's idea, but we still could use both, as smiluu's has a lot more control being able to pick certain maps to go with what gamemode you want, as well as any scripts. This could be used as a start though, as it would be easier to implement.

[smiluu]

Three reasons I don't like the vote system they have in Valve games are;

- It comes in middle of the game, and last minute on top of it.(?) It's either a distraction to competitive and focused people and easily a trigger of conversation for those who focus less on the game.
- The fact it's random and you might never get what you want.
- Simplicity and lack of information.

[machina]

I don't like that because of those dm_, rambo_ (real shortcut is rm_ btw), pm_, tdm_... Cloning map isn't something cool. It should look like that:

DM | Arena

[DevilX4]

Server scripting can do this easily.

[machina]

Server scripting can do this easily.

Yea, that's why I would love to see "Leo's Random GameMod"

Btw. if it's so easy to do, let someone write scripting like that

[smiluu]

Server scripting can do this easily.

Yes, but we should let the developers actually implement something once in a while.

[DevilX4]

Meh - there are other things alot more important that need fixing imho.

[machina]

Meh - there are other things alot more important that need fixing imho.

If we want "fresh Soldat" (as smiluu said) we need for example new GUI, and profiles for users like in KAG...

[smiluu]

Meh - there are other things alot more important that need fixing imho.

I see, you're very knowledged.