Some Suggestions

[Soad 39]

Well,

But,

The Ghosting Problem and AFKs

Although the two biggest abusers of the spectator feature to ghost (205 P4 and Beast) have been banned, it is now well known that many others are beginning to imitate them as they saw how long the currently banned have gotten away with it.

I and many others would highly support the limit of spectators to only 1-2 players or even none, and it have an auto-kick of these spectators after 10-30 minutes. I also propose that afks ingame are automatically moved to spectator after 3-5 minutes of not moving.

It sometimes takes 2-3 tries to get an afk out of the game, due to people always voting no or simply wanting to keep killing them over and over again.

Recap

• Removal of Spectating ability.
  
• Do not allow dead players to spectate opposite team.
  
• Move to spectator mode or kick players after 7 minutes of not moving in-game.
  
• Limit amount of nades that can be purchased in one round (2-3), preferably 2.
  
• Pop-up menu giving the option to knife fight when two players are left alive. - 218 N8
  
• sv_minrate 25000 <---this solves ALL lowping minrate abuse problems and some issues with Highpingers too (150+Ping)
  
• serverrestart once a day.
  
• Enable SourceTV
  
• Remove TeamScramble - Highly buggy, rarely works, only angers the losing team more because it will still be stacked
  
• Lower round limit to 3:30
  
• Ping Limit » 300-400
  

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Other Suggestions

Limit the amount of grenades that can be purchased during the 30 second starting round. Its not fun to have 5+ nades thrown at you when you're sitting at back window as a CT.

A suggestion that many would find interesting is a Knife Fight options when only 1 player of each team is remaining. A menu could appear (like when we votekick) and give the choice to accept the knife fight or denied it. -212 N8

1. sv_minrate 25000 <---this solves ALL lowping minrate abuse Problems and some issues with Highpingers too (150+Ping)

2. Serverrestart after every round <----laag decreases

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Often, many major lag issues can be reduced/fixed by server restarts more often, sometimes you just join the server and feels like »

Thanks.

[Krash 1,040]

• Max. Limit of 2 Spectators or removal of spectating ability. - Just overall removal, imo. All or none.
  
• Can only spectate for 10 minutes if spectating is allowed. - n/a
  
• Do not allow dead players to spectate opposite team. - This seems fair, no free look and only team spec should work.
  
• Move to spectator mode or kick players after 3-5 minutes of not moving in-game. - Since there will be no spectator, lets increase the AFK kick time by a few minutes.
  
• Limit amount of nades that can be purchased in one round (2-3), preferably 2. - I like this, would eliminate nade spam problem.
  

My responses in bold-face.

[Oblivion 2]

A suggestion that many would find interesting is a Knife Fight options when only 1 player of each team is remaining. A menu could appear (like when we votekick) and give the choice to accept the knife fight or denied it. Many players on Lotus loves to do knife round and when there's not a lot of people online, I always come up with that suggestion which is accepted every time. This will diversify the game rather than the last Terrorist who camp in projector room, waiting for the CT to come rescue the hostages.

[Soad 39]

• Max. Limit of 2 Spectators or removal of spectating ability. - Just overall removal, imo. All or none.
• Can only spectate for 10 minutes if spectating is allowed. - n/a
• Do not allow dead players to spectate opposite team. - This seems fair, no free look and only team spec should work.
• Move to spectator mode or kick players after 3-5 minutes of not moving in-game. - Since there will be no spectator, lets increase the AFK kick time by a few minutes.
• Limit amount of nades that can be purchased in one round (2-3), preferably 2. - I like this, would eliminate nade spam problem.

My responses in bold-face.

A suggestion that many would find interesting is a Knife Fight options when only 1 player of each team is remaining. A menu could appear (like when we votekick) and give the choice to accept the knife fight or denied it. Many players on Lotus loves to do knife round and when there's not a lot of people online, I always come up with that suggestion which is accepted every time. This will diversify the game rather than the last Terrorist who camp in projector room, waiting for the CT to come rescue the hostages.

Added and changed OP to incorporate your suggestions. I really liked your idea N8, and good changes Krash, thanks.

[KnusperKeks 7]

Most important change

1. sv_minrate 25000 <---this solves ALL lowping minrate abuse Problems and some issues with Highpingers too (150+Ping)

2. Serverrestart after every round <----laag decreases

[Soad 39]

Most important change

1. sv_minrate 25000 <---this solves ALL lowping minrate abuse Problems and some issues with Highpingers too (150+Ping)

2. Serverrestart after every round <----laag decreases

Thanks for the reply, this is definitely needed.

[Voltazar 3]

SourceTV - need to be enabled.

[Soad 39]

SourceTV - need to be enabled.

Thanks for the reply, this is also a good idea in the case of demos.

[Voltazar 3]

Remove team scramble... its broken and complete useless. Team balance is good enough.

[Krash 1,040]

SourceTV - need to be enabled.

IMO if it had any good effects, it would be enabled. Most likely, its disabled for a reason.

[Voltazar 3]

IMO if it had any good effects, it would be enabled. Most likely, its disabled for a reason.

There is no bad effect for SourceTV. You can read more here - http://developer.val...m/wiki/SourceTV

As you read, you will notice... there is only good effects. I understand why its not enabled, because Lotusclan is mostly TF2 based, and people do not even think that is even needed.

[Oblivion 2]

Well nice post Soad but I think that CSS are not a priority for them no more. The server has a lot of problems that should have been fixed months ago, but nothing moves...

[Gotcha 6,307]

Well nice post Soad but I think that CSS are not a priority for them no more. The server has a lot of problems that should have been fixed months ago, but nothing moves...

Mana does.

[Soad 39]

Mana does.

What you should have posted

Jokes aside, I really, really hope these changes get implemented before the school year starts, as by then I won't be playing as much along with many others. Some of the changes are very simple and can only take a few minutes to implement.

[Mana 3,867]

There is no bad effect for SourceTV. You can read more here - http://developer.val...m/wiki/SourceTV

As you read, you will notice... there is only good effects. I understand why its not enabled, because Lotusclan is mostly TF2 based, and people do not even think that is even needed.

SourceTV is not going to be enabled on any of our servers (in any game) unless Valve fixes the associated issues with it. And there's plenty of them. From lag to messing with the player count.

Just search the HLDS/HLDS_Linux mail archives for sourcetv if interested.

Server restart after every round? This is the most retarded idea I have heard in a very long time. That would cause the average player count on the server to go down to 0.01 (and lower overtime).

Remove team scramble... its broken and complete useless. Team balance is good enough.

What do you mean by teamscramble is broken? It doesn't scramble at all?

[Voltazar 3]

Yes, that is what i mean. Teamcramble is not scrambling teams ( most of time, it just changes all players to go to different side ) Another one is that teamscamble is resetting all players scores in the server. Sometimes it does absolutely nothing. It may not be complete broken, but has many bugs.

[Soad 39]

Its not that teamscramble doesnt work-work, but rather its fairly ineffective in actually balancing the team.

For example if the Terrorists have been winning 80% of the time and a scramble is done, you'll see the T's go 20-1 or Ct's 20-1 leading to more anger. Normally the server balances out quickly by itself when people leave, swap, and nowadays my clan will spread out on both teams which nearly always balances it due to the fact that most imbalance comes from clanstacking... so its really not needed.

[Soad 39]

Added another suggestion.

Sometimes it feels like posting these suggestions are as effective as

[Dr. Ugs 0]

there should be a ping cap!

-The Dr.

[Soad 39]

there should be a ping cap!

-The Dr.

Forgot about that! Added, thank you

[j0el1212 0]

i suggest that you guys fix the amount of players displayed playing in the server on the server browser. it always says its almost full or full when there are about 15 people and less in the server. this also causes the server to never have the potential to get actually full because it won't let you in when its 32/32 even though there are way less people actually playing.

[Soad 39]

I made this thread about two months ago. Have any changes been implemented? Because it all feels the same still.

[Krash 1,040]

Were waiting for CSGO to release before we make any drastic changes. The servers have been this way for pretty much ever.

[Voltazar 3]

Moron, CSGO was just announced 2 weeks ago and will not be release until 2012... saying you are waiting 2 months+ because of CSGO is real idiotizm. Fucking server needs to be changed.. do not give people shit and say it's been like this forever and we are not going to do a shit because CSGO is coming soon or we are uneducate to fix it! Go back to strokeing in TF2 please.

[No longer a Sexy King:^) 5,592]

Wow, what a great attitude.