Walls and auto-kicks

[microbus]

Two questions...
On microbuscity's server, the outer walls especially, are
very touchy, you look at them wrong and you crash.
What's the best setting to help make that better?
And, someone said another server has an auto-kick if
anyone with the nick Player 1, Player 2, etc, joins.
Any idea on the command line for that?

[ROCK]

i'm not quite sure what you mean, and I can't say i've experienced this, but try setting cycle_rubber_mindistance and cycle_rubber_minadjust to smaller numbers

and as for auto kick based on names, there is no command to do this, the server that does kick player 1, has code changes. sorry.

[Lucifer]

You can put "Kick Player 1" in everytime.cfg and between every round Player 1 will be kicked. Since it's just a name ban, that works fine.

PErsonally I removed the Player 1 kicks from my servers.

[microbus]

thank you wasn't aware of any rubber settings besides
the cycle_rubber and cycle_ping_rubber ones...
and thanks for the info about the auto-kick

[microbus]

ok.. .tried mindistance at .04, I guess default was .01
and minadjust at .5, default was .1
so far, they seem to like it... any settings that work best for you guys?

[microbus]

grrrr.. has to be a balance somewhere
any recommendations to allow some forgiveness,
but without the touchy walls?
a combination maybe of
cycle_rubber_mindistance
cycle_rubber_minadjust
cycle_wall_near
cycle_rubber
cycle_ping_rubber
???

[Lucifer]

Raise cycle_rubber, first. THAT is what deals with "niceness of the walls".

I don't really know what the other settings do, but I'd like to. z-man????

[ROCK]

ok.. .tried mindistance at .04, I guess default was .01
and minadjust at .5, default was .1
so far, they seem to like it... any settings that work best for you guys?

I think smaller numbers would be better for you, you made them bigger.

[Z-Man]

I described the new settings as best as I could here
http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t=1774
You're excused for not searching it up, I could barely find it myself:)

Some of that stuff refers to the changes since 0.2.7.1, just ignore all settings you don't find in your config.

[Lucifer]

Aha, you see now I"ve read that post something like 10 times and I still don't understand what the _mindistance thing does.

Of course, I haven't followed up on it, I just experimented with it and failed to get it to do anything useful for me. And I didn't follow up on that. I blame the semester. See? now the semester's over I post more and play more and stuff.

But I don't sleep more.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Z-Man]

The mindistance thing stops you cold at that given distance of a wall. Set it to 0 to revert to the old code. Set it to 1 to see what it does. Set it to something negative and small (I don't know if that already works in 0.2.7.1) to make grinding take real skill, because then, rubber will only slow you down before you collide, but it won't stop you.

Also, set the rubber_speed variable to 1 and 2 to feel what it does exactly.

This whole rubber thing was a really bad idea from the start, but now people rely on it and we're stuck with it.

[Tank Program]

I don't know, I've played network servers where rubber is 0 and it's still playable to me at least. But that may have been cause it was my own server which pings ~20ms...

[microbus]

Thank you... went the other way on min settings, seem better...
rubber already at 15/150, don't want any more bouncing lol
trying mindistance at .008 and minadjust at .06