Norm - Where everybody knew your name ....

paniq303 · Post by **paniq303** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:00 pm

i have no trouble winning on such a server. i am rather talking about the boringness. its not really challenging. what is good in being good on such a server?

goferman · Post by **goferman** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:13 pm

Maybe i am not all that good but I would like to play you sometime on whatever servers you play on. I am only a 1 year player and like playing good people, I just happen to enjoy the people in the LC as much as I enjoy playing tron. I suppose there is no challenge against some people, but forming new strategies and changing playing styles has occupied me so far in my year of experience

Perhaps you are just a different sort of person than me in which case I just would like to play a round or two against you (or anyone who is considered a master of tron for that matter). I am just questing for more challenges now that I am good enough to hold my anywhere (I did not say that i win necissarily (i just misspelled that))

paniq303 · Post by **paniq303** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:19 pm

allright. ready to jump in right now... searching for you

hang3r · Post by **hang3r** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:24 pm

You have been playing for a year? I havent seen you arround.

I'll take both of you on

goferman · Post by **goferman** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:35 pm

Sorry i but i had to leave paniq
soccer practice

Hilary · Post by **Hilary** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:14 pm

Hi paniq, lsd, spiral or whatever name you are using now

paniq303 wrote: and to norm: can you actually exist without being pathetic?

No, i can't

I was once asked to kick you off the server because you camped trying to piss all the others off, you remember ? Not to forget your rantings against all female players. And you call me pathetic ?

Fact is - with servers like Sylv's and server owners like him less and less people will play this game and thats a real shame 'cause its a nice and interesting game. Unfortunately i am unable to run my own server at the moment and there is no good alternative to Sylv's server. Time for Tank to get his Classic Server online again.

only my two cents

Norm

paniq303 · Post by **paniq303** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:15 am

oh now it was camping. interesting twist. i didnt know that one before.

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:24 am

norm: what about "global network cristi's armagetron server" ?
from what sylv said, this could be considered the "official" cristi's server now, replacing armagetron.de cristi's. (global network is iF's and Sylv said that armagetron.de was only meant to host cristi until iF's was mature enough...)
I don't know how popular it is right now, and I don't know who knows the admin pass, though.
I'll play on that server, and the more follow, the more popular it will become. I believe iF is more reasonable that Sylv.

PrometheuS · Post by **PrometheuS** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:24 am

Walking Tree wrote:norm: what about "global network cristi's armagetron server" ?

This server has good settings but a rubber of 250(!!!).
This is ridiculous. You can even turn to a wall and stand still with your bike for a little time.
Armagetron.de with a rubber of 80 is way better there.
In my opinion still too much. I would prefer a rubber of 40 where you can´t do that 180° endless turning madness.
If iF lowers the rubber I´m the first one over there.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:44 am

We really need to fix the hud. I assume when you say "rubber of 80" you mean your head has a max rubber of 80 on it?

Right.

The rubber gauge on the hud multiplies the CYCLE_RUBBER by 10 for no known reason. So it says "80", but it means "8".

That's also not total rubber anyway. There's CYCLE_PING_RUBBER, and a few others. Actual rubber available varies from player to player.

And no, I don't know why the HUD doesn't reflect this part. Alls I know is that on a server with a high CYCLE_PING_RUBBER, high ping players have a bit of an advantage.

PrometheuS · Post by **PrometheuS** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:50 am

Lucifer wrote:
The rubber gauge on the hud multiplies the CYCLE_RUBBER by 10 for no known reason. So it says "80", but it means "8".

Thanx for telling. Well then let´s lower the "rubber" to a 4.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:16 am

Lucifer wrote:We really need to fix the hud.

Right. Done. This decreases the resolution of the text display, but that's not too bad.

CYCLE_PING_RUBBER hasn't an actuall effect on the total amount of rubber any more; instead, it increases the efficiency. Ping fluctuates and so would the total rubber available, and that would, if displayed accurately, let the rubber meter jump around. And server and client would need to communicate more. Rubber was not meant to be displayed clientside. Anyway, the nitpicking wanted to say: The display is correct, you always have the rubber the HUD tells you you have. It just buys you more time if your ping is higher.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:26 am

z-man wrote:Right. Done. This decreases the resolution of the text display, but that's not too bad.

I hope you have at least some idea how much gratitude I'm feeling for that.

That's probably one my biggest pet peeves right now. Er, was, you know, until the next beta at least.

newbie · Post by **newbie** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:50 am

PrometheuS wrote: In my opinion still too much. I would prefer a rubber of 40 where you can´t do that 180° endless turning madness.

IMHO it is way to small for cycle_accel 28(for rubber 40 it should be f.e accel 15 for keeping dynamic gameplay in the middle)

when you do not like 180, you should use CYCLE_RUBBER_DELAY .5, #CYCLE_RUBBER_DELAY_BONUS 0, but here is another small problem during playing

PrometheuS · Post by **PrometheuS** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 6:34 pm

newbie wrote: IMHO it is way to small for cycle_accel 28(for rubber 40 it should be f.e accel 15 for keeping dynamic gameplay in the middle)

Too bad.

newbie wrote: when you do not like 180, you should use CYCLE_RUBBER_DELAY .5, #CYCLE_RUBBER_DELAY_BONUS 0, but here is another small problem during playing

1st: I have no idea what you´re talking about but thank you for telling. I also don´t want to lower or raise something, I just want a proper server.

2nd: Yes indeed I don´t like the endless 180° thing. Makes gameplay boring and changes losers into winners. I also doubt I can change it by changing my settings.