Next Tournament/Event!

[Laurelin]

Greetings,

We are wanting to run another event in the near future, however we are not sure exactly what type would interest most of the community. I've given everyone two votes because there are a couple choices you might like.

Please feel free to suggest another type and I will add it as soon as I can.

Regards,

[[BTF]5antana]

1on1 tdm sounds funny but that's just me

Would love to see another ts500 though

[[BTF]Sigma]

PREDM1

[[BTF]Jehar]

Hahah sigma, nice to see you quick on the ball But, we did have predm1 last time. Is it getting on towards that time again? Ah, so it is. The ts500 is always such a breath of fresh air.

[Bleach]

I'm quite out of practice, ts500 should bring me back to the sub-par level i'm accustomed to

[The Happy Friar]

stupid question: what's 1vs1 tdm?

is that a duel?

[PANTONE 7717C]

I certainly wouldn't mind seeing another QPong! event:)

Just a thought; I have no idea if it's possible but a FFA race where you can "steal" frags would be fun. (Somewhat like the Vampire Rune from the Lithium II Mod). In other words if you score a frag, your victim loses one at the same time. So your deaths actually lower your score.
To prevent that less skillful players will end up way down in the negatives it would probably be best to make "0" the lowest score possible. Fragging a player with "0" frags will still give you a point but his score won't go down then. If a player dies lots of times in a row his score will drop fast so with a scoring system like this the players will need to work a little harder to keep their frags and reach the fraglimit. Could be interesting but I don't know if it would be easy to code such a thing. 

[:iR:goatkilla]

intresting panj

[RailWolf]

1on1 tdm, teams tdm, and rail all already have a place set up on the tastyspleen league site .. the 1v1 tdm is set up in a ladder style and isnt actually linked but its set up



laurelin, feel free to contact me if you want to use the site
it does ladder style, brackets, round robin, etc
There's actually a place for a railgun 500 type thing that we never had time to keep up... you're more than welcome to use any of the site or even come up with a new tourney on  it...

[peewee_RotA]

I certainly wouldn't mind seeing another QPong! event:)

Just a thought; I have no idea if it's possible but a FFA race where you can "steal" frags would be fun. (Somewhat like the Vampire Rune from the Lithium II Mod). In other words if you score a frag, your victim loses one at the same time. So your deaths actually lower your score.
To prevent that less skillful players will end up way down in the negatives it would probably be best to make "0" the lowest score possible. Fragging a player with "0" frags will still give you a point but his score won't go down then. If a player dies lots of times in a row his score will drop fast so with a scoring system like this the players will need to work a little harder to keep their frags and reach the fraglimit. Could be interesting but I don't know if it would be easy to code such a thing. 

There's a similar mod in practice in which the client head is a pickup that gives you a frag. The only way to get a frag is to pick up a client head.

[PANTONE 7717C]

That sounds like the HeadHunters mod where you have to grab your victim's head and take it to the altar to score a frag.

But what I mean is a scoring system that subtracts your deaths from your score in realtime, so when someone frags you it's like he's stealing from your score. Not really the same thing

[peewee_RotA]

That sounds like the HeadHunters mod where you have to grab your victim's head and take it to the altar to score a frag.

But what I mean is a scoring system that subtracts your deaths from your score in realtime, so when someone frags you it's like he's stealing from your score. Not really the same thing

Right, I wasn't being clear. That's the Smash Bros. scoring system.  I don't think that that scoring system is good in an FPS as it changes it from a deathmatch in which you can run screaming into a barrage of rockets and bullet spray to frag the people shooting at you, to a situation in which camping, running away, and hording items is the only effective strategy.

I'm just suggesting that Head Hunters is a good compromise to the concept. Another reverse to the idea is an old old mod in which players all spawn with powerful weapons, and as you raise your score you spawn with less effective weapons creating a handicap.

[PANTONE 7717C]

I don't think that that scoring system is good in an FPS as it changes it from a deathmatch in which you can run screaming into a barrage of rockets and bullet spray to frag the people shooting at you, to a situation in which camping, running away, and hording items is the only effective strategy.

Well maybe, who knows, but let's try and find out. Since these ffa events are races, players will naturally be in a hurry and give more frags away than they normally would. The last ts500's were more about picking up a nearby weapon and desperately hasting back to the hotspots, especially in the big maps. Only to be gunned down by the leading players who were controlling those areas and timing key items like quaddamage. A dynamic scoring system could also change it to a situation in which players will be running, moving and retreating like crazy to avoid dying and losing points, a situation in which they would have to be more careful. Sure some people will just hide and run away but if you want some frags you'd have to come out and risk losing a frag instead of scoring one. If anything, it will probably slow things down and require more stamina to reach the fraglimit.

[[BTF] Reflex]

Qpong!  I havn't laughed so hard since then..  funny fun fun night 

[The Happy Friar]

qpong was flat out awesome.  I wish there were an ETQW version, that could be just as fun as the origional.