Tubby's Brilliant Ideas

[|iR|Focalor]

Okay, now you're starting to get annoying. All of this "Hey, lets change the shit out of the game because I suck so much and need help" is getting ridiculous. Hell, why don't we just give you infinite health and fucking be done with this 9 page thread that's 8.9 pages too long as it is?

edit: Actually this post makes it 10 pages. Fuck me running.

[VaeVictis]

No prob haunted.

 

So how about this (my latest idea):

People always complain about players who have a habit of using the BFG to score frags - they tend to think it's 'lame', which is fair enuff I guess, since it's a very powerful weapon which takes little skill to use. So, why not make it that whenever a player fires the BFG, he or she automatically loses 20 health.

Call it a sort of bfg tax.


 


Tubby

A. bfg is easy to dodge, noobs just dont know how...

B. bfg is already designed to hurt the user more if they are careless, i think it does more splash damage to the person pulling the trigger


personally, if the ffa servers were to be "improved" my way would be to make the weapons respawn cause weaponstay is retarded noob shit... plus thats even closer to the server config right out of the box for quake2 ffa

[Tubby]

LOL Focalor - but you're still reading and still posting....

What's that saying? "Any publicity is good publicity"

Oh well, I guess I am starting to sound a little annoying. Maybe I should start a new thread: "Tubbys 101 Ways to Annoy People"

 

BTW, I understand that the prospect of change often upsets people. It's a threat to the cozy little box that they've built up around themselves over the years... 


Tubby

PS, Vae, I'm not technically a noob - I've been playing Q2 since it came out - I'm just a really bad player 

[Tubby]

Actually, during all these years I have never once used sidestep. I've got the leftarrow bound to "crouch", and the rightarrow bound to "use weapon".

Maybe that's why I never seem to get any better....  Hmm. Everyone else has that sidestepping advantage, you know? Oh well, my own fault I guess - but I'm too old & set in my ways to consider changing things now.

 

BTW Focalor, I agree with you that I suck, but I never asked anyone for 'help' re my suckiness.


Tubby

(hey look I just graduated from a newbie to a junior member!  )

[fdrjk]

No prob haunted.

 

So how about this (my latest idea):

People always complain about players who have a habit of using the BFG to score frags - they tend to think it's 'lame', which is fair enuff I guess, since it's a very powerful weapon which takes little skill to use. So, why not make it that whenever a player fires the BFG, he or she automatically loses 20 health.

Call it a sort of bfg tax.


 


Tubby

There have been some complaints about the BFG. I think that it would be nice to implement a -bfg mymap cmd.

I assume it wouldn't be that hard to code... much.

Me=Coding Newbie

[fdrjk]

Also, I doubt any of these changes will be made into the regular DM and Vanilla servers. People like short sweet and simple Quake II deathmatch. Unchanged. And thats why DM and Vanilla are constantly full.

If you want, you can learn a tad about Quake 2 source code, modify the game however you like, and submit it, and maybe have quadz run a sort of test server using the modified source code on vanilla2 or ts500.

Just a thought.

[reaper]

never going to please everyone, but you should try RA2!

I always get sad when the quad is gone from the dm maps in ffa. takes the fun out of it : (

[VaeVictis]

isnt there already some kind of no bfg option when you mymap? or at least change it to somethin else like rail

[Tubby]

Also, I doubt any of these changes will be made into the regular DM and Vanilla servers. People like short sweet and simple Quake II deathmatch. Unchanged. And thats why DM and Vanilla are constantly full.

DM and Vanilla constantly full??? Not when I play Lol, but then again I'm in a weird time zone compared to most Q2 players. Also, railz is a mod which is very popular. Plus, who doesn't love the thrill of using weapons on quad?  - imagine the thrill of all weapons being on permanant full quad?? (minus chain, bfg, etc. of course)

Yes, I guess having a -bfg command would get rid of the whole bfg prob all at once, but then everyone would start whingeing about ppl who use the chaingun. Get rid of the chaingun and they would whinge about the rocket launcher... and so on down to the blaster  There's always going to be a 'most powerful weapon', and my idea was simply that it could tempered by having it's use backlash on the user in some way (in the way that people who earn big money have to pay high taxes)

Anyway....

thanks for your suggestion re learning about Q2 source code, but considering my lack of comp skillz it's unlikely I'd have much success... 



Tubby

[Tubby]

I always get sad when the quad is gone from the dm maps in ffa. takes the fun out of it : (

Exactly, Reaper....   

Also, I used to play RA2 all the time over a LAN (i think that's what it's called - where you just link 2 computers up) with my brother. Yes it was awesome. Last Man Standing would simply extend that into a deathmatch-like environment where all players join the match - instead of just two - and get picked off one by one until a victor emerges: the 'last man standing'.


Tubby

[l0ckp1ck]

If he's spoofing others to hide who he is, or just to be a griefing dick, then he may have pushed his luck that one time too many after trying a bunch of shit over the course of 2 years.

Essentially this.

The active name-ban to restrict his ability to spoof other players dates back to almost a year ago.  He knows he's not supposed to be spoofing player names. 

And his appearances in the AC hall of shame landed him a forced-AC subnet awhile back.

But, basically, I was annoyed at having to spend a chunk of time researching this issue, only to find that once again my time is being wasted by his douchebaggery.

Thus the ban.

It's not necessarily permanent (apart from the name restriction.)

when did his ban end? cause he has showed up using Perky, fat^tubby and he also uses squasart in the past week

[console]

when did his ban end? cause he has showed up using Perky, fat^tubby and he also uses squasart in the past week

I don't see any use of those aliases in the past three days since the ban was added.

[Tubby]

Ok, here's my latest brilliant idea:


I (and presumably others) often wonder who the person is that I'm trying to frag during a deathmatch match. Why not have a pop-up indication of who you're currently aiming at during play - as in spectator mode - so you know who it is you're trying to frag?

I know that different skins can sometimes make this distinction, but there are a limited number of skins and a potentially unlimited number of players... Besides, a lot of people still seem to be using basic grunt (etc.) skins.


Tubby

[VaeVictis]

already exists player id

just "id" in console to turn on and off...

maybe its an r1q2 thing? or an opentdm thing?

[Tubby]

already exists player id

just "id" in console to turn on and off...

maybe its an r1q2 thing? or an opentdm thing?

Oh, gosh. I never knew about that. FFS been playing 13 yrs and nobody told me... How are you supposed to find out about these things???

Tubby is in blush mode. Sorry. BBL with another brilliant idea soon.