Randomized quad spawn

[tZork]

How abt giving it +/- 10 sec (or so) random spawn each respawn and no notify?

Vote results answer it. NO.

Its kinda depressing seeing these scripts going off and then reading the same ppl who use em arguing abt the skill involved.

Kinda depressing seeing you getting owned by the same people all the time.

So its less depressing getting owned by random ppl? That makes total sense, specially in the context of this thread! Anyway, grow up or be gone.

[Morphed]

I like powerups randomized, it makes it equal for players that play with default nexuiz w/o any scripts or playing long sounds that will tell them when it will spawn 10 seconds before.
Often some dude join servers and only he have strength and newbies don't have slight chance to even smell it, only because he have some script installed :/
if you really need fixed time, announce it for everybody 5 second before it spawns to make it fair for ppl that play with default nexuiz settings

[GreEn`mArine]

Don't understand my post (which you people seem to ignore, like everything I'm saying here) in a wrong way: I am FOR having an announcement of the strength. Simply for the reason that was mentioned before, giving everyone equal chances (people who know how to download a config and people who can't or don't want to).

Once having an announcement system, the discussion about having a respawn-jitter is super pointless ... I mean, for what have it jittered if it's announced anyway? At least it would be pointless if you read the next part:

Only thing I'd like to vote for is a higher amount of seconds for the announcement, e.g. already give hints like 15 seconds before, or even allow players to configure the amount of seconds they wish to be informed about the respawn (menu-setting). Could be placed at the same place in the HUD where the strength-counter (that is now only shown when you have it) is, e.g. showing negative seconds decreasing towards 0 (-15, -14 ....)

[Alien]

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The same what I want.

But why announcing instead of keeping time until respawn on the hud? That would be much more comfortable. Random spawn was introduced not solely for preventing timers. There are other reasons.

[parasti]

I basically agree with GreEn`mArine. As long as the quad spawn is announced to everyone at least 10 seconds ahead, personally I don't (and I don't think anybody would) care if and how random it is.

[Alien]

What's the difference if you announce 10 secs or 2 minutes ahead?

[tundramagi]

How abt giving it +/- 10 sec (or so) random spawn each respawn and no notify?

Vote results answer it. NO.

Alpha: you don't have SVN commit access, you don't make any decisions. How do you like that alpha: that you can stamp and scream and complain and make no difference. You don't make the decision and there is nothing that you can do about that.

Your NO is worth nothing. I wonder if your mentally challenged, trying to control development of a game by... well whatever it is that you do (pissing off the devs.) Maybe you think they'll get pissed off and leave nexuiz (and thus not change it from whatever pristine state you like it in) rather than just banning you.

Its kinda depressing seeing these scripts going off and then reading the same ppl who use em arguing abt the skill involved.

Kinda depressing seeing you getting owned by the same people all the time.

Next time he'll tell you how he's so distinguished with all the research papers he's written, all the women he has, and that (by the way) you're just a "pathetic videogame nerd".

[tZork]

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The same what I want.

But why announcing instead of keeping time until respawn on the hud? That would be much more comfortable. Random spawn was introduced not solely for preventing timers. There are other reasons.

What if the map has more then one strength pwrupp?

I do agree that announcing + random spawning makes little sense. Perhaps random + better _taken_ announcement could be a nice option here.

[divVerent]

Don't understand my post (which you people seem to ignore, like everything I'm saying here) in a wrong way: I am FOR having an announcement of the strength. Simply for the reason that was mentioned before, giving everyone equal chances (people who know how to download a config and people who can't or don't want to).

Once having an announcement system, the discussion about having a respawn-jitter is super pointless ... I mean, for what have it jittered if it's announced anyway? At least it would be pointless if you read the next part:

Only thing I'd like to vote for is a higher amount of seconds for the announcement, e.g. already give hints like 15 seconds before, or even allow players to configure the amount of seconds they wish to be informed about the respawn (menu-setting). Could be placed at the same place in the HUD where the strength-counter (that is now only shown when you have it) is, e.g. showing negative seconds decreasing towards 0 (-15, -14 ....)

I like that idea, but there currently can be more than one quad on a map

[divVerent]

The idea of the pre-announcement is focusing action on/towards the quad spawnpoint before it spawns. Five seconds are good for that, ten seconds would be too - except that a waypointsprite cannot currently show the remaining seconds (NOTE: I want to add healthbars to sprites for Onslaught anyway, so these could be used for a countdown), so an overly early pre-announcement would be annoying.