VERSION .42

- The 'Who' command wasn't displaying teams correctly

- You can name a custom map the same name as a built-in map with no troubles. Additionally, if you did that, on the hub page it will say in the game status map_name(Custom) to differentiate.

*Feature!
- The dedicated map rotation is back for Proelium 2! Click 'Admin' and then 'Map Rotation' to select up to 6 maps to be placed onto the rotation, whether they are built-in or custom. There will be no preview pic of custom maps in the rotation interface. On the hub page the game status will list 'Dedicated Server' to note that server is running a map rotation. Only one person may edit the rotation at a time and the game will tell you if someone is already editing it.

Hooray!



This is a good thing. Zaoland practically crashed the server when trying to create a preview pic.

Edit: It did in fact create a preview pic for Zaoland when using a saved rotation; I rebooted the server through admin options until it reached Zaoland, and upon clicking 'Reboot Server' the server had a long lag spike and then rebooted and I saw the preview pic for Zaoland.

I WANT TO PLAAAAAYY

WHEEENN?

i stopped hosting for lack of players

I'd play, just that I can not see when others are on-line and willing to play, so spending hours waiting for someone to log in, die and log out is a bit of a pain.

I wish tenkuu/SilkWizard would implement Jeff's suggestion about a pop up on people joining.

But games like megaman wars have 4 tile large characters that 1-2 shot you because it takes weeks of playtime to unlock them by taking 10-15 shots to kill them, they not only are 4 tiles big but 1 of them is the hitbox

Its mainly because this and Proellium have no play-back at all : /

To get play-back you need unlockables, that are worth unlocking, like new classes, new ranks(On a worldwide scoreboard, meaning everyone on any server is on it), maybe new attacks for the current classes, powerups(Like in SW: Battle Front 2), all that would extremely help to the play-back of the game.

I remember the old scoreboard list per class, I was the #1 knight

And then when people are done with that then what? The game will never have infinite upkeep and additions.

I can physically bring back the scoreboard, but I'm not sure it's one thing that Silk wants to see back. I can see it being more valuable if there's a clan/team/tournament system in place. I have the time to do stuff like that, but Silk not so much.

When there done there done, but there will be more players(Usually), but people will get alot less bored less fast with things to unlock, your right that you can't keep them going forever, but keeping them going longer is better.

Its not an unlockables issue its a skill issue, back when proe was popular each team had 7+ people and maybe 2-3 vets per team, it was fun for new players, now with maybe 6 people on total (3-4 per team) there may only be 1 or 2 new people online and the rest have a lot of experience and run circles on them, making them not want to keep playing

Nah, I personally don't think thats the problem at all, people stay with games they suck at all the time, this game has no play-back though as i've said(Ex: CoD4/5 are the most popular games for there play-back online by unlocking weapons and such, even though alot of players suck and are killed all the time).

Proelium actually has a high replay value.
No game will be the same, as opponents change, you need to adapt.



That might be an attempt so solve a problem, but it's not even a good idea for a game like Proelium, as it would highly unbalance characters.
People are frustrated enough when fighting a subscription class.
UT 99, BZFlag, ... have no "unlockables" and yet find players since about 10 years now.
The reason people feel a decent enough "replay" value is the human factor.