Server idea

Asraniel

<div class="IPBDescription">with this beeing lua and all that</div>Would it be possible to create a server where you would create a "virtual" map of all levels. Then everytime the marine or alien team wins, that level belongs to them. You would have a webpage where you would see the progress of the marines and aliens. The new games would be played on the levels at the frontier or at levels where no team has won yet.

For this to work you would need:

a way to manipulate the "next map" function.
a way to connect to a database or a local file that stores the map layout and who currently owns those maps.
a way to get this info on a webpage and perhaps even ingame

when one team gets all levels, everything gets reset and the corresponding team gets a little star on the webpage.

SN.Wolf

Maybe a little tweeking with sycostats?

I think it would be awsome, My trackmania servers run XASECO databases and it tracks a players record times,amount of hours played on that particular server and places a rank on that player rather it be a world,local, or server record/rank then displays them on a webpage for the world to see who's faster and has more hours logged on track in each server.

Feha

especially awesome idea for balancing, both teams and maps.

I think it is possible, should be if you dl a sql module for lua atleast.

Then the mod can save the M:K ratio (marine:khaara) on each map, and on the "campaigns", aswell as maybe some metadata such as leaders "class" or other, so developers can tweak stuff.

Tquila

Would also be interesting with regards to spot any differences in balance. I'd imagine over time a set map would normalize at around 50:50 so if it's not, something might be wrong.

The idea doesn't seem very hard at all, merely some data extraction. I didnt quite get what you want the map changing to do, but for the other part, easy peasy :)