Mapvote, Votekick, RTV

1scorpion

Pretty self-explanatory; It would be nice to see a more intuitive and widespread system for server commands. And one that can be initiated by the server as a collective, not solely by the mysterious admin.

There is an awfully messy 'scrolling' map voting system out there, similar to DOS\RUN. Refreshing mass amounts of text after every vote, sometimes i can hardly make out which number corresponds to the map i want. This system does get the job done, though the winning map usually only gets two votes for it b/c the rest of the RR has no idea what all that scrolling text is trying to tell them.

It would be nice to get to get either UWE or a third party @mani perhaps, to create a voting system that doesn't mess with the pub text. A bubble on the right of the screen maybe..

VOTE
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1: Descent 1/16
2: Nano 2/16
3: Refinery 6/16
4: Docking 3/16
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*I'm sure you get the point..

A 'RTV' Rock-the-Vote command. (One that prompts a mapvote)
A 'Votekick' command. (One that kicks troll comms)
A 'Random' command (Random Teams)

All these should be able to be prompted by the server through, whatever, 60% of the votes.

I'm aware these commands are out there, though i have yet to see one initiated by the pub and not just the admin. As well as a more refined voting system.

HOP ON THIS UWE or other.

jorgamun

Do you remember the name of the server that had the messy "scrolling" map voting system?

YoungTrotsky

There is no official support for this, I think UWE probably feel that servers that want to have these features can use a mod, DAK admin kit is the most common and can be configured so the server still appears "unmodded" in the server browser. Any player can initiate RTV on servers that support it, so I don't know what you mean when you say the admin has to start a mapvote. Servers with DAK generally have mapvote at the end of a round as long as X minutes have passed since mapchange. I don't think this needs to be part of the vanilla game personally, should be up to server admins if they want this and the DAK admin kit is very good and well-supported by the author.