Simple Mod: Resource Tickrate Scale based off Teamsize Ratios
Since I doubt UWE will actually be spitting out a patch anytime soon, nor do I think that the suggestion thread that they suggested me to make, has actually done anything so I just made a mod for it so server owners can utilise it.
Hex ID: 3280FEC5
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This is a very simple patch for servers that scales the tickrate based off the ratio of the number of players on each team.
Example:
A team of 14 players vs a team of 10 players, with NS2's default 6 second wait period per tick, will receive one resource point per resource tower every 7 seconds, while the smaller team will only have to wait 5 seconds.
This means the smaller team, which generally happens to be smaller when they are losing, no longer suffers greatly on the NS2 "larger team bias" issue which often results in conceding every third game or so.
Hopefully this mod will give the smaller losing team a bit of HOPE so they at least, try a little bit more.
Because this isn't a kill for resource system, do not expect to be able to pull off a one-man army vs a team of 11 aliens like Spamo did in a video recording in the other thread.
The full code in raw to show its simplicity (edit: Spacing between certain lines and parts of functions added to 'conform to ns2 standards' and the apostrophe remove from "isn't" so syntax highlighting doesn't stuff up):
Hex ID: 3280FEC5
Steam Page
copy/paste details:
This is a very simple patch for servers that scales the tickrate based off the ratio of the number of players on each team.
Example:
A team of 14 players vs a team of 10 players, with NS2's default 6 second wait period per tick, will receive one resource point per resource tower every 7 seconds, while the smaller team will only have to wait 5 seconds.
This means the smaller team, which generally happens to be smaller when they are losing, no longer suffers greatly on the NS2 "larger team bias" issue which often results in conceding every third game or so.
Hopefully this mod will give the smaller losing team a bit of HOPE so they at least, try a little bit more.
Because this isn't a kill for resource system, do not expect to be able to pull off a one-man army vs a team of 11 aliens like Spamo did in a video recording in the other thread.
The full code in raw to show its simplicity (edit: Spacing between certain lines and parts of functions added to 'conform to ns2 standards' and the apostrophe remove from "isn't" so syntax highlighting doesn't stuff up):
local lcommanderactiveworth = 1
--This variable is how many players worth is a commander. If its set to '1' then
--there is correct scaling.
--This means that the team with a commander will get a slight resource penalty
--when compared to a team without a commander if the value is > 1
--Recommended to be at least '1' else the team with a commander will get a bonus
--because the commander isnt counted as a player
function ResourceTower:OnUpdate(deltaTime)
ScriptActor.OnUpdate(self, deltaTime)
if self:GetIsCollecting() then
if not self.timeLastCollected then
self.timeLastCollected = Shared.GetTime()
end
--Scale based on team player ratios
local lourteam = self:GetTeam()
local lenemyteam = GetGamerules():GetTeam1()
local lourcommander = 0
local lenemycommander = 0
--Find out if we have a commander or not, and add their worth to the player count
if lourteam:GetCommander() then
lourcommander = lcommanderactiveworth
end
if lenemyteam:GetCommander() then
lenemycommander = lcommanderactiveworth
end
--If we are humans enemy team must be aliens or else we are alien
if lourteam == lenemyteam then
lenemyteam = GetGamerules():GetTeam2()
end
local lteamratio = math.sqrt((lourteam:GetNumPlayers() + lourcommander) / (lenemyteam:GetNumPlayers() + lenemycommander))
local ResourceInterval = kResourceTowerResourceInterval * lteamratio
if self.timeLastCollected + ResourceInterval < Shared.GetTime() then
self:CollectResources()
self.timeLastCollected = Shared.GetTime()
end
else
self.timeLastCollected = nil
end
end
Comments
Just immortalizing this.
*h y p e*
This is how I get developers to do their work ;P
It doesn't always work though.
I've submitted like 5 bug notifications and basic information about 90+ different bugs for Gaijin Ent. to take note of 3 years ago, and they have only fixed one recently.
I guess that's the plusses of small communities