About voting commanders off...

Diogenes_DogDiogenes_Dog Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 610Members
in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">And kick voting in general</div>Back in the days of the speedhack in CS, there were several times when everyone KNEW that someone was a cheater.  When someone is moving at blur speeds and firing their sniper rifle like a machine gun, it's a pretty strong hint.

Anywho, the most annoying part about these guys (to me) was that it was near impossible to organize everyone enough to vote them off.  There was always enough people who were just too damn dense to figure it out.  And to make matters worse, the kick feature in CS allowed them to come right back.  

Getting to the point - how are these problems dealt with in NS, particularly when you're trying to get rid of bad commanders?  


-dio
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    There is an option in the Marine popupmenu to remove a player from commander mode, and probably regular gameplay. It's not yet finalized how it will all work, but it will be part of the version 1 release. And it will also only be an option for the team with the lamer/cheater. It will definitely not be a console command type situation, where most people don't even know how to vote.

    Basically, we know, and have it under control.



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  • Diogenes_DogDiogenes_Dog Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 610Members
    What happens to people who are voted down?  Are they banned from the server or just kicked?  


    -dio
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  • TowersTowers Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 100Members
    I wouldn't have thought they were kicked off or banned... Thats not very fair when all someone was trying to do was be a good commander. I would imagine that they can't become commander for about 10 minutes... I'm hoping there's a timelimit or something.
    As for kicking people off the server that will be if you actualy vote for people to be kicked off. Replacing a commander and kicking someone off the server are 2 different things.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    A commander can not rejoin commander mode that game if he is voted down. He can still play as a Marine or Alien.
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  • Diogenes_DogDiogenes_Dog Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 610Members
    Cool.  Thanks for answering my questions. =]


    -dio
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  • LPCLPC Join Date: 2002-04-07 Member: 384Members, Reinforced - Diamond
    theoretical question... what if all marines have been commander once, and have all been kicked, they're pretty screwed aren't they?

    I know it's not likely to happen, but it could, and how will you prevent it?
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  • ssj_yodassj_yoda Join Date: 2002-07-22 Member: 985Members
    maybe they could have a vote person out of commander, and vote a person in. So the team has a person in there that they want. Of course this person can deny it, but it would still help the team by having the commander they want.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--LPC+July 23 2002,13:47--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (LPC @ July 23 2002,13:47)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->theoretical question... what if all marines have been commander once, and have all been kicked, they're pretty screwed aren't they?

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    Ehh, if your team is spending that much time voting each other out, you will have already lost due to your obvious teamwork lackings. They will learn after that game not to get too frisky with the vote down option.

    Bottom line - not worth worrying about.
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  • FluorescentduckFluorescentduck Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 45Members
    That one gloom server had a good system... if someone was voted off, they were banned for two hours. The thing I'm worried about is a bunch of ######## voting out the commander just to be ########.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    That's exactly why Gloom's vote system was not good.
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  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    Umm... why was it bad? Did everyone vote yes for no reason or something? Was it too easy to vote someone off? (Like, only at 50%, as opposed to a good percentage of 70-80%)
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  • TowersTowers Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 100Members
    I like the whole banning for a little time, only if they are being kicked off the server though not commander.
    If the voting system is something like 70% then I think it should be fine.
    I mean banned from that server though not from the whole game and it should only be like for an hour
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  • 007007 Join Date: 2002-01-27 Member: 116Members
    See if I were to be a commander leading an attack in another sector and a marine in another asks me if its clear to go I am not really paying attention and he gets killed the marines might be kinda mad and b00t me
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