Author Topic: Terrains that allow only 2 teams  (Read 678 times)

Offline Krusty

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Terrains that allow only 2 teams
« on: April 05, 2006, 05:21:46 PM »
Allowing AH to run maps that only have 2 teams is needed very badly. Every couple of days for the past week it seems the AvA has been ruined. It gets ruined to the point that nobody can fly (it won't let you) if one team goes and porks it over night.

This is all because AH has to rotate 3 fields when the map resets. I don't know how it is hard-coded, but I'd guess it just takes every team and randomly applies it to a new set of fields. With the AvA you cannot do this. It totally screws everything up, from planes available to whether a country can actually fly or not, and often puts 1 country with 1 operational field (on or off the map, it depends on the terrain).

Please think about a way to re-code the map randomization, so that it says "for [number of countries], assign random start" instead of "assume 3 countries, assign random start".

Alternatively, there may be other solutions to this problem, such as allowing a server to disable random side rotation after a reset.

I honestly think this is one of THE largest problems with the AvA, and has been for some time.

By implementing this solution (or another that does the same job), there is no longer that 40% of the time when the AvA is un-usable, there is no longer any threat from milk runners in off hours (if they reset, big whoop, everything is back to default), and this allows the capture settings to be set back to a reasonable level, and might encourage more people to join the AvA.

I think a fix for this random rotation would be one of the best things to happen to the AvA, and to happen to its server administrators :)

Offline Henrique Jitsu

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« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2006, 07:47:23 PM »
Just imagine Main Arena with too teams...

There would be too much TEAMWORK.
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Offline Mr No Name

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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2006, 07:56:39 PM »
i think 2 teams would help gameplay
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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2006, 08:31:01 PM »
i think he is asking for two teams in AvA really. Would be better concering im sure the New Zealand Air Force would ot attack Americans
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What utter and compete BS, quite frankly I should kick you off this bbs for this post.

The real truth is you do not like the answer.

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Offline Krusty

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« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2006, 01:04:27 AM »
MA will always be 3 teams, what I am asking for is support for 2-team maps.

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« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2006, 09:28:48 AM »
It is a setting you can turn off.

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« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2006, 12:08:35 PM »
Hitech, thank you for the info. Can you please tell the AvA server admins how to turn this off? For most of the past week the server was "porked" every other day. There were many many complaints, and it was almost unusable. For whatever reasons it was being reset, every time it reset it rotated fields randomly and screwed everything up.

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« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2006, 10:33:02 PM »
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Originally posted by Krusty
MA will always be 3 teams, what I am asking for is support for 2-team maps.


Agreed...
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