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request for competition mod
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:39 am
by fretn
changing the speed of the notify (dead messages etc) like they are in rtcw, imo it's pretty annoying when you don't see (immidiatly)how many people you've killed with your l33t grenade
yes, I know, noobenglish
fretn
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:16 am
by bani
fretn!! is that really you?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:55 am
by GldDrgn
can't be, the fretn i know only rarely kills
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:22 am
by =FF=im2good4u
??? would it make it more laggy if all massages are sent ot you instantly ??
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:43 am
by gotenks
i don't think so... i think part of the reason it has a delay in it is becaus it's saving a space for any rank upgrade announcements, since it doesn't broadcast that to everyone but it shouldn't announce something to person1 before it announces it to person2 then that's (imho) what it's doing
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:14 pm
by O2.iceman
I agree with this request, can it be done bani?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:21 pm
by bani
changing the speed of popup messages would be a clientside mod
but i could move kill messages (obituaries) into the text chat area.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:36 pm
by RammStein
Shrub did that. I personally don't mind the delay, and if there is a lot of killing going on you are given a very limited time to read what people are saying.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:41 pm
by bani
there is a downside to moving the obituaries into the text chat area though -- it uses a lot more bandwidth.
from what i hear many shrub players are suffering from increased lag now, it might be a contributing factor.
it would be possible to make it a per-player option though.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:53 pm
by RammStein
What do you mean by a per player option?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:27 pm
by O2.iceman
We set up a shrub server and moved the kill messages to the chat area, but the peeps didn't like it so we'll be moving it back.
Why is the delay there though for k/d messages and obejctive notifications!?? It takes like 3 seconds for it to appear, but comes out immediately in the console. Why is it like that?
Is it possible to change the HUD at all, or is that all client-side? I'd love to see the k/d messages moved to up the top as per RtCW, and have the chat in the same spot as RtCW as well.
The chat area as it is at the moment is so small and hard to read, and it's very easy to miss chat. :/
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:44 pm
by bani
O2.iceman wrote:We set up a shrub server and moved the kill messages to the chat area, but the peeps didn't like it so we'll be moving it back.
Why is the delay there though for k/d messages and obejctive notifications!?? It takes like 3 seconds for it to appear, but comes out immediately in the console. Why is it like that?
Is it possible to change the HUD at all, or is that all client-side? I'd love to see the k/d messages moved to up the top as per RtCW, and have the chat in the same spot as RtCW as well.
The chat area as it is at the moment is so small and hard to read, and it's very easy to miss chat. :/
the delay is entirely clientside. they probably rate-limited it because the # of lines for the popup messages is so limited (3 or so, iirc).
moving them to the top would require a clientside mod. with HTTP downloads in ET, that sucks far less than it used to, so a clientside mod is actually a reasonable thing now.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:47 pm
by bani
RammStein wrote:What do you mean by a per player option?
per player option, as in individual players can decide if they want to move the obituary messages down to the text chat area or not.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 3:49 pm
by RammStein
Ah! That's what i thought. I like that idea.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:24 pm
by O2.iceman
bani wrote:moving them to the top would require a clientside mod. with HTTP downloads in ET, that sucks far less than it used to, so a clientside mod is actually a reasonable thing now.
That's true, I can't believe it took until the umpteenth iteration of the Q3 engine before clients get a reasonable error for a missing file.
The old "invalid pk3 files" was bad enough, not to mention the "server uses protocol 58".
I mean how hard could it be for them to say "The server is running an updated version, you need to download a client patch from blahblah".