banimod / etpro / ettv forums

Over at Crossfire, MadScientist has written a great article on stuff that could still be improved / changed in ET. Perhaps it's something the etpro developpers could have a look at?

The discussion can be found here.

Ragnar_40k wrote:Delta compression: You don't store the values itself, but the difference (i.e. the delta) between successive values.

Sweet! Is that a good thing or a bad thing ?

Nail wrote:

toggles Delta-compression of client and server packets

But wtf is Delta-compression?

i'm currently settling into a new job and a new house. the mac mini used for making mac etpro builds is still in storage. i may be able to use a cow orker's mac for an interim build, but that is still at least a couple days off unless one of the other etpro team has a mac they can use instead. Dunn...

ouroboro wrote:P.S. I must confess that this question was brought on by the raving lunacy of LilleBror and his asinine cvar checks.

LOL he's getting to ya .

sneaky1 wrote:I've gone through the maps and check the map name against the .arena files and they were all the same

You need to check against .bsp files, not .arena files.

Do /rcon fdir *.bsp to get a list of all the bsp files installed on your server and compare to your campaign mapnames.

g_inactivity isn't a good solution, because if you have it short enough to make sense, it would kick people who are just camping. Not really since g_inactivity only starts counting if the player doesn't touch anything anymore. Usually campers are crouching, leaning, laying med packs and thus active...

Isn't there a lua mod that can do !spec999 to move all 999ers to spec?

Other option would be to set g_inactivity to something low like 120 seconds or so.

zinx wrote:server adminstrators can use b_anticheat 0.

Nah, then I'd rather stick with good old buggy 2.60 . Besides, I'm waiting for ettv.x86.

In general it seems safe to patch servers but not clients. Updated clients either:

- fail integrity by etpro
- get the boot from PB

Witnessed this in etmain, etpub, etpro & jaymod.

Not that it matters here but it works with etpub ^^

Will they only patch the hole or make other improvements? Cause that might break all the mods then... Kinda like from 2.56 to 2.60.

EDIT: patch is out @ http://www.idsoftware.com/

ROTFL don't waste your breath, I gave up on him months ago. He doesn't want to listen to reason, nor does he fully understand the impact of his settings or the way the Internet works. He even said the Quakecon configs were made to allow cheating & lag cvars , on a LAN with all high-end machines,...

Well well well Lillebror is back :lol:... Still fighting the warp placebo I see :). Here's some examples of his previous postings on lag in the ETPub forums. They're good for a laugh when you're bored. http://www.etpub.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4572.0 http://www.etpub.org/e107_plugi...

Dunno if it is viable or not but on the ETPub ticketing system a fix / workaround has already been posted.