Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 648 Location: San Diego, California USA
Posted: 11 Jul 2011 8:23 pm Post subject:
I can go for that...maybe Omni go ahead and start a thread and put create a poll for days of the week...then I'll just go ahead and double the Occupational Points for the day with the most votes...I did think that the chat.txt way was pretty fair though. But, if we do go for the 2x Occupational Points on a particular day might want to remind me _________________
Here are the discrepencies/grey areas (since was using chat.txt instead of log.txt which was accidently deleted):
-Coolant bet twice, assumed 1000 bets, so 2000 Rank Points
-Highlander the only one that typed -lotto so he won 200 Rank Points
-Omnicide typed -planetary 3 times so put a win on 3 random planets (still no win on one of the dual-planets)
-Solaris wins I gave to everyone (except me cause I was there when I lost). So, if you typed -solaris you won. 6 victories to Omni, 2 to Highlander, 1 to Tactical
-level was 3 for Omni and 3 for Coolant cause that's how many times each was typed by those players. Didn't see any other -level
-Online was only Tactical and MWHighlander, but I have no idea how long both were on since that is displayed in log.txt not chat.txt so I gave both of them 1 hour for 20 Rank Points
-Casinomogul was used 3 times by Coolant, but I have no idea what the 1d10 multiplier was so I just took the average of 5 = 450 Rank Points + 90 extra points for every casino game played during the day = total 540 Rank Points
-patron I didn't see used, but giving Omni credit for 6 Solaris wins = 600 Rank Points
-salvage was only typed by Omnicide and since I couldn't tell whether Salvage Ops was go I gave it to him for 100 Rank Points (and he now has the Category bonus)
I did the best I could with what I had (chat.txt). I'll be more careful from now on and thank you playing in Theme Park
That's very nice of you, Coolant; thanks for spending the extra time on the rankings.
I can go for that...maybe Omni go ahead and start a thread and put create a poll for days of the week...then I'll just go ahead and double the Occupational Points for the day with the most votes...I did think that the chat.txt way was pretty fair though. But, if we do go for the 2x Occupational Points on a particular day might want to remind me
Actually, the chat.txt way was very fair; I must have typed the 'double the rank point' idea right after you posted your message. Just disregard my idea since you were able to award most of the rank points earned the other day.
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 648 Location: San Diego, California USA
Posted: 13 Jul 2011 7:34 am Post subject:
I've removed the restrictions on weapons. Seems like the restrictions is what is causing the occasion server crash. I believe what happens is that the server, after a map is finished, has about a second to find the bots for next match and if it has trouble finding a bot that avoiids the restrictions it ends up with taking the last bot it was searching through and then when the map launches and a bot has weapons that are supposed to be restricted it causes the server to crash. I'm letting you guys know, but not the general public as I hate heater boats and the lag caused by SRM's, and the overpowered Heavy Rockets. _________________
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 648 Location: San Diego, California USA
Posted: 13 Jul 2011 5:51 pm Post subject:
rankings updated...
congrats Tactical on making top 5.
Member that you can type -rank in the server to see top 5. It is usually updated around the same time the rankings are on the website....so late in the afternoon for the previous day.
Member, -mystats is only for certain Occupations. Knights use -knight. _________________
Member that you can type -rank in the server to see top 5. It is usually updated around the same time the rankings are on the website....so late in the afternoon for the previous day.
Member, -mystats is only for certain Occupations. Knights use -knight.
Although if you are playing the Knight occupation, it's still ok to use -mystats while ingame for informational purposes only? So as long as you remember to type -knight after the 2 minute warning message (and haven't gotten killed after obtaining your killing streak) you'll be good.
It's kinda like combining Speaker with streak kills.
Btw, Knight has the highest potential (from what I've seen so far of all the occupations) of earning a butt-load of rank points in a short amount of time. The caveat is that you must be a strategic and patient mech pilot before the rewards pay off.
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 648 Location: San Diego, California USA
Posted: 13 Jul 2011 7:39 pm Post subject:
that's true about -mystats, I realized it after I already posted. Yes, you can do that...I forget players just check their stats. And, Bozobub did type -knight, I had forgotten that. But he had just died and I think he was surprised he didn't have any streak kills. But, as far as Occupation he did everything correctly. So, yes, you can use -mystats to check stats if your Occupation doesn't directly use it in that manner. _________________
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 648 Location: San Diego, California USA
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 7:12 am Post subject:
Today is wife's birthday, and she is also off tommorrow so I don't know how much time I'll have to do rankings...however, rest assured that I will get caught up and rankings eventually will reflect all of your hard earned Rank Points.
It only takes me about 30 minutes to do the Rankings, so there is a good chance I'll still be able to update them today. But, if not, the logs are there so I will just do a couple of days worth on Saturday at the latest. Keep an eye on the website - the ranking page has the date the rankings are valid through. _________________
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 648 Location: San Diego, California USA
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 6:05 pm Post subject:
ok, I was able to do rankings...rankings updated from yesterday.
I'm not liking seeing categories with no rank points in 'em so I'm gonna up the chance on basically all of them:
-Defend (upped late yesterday...if there is a defend message then 75% of the time you will see the 1000 Rank Points message - it was previously only 25%, however, still has to give the message in the first place and has to be on correct planet)
-Marked, upping this...for current season still have to go and hunt the marked player within a minute, but season 11, first player to type -marked will win 150 Rank Points (including self)
-Salvage upping this (still have to get the Salvage message when joining but greater chance for Salvage Ops go)
-BA..Unchanged...no one is piloting BA's so I can't tell if needs to be changed
-Pwr Pt...Unchanged...only way this would go up is to run Battlebowl Theme more often which I don't want to do or increase Kill/Streak Kill messages which I don't want to do. Many Seasons ago Rank/Streak Kill messages were the most time consuming of all the things I checked for and I got tired of it so I yanked the % chance way down. Gonna keep it that way for now.
I always have to think about the future, and what happens if this thing takes off. If we have 10 players all playing RAOS in the server at once, the way things are (or gonna be) is manageable. But, if I go and make messages crazy easy to appear, it will take too long for me to update rankings and I'll get burned out...
UPDATE: Marked, Defend, and Salvage all have a greater %... _________________
ok, I was able to do rankings...rankings updated from yesterday.
I'm not liking seeing categories with no rank points in 'em so I'm gonna up the chance on basically all of them:
-Defend (upped late yesterday...if there is a defend message then 75% of the time you will see the 1000 Rank Points message - it was previously only 25%, however, still has to give the message in the first place and has to be on correct planet)
-Marked, upping this...for current season still have to go and hunt the marked player within a minute, but season 11, first player to type -marked will win 150 Rank Points (including self)
-Salvage upping this (still have to get the Salvage message when joining but greater chance for Salvage Ops go)
-BA..Unchanged...no one is piloting BA's so I can't tell if needs to be changed
-Pwr Pt...Unchanged...only way this would go up is to run Battlebowl Theme more often which I don't want to do or increase Kill/Streak Kill messages which I don't want to do. Many Seasons ago Rank/Streak Kill messages were the most time consuming of all the things I checked for and I got tired of it so I yanked the % chance way down. Gonna keep it that way for now.
I always have to think about the future, and what happens if this thing takes off. If we have 10 players all playing RAOS in the server at once, the way things are (or gonna be) is manageable. But, if I go and make messages crazy easy to appear, it will take too long for me to update rankings and I'll get burned out...
UPDATE: Marked, Defend, and Salvage all have a greater %...
Sounds good, Coolant. Also, thanks for doing the rankings today despite the fact that it is your wife's Birthday!
I like the new changes. I also think the changes are fine for a handful of players, but should the Theme Park metagame take off you could always lower the percent chance the ranking messages appear.
I was looking at some of the occupations, and I think Tyrant is a cool sounding occupation, but it needs some love. It might be interesting to add some type of inherent ability, or something else you can do in the meantime while trying to take a planet over. I've been playing Planetary fairly religiously this season, and all but a few of my crit messages have gone to Planetary. If I were playing Tyrant, it would be a long, slow road to any occupational action until I won at least one planet.
So maybe upon getting a ranking kill message, and instead of choosing -d20, some kind of result or action could happen for every time a player types -planetary instead. Just some food for thought.
done...-planetary will give the message it does now PLUS there is a chance to get some Rank Points for tyrant only...will update Tyrant on website too
UPDATE: -planetary now has a 66% chance (2/3) for 100 Rank Points:
planetary='"%1 scores a victory toward taking this planet (need 10)/nIF Tyrant score 100 Rank Points","%1 scores a victory toward taking this planet (need 10)/nIF Tyrant score 100 Rank Points"'
UPDATE 2: Webpage updated (as well as for Pilot)
Very cool!
Btw, refresh my memory: how will you know when you capture a certain planet, I don't remember the message saying which planet a win is applied to. So in other words, let's say you have one planet with 9 out of 10 wins, and you score another win, is there something in the message informing you of which planet it is? The reason why I ask is due to the fact that you must type -tyrant the same day you conquer the planet in order to receive your 25,000 rank points (see below):
When a planet is
captured in Planetary
make sure to type
-tyrant the same day
you conquer to receive
the 25,000 Rank Pts.
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 648 Location: San Diego, California USA
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 9:55 pm Post subject:
Omnicide wrote:
Coolant wrote:
done...-planetary will give the message it does now PLUS there is a chance to get some Rank Points for tyrant only...will update Tyrant on website too
UPDATE: -planetary now has a 66% chance (2/3) for 100 Rank Points:
planetary='"%1 scores a victory toward taking this planet (need 10)/nIF Tyrant score 100 Rank Points","%1 scores a victory toward taking this planet (need 10)/nIF Tyrant score 100 Rank Points"'
UPDATE 2: Webpage updated (as well as for Pilot)
Very cool!
Btw, refresh my memory: how will you know when you capture a certain planet, I don't remember the message saying which planet a win is applied to. So in other words, let's say you have one planet with 9 out of 10 wins, and you score another win, is there something in the message informing you of which planet it is? The reason why I ask is due to the fact that you must type -tyrant the same day you conquer the planet in order to receive your 25,000 rank points (see below):
When a planet is
captured in Planetary
make sure to type
-tyrant the same day
you conquer to receive
the 25,000 Rank Pts.
I hope my question makes sense...
Thanks
well, I think I understand what you are asking...it's the planet that Katie announces in the lobby...same planet that determines -defend. For example, "##Planet COVENTRY under attack!## (-defend)" If you were to type -planetary on whatever map came up when you saw this message in the lobby you win a victory on that planet. On the Planetary page each planet is actually 2 planets so you can win a victory on either planet and advance. So, on the 10th victory you would need to type -tyrant that same day. You need to watch what planets you have 9 victories in and then watch chat in lobby...which you are doing any way for -defend. Does that make sense? _________________
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