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It’s only 4 days? Booo

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My activity was suffering due to my college course being a butt with my schedule. It was justified. And as I said, my activity shouldn’t be a problem after my course ends sometime December. But until then, this is for the best.

College is taking a toll on my sleep schedule, hence my inactivity. Luckily my activity should get better closer to December and thereforth. I kind of was lightly considering stepping down temporarily but I decided not too as I was gonna try to push myself to get the hours in but I sadly didn’t make it. But to be honest I kind of wasn’t surprised this happened and I’m not mad, yes I’m a little sad but the decision made is understandable and I respect it fully. Even though I hit 14 hrs before 12:00 reeeeee Lately I’ve been getting 1-4 hours of sleep every other day and it heavily impacts my health especially when that means I’m staying up for 22 hours. This is not healthy and Ive been trying to get rest so I don’t get weak/sick. Once my sleep schedule isn’t a butt because of college, my activity will be back up there, hopefully I will be able to regain moderator then if the opportunity comes available and my activity isn’t an issue. But until then, this is for the best. I’ll still be on the servers! I’m not going anywhere; but just not as much as I have used too. With that out of the way, congrats Zevo and Megaladon! Rip Tuna and me .3.

It’s a reoccurring thing in his apps, he needs to put his age; it really isn’t that hard

It has not been 30 days since the closure of your previous application. -1 just for the reason you can’t be serious enough to put your age.

-1 Hacking is bad for your health.

I mean I used my code and a proxy and it didnt do shat so

Luckily from what I experimented with, its just something that wastes peoples time. Nothing malicious, but it still is bad.

Lit

Is it possible for a sound to play when we target a user in chat? Does Source and SourceMod have those capabilities. Like we normally say someone’s name to warn them, when they are mentioned while a prefix is used, they will get an alert sound. I can’t really describe it. But I’ll try xD Basically I say @bob stop spawn killing They would see in chat [Notice]: Stop spawnkilling while hearing a ding of some sort.

Myself Scary right? :(

@OneGlove poll added

Yeah, that’s a good idea! Typing a word or phrase to acknowledge it is fair as it allows them to have no excuse in not having a chance to read it or accidentally exit it. That is really neat! I’m not rushing this, whatever works the best! It can wait, I am not a coder but I could take a peek in the coding for SM say commands and see if I can tweak it a bit just for the time being :p Thanks for the input ^w^

Im not sure exactly how they could scam anyone with this to begin with.

I just animated it for the concept. Also, keep in mind this is just an idea. I’m not fully aware of the limitations of Sourcemod and Source Engine so my concept most likely would have been “too good to be true”. But something kind of like this would be splendid. Maybe we can clone the MSAY code and make it show up in the center top kind of where CSAY shows but be a box sized like HSAY and the box would not be very transparent like the current ones are. The font would also be bold if thats even possible. This is basically just a more convenient location and probably could be {/hwarn <player> <message>}. This would make it so its not on everyones screen, is in the range of view that slightly obstructs the players vision but doesnt interrupt gameplay as it would still be transparent but not much.

I verbally warn and use MSAY and All chat. Msay most people just click a key to get it off their screen so they can switch weapons. Hence why we make no the first option in vote menus to prevent people from just closing them while unwillingly saying yes to the vote. This would not be closeable until the countdown is concluded. A trial run is usually available for new suggestions, it doesn’t hurt to test things as they sometimes do work out really well.

This is true, yes... but when it starts to result in population loss because they think they didn’t do anything wrong and as mentioned might ignore the kick message come back (or not) and do it again, get banned and never come back. This hurts us as we loose players that might have or might not of made an honest mistake. I sometimes miss the notices other staff members or donators put up. It’s just not in a direct line of view where the player is really focusing. This would grab their attention and be easier to read. Surf is the server that gets the most punishments dealt in. If you notice how many times within the last 6 months that I (and other surf staff) have had to ban people, you would realize how critical something like this could be, even a test run would be grand. All it is is a new messaging method in addition to the standard ones we currently have. Again with the format, I’m sorry :c

Command concept Hybrid Warn !hwarn (user) (reason) (duration 1/2/3) 1 = 10 2 = 12 3 = 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eElr_1HKUZI Hybrid Warning Concept v2 >>Video slowed down for the reason that I didn't want to manually make 10 slides to create the full countdown....

Have you not been asked “WHAT THE FCK WHY WAS I KICKED?! I DIDNT DO ANYTHING!” ? I get this a lot and I put a very clear and easy to read kick reason that if they just fast click off of it which I guarantee 90% of our players that get kicked do.... they don’t see our kick message. With this they are forced to read what they are doing wrong. Most people probably assume they lost connection or something and just quickly exit that dialog. I’ll make a less intrusive demo, it won’t be blocking their gameplay but it will be incredibly noticeable. This kind of is supposed to be like a private msay but easier to read, easier to notice, and doesn’t go to everyone interrupting their gameplay. As when the times I have to use MSAY, I get barked at for it by players when I’m using it for administrative purposes. I see all your concerns but give me a chance to give you a detailed look later today at what I’m trying to describe before making further assumptions of how intense it is. My first image was a very very very rough draft. Just showing textual context. Not full on visual. Surf would be one of the main areas of usage. As we have numerous users who spawnkill and snipe from spawn etc. And that’s our main consisting offense that we have to address. In short, our current notice alerts aren’t all that effective in certain cases, at times and are intrusive on the lines of gameplay for everyone when we use MSAY, this would help target one user and ensure that they notice it and have time to notice it. I don’t currently have a chance to format so I’ll fix it later :P

I mean in most cases of those whom don’t read our warnings, they usually never come back. So this generous but harsh warning would let them better know they are doing wrong.

> I wasn’t intending to type out they couldn’t, was going to change it to say it’s not encouraged. (For my first response on this thread)

+1 for unban though I get what you mean @Elcark but sometimes it is hard to determine if it’s a troll or not, I’ve had quite a few people use calladmin while I have been on the server with my tag (Server Admin) or (Server Mod) blaitently visible. And 80% of those were false calls. So figuring that out is a bit of a challenge. I never said that they couldn’t, but that’s just the rule set we have had, I understand mistakes happen and people panic and want to find the best way to take care of the issue and I fully respect it. (I mean some of the rules for things like that were kind of the unwritten rules at a point so) In short, it’s sometimes difficult to tell if troll call or not when it’s done in game, but sometimes they are legit and that’s good. I just find it to be a bit of a challenge at times that’s all.

Not really any different than being slayed, besides. This would be for instances in the extreme cases such as “spawn camping/killing, bodyblocking, etc) Because at that point they would be slayed anyway since they had to be hard warned so they pretty much would deserve it as punishment This would not be used in minor cases. As I said, I’ll make a better version in about 8 hours. I was using keynote on my iPad so a fill looks like full screen.