[The nBab Query]

I want to say you'll want to look at PurchaseSystem, but those mutators may need to be rewritten or refactored in the future.

[Discord GameBridge integration?]

Test

[Discord GameBridge integration?]

As an update to this: We'll be looking into VOIP solutions (probably not Discord gamebridge admittedly, but it's an option) since it seems to have pretty decent support and it would obviously be possible to disable voice chat or mute individual players client side. Don't get your hopes up for this actually being added though -- it's not a high priority and would be non-trivial to implement when we already have a pretty decent backlog of features to implement (especially in the UI area).

[Discord GameBridge integration?]

I want to say someone else had mentioned this somewhat recently on CT's Discord server...

It's certainly possible to implement this (or another VOIP service), but there's still a discussion to be had on whether it's necessary/desired, as well as setting aside the time to implement this -- my plate's full right now.

If we were to have voice chat, we'd probably want to lower the number of players on each time -- 20 (or 32 on modified servers) people talking at the same time could quickly turn chaotic.

[Soundtrack Policy Question]

The only restrictions I can think of regarding the soundtrack is that you cannot monetize the track, claim it as your own, etc. Admittedly we should probably add a license file to the soundtrack somewhere.

[Stop bullying POI]

26 minutes ago, Fffreak9999 said:

Also Agent, can this feature also use player id number in absence of name or be expanded to do so?

I was going to say that anything that calls into ParsePlayer allows for substituting player ids and exact player name matches, but today I learned we have 2 separate implementations for this same function.

19 minutes ago, limsup said:

it would also "remember" the person's PID too when issuing this command, as some of these people tend to change names frequently in-game

It stores a reference to the ignored player's PlayerReplicationInfo, not their name.

[Stop bullying POI]

10 hours ago, Crowsy said:

   I think that an ignore button should be added. This way you can deal directly with whoever is annoying you without hurting the already fragile playerbase ( if we were to be really strict with rules and ban accordingly...the already small playerbase would become atleast twice as small )

Except I already added a client-side ignore command specifically on poi's request months ago.

 

exec function Ignore(string PlayerName)
{
	local Rx_PRI PRI;
	
	if (PlayerName != "")
	{
		PRI = Rx_Game(WorldInfo.Game).ParsePlayer(PlayerName);
		
		if (PRI == None)
			ClientMessage("Error: Player not found.");
		else if (PRI.bAdmin)
			ClientMessage("Error: Cannot ignore admins.");
		else
			IgnoredPlayers.AddItem(PRI);
	}
}

 

It's definitely not perfect, there's no UI, and it resets after each match, but it does help. Expanding it to be permanent would likely have steam-related limitations, or require universal authentication.

[Pick Up Games (PUGs)]

But seriously, I ordered a pizza at the beginning of the PUG and didn't get it until near the end of the PUG (over 2 hours late). When I called, they said they "got hit by the internet". I feel like that about sums up Pizza Hut.

[Beacon placed glitch?]

2 hours ago, Madkill40 said:

The better question is, do we ban for glitching?

Globally, nobody has ever been permanently banned for glitching (the only glitching I've ever reacted to is people getting vehicles onto infantry only paths or getting out of the play area, but even then killing is sufficient to resolve the issue). Servers are free to make their own rules, but I'd tend to discourage banning users for glitching except in extreme cases.

[Preliminary 5.291 Changelist]

18 minutes ago, [CT]Sarah said:

They are gonna be shotguns after they are changed

I said shotguns to demonstrate the effectiveness of snipers in CQC -- they have similar rate of fire and damage in RenX, but snipers had far less spread during hip fire, effectively making snipers better than shotguns for CQC. This resolves that issue. The alternative solution to reduce sniper effectiveness in CQC is to nerf their health. I tend to think that adding spread to hip fire more directly addresses the problem without nerfing the sniper into oblivion.

Again as I've already said, the spread's untouched when scoped. They're still extremely accurate, high damage weapons. If you're using them as a sniper, then there's no change at all.

[Preliminary 5.291 Changelist]

1 hour ago, [CT]Sarah said:

they shouldn't be forced to adapt to new changes because people can't learn to counter snipers

Except it doesn't nerf the damage. It doesn't nerf the rate of fire, magazine capacity, reload time, or ammo capacity. It doesn't even nerf armor, health, speed, or any sort of damage modifiers, and snipers still work just as fine for sniping as they always have. The problem isn't people not knowing how to counter snipers -- it's players using snipers as if they were shotguns.

[Preliminary 5.291 Changelist]

It's 0, but do note that team changing is disabled during warm-up.

[Do we have our own rights to make skins for the game?]

I don't think we have any particular problem against custom skins, though we don't exactly support them either. Proper support would probably require additional work, and isn't a real priority.

[Notification of a players vehicle being stolen.]

19 hours ago, YagiHige said:

Stealing a vehicle and getting it away from enemies or using it to effectively wipe repairs who are taken by surprise, stops existing with the above feature

You raise a valid point, though it sounds like this would stop existing with a steal-time notification period. I'll expand this post (or post again) later.

[Notification of a players vehicle being stolen.]

Update: Talked to @KrypTheBear about this a bit; you can expect the implementation to send two separate EVA messages for each team:

Victim's team: Jim's Medium Tank has been stolen by the enemy!
Thief's team: John has stolen an enemy Medium Tank!

[Map Loading Screens not appearing (64-Bit)]

The 64 bit executables are not officially supported.

[Toxicity in RenX]

I've said this before, but banning someone from the game for misbehavior in chat is a drastically disproportionate response. We have chat bans, and I will gladly deliver them for repeated harassment as I've already told @poi many times in the past. All I ask is for proof and that it not be a 1-off remark (so proof for multiple incidents). The burden of proof is on the reporter, and I wouldn't chat ban someone for a single instance of misbehavior, but we don't want members of the community to feel harassed and unwelcome. Again, if you repeatedly experience harassment by an individual and provide proof, I'll gladly deal with repeat offenders. This isn't a technical challenge; we just need reports and proof (just screenshot your chat).

There has only been 1 person who has ever been banned from the game for chat misbehavior, and that was Max. As soon as chat bans were technically possible, his ban was removed and replaced with a chat ban instead. To this day, he remains the only person to be currently chat banned. Game bans are not the solution for chat offenders; chat bans are.

 

And just to clarify: Harassment is distinctly different from general remarks. Harassment is repeated. Harassment is targeted. Harassment is personal. If you're being personally targeted, repeatedly, that is harassment, and that is not condoned in any form.

[Launcher won't start]

@Schmitzenbergh maybe we should demand administrator privileges for self-patching the launcher?

[Launcher won't start]

6 minutes ago, Schmitzenbergh said:

There is no code present in the update mechanism that deletes your whole Launcher. 

The self-patcher technically deletes itself before moving the updated files into place.

6 minutes ago, Schmitzenbergh said:

Agent should know more details

There's a change log in the General forum.

[TS vs Discord]

As far as the client experience goes:

Discord:

• Text channels and voice channels are separate
• You open Discord; there's no need to connect to any servers
• Chat history is synchronized for all servers and channels when you open Discord
• Images and videos are embedded, such that you can view them directly within the Discord client without opening your web browser
• You can also upload images and videos directly
• You can upload a profile image/icon, which is then used on every server you're on
• Users can be given "Roles", which are roughly equivalent to TeamSpeak's simplified permissions groups
• You can message users directly, without them having to be online.
• Emotes are frequently used, and can be used to "react" to text messages
• Servers can create custom emotes
• Server administrators cannot ever see your IP address
• You can "friend" and "block" users
• Server administrators can mute or deafen users
• Servers are "invite only", though an invite address can be made with unlimited uses and infinite duration
• Server administrators can delete chat messages
• Server administrators can change your nickname on that specific server

 

TeamSpeak:

• Text channels and voice channels are the same
• You connect to a server address
• Chat history is not synchronized when you join a TeamSpeak channel or server
• Images and videos are not embedded; you have to open links in an external web browser
• You can upload images and videos to a file browser, depending on that server's settings; these are not embedded in chat
• You can set an avatar image, which is strictly local to the server you set it on
• Users can be given permission groups
• You can message a user directly if they are online AND on the same server as you.
• Emotes are infrequently used, and are rarely used intentionally
• Servers cannot create custom emotes
• Server administrators can always see your IP address, and therefore your general location

In general I also tend to argue that the Discord client also has a cleaner appearance in general, though that's strictly an opinion (even if true).

[[Level] CNC-Field Day]

Is it only the friendly names that are colliding? If so, might need to make a defect for that -- something as minor as that shouldn't ever cause a crash.

[Lock buildings when server is low populated ?]

4 hours ago, TheOlsenTwins said:

where it starts when x amount of players are interested in joining another server

This is the kind of feature you would want in the game, not the launcher. Keep in mind that the launcher's primary purpose is to update the game, and for bonus points it has a server browser.

[Forum-related question]

Should be fixed now

[Lock buildings when server is low populated ?]

No

[Forum-related question]

Re: Theme:

There is a default theme which comes with the software suite that is much brighter than this one, but many items on this website are not setup to correctly utilize said theme. If you have any specific suggested on how I might make the current theme more readable, feel free to make a post including CSS changes alongside a screenshot.

 

Re: About Me page: