mini-rant
On the TG server, and on several other servers I've played on they seem to have some sort of a delay at the round start? The fact that we don't was highlighted tonight on mashtuur. I spawned as usmc, hopped in a jeep and drove down to the first base. The instant I got there I was under fire from two vodniks from the other side who had already capped their initial flag, the middle square flag, and had gotten all the way up to our first flag. It didn't help that it was only 3v2 and the two of us on usmc loaded up late. When there's lots of players you usually have more equal chances of both teams getting fast loaders...
delayed start would be good....
give me time for a fag :P
Delayed would be great. How does TG do that? Maybe we can enable the same feature?
we can delay the start if you want (how long). normaly we do a restart anyway
QuoteOriginally posted by Armitage@Nov 16 2005, 10:23 AM
we can delay the start if you want (how long). normaly we do a restart anyway
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I think its better doing a restart as those with fast connections aren't left twiddling their thumbs and can at least shoot each other for a few mins before the restart
Or make it a rule, that no team can take more than the majority of flags (ie.. 3 og 5 flags) until all players are in the game? If we don't have an admin around...
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Nov 16 2005, 10:36 AM
I think its better doing a restart as those with fast connections aren't left twiddling their thumbs and can at least shoot each other for a few mins before the restart
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Agreed, but you need an Admin around to do it ;) - and given the fact it takes my poor old 'puter an age (or so it seems) to load any BF2 map and I don't trust it to switch out to X-fire or MSN to try and IM an Admin and then switch back in again calling for help is although possible is not entirely practical
a restart would be better, but are you able to have that happen automatically? The times when the imbalance created is worst is typically when there are only a few people per side and I only notice restarts occasionally when there's a good 8v8 or so game happening. Most nights there are no restarts... There must be a way to script in an auto-restart 2 minutes or so after the server has loaded up? My "old" pc typically takes 1-2 minutes at map change depending on how it's feeling. The guys with fast rigs still get the benefit of seeing everything in full detail for the duration of the game ;)