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0001231Zandronum[All Projects] Suggestionpublic2012-12-29 17:032018-09-30 20:22
ReporterCutman 
Assigned ToTorr Samaho 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version1.0 
Target Version1.1Fixed in Version1.1 
Summary0001231: Queue management in modes such as Survival
DescriptionI've recently made a survival game mode which is best played with 4 players. This is great and fun but I noticed that we had a lot of spectators that wanted to play but had to wait for someone to quit, so I came up with an idea for a server option.

If you die in survival (or run out of lives if sv_maxlives is set), you are kicked to spectator and the back of the queue. That way when everyone is dead, the next batch of players can play. I think this has use outside my mod for survival servers that can't handle lots of players but can handle lots of clients.

We have a hacky ACS script to handle this but I've been told others could benefit from this. Perhaps it could be implemented into other modes too such as LMS.
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Additional InformationHere's an example of the hacky script we're using:

str ForceSpectate[32] = {
"kickfromgame_idx 0 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 1 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 2 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 3 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 4 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 5 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 6 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 7 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 8 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 9 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 10 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 11 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 12 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 13 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 14 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 15 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 16 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 17 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 18 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 19 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 20 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 21 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 22 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 23 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 24 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 25 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 26 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 27 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 28 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 29 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 30 Spectated",
"kickfromgame_idx 31 Spectated",
};

script 401 RESPAWN
{
//Print(s:"You Respawned!!! lets kick player ", i:PlayerNumber());
Delay(5);
if(GetCvar("survival")==0){terminate;}
ConsoleCommand(ForceSpectate[PlayerNumber()]);
}
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2012-12-29 17:03CutmanNew Issue
2012-12-30 11:57Torr SamahoNote Added: 0005618
2013-01-02 17:29Torr SamahoNote Added: 0005663
2013-01-02 17:29Torr SamahoStatusnew => feedback
2013-01-02 17:51CutmanNote Added: 0005664
2013-01-02 17:51CutmanStatusfeedback => new
2013-01-02 18:08Torr SamahoNote Added: 0005665
2013-01-02 18:14hjalgNote Added: 0005666
2013-01-02 18:21Torr SamahoNote Added: 0005667
2013-01-02 18:22Torr SamahoNote Edited: 0005667
2013-01-02 18:24Torr SamahoNote Edited: 0005667bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=5667#r3107
2013-01-02 18:24Torr SamahoNote Revision Dropped: 5667: 0003105
2013-01-02 18:24Torr SamahoNote Revision Dropped: 5667: 0003106
2013-01-02 18:25Torr SamahoAssigned To => Torr Samaho
2013-01-02 18:25Torr SamahoStatusnew => needs testing
2013-01-02 20:02CutmanNote Added: 0005671
2013-01-12 21:27Torr SamahoNote Added: 0005744
2013-01-12 21:28Torr SamahoTarget Version => 1.1
2013-04-06 10:04DuskStatusneeds testing => resolved
2013-04-06 10:04DuskFixed in Version => 1.1
2013-04-06 10:04DuskResolutionopen => fixed
2018-09-30 20:22Blzut3Statusresolved => closed

Notes
(0005618)
Torr Samaho   
2012-12-30 11:57   
Interesting idea and should be pretty easy to implement. If enough players are interested in this, I can implement it.
(0005663)
Torr Samaho   
2013-01-02 17:29   
Thinking a bit more about this, I'd say this kind of idea is also a good reason to add an ACS command that allows to force a player to spectate, so I added KickFromGame (int playernumber, str reason). Combined with the new GetPlayerLivesLeft/SetPlayerLivesLeft commands from 0001229 this could be enough to properly implement the requested feature. So is this request still necessary?
(0005664)
Cutman   
2013-01-02 17:51   
Does the build in the lives management issue also have KickFromGame? If so I can test both features and get back to you (still need to know the ACS number for KickFromGame though)
(0005665)
Torr Samaho   
2013-01-02 18:08   
No, I made that build before adding KickFromGame. I'll make a new build that contains all of the new commands.
(0005666)
hjalg   
2013-01-02 18:14   
This feature is badly needed for LMS. CVAR "sv_dead2spec" for example. Because it's kinda annoying when you always have to say "dead spec please" (and they ignore it). I support.
(0005667)
Torr Samaho   
2013-01-02 18:21   
(edited on: 2013-01-02 18:24)
This build supports KickFromGame as well as GetPlayerLivesLeft/SetPlayerLivesLeft. To use all of these functions add

    -104:GetPlayerLivesLeft(1),
    -105:SetPlayerLivesLeft(2),
    -106:KickFromGame(2),

to your zspecial.acs. One way to implement the "dead2spec" feature this request is about would be to regularly loop over all players, use PlayerIsSpectator to find dead spectators (this command returns 2 if the player is a dead spectator) and KickFromGame to force the dead spectators to spectate. This way you don't even need to use GetPlayerLivesLeft. With a suitable delay you can probable even to this with a DEATH script instead of a loop.
(0005671)
Cutman   
2013-01-02 20:02   
Seems to work fine online. Here's the script I used for testing the new functions.

script 401 DEATH
{
Delay(2);
if(GetCvar("survival")==0){terminate;}

    if(GetPlayerLivesLeft(PlayerNumber())==0){
    PrintBold(s:"Kicking player ", i:PlayerNumber());
    KickFromGame(PlayerNumber(),"Game over!");
    terminate;
    }
}

script 408 (int lives) net // test
{
SetPlayerLivesLeft(PlayerNumber(),GetPlayerLivesLeft(PlayerNumber()) + lives);
}

Note: With SetPlayerLivesLeft you can go over the "maximum lives" set by sv_maxlives. Can easily get around this by using GetCvar but was wondering if it was intentional or not.
(0005744)
Torr Samaho   
2013-01-12 21:27   
Quote from Cutman
Note: With SetPlayerLivesLeft you can go over the "maximum lives" set by sv_maxlives.
That's intentional. If you want to give a player more lives than sv_maxlives, you can do so.