Gaming Masters - Server/Website Chat

The Map Feedback System

Geitiegg — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:07:35 GMT

http://gamingmasters.co.uk/feedback/

Over the last few months I've been trying to think of ways to use training annotations in a way that is suitable to their current implementation (They only work in single player) and then it hit me on saturday - They could be used for easy, clear and accurate feedback on maps in development, a few days later and we have this:

Comments were made on a live prophunt server by myself and are being viewed on a local listen server

So, What do we have? - We have:

The ability for players to target any location that they wish in the map and give a piece of feedback through !annotate - If an annotation already exists at the location, they cannot place another.
The abilty for people interested in the feedback to load up the map in single player and view it.
The ability for the map author to delete annotations once he has seen them via !deleteannotation
A web panel where annotations and general feedback (given via !feedback) is aggregated and authors can login via Steam (http://steamcommunity.com/dev) to claim their map and be able to moderate the annotations, feedback, (and change map information, and upload map screenshots. - Not yet done)

Why is this better than just posting feedback on a forum?

Posting feedback can be a hassle, you have to take a screenshot of the issue and post up reproduction steps. With this, you take a quick break from the game to type something and the map author can come back and see exactly what you wrote and where at a later date, without the need of location descriptions or screenshots.

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Commands are: !annotate which provides targeted (location reference) feedback and !feedback which provides generic feedback.

Map authors can view the annotations in game by installing Sourcemod/MM:S on their local machine and using this plugin: http://gamingmasters.co.uk/feedback/feedback.smx - Please be wary that many servers do not allow the running of sourcemod/metamod while you are playing on them and will kick you until you unload it, to unload both sourcemod/metamod, simply move metamod.vdf out of the addons root dir.

Map authors can delete annotations from within the game with !deleteannotation, please note that the map must be yours for this to work.

Let me know what you think - And be sure to put it to good use!

FPSGoat brainstorm thread

Geitiegg — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:08:19 GMT

Download "Carts" -> Select as many files as you like and have them download in a single archive. (Geit)
File processing -> files are unzipped on upload and placed into the "correct" folder structure for source games, allows quick installation of downloaded carts. (Apex)
Desktop/Java Applet to automatically install downloaded files. (Dark)

Ideas for FPSGoat, Go. - If you don't know what FPSGoat is, Ask someone on steam, not here. Cookies and Twiz you are not allowed to post at all.

HLstatsX banner broken

Bulletproof — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:00:41 GMT

The in-game stats work when i type rank but the forum banner is broken

URL : http://www.gamingmasters.co.uk/stats...o&player=36371

IMG:

BTW on the link it says im from Uttoxeter when im not lol.

Randomizer Mod

Citizen Snips — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:27:09 GMT

Ok my technical knowledge of how easy/possible it would be to set this up is practically nil. However, i've been playing Randomizer on an american server for awhile now and it's ridiculously fun, way more fun than balloon race imo. But the problem is i can't find a UK server that runs it, and the ping is always >100.

Also it's always packed, unlike a few of our current servers, people want to play this. So my question is, would anyone be willing to maybe implement this on a trial basis to see if there's any interest?

(For anyone who hasn't played randomizer, it's basically arena but everyone spawns as a random class with a completely random set of weapons. (Scout with rocket launcher and spy knife etc)

TL;DR Randomizer please?

XenForo - not sure if want

Darkimmortal — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:14:28 GMT

Just look at some of this shit.

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/have-you-seen.3/

For those of you not in the loop, this is XenForo, made by two of vBulletin's old developers who left since the whole vB4 fuck up (which we conveniently run).

Now, I am prepared to invest (literally too) a lot of effort into porting our theme, mods (shoutbox, possibly arcade), smilies and everything else in exchange for an awesomely polished system - something we currently don't really have. Besides the main pages which people see on a regular basis, there are A LOT of rough edges. XenForo is not a half-baked heap of shit, but an awesome and fast system that is much easier to expand and work with.

While it's true vBulletin is being completely restructured in version 4.1, it will mean starting nearly from scratch with the theme, and our current shoutbox is the only decent one available and hasn't been updated since February.

But on the other hand this all happened before and we jumped on a failwagon (i.e. vB4). However this time around we have a working prototype to play with (see link above) and videos of the many awesome features and admin panel. With vB4 we had a couple of photoshopped screenshots.

tl;dr - not sure if want awesome new forum being released in a month or so.

inb4 if it ain't broke don't fix it (it is broke and 4.1 isn't even likely to come out this year)
inb4 nostalgia'd etc.

WARNING: GamingMasters.co.uk has been hacked

Darkimmortal — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:33:27 GMT

Like many other sites, we have been hit with a mass attack designed to exploit a flaw in vBSEO 3.5.1 and redirect visitors at random to a drive-by attack site.

You may have noticed since yesterday that the URLs had changed and a lot of links stopped working. I thought this was goat so I disregarded a warning email about an emergency 3.5.1 PL1 update :(

I strongly advise you to scan your computer with MalwareBytes as soon as possible, regardless of browser, plugins or existing security solution.

I have installed the patch and a backup of our URL rewrite config and taken some extra preventative measures, so hopefully there should no longer be a threat.

Votekick and Votemute succeed with only 1 vote.

Mysteryem — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:47:26 GMT

At the moment you can just open up the votemenu, choose someone to kick or mute and there seems to be nothing that can be done about it, the selected person will be kicked or muted. The chat log just says vote succeeded with 1 vote.

It's not much of a problem at the moment, but people have been using it more and more recently.

Arcade scores

MasterTogo — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:35:54 GMT

I just noticed I had all my arcade scores wiped, including the top scores for Othello and..I think it's called mumu or momo or something. I noticed the arcade layout has changed(for the better) has anyone else lost scores? I know Jags would be very upset

Gmod server for GM

gRiMrEaPeRsco — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:41:21 GMT

so.. um ..aa.. aa . um .. aa.. just making this as a request poll for goat to give FTP access to apex so he can set up a Gmod RP server.

New and Improved GM Forums

Apex — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:55:35 GMT

www.gamingmasters.co.uk

Steam server ranks - 19/06/10

Geitiegg — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:12:27 GMT

#1 - Steam Reputation Score: 666108. Banned from Steam? false.
#2 - Steam Reputation Score: 479014. Banned from Steam? false.
#3 - Steam Reputation Score: 1012942. Banned from Steam? false.
#4 - Steam Reputation Score: 161824. Banned from Steam? false.
#5 - Steam Reputation Score: 2116796. Banned from Steam? false.
#6 - Steam Reputation Score: 888411. Banned from Steam?: false.
#7 - Steam Reputation Score: 654755. Banned from Steam? false.
#8 - Steam Reputation Score: 33087. Banned from Steam? false.

#1 - Steam Server Rank: 605. Total Connects: 88396. Total Time Played: 3 years 7 months 27 days 22 hours 9 minutes
#2 - Steam Server Rank: 931. Total Connects: 52540. Total Time Played: 2 years 9 months 17 days 8 hours 26 minutes.
#3 - Steam Server Rank: 709. Total Connects: 75426. Total Time Played: 4 years 8 months 16 days 4 hours 32 minutes
#4 - Steam Server Rank: 1611. Total Connects: 22600. Total Time Played: 1 year 1 day 13 hours 8 minutes
#5 - Steam Server Rank: 185. Total Connects: 208149. Total Time Played: 11 years 7 months 9 days 9 hours 11 minutes
#6 - Steam Server Rank: 669. Total Connects: 81644. Total Time Played: 4 years 8 months 24 days 15 hours 46 minutes
#7 - Steam Server Rank: 676. Total Connects: 79647. Total Time Played: 4 years 17 days 15 hours 54 minutes
#8 - Steam Server Rank: 4592. Total Connects: 3291. Total Time Played: 5 months 5 days 4 hours 9 minutes

#1 and #6 refused to respond with their reputation scores. (HLstats was using too many rcon calls for steam to reply with the score I'm guessing)

Migrate arcade to v3 Arcade?

Darkimmortal — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:37:14 GMT

Let's face it - the current ibProArcade is a heap of shit. Buggy, retarded postbit, looks awful etc. Plus I honestly can't remember the last time I used it, whereas I was on our old arcade all the time.

On our old forum we had v3 Arcade (remember this?), which has added support for vB4. So, assuming we can migrate the highscores, should we move back to it?

Enable post counts in the Welcome Wagon and Random forums?

Darkimmortal — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:50:58 GMT

We've been arguing about this in the manager forum, so a wider opinion would be handy :P

Should we enable post counts in the Welcome Wagon and Random forums?

Server Stack Discussion

Apex — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:09:40 GMT

I think we need to discuss the current server stacking that is going on. Was talking to relun and he makes a valid point. I usually pick auto asign but i always see people just stacking on the winning team or capming in spec until a space in the winning team becomes available instead of helping the loosing team out.

Relun: lol notice what happens
Relun: good competative games - all the noosb start stacking, server is dying
Relun: and will probably be empty in 30 mins
[GM] Apex: dont blame me, i was one of the 1st on the server
Relun: not blaming you but your a GM manager
Relun: simple way to fix it, no spectating allowed - auto assign only
[GM] Apex: i would but is there a way to make it autoasign only?
Relun: yes

Balloon Race - Back with the stalemate or remove the timer.

Joker — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:12:55 GMT

Please put the stalemate back or lengthen the timer to an impossible time. It's annoying to have sudden deaths with one team being not capable of getting on their balloon because of instant deaths (Red). And the sudden deaths always take a long time until they are finished, because a round requires to have either all points captured or to have the goal reached to be finished. And there are always idiots who don't kill theirselves to finish the bugged sudden death.