Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[Bad King Urgrain]

New idea I was thinking of implementing on my own server: (which is why I was hoping to have the force commands work)
- Traitor Perk: Cryogenics (Requires 2 credits) - You have a chance of respawning again after being killed.  Only can be used when there are 3 or more traitors.
Uses convars or a math function to control the credits (math + convar, based on how many total credits one can get) and the chance (a percent through convar)

Seems overpowered, but you're free to give it a shot. I wouldn't use concommands though, just call ply:Spawn() directly at the end of GM:PlayerDeath if the player has that equipment, because that's the only part from force_traitor that you'd need (because the player already is traitor, just a dead one).

[lynx]

Seems overpowered, but you're free to give it a shot. I wouldn't use concommands though, just call ply:Spawn() directly at the end of GM:PlayerDeath if the player has that equipment, because that's the only part from force_traitor that you'd need (because the player already is traitor, just a dead one).

Really? Sweet.  The overpower part, it would only have a chance of working which is what I was thinking was the good thing.

[DemiGod]

You should probably make it so you can only purchase it early in a round so people cant just pick it right when they're about to die

[lynx]

You should probably make it so you can only purchase it early in a round so people cant just pick it right when they're about to die

Thinking of doing like this:
You buy the perk. A timer starts (a minute or two) and it cannot be used in that time.  After that, you have a chance of being respawned.

[Unknown]

Is there anyway to tell via plugin when a TTT round ends? I haven't noticed any way in SM.

[Bad King Urgrain]

You can do it using Lua:

function MyHookFn()
   print("The round just ended.")
end
hook.Add("TTTEndRound", "MyUniqueHookName", MyHookFn)

These hooks exist: TTTPrepareRound, TTTBeginRound, and TTTEndRound. Currently they have no arguments or anything, I'll add them based on what people use it for (if at all), so requests are welcome in that regard.

[Unknown]

I wasn't going to modify anything heavily, I was just looking at how I could make RTV wait to change the map until the lua round ended.

[lynx]

One thing one of the members of my community brought up:
During preparing stage, have everyone nocollide just incase people get stuck in each other.  Some servers *mine* have over 25 people in it and the maps dont always have that many spawn points, so they get rigged and stuck in eachother.

[that guy]

As long as they cant go through props or wall's and stuff I really dont see why not.

[lynx]

As long as they cant go through props or wall's and stuff I really dont see why not.

No collide is just with other players

[Gamerofthegame]

One thing one of the members of my community brought up:
During preparing stage, have everyone nocollide just incase people get stuck in each other.  Some servers *mine* have over 25 people in it and the maps dont always have that many spawn points, so they get rigged and stuck in eachother.

The problem is that people will get stuck anyway when the round starts.

[lynx]

The problem is that people will get stuck anyway when the round starts.

Not if they move.

[JossiRossi]

I imagine you'd have problems with people intentionally getting themselves stuck in others to be morons. Also I think this could be done serverside. There's hooks for the prepround and the roundstart.

I recall that you once considered adding hats for players. The problem being that any item making you unique is a liability. However, hats would be awesome. Maybe they could be implimented in a way where all players recieve them based on past level performace or by the choice of the player with the best score if they want to choose one. So the number one player at the end of the round could choose that all players get tophats next round, or dunce caps ect. It'd be a humourous touch.

[Gamerofthegame]

Not if they move.

No, during the pre-round bit. Especially in some maps where weapons are a bit more centrally located, so everyone goes there and SOMEONE gets stuck.

Regardless, you're playing with large server numbers on maps that aren't made for it. Get bigger maps.

[Bad King Urgrain]

As mentioned, the problems will begin as soon as player collision turns on at the start of the round. People will intentionally create situations where terrible glitches happen (like 10 players stacking themselves into a closet).

A possible solution is adding a cvar that enables phased spawning, where it spawns a certain number of players every few seconds. This would disadvantage the later spawning players, but that would be the server admin's discretion.

[Qloos]

- Fixed Last Words exploit.[/quote]
???

[Bad King Urgrain]

There was a way to send Last Words messages whenever you wanted after you died using some tricks, due to a bug in the measure that should prevent that.

[Bad King Urgrain]

There's a minor bug in the current version when the karma maximum is raised over 1000. Players who have around 1100 and up will have a tiny damage reduction instead of being maxed at 100% damage. Will be fixed next version, until then servers might consider keeping the karma max at default if they consider it an issue.

[Darkest_97]

What if no collide was on from the start of the round until you weren't colliding with anyone anymore?

[lynx]

Was watching my server console using HLSW and saw this:
15:47:03 L 01/12/2010 - 17:47:05: Lua Error: ERROR: GAMEMODE:'PlayerDeath' Failed: terrortown\gamemode\karma.lua:109: attempt to call method 'GetTraitor' (a nil value)

Right before that was this:
15:47:03 L 01/12/2010 - 17:47:05: KILL:<TAB> <something/world> killed Chronos [innocent]