Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[Darkebrz]

That really begin to encourage people and make them be wusses.
Persistent karma is terrible anyways.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I think it's an interesting experiment. It's quite easy to add, though I'll make it a falloff curve instead of just going from 30 down to 3 as soon as you go above starting karma.

[FF|NedStar]

That really begin to encourage people and make them be wusses.
Persistent karma is terrible anyways.

Without persistent karma it matters little to none, any damage reduction you get will be gone the next map.  I do not wish to imply the system is obsolete, but adding a longer term attachment to your karma will give something extra to compete with.
Think of it as rankings in a RTS game, they have absolutely no use besides being fun and giving you a longer term goal to reach. Seeing as yanking your internet cable out to get the infamous DC won't be of any use here, there's little to lose  :)

If we look at encouraging people to think twice before they act it would be a good thing. We've all had occasions where the evidence looked solid and ended up wasting an innocent.
Normally you wouldn't care less, accidents happen and is perfectly fine. However giving you a little extra thing to consider which would be your own long term karma might make a few people think twice before acting, while not necessarily  forcing you to actually be more careful as its merely *e-peen*.

[Rectal Exambot]

I would love persistent karma if the following was in place:

Killing someone that killed an innocent makes you lose no karma.

[Darkebrz]

I would love persistent karma if the following was in place:

Killing someone that killed an innocent makes you lose no karma.

This is already sort of in place. You lose less karma when that happens.

[Bad King Urgrain]

The karma round increment falloff is now in the SVN. It decays exponentially the further your karma is above the starting level. The rate can be configured using ttt_karma_clean_half. It defaults to 0.25, which means the round bonus is halved when the player is a quarter of the way (25% = 0.25) from the starting karma to the max karma. So if karma starts at 1000 and maxes at 1500, then a player who has 1125 karma will only get about 15 karma per clean round instead of 30. If you set the convar to 0.1, it would already be halved at 1050 karma, and so on.

Currently it only affects the round bonus, but I'm thinking it should also affect other increases. Killing a traitor gives quite a significant bonus.

[JoTheShmo]

Have you ever thought of implementing a TF2-style dot that lands where you're aiming when zoomed in with a sniper-rifle? This could add something interesting to the gameplay, because people could tell when someone was zoomed-in and aiming at/near them before they were shot. It might be a little too unbalanced though.

[Firespray]

Just noticed fast weapon switch doesn't work in the latest version.

[JoTheShmo]

Also when people are auto-slayed for being AFK, maybe they could go to the spectator team instead of MIA? It makes it easier to see who is actually AFK and who's just dead.

[zoobird]

You can put this under the very rare, and strange.  I had a poltergeist backfire on me, sticking to my body, and flinging me all around a map.  Happened when a innocent walked right in front of me in directly in my line of fire as I was aiming at a barrel.   

[Darkest_97]

Would you ever think of a credit giving system for the traitors? Maybe accesible from the c-menu or tab.
For times when you have extra credits and dont need anything, you could open a menu and send a traitor a credit if they need one. It wouldnt add any more complexity to the game or anything like that.

Thoughts?

[Meta-Stick]

Sounds awesome, and maybe for detectives too. I don't see how this could be bad. If you give a credit to an ally so he can get a teleporter, and silence pistol, then that leaves you as just a a traitor with guns. So there's decent pros and cons. Maybe another con to doing it, would be actually contact with the fellow traitor before giving it to him.

[JossiRossi]

If you have too many credits, buy an item for a buddy and then drop it for them. Could even be clever and have a drop off point like in some nook.

[Marphy Black]

What if you want to buy your friend a radar?

What will you do then, Jossi?

[JossiRossi]

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[Bad King Urgrain]

Just noticed fast weapon switch doesn't work in the latest version.

You're talking about the menu option right, where scrolling immediately switches to the next gun?
(edit: tested, and that's working fine here)

Also when people are auto-slayed for being AFK, maybe they could go to the spectator team instead of MIA? It makes it easier to see who is actually AFK and who's just dead.

I'll put it on my list.
(edit: fixed now in the SVN build)

You can put this under the very rare, and strange.  I had a poltergeist backfire on me, sticking to my body, and flinging me all around a map.  Happened when a innocent walked right in front of me in directly in my line of fire as I was aiming at a barrel.  

I'll go over the checks that should prevent that.

Would you ever think of a credit giving system for the traitors? Maybe accesible from the c-menu or tab.
For times when you have extra credits and dont need anything, you could open a menu and send a traitor a credit if they need one. It wouldnt add any more complexity to the game or anything like that.

Thoughts?

I guess a tab for it wouldn't hurt anybody.
(edit: has been added in the SVN build)

[Firespray]

Oh, its when scrolling your mouse?  I was thinking it did the same with number keys.

[Darkebrz]

Actually I'm pretty sure the poltergeist thing is from some little custom content on 2 of ECGs servers, the masks.
The poltergeist sticks to the mask and it is hilarious.

[Darkest_97]

Does anyone else see like a muzzle flash whenever someone takes out a newton launcher or teleporter? Or is it just my computer being crap? Because if it is supposed to be there could it possible be removed at least for the tele, because that kinda gives you away.

[Silverstream]

Does anyone else see like a muzzle flash whenever someone takes out a newton launcher or teleporter? Or is it just my computer being crap? Because if it is supposed to be there could it possible be removed at least for the tele, because that kinda gives you away.

I have, on many occasions. I believe it's a persistent client-sided bug which tends to occur at least for me, 80% of the every time I see a player take out a newton launcher. I really can only relate in terms of the newton launcher. I can't say I've seen it happen with other traitor weapons, at least not yet.