In terms of pysnip, we could fix the SMG damage values so they're not complete bullshit, but noone can be fucked doing it. Furthermore, a_girl apparently needs to spend time fixing the antihack scripts if someone CAN be fucked doing it.
Anyhow, I've basically figured out that most of my frustration, and the frustration of the other admins, can be explained by the simple fact that we've been trying to support a broken game where nobody { can be fucked / has the skills to / wants to be sued for / (most importantly) can be fucked preparing everyone else for } modifying the client to make it less shit. I did do a client mod (read: blatant hack) which essentially disabled the spread on the rifle, but that hasn't gone down well with people in authority, and the community cannot be fucked making it acceptable.
There are several things which are just plain unpleasant.
- Maciej Kusnierz happened. Now we're having to deal with shit we could easily fix by bumping out a new version a week.
- To counteract Maciej Kusnierz, we also have a reason to /togglesmg aside from the fact that it's fucking annoying, and that is because the antihack we have tends to give off quite a bit of fuzz when someone SMGs on a bad connection.
- Furthermore, not only is the SMG is fucking annoying, but all the weapons need rebalancing.
- pysnip is not the nicest thing to code for, which may explain why nobody can be fucked, despite the fact that it's actually pretty easy to change the weapon damage values hint fucking hint. This may also explain why votekick has been shit since 0.54. Also, how long did it take for us to get togglevotekick? Way too long.
- EVERYONE IS JUST SO FUCKING STUPID I'M SICK OF CANCELLING VOTEKICKS BY SMG NOOBS GETTING HEADSHOT BY RIFLE USERS SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANT SHIT TO THESE NOOBS ALFUCKINGREADY
- tem br?
- algeum br?
- tem skype?
- eu
- no ingles
- FILHO DE PUTA
- No, BRs aren't the #1 problem with this game, it's just that you can't explain how fucking annoying it is, reading through what your mind eventually registers as spam, using a single line.
- Where the FUCK is that global whitelist / account system we really need?
We need to shift to a client that we, the community, can control.
I tried to not make this a blatant ad for Iceball, but that's all we have at the moment. It's a very good candidate for this task, as server owners can run a completely different game if they want to, and clients don't need to update every single time the server does a drastically huge change to the game logic. Finally, if the game needs ANY minor tweaks, INCLUDING on the client side, they can be done with ease, followed by a server restart.
(Oh yeah, Iceball needs a wiki, because there's just some stuff I'm not going to be able to maintain. docs/modding_lua.txt and docs/proto_main.txt are the only things that get maintained, really.)
I am aware that people are finding it difficult to get working. I do want people to read a manual to get it working, because then we can tell them important shit like "there is no such thing as subterfuge", and also to filter out those who are on a constant sugar high and think they're playing "Grief Grief Revolution". (If you don't want to filter these guys out, that's fine, give them a .bat file to run and disable the kick_on_join check, and watch your server turn to shit.) I'm not willing to drop the "read the fucking manual" check, but I am willing to help, provided you've at least made a decent attempt to read stuff, and that you've also made a decent attempt to explain the problem.
I don't want to see this dragged out. The issue I have with waiting for Sonarpulse to finish his VOXLAP port is that we would have wasted months waiting. We need to move away from 0.75 NOW, and I'm not overly concerned if we shift to 0.76 for the time being, but I'm once again getting sick of admining 0.75.
We don't need to cold turkey this - in fact, it would be best to keep playing 0.75 for the next few weeks - but we do need to start migrating NOW.
If you disagree, you need to fulfil several fucking old and in many cases fucking simple feature requests for pysnip NOW, because I am NOT going to be putting up with the rot for much longer.