The Snarkpit Server

Just played on the server, and I must say - very nice!! Even with 150 ping, It felt very smooth. Handled Overwatch, with a full crowd, without any of the crazy lagg that Overwatch usually brings. Definately plan on becoming a regular there.

Oh, and gg Sloth!

Played it this morning and I am extremely impressed. Despite the fact
that I got a ping of 450 (Looks like I'm winning so far :smile: ) I still
managed to get some decent frags and have a good time. The biggest
issue was the effect lag had on kills. Often I would blast people point
blank with a double shot from the shotty and it wouldn't kill them. Or
I would empty an entire clip of the SMG or AR2 and not kill em either.
Apart from that it was a blast, top notch work there Gwil. I'll have to
make a map that'll run on it :biggrin: .

http://www.kain-9.com/maps/dm_np_refinery.zip

Get it on the server. Now! :smile:

Tough luck. My ping was 85 yesterday and you all saw how full the server was. :smile:

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Did you catch that little booger who sang all the way through lockdown?

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What's with this "message submitted after x minutes" cr*p when I try to reply? It's beyond annoying :sad: IMAO.

If it still doesn't have a password (it didn't yesterday) then gwil, hit yourself and re-initiate it. Its always filled with random hobos!

I had a good battle on the server last night until hldm crashed . Island17 looks superb and give my pc a full workout though it was still fun. I was only onthere for an hour or so and there was at different times two kids singing songs non stop. Ive never had that before except on cs lol.

Gonna have another bash in a bit.

Myrk, I remove the password because I didn't particularly want to pay
?420 to see a server not get used. There's also no point in elitism
when the whole idea is to get Snarkpit users maps out there to the
public :smile:

Also i've paid the extra fee to remove the password and it shall stay
that way until we have some themed nights, or organised playtests. Like
I say, the main driving idea was to get mass recognition for some of
the creations that are produced by our users, yet might never see the
light of day on servers. A great shame if they don't really, because
that's what we all want from a map, surely? People to actually play it!

Also if I hadn't paid the password fee and handed it out willy nilly on
here, I'm pretty sure it would have broken the terms and conditions :razz:

Anyhoo, latest changes:

Changed mp_flashlight to 0 for optimised performance.

Changed mp_falldamage to 10 - no more broken legs on Island17 and Torque!

Changed mp_chattime to 30. (You can now do the "gg" "unlucky!" friendly chat at the end of maps"

Removed dm_steamlab from the rotation - it's not too hot, and it crashed the server THREE times (at least) yesterday.

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The future?

• Organised playtests to go hand in hand with "Maps" forum only.
  Beta works can be scheduled for playtests, ran by a volunteer admin,
  and developed in conjuction with the self styled "critiques" we have
  all come to know and love.</li>
• Organised fun nights! Team matches, intersite matches, even clan
  wars can be ran from the server. An example would be "Friday Night Team
  Frag Fest" (or something) - signups start in the day and we allocate
  teams from the memberbase ONLY to have a CTF/TDM session.</li>
• Plugins - stats, map voting, vote to kick nuisance players, map
  extend - etc etc etc. I've started looking around for these already.
  
  </li>

So far all the feedback and suggestions people have submitted have been
great, and i'll be looking at all the maps offered for the rotation
today, with a view to installing some later this evening. I know
everyone is eager, but we have had only had the server, 2 days? :razz:

Another thing I need to do before the end of the month is appoint some
users to hold the rcon password, and one/two to keep the FTP up to
date. I won't be here as of April to keep the custom map packs up to
date and uploaded, so i'll be looking into this ASAP.

If it's password free then you should name some admins (ppl who have broadband at home) to make sure gameplay goes smooth.

What I'd like to see is a link between Steam ID and user accounts on
the website, so that stats can be linked in with profiles somehow :smile:
Would also be neat if people could earn snarkmarks through playing in
some form, as in a sense playing on the server (and so playing the
custom maps our members are putting out) is contributing to the
community and therefore deserves some sort of return I guess.

Opened up the Steam browser to a nice surprise a minute ago as well;
not only is the server full, but its also got the lowest ping! What do
you think, can we become the premier UK based HL2DM server?

Well, a player rank page like the ones CS servers have would be cool.

Heh, really like the idea of snarkmarks for playing on the server. I also agree with gwill, please don't password it, unless it's a specific 'themed' night (which sounds really cool). Also, I was very glad to see that 'weaponstay' was set to 0 - please don't change this. The core maps don't have enough ammo for xbow and combine rifle - weaponstay just kills their usage.

Seems cool, went on it for a wile. only got a ping of about 35 - 50.
anything happening with the snarkpit clan. i know Reno and Korn have
[snarkpit] behind there names.

Its really good fun much more than i thourght it would be cos I usually preffer team based play like DoD.

I like the idea of tying the snarkmarks in with playing on the server.

and I think its fine not being passworded unless its for playtesting a map or some other use like that.

I just spent about an hour on the snarkpit server, and really enjoyed it.... despite getting my arse kicked every game!

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With a full server my isdn was pinging around 125 - which is pretty good!

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Really liked all the custom levels too, they're more fun to play than the valve ones! Shame steamlab had to be removed tho, - its alright.

Cheers Gwill. :biggrin:

What is the problem with steam labs, that is in my opinion my top valve made map.

Yeah I liked steam lab...well you godda do what ya godda do I guess.

Finger was kicking my ass yesterday and I am none too happy about it!

I'm sick of Steamlab

There have been a few times when I've tried to log into the server but
its been chockers with n00bs, and there have been no other Snarkpit
members playing. It isn't possible to give members the ability to kick
a random player to get on the server is it? It would majorly suck if no
one could get on because its full of randoms. Maybe if its worked out
by Steam ID, when you try and login but its full it automatically kicks
a non-member player to make room. I don't know, probably can't do
anything about it, but just thought I'd mention it.

Dammit randoms, get off our server, I want to play :sad: .

Just check the auto retry box and play a game of solitare. You won't get a game finished, that's for sure.

i found that. the server is allways full. most likely because its one
of the best servers around. but it is anoying having to put auto
connect on. I liked it though. great fun. i also found myself getting
completely sloughted.

Discuss further in new sticky thread :smile: