State of the Zombie MOD Server Union Address

[Andrew_Pavlik]

It takes too many players to carry out a voteban/votekick, to the point that the function is useless. Right now an ENTIRE SERVER-1 has to be convinced to ban/kick a player, which just isn't feasible, and should be (ENTIRE SERVER-1)/2 rounded up.
Add the option of votemute, which requires far fewer votes than ban/kick. Not sure if its already there or not.

There is almost always an admin on ZM, this shouldn't matter.

Fix noblock for ZE/ZM.

Thought this was already the case?

Disable RTV for the first 2 or 3 rounds of the map. There are a bunch of idiot players that will work their damnedest (spamming chat, spamming mic, occasionally griefing) to convince the server to RTV!!!! because things didn't go their way the first round, or because the map wasn't what they voted for at the end of the last map. And they're terrible.

if they are doing this then kick or ban them till the map is over, you are an admin you shouldn't be putting up with this.

Am I the only one that thinks this is a terrible idea?

If you just care about being a rank whore, sure. If you don't and play ZM for the challenge then no. When there is 15+ humans at a choke and 1 fast zombie gets it, with there super low health on ZE maps to began with, thats the 15 humans fault, not the settings. I thought ZE maps were way to boring and one sided the way there are now. Did ZE maps need some sort of fix, sure, but taking away fast zombies wasn't the solution.


Besides the server needing to be reset, all the other complaints are easily fixable by good admins and players.

[NLA]

if they are doing this then kick or ban them till the map is over, you are an admin you shouldn't be putting up with this.

I used to be an admin. I stopped paying for it, lol.

If you just care about being a rank whore, sure. If you don't and play ZM for the challenge then no. When there is 15+ humans at a choke and 1 fast zombie gets it, with there super low health on ZE maps to began with, thats the 15 humans fault, not the settings. I thought ZE maps were way to boring and one sided the way there are now. Did ZE maps need some sort of fix, sure, but taking away fast zombies wasn't the solution.

Andrew, do you even play ZE often? I assure you that a fast can punch through a bunch of the most skilled players far too easily. If anything, the fast zombie in ZE appeals to the rank whore that likes to easily tag tons of humans. Remove Fast and Deformed to prevent too easy punching through defenses and (maybe) remove Poison and you have a pretty level playing field, apart from the absurdly high HS chances and knockback on zombies. An even playing field should be the goal here for ZE.

[ZERO]

Uhm... the fast zombies have the same settings that the predator zombies did before the most recent update. So basically you are complaining that the zombies are not also invisible!? For the update the specs for the predator zombies were lowered slightly so that the fast would be faster but not any faster than other zombies already were. The only real change has been the deformed which are still the slowest compared to the others on ze maps.

As for new maps those should be in the maps request section.

As for map votes I do not make that plugin

As for vote mute there is no plugin that does this that exists that actually works.

[Andrew_Pavlik]

ZE shouldn't be easy mode. And exactly what Zero said.

[NLA]

Uhm... the fast zombies have the same settings that the predator zombies did before the most recent update. So basically you are complaining that the zombies are not also invisible!? For the update the specs for the predator zombies were lowered slightly so that the fast would be faster but not any faster than other zombies already were. The only real change has been the deformed which are still the slowest compared to the others on ze maps.

As for new maps those should be in the maps request section.

As for map votes I do not make that plugin

As for vote mute there is no plugin that does this that exists that actually works.

What about the other things?

I'll double check the speed settings in-game.

ZE shouldn't be easy mode. And exactly what Zero said.

I never said ZE should be easy mode, I said it should be balanced. Don't put words into my mouth.

And I still stand by having the zcookie auto-buy being the default, and fire time being capped, automatic alltalk, and automatic server resets, and fixing up the various things (RTV, zombie spawn settings, noblock) that need to be tweaked. The server needs work to be as fun as it could be.

[Amon]

I never said ZE should be easy mode, I said it should be balanced. Don't put words into my mouth.

How are you going to balance something that factors experience and knowing the map?

[ZERO]

That is why when there is a map that needs to be configured differently people need to make a configure thread so I can investigate it.