Point Calculating 2.0

[NiteHawk]

No comments about for example: TOTAL SHIP DAMAGE (amount of hit points destroyed of all the ships you've ever fought) for prestige instead of KILLS, for example?

[warfighter67]

Sorry, been busy a little bit.

I personally like this idea a lot. It prevents killstealing and provides a baseline for a real balanced score/prestige system.

[NiteHawk]

Sorry, been busy a little bit.

I personally like this idea a lot. It prevents killstealing and provides a baseline for a real balanced score/prestige system.

Thanks. I am just thinking of a good way to handle this while online. It actaully might be too much strain because instead of just recording kills, you'd have to record every bull hit /damage/etc. So I'm checking this out. We might stick with the KILLS type until I can figure out a good solution. While this is fine client side. Having to send/receive a constant flow of data might be dirty.

[warfighter67]

Maybe on KILL, you could take the info on who did what damage. Of course, then the player/AI would have to be killed to get the 'points', but it wouldn't cause as much server strain.

[NiteHawk]

Maybe on KILL, you could take the info on who did what damage. Of course, then the player/AI would have to be killed to get the 'points', but it wouldn't cause as much server strain.

That is a good idea to reduce strain. I'm not sure what Trompete would think about this or how this would handle, but he's the network man so he might have a better idea. I'm still find with going to basic kills/deaths/planet captures/etc, way we indented to do it firstly as long as it works 100% better. I am fixing to actually get this done very soon, because we have a nice idea for the new nexus and it would be best to complete the basic stats of the nexus instead of having to keep changing it.

[NiteHawk]

So far what I'm adding.. I'll make this as lazy as I can sdnce I am busy today:
This is ADDED, so number of kills/ number of deaths/etc isn't included.

   //SF2.0
   totalPrestige = 0; //The main base of your score.
   totalShipDamage = 0; //Ships Damaged Total
   totalPlanetDamage = 0; //Planets Damaged Total
   totalBuildPoints = 0; //Construction Total
   totalRepairPoints = 0; //Repair Total
   totalFriendlyFire = 0; //Friendly Fire damage
   totalResourcesLost = 0; //Resources lost (Like your own ship blowing up)
   numSelfD = 0; //Self Destructs
   numAIKills = 0; //AI Kills, split from regular kills.
   numShipCap = 0; //Ship captures
   numPlanetCap = 0; //Planet captures
   totalTimeOnline = 0; //Total time online
   totalBonus = 0; //Any bonuses, such as SF events.

Removed the following:

Total Score: Replaced with total prestige.
Active Score: Need to figure out an replacement for 'score bonus', though we talked about this in the past.

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-I'm unsure weither to keep AI KILLS or not. If we keep it, it could be a nice determination if there not experienced with players or not, or they just sit and kill AI. I THINK it is a good idea though.
-Repair points is basically how many hull points/etc you repaired. (when hull is added). Constuction points is probably going to be amount of hull points on a building constructed or total time of your construction. Not sure yet. I didn't add 'Total Constructed Buildings' becuase I dont' feel we need two stats for construct. If we do add it, it should be 'there' but not the main game/cause for the MAIN mods of SF, anyways.. Sound good?

[xmakina]

My only real concern is:
totalTimeOnline = 0; //Total time online

You never want to reward an idler so I'd probably remove this one. Besides, time on line will result in higher scores everywhere else!

[NiteHawk]

My only real concern is:
totalTimeOnline = 0; //Total time online

You never want to reward an idler so I'd probably remove this one. Besides, time on line will result in higher scores everywhere else!

Actually it won't be for prestige. Just a recording. I can also disable it while AFK. (using the afk button for example.) but either or I won't record it for prestige so it should be ok

[xmakina]

My only real concern is:
totalTimeOnline = 0; //Total time online

You never want to reward an idler so I'd probably remove this one. Besides, time on line will result in higher scores everywhere else!

Actually it won't be for prestige. Just a recording. I can also disable it while AFK. (using the afk button for example.) but either or I won't record it for prestige so it should be ok

If it's just to record time then fair enough. AFK button? Surely if a player is going AFK they should just get off the server and let someone else play?

[NiteHawk]

There are always times where you have to go get a drink, or do something. the AFK button (F12) only allows you to go AFK if no enemies are nearby (The top right indicator must be 'green' for no enemies nearby.). It was actually something tons of people wanted because I removed the ability to q-park (aka you warp and end up not moving, so you never come out of warp), but q-park was also abused.

I'm pretty sure the server will boot you over time if you don't press anything for too too long. It was done in SF 1.3.x though.

[xmakina]

There are always times where you have to go get a drink, or do something. the AFK button (F12) only allows you to go AFK if no enemies are nearby (The top right indicator must be 'green' for no enemies nearby.). It was actually something tons of people wanted because I removed the ability to q-park (aka you warp and end up not moving, so you never come out of warp), but q-park was also abused.

I'm pretty sure the server will boot you over time if you don't press anything for too too long. It was done in SF 1.3.x though.

Is that so? I just parked on top of my races home planet whenever I needed to go AFK for a few moments... Weird what tricks you don't learn when you don't play online

[NiteHawk]

There are always times where you have to go get a drink, or do something. the AFK button (F12) only allows you to go AFK if no enemies are nearby (The top right indicator must be 'green' for no enemies nearby.). It was actually something tons of people wanted because I removed the ability to q-park (aka you warp and end up not moving, so you never come out of warp), but q-park was also abused.

I'm pretty sure the server will boot you over time if you don't press anything for too too long. It was done in SF 1.3.x though.

Is that so? I just parked on top of my races home planet whenever I needed to go AFK for a few moments... Weird what tricks you don't learn when you don't play online

Ah true that AI is pretty stupid for that reason. Players will tend to lob a nade or two at you or use a laser if you hide in there   But that whole warp bug existed for so long, when I removed it the community freaked out about not being able to AFK. So we finally reached an agreement where I added a AFK button but only if your safe (Green Status only, not yellow/red) So this was fine to them, and I removed that bug