FESTERS PLACE

Allrightythen, move to new box means new stats. That means a handy opportunity to tweak the points awarded per weapon and other bonus items.

Voice your thoughts

Mine to start us off -
* The number of kills required before recording stats proper should be upped from 50 to 100 or 200 to lessen the effect of random 1-time callers to the server
* Domination should be awarded more points than revenge. It's harder to achieve, so why be punished for it?
* No headshot bonus points for snipers, it's their job, damnit
* Reduce points awarded for deploying an uber from 10 to 5
* Reduce points awarded for sentry kills, increase points awarded for engie s'gun

If I tihnk of any others, I'll add em on...

Sounds fantastic. Agree with all points.

How do the spies fair? I was thinking that they should get a bonus for backstabs as they can be quite difficult to achieve and you are in the thick of it on some it not most occasions. I'll bow to everyone's better thinking and judgement on this though.

No points at all for spies it seems hard to get back stabs bbloke but i don't feel any extra points should be given no more than sniper's its there job.

Fester

I think the default is that spies get a bonus point for backstabs. I'll check it, but if they dont, we can set it that they do, or alternatively give them a different points modifier.

Oh another one, deflected projectile kills should get more points for pyro than normal kills, a bonus point or diff points modifier as its a more skilled kill imo

i think the number of kill required to score properly should be upped to 200

Every class should be able to climb equally in the ranks. With this in mind :

Class specific
Spies are a difficult class and die a lot so :
backstab +1 (unless weapon modifier is incremented significantly)
Snipers :
Headshot +1 instead of +2 now (without this, they will very hard advance)
Medics :
Uber +5
Engies :
Building sg or disp : +2

General
Domination and Revenge, default +5
Destroying sg or disp : +2
Kills required to score properly : at least 200 (think of a one-time visitor in the evening for a long session)

Weapon modifiers: well not going to take a shot at that subject :p

DragoonKnight wrote:i think the number of kills required to score properly should be upped to 200

I'd say 100 otherwise it might put people off.

Personally I would think anyone put off by needing 200 kills to start gaining regular points wouldn't be missed anyway . That's just my opinion.

Jonnywhy wrote: I'd say 100 otherwise it might put people off.

If we suppress the messages they wont even know, and as klink says, you get that num of kills easy in one decent session, afaik it includes assists, so medics arent out in the cold too long

but lets see what the masses think...

I think no class should receive bonus points at all if the sniper doesn't receive bonus points for head shots.

Head-shots require a lot more skill than a heavy spraying or spamming from demo's/soldiers, yet with the new rules they will score the same.

If there are no bonus points for a headshot the sniper might as well take the easy route and kill with body shots where possible.

I play sniper for the most part and think removing the bonus shots will be an unfair disadvantage to the sniper given he is a weak class for the most part.