SAPP

[kylelop52]

Is there a way of setting teleports in a sapp server, for instance walking into a rock will teleport you 2 a cliff and vice versa. sapp would be so sick if their was support for a feature like this ???

[sanni]

I hope you don't mind me posting ideas I have here, even though they may be stupid ;D

But here is goes:

A "save state" command. It saves the current state of the game, e.g. all players positions, health, shield, weapons, scores, kills, deaths. And you can revert to that state with a "load state" command.

Now you could use this in several ways:
- For example if there is a league match and someone drops out, you could do an automatic player quit -> save state script. So when he rejoins the admin could load the game state from the moment the players dropped out.

[sanni]

Suggestion #2:

Map Downloading Queue via text file.

Since Gameservers.com is really bad I find myself constantly moving the server to a different location. Mondays UK is good weekends NL and now and then the German servers are the only one not lagging. One thing I hate is that either I have to slowly ftp all the custom maps over to the new server or I use the build in function in sapp to download each map to the server. Which can take some time too.

It would be just beast if I could just drop a mapqueue.txt file in the sapp folder and sapp would auto download all the maps I specify in there.

[Crenshaw]

thats a good idea sanni.

[Cortexian]

I've been noticing some weird issues with the teleport command. It seems like the server-side is registering the player as teleported, but client-side is not.

Ex: I don't visually move, I appear to stay in the same spot. However other people in the server don't see me in the original spot, I can't interact with anything in the original spot, and sometimes the game syncs up and I end up teleporting many seconds/moments later.

[sanni]

I have those "can't interact with anything"-moments quite often. Maybe once a week and totally unrelated to teleporting. Just like 5 seconds where the client and the server don't sync. Maybe there is a bug somewhere idk.

[Cortexian]

Yeah I've noticed it without teleporting a bit recently as well.

I just switched over to using the stings only version though.

[sehe]

Yeah looks like the fast thread cycle can make playrs with very low ping desync for some seconds. No solution yet.

[sanni]

Explains why moving my server from Germany(10ms ping) to NL(20ms) helped a little but still not fixed the desync issue xD.
Hope u find a solution because getting called a lagger by vaib hurts my feelings xD.

[mywarthog]

Relating to Map Downloads:

Would it be possible to show the size of the map files in the query list?

Also, what about options that can set a max total amount of maps that a server can have on it, a way to turn off the map downloading feature, and a special logging file for downloaded maps (who downloaded what and when)?