Beta Season 2 Changes

[VAN1SH1NG]

• New rating system (thread)
• Starting ratings not equal, based on previous season rank. See rating system thread for details.
• Achievements (thread)
• Low level players can't use randa or rev (min level 8)
• Missing stat 'catches' added
• Turnovers and steals are now based on a 2 second timer. So, these stats only apply if occurring within 2 seconds after a pass or drop on death.
• Code cleaned up, some backend features redone (example: map lists now pulled from database, can alter them and reload through server commands if needed). Work in progress.. didn't do nearly the overhaul I wanted due not having any free time until recently.
• Clutch goal stat (scoring winner when it is 5-5). Considering doing something similar for TBD, but not sure it can work due to rounding problems. There is no way to know exactly how much base health is remaining.
• Conversion from Python version 2 to 3
• Bug fixes

Some of the changes and mode re-additions coming this season with estimated completion time:

• New lobby (this weekend)
• TBD (At least by Saturday night, just need to test a little and write achievements.)
• DM & Dodgeball back, Dodgeball will have lives instead of rounds (within 2 weeks)
• Adjustments to formula determining number of points to award after games (some quick patches for now to fix streaking, but otherwise basically the same as last season - needs improvement - will have at least some small adjustments by the end of the weekend with more likely coming later)
• CDN for maps (detects your location and serves the map downloads from the closest server.. within 2 weeks probably)
• Player profile/stat pages on website (at least an initial/rough version by the end of this weekend)
• Group / clan chat + offline messaging (leave messages for your clan which they will see next time they join an AltitudeRank.com server - around end of August)
• Nicknames (aka) for players and changes to some ladder commands to use or display these (within 10 days). Storing nicknames for players helps you better identify players not using their regular name. Also allows you to more easily use commands targeting players. Expect a command like @<nickname>, @Clam to select a player. /showRating <player> then simplifies to /showRating. You can select players using their set aka names, current/past nicknames, etc including more expanded options to select players not currently in the server.
• Cross server bans and some other features applying across all servers (by end of August)
• Sub in similarly rated players (if available) to replace disconnected or lagging players (by early September)
• Volleyball (mid september)
• Workaround for nickname change bug (monitor server launcher log for any errors - 1 to 2 weeks)
• League statistics (possibly in time for SL final, but more likely ready for go whatever league happens next)
• Other website improvements (varies)
• Ball time limit is still under consideration

[.bobbiphop]

Awesome, nice work so far! \o/

[Clam]

I AM ACTUALLY EXCITED

[VAN1SH1NG]

Very basic ball lobby added, work in progress. Basically took 4v4 laby and made slight modifications. Mostly I need to add in a lot of text to the edges of the map including rules and achievement info.

[number 3]

I was working on my bomber kills in that last lobby no more 20k bomber kills for me

[Slender]

Originally Posted by VAN1SH1NG

Player profile/stat pages on website (at least an initial/rough version by the end of this weekend)

It's been 2 days since last sunday. Am impatient.

[VAN1SH1NG]

Yes, bug fixing kept me busier than expected through the weekend, plus got distracted actually playing some ladder. So then planned to work on it Tuesday before going out of town. I thought we were leaving Tuesday evening but had to leave in the morning.

Anyway, I have no time to work on ladder for the rest of this week. Work on ladder will resume Monday.