Points System

I've been thinking,

What do you think of a points system? Let me explain.

In ZM, I rarely find use to hit TAB except to see who is playing, I never look at score, it means jack shit. What if, we had, rather than KILLS, but points?

For example,

Human kills 1 Zombie = 3 points (seeing as it is harder to kill a zombie, than it is to kill a human)
Zombie kills 1 Human = 2 poiints

So, lets say Cam and I are playing.

Name Score
Cam 6
Sauce 2

Now, Cam kills a few zombies, I kill a few, etc.


Name Score
Sauce 24
Cam 22


Now, Cam and I call it day. Tomorrow, we decide to play again - and heres the question - should our point total RESUME from where we left off, or start fresh, at 0?

What I expect to see in time, such as a month if the points add up every time the person plays, is something like:

Name....................Score
Sauce......................2387
Cam........................2132
Umbrella..................1858
Kyle.........................1257
Mer............................823
John..........................492
etc.


Now when a person hits tab, they know whos played the most and slaughtered the most out of everyone who is currently connected.

The points can be kept forever, or reset every month, whatever.

The basic idea is implementing a point system into zombie mod, where players can build their reputation via points / score. The ones that work the hardest will always be at the top of the score board, a small, informational reward.

It would kind of be like rank, but this way 40 ranks are shown at once upon hitting tab. I think it'll give players a reason to try and build their zombie point score / reputation.

Just a thought, not sure how we would pull it off, I know HLStatsX uses a point system, thing is the code would have to recognize when a zombie kill is a zombie kill and not a team kill.

This is possible, seeing as in Zombie Mod, you can set a kill count for zombie kills, such as 2, each zombie kill = 2 frags. Now, we could just keep this, but add a score keeper, which counts the score as the player goes, but a lot of the time, these score keepers can't recognize zombie kills and human kills, and take away frags from the total score (reads zombie kills as team kills)

I know Lex from HellsGamers setup a ZOMBIE version of HLStatsX where it actually read Zombie Kills and counted them... perhaps we could use this as a base for the point total, kept all in a mySQL database hosted on the web, or... do a script from scratch and depend on an eventscripts db txt (which I presume would grow to be pretty damn big...)

Problem is, I know nothing about eventscripts, we need a coder. I knew a few, don't know if they're good enough, but I want to pass the idea on to you guys first.

What do you think?


EDIT: This guy just made a post over on ZombieMod.com about zombie ranks / point system - odd.

No replies yet except my own request to chat with him over MSN. Perhaps I'll work with him on getting this done and onto Plague Fest, who knows, sounds like a potentially good idea.


EDIT 2: Currently talking to a bud that knows eventscripts well, discussing possibilities, etc. I think he's willing to create custom scripts for pF. We'll see.

Sounds promising, although for some players who play 7/7 there score surpass 10,000 easily.

We can have it reset each month, I don't really want to do that, but I think there's plenty of room on TAB to go up to the 6 digit figures.

What's the 'old' rank system? Currently we only have mani rank. Which will get disabled if we get !stats working.

edit: ran tests tonight, not doing too hot. When it does work, it goes something like this:

!stats
[PlagueFest] Name currently has # points having killed # humans and # zombies.

If I killed 2 humans and 2 zombies and typed !stats, I would see:

[PlagueFest] SauceHelmet currently has 10 points having killed 2 humans and 2 zombies.


2 humans = 4 points
2 zombies = 6 points
total = 10 points.

and the score board would reflect that.

Will run further tests tomorrow. Big thanks to Jordan for all the work / help thus far.

Mani rank is great.. for regular CSS, its so inaccurate for ZM its funny.

Why wouldn't it work? If we reset at all it would be monthly. I just think it would be cool to know the exact number of humans and zombies you've killed since [insert activation date here] or since you started playing on PF, and how many points you've earned because of it.

Jordan helped get it jump started but its having problems. For one, on ATIX_HELICOPTER, when the nuke goes off, all the deaths get counted as points so, few bugs to work out still, but it is underway.

BUMPAGE! Well Jordan worked on this some more and fixed all the little kinks it had.

First, here's how its laid out:

If you kill a human, you get 2 points.
If you kill a zombie, you get 3 points.

Points are saved forever until we wish to reset for whatever reason.

Your points reflect on the scoreboard, however, the scoreboard only goes up to 1695, once a player hits past 1695 points, his score via TAB will not change. However, his point total is still rising and can be seen when he types "!stats"

Typing !stats displays how many points you have with the total # of zombies and # of humans you've killed.

Deaths are set at 0 always.

This is an exclusive script just for Plague Fest, many many thanks to Jordan for bringing my idea to life, love you dearly.

So, should we do something like .. a reset every 3 months or.. something, or just leave it going forever and let someone's "!stats" go up to 5,000+ etc... like I said the scoreboard only goes to 1695... so, I'll need some input on what to do.




points rise pretty fast, should we change it to human kill = 1 point and zombie kill = 2 ?

No, it has a file it writes all the information to, its not stored in the memory of SRCDS.

We reset all the points because they were rising too fast, changed human kills to = 1 point, and zombie kills to = 2 points, rather than 2 pts for human and 3 pts for zombie.

So, its working beautifully now, and the lag earlier was not due to the script.

We'll decide what to do as far as resets go when someone actually reaches 1695+

Rolled back ay? Could be because the scoreboard has a max limit... did your !stats roll back as well?