DM server spawnpoints

[danlo]

I am just wondering what everyone thinks about the new spawn points on the DM server.
Here's what I think...
1. New points in general are good to mix things up
2. The new spawn points aren't in the greatest places
3. Some areas have many spawn points so there can be 5 T's vs. 1 CT who just spawned.
4. Many of the spawnpoints are in spots that are very easy to spawncamp at, so there is a lot more of that than there used to be.


Thats all I can think of right now, but I want to know what other people think.

[Balenciaga]

dude! the times i've been in there, there have been some complaints about it. yes, its nice we have new spawn points, but they, like danlo said, aren't in greatest places! i think maybe just change the places....
<3BAL

[Anotherevil]

I know a couple of times I've spawned facing the wall. What's the point of that? Anyone can shoot me. And no they're not.

CHANGE BACK TO NORMAL CT AND T SPAWN Points.. instead of random ones.

[SilverSquirrl]

just out of curiosity, when did this change take place?

I haven't done any changes,
I don't think afro has been around to do any,
and I'm not sure who else would/could change them.

kinda puzzling to me.

[GurgleGoop]

One day I was on playing when someone kept toggling the spawn view on and off, so that every spawn point showed up as a VIP model. After asking multiple times if anyone was messing with it from rcon I just started turning it off (and it usually came back really fast). I did that a few times until they didn't come back and never heard anything from anyone. I'm pretty sure at that time I was the only one on the server with enough access to change them according to amx_who, so I don't know what the deal was. Its possible whoever or whyever it was doing that added some new spawns.

[syriquez]

Exorcism time.

[SilverSquirrl]

strange....

[GurgleGoop]

If you can search the logs for when I was doing "csdm_menu" you can find the general time that it occurred. There was another admin on who can confirm it.

[YO_MA_MA]

if it was about a day or too ago, i played for a few minutes and found myself spawning on boxes in dust2, and facing walls in dust (with 3 enemies staring at my back) i was counting the number of times i got spawn camped (moving less then 2 feet and being killed) i had 11 deaths in a row before i was able to half play.

my vote is yes to old ones.

[GurgleGoop]

I'm going to take the liberty of removing some problem spawn points.


Edit: There was one spot on Dust with about 15 spawn points all jumbled in 1 location.
Edit #2: Wow, make that on both maps. I'm putting back some missing spawns too.

[YO_MA_MA]

yeah! go admins! woot woot.

[TheTryHard]

If you can search the logs for when I was doing "csdm_menu" you can find the general time that it occurred. There was another admin on who can confirm it.

Confirmed. It was I, that was there. I was not the one changing the spawn points.

[Flying_skulk]

I seem to recall this happening before when our servers started getting real popular in the past.

[Anotherevil]

if it was about a day or too ago, i played for a few minutes and found myself spawning on boxes in dust2, and facing walls in dust (with 3 enemies staring at my back) i was counting the number of times i got spawn camped (moving less then 2 feet and being killed) i had 11 deaths in a row before i was able to half play.

my vote is yes to old ones.

That box one is really annoying.

Thanks guys for taking a look at this, and thank you Danlo for bringing sexy back... i mean.. bringing this topic to attention.

[SilverSquirrl]

I looked at the actual location file and 2 of them had a bunch of extra blank lines in it. I went through and delete them. Maybe that will make a difference.

If an admin could give me the actual location of the bad spawn point, i can remove that from the config. if you use the teleport command, it should tell you where you are at. (i think there is a actual location command to, not sure what it is though)

I would fix it in-game, but I still don't have steam installed on my computer.

[YO_MA_MA]

I still don't have steam installed on my computer.

u fail, i just copy the folder to my backup stuff, then re-format and copy it back. so far its worked fine every time.

[GurgleGoop]

I did go through and fix all the ones I found in-game, so hopefully its fixed. I had to delete a lot because there was an area on each map that must have had 10-20 spawns and was probably where the spawn killing was going on (I know it was for de_dust). All those deleted spawns may have left the gaps in the config.

[superballz00]

I miss the old days when CTs n Ts spawned on separate sides of the map.

[AfroDan]

:rip:here lies a dead thread



:deadhorse:

[YO_MA_MA]

:rip:here lies a dead thread



:deadhorse:

wow... ummm yeah.

woot spawm


seriously though, the forums have been pretty dead for the last few weeks or so, anything exciting happening? as of this second, im downloading the patches for warhammer online, beta starts today... but there is like 200MBs of patches which all 900,000 beta dudes are trying to get right this second... so it's damn slow.