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ZeroK-RTS / Zero-K-Infrastructure

Website, lobby launcher and server, steam deployment, .NET based tools and other vital parts of Zero-K infrastructure
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Add discussion time start and duration server message #2488

Open GoogleFrog opened 5 years ago

GoogleFrog commented 5 years ago

I want to disable the start button during the discussion time. Ideally I would also disable the button during map voting.

DeinFreund commented 5 years ago

How about a message to indicate when you can't start polls? That'd be true for both discussion time and when there are other polls. Would you like to know specifically what reason is blocking polls?

Licho1 commented 5 years ago

I have a feeling this all becomes to over engineered and complicated. Let people choose what they want to do where they want to play, no need to social engineer everything

DeinFreund commented 5 years ago

I suppose you're talking about the streamlined hosts in general because this specific change would only improve the UI by showing the user when he can and can't start polls.

Licho1 commented 5 years ago

Yes I dont like them much .. its a full circle.. we abandoned those things in favor of player controlled places. And now we are moving back to more authoritarian regime

DeinFreund commented 5 years ago

@Licho1 this is the alternative to forcibly limiting big rooms to smaller player counts. I'd much rather give people a poll to go in a smaller room than alienate the big teams players. From a recent discussion in #zkadmin:

Let's try limiting rooms to about 22-26 people if DeinFreund's invitations don't work

I'd also believe that even though there is an added time for the small teams vote, having the map vote with multiple options is a lot faster than the old map vote spam. With a few tweaks, like letting users nominate maps or using the map ratings, it might even be better at finding the maps people want to play on (votespam didn't do that, it was just about who called !map faster).

If people don't like the outcome of the system, they can still manually call all commands as they are used to.

@GoogleFrog please tell me exactly how you want the message to look. Should it tell you whether to enable the start button or should it tell you about the discussion time? Whether you can or can't use the start button depends on factors outside of discussion time and polls, such as being the room owner.

GoogleFrog commented 5 years ago

That is a very complicated system. I am not even sure what I want to display anymore.

DeinFreund commented 5 years ago

If you want the server can simply keep the lobby updated if !start is going to do something or just display an error. Then you know when to display the button.