13 May 11, 10:52AM
vern's first post: By George! I like the idea.
tempest: Although you could definitely avoid the maps, when someone comes onto a server and votes it in (and passes), it's highly annoying. This could obviously be fixed by server owners blocking certain maps and a person just not playing on the sort of servers where this is likely, but unless voting is disabled (relying on an excellent maprot) or effort is made to ensure that crap maps are blocked, we may still have this problem.
The introduction of an absolute maximum height could (hopefully) stop the production of "@camper"s and similar maps. This sort of map also tends to invite cheaters (and maybe even hackers :P) into an environment where nobody really seems to know what to do except get angry and give up on AssaultCube. The cheaters get away with it too in many cases.
tempest: Although you could definitely avoid the maps, when someone comes onto a server and votes it in (and passes), it's highly annoying. This could obviously be fixed by server owners blocking certain maps and a person just not playing on the sort of servers where this is likely, but unless voting is disabled (relying on an excellent maprot) or effort is made to ensure that crap maps are blocked, we may still have this problem.
The introduction of an absolute maximum height could (hopefully) stop the production of "@camper"s and similar maps. This sort of map also tends to invite cheaters (and maybe even hackers :P) into an environment where nobody really seems to know what to do except get angry and give up on AssaultCube. The cheaters get away with it too in many cases.