TOPIC: [PROPHUNT] Suggestions

CrankyBot wrote: We used to have starship back at launch, it was horrible.

Suggestion Title (What are you Suggesting):

To remove the ph_lttp_kakariko_b2 map.

How / why would it benefit the Prophunt server:

Because as it stands I find it the least fun to play of all maps. The limited hiding spots makes it no fun and many more agree. I feel getting rid of it would make a better map be voted for (in-game) to play and make others want to play it. I personally almost get to the point of leaving prop hunt everytime this map is voted for, others feel the same and that would drop the playercount.

Potential Issues/Exploits:

N/A

Additional notes:

Thanks for reading this and taking it into consideration.

Due to Kakariko being the top 5 maps on prophunt on ZARP we cannot remove it.

Aek177 wrote:
It is the number one map on the server, and people seem to like it in game, so it will not be removed for the time being

Suggestion Title (What are you Suggesting): Spectator Group

How / why would it benefit the Prophunt server: People can move there if they have to shit

Potential Issues/Exploits: IDK

Additional notes: DO IT!

Atomic wrote:
This is already a feature, hold tab and then on the bottom left it says Spectate

Suggestion Title (What are you Suggesting): dont show messages from dead props to still living hunters.

How / why would it benefit the Prophunt server: Getting rid of the chat being shown to everyone would reduce the amount of ghosting. As a dead prop may say in chat 'a prop is [insert area/prop here]' and the hunter would go there and kill the prop.

Potential Issues/Exploits: idk

Additional notes:

Addition of a new map:
Wolvin's PropHunt Underwater! (ph_underwataaa)
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=224680268

How / why would it benefit the Prophunt server:
There are no real water-based prop hunt maps and I always found this one to be quite challenging,
it has always been my favorite and I think it deserves a place in the rotation.
While it may be a sometimes frustrating map, it was always the map where people had the most fun with in the chat celebrating their victories or frustrations. It would be a nice variation to all other maps currently in rotation.

Potential Issues/Exploits:
Many players had frustrations with this map in the past as "fish" were hard to spot and hit. There are also MANY places to hide and some are very eleborate if not invisible, of course every map has these spots and no map is without potential exploit spots. The veteran prop hunters know this as well.

Yavga wrote:
We had underwataaa removed a while ago as it caused lots of errors within the server and was the reason we lost a large playercount on the server nearly every week.

For real? Hmmm... that’s a shame. I’ll try and reach out to the map designer to see if anything can be done about it.

Edit: what kind of errors were they?

Yavga wrote:
It wasn't errors, we were just noticing that the majority of the playerbase disliked the map, and it was causing many people to leave the server. We noticed huge drops in playerbase which was largely attributed to the map when I looked into it, and it seemed to be fixed by removing the map.

Suggestion Title (What are you Suggesting): Put the money at 0 to people who do "ghosting".

How / why would it benefit the Prophunt server: Less ghosters more fun. obviously.

Potential Issues/Exploits: n/a.

Additional notes: Ban per days just dnt work. 3 days ban for ghosting is ridiculous. People do ghosting to get money so why dont put their money at 0?

1 or 2 weeks bans + put their money at 0 can change the behavior. Ghosters wants to make money not waste time.

N0NCREDIT wrote:
We have to catch them to be able to punish then. You can NOT auto find ghosters. You have to watch them for a bit of time and monitor their friends. We need more staff to do this more efficiently.

Stewie wrote:
Members recording a video can do this too. Same efficience. Why do u ever say "+staff +staff!"? we need staff and we need members with tools to fight against em. And we need too a good HARD rules against ghosting. (3 factors. not just staff)

N0NCREDIT wrote:
How would giving everyone admin rights help the server? I think what you are suggesting is making a vote system that can kick someone? But I can tell you now, that will not work. I myself have been accused of ghosting, but I have never done that, I just know where everything is as I have played for so long, so it is easy for me. You give players the kick ability and the servers will die within a week, because no one would want to play on them. You need proof of ghosting, and the only way to do that is by having admin rights and then you can see both parties involved. You can not do that with a voting system.

Stewie wrote:
Im not talking give everyone admins rights or insert votekick.
Im talking about put their money at 0. its simple.

N0NCREDIT wrote:
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about, or you just refuse to listen to what we are saying. You need proof of ghosting to be able to give them a punishment. Proof is provided with the admin tools and monitoring. With the admin tools you can see who they are ghosting with. You cant just take peoples points away because "you think" they are ghosting. And TO DO THIS WE NEED MORE STAFF! There is no software to add to the server that can monitor and punish ghosters, it just cant be done.

Please keep your discussion to a separate thread.