Suggestion Title (What are you Suggesting):

VIP Prop (or VIProp)

How / why would it benefit the Prophunt server:

Players, especially hunters, would be more incentivised to hunting down a prop that is worth twice as much while also possibly increasing other props' survivability. Also further encourages friendly competition between hunters while playing.

Potential Issues/Exploits:

Nothing if coded correctly and player count restrictions are placed, similar to the point betting system's.

Additional notes:

A single player on ‘Props’ will be chosen at random to be the VIP who will give twice (or higher than) the usual PS points and more XP from being killed. They will be chosen about 30-40 seconds after hunters' start of play (to lessen chances of AFK props being chosen) and will be indicated by an alert both in the chat box and somewhere on screen, either subtlety in the middle or in the top-right corner possibly followed by a sound as well.

The alert will say something along the lines of: “Player X is the VIP! Kill them for Double XP and Points!”. When the VIP is killed, the usual top-left alert will appear though will be edited to reflect the greater point reward. For this feature to be enabled, there must >=7 (not definite value) players on the server as to avoid abuse of it during lower player counts.

That's the main suggestion; what I have included in the spoiler below is mainly an aesthetic supplement to the concept.


Leaving the suggestion here in case I can't make it to the meeting.

[b]Suggestion Title (What are you Suggesting):[/b] VIP Prop (or VIProp) [b]How / why would it benefit the Prophunt server:[/b] Players, especially hunters, would be more incentivised to hunting down a prop that is worth twice as much while also possibly increasing other props' survivability. Also further encourages friendly competition between hunters while playing. [b]Potential Issues/Exploits: [/b] Nothing if coded correctly and player count restrictions are placed, similar to the point betting system's. [b]Additional notes:[/b] A single player on ‘Props’ will be chosen at random to be the VIP who will give twice (or higher than) the usual PS points and more XP from being killed. They will be chosen about 30-40 seconds after hunters' start of play (to lessen chances of AFK props being chosen) and will be indicated by an alert both in the chat box and somewhere on screen, either subtlety in the middle or in the top-right corner possibly followed by a sound as well. The alert will say something along the lines of: “Player X is the VIP! Kill them for Double XP and Points!”. When the VIP is killed, the usual top-left alert will appear though will be edited to reflect the greater point reward. For this feature to be enabled, there must >=7 (not definite value) players on the server as to avoid abuse of it during lower player counts. That's the main suggestion; what I have included in the spoiler below is mainly an aesthetic supplement to the concept. [spoiler]The prop that becomes the VIP, whatever prop they're disguised will have their material overwritten with a golden material [console: material_override models/player/shared/gold_player] which fellow props would see [u]but [/u]hunters wouldn't (seeing the original material as usual). Obviously limiting the material change to be seen by 'Props(/Spectators)' only as would be unfair if hunters could always easily spot out the VIP (unless VIPs are given a sort of boost but that's just an afterthought) or possibly hunters can only see it while dead. The main issues that would arise from this could be the difficulty in coding, though I've been told it's could still be possible to do, and material issues if they don't have TF2 content (though this could be resolved by certain addon(s)). What 'Hunters' (possibly dead excluded) would see: http://prntscr.com/kmiwef What 'Props' (both alive and spectating) would see: http://prntscr.com/kmiufg Didn't quite get the time to finish off the concept images so had to use these. [/spoiler] Leaving the suggestion here in case I can't make it to the meeting.