OpenArena Message Boards

Player rankings on the beer garden server are updated every night.

Check em out here:
http://70.84.61.148/AEstats.html

Updated at midnight for the last 24 hours every day.

hey red, logan wants u to take void4 off the rotation. I think you should keep it on and add platforms :D

oh, and take two bots off too plz :)

Oh cool, so redshirt runs it. Great server man! I think void is alright, it gets pretty fun. The one that I absolutely HATE is that one with the lava in the middle, it's so boring and pointless, but hey if people like it, you should keep whatever map in question.

bleh void -- Most maps where I spend most of my time losing points by falling tend to annoy me.  Void isnt terrible.. but I have to be in the right mood for it.

I like the lava one, seems really easy to make a lot of points really fast...

I'd like to add a few new maps to the rotation.. but no one seems to have their downloads turned on..

I do! More maps more maps! :D

If I was you red I'd toss out the current map rotation and get some maps that are constructed well. Most of the maps that come bundled with the game are way too cramped, items arent set to the right hieight, little bugs everywhere.

your server actually has a good ping for me, but I stay off of it because of a very poor map rotation. There are plenty of Q3 maps that use custom textures, get some redirection for server and put in some of those, chances are you'll get a lot more people coming into server to play regularly.

how the hell do you get your stats tracked? do you have to play long enough and beat a bunch of people and then you're automatically on the list? do you register somewhere?

The stats program simply parses the logfile each night.

The methodoligy of the rankings using AEStats is here:
http://70.84.61.148/AEstatsFAQ.html

Meh, yesterday I played a while and mostly owned, but I can't find my name (Blank) anywhere there, I'm looking at the 'Best Of' page, is that the one to look at for player rankings? How much do I have to play to show up, I'll keep playing :D

Hey, I'd just like to say that I really love your server Red. The server is constantly filled with more balanced players that are either about my skill or higher. It gives me a challenge to fight for the top...unlike most servers that are filled with triggerhappy people who don't exactly know the direction to shoot. Anyhow, expect me to be a regular at your server!

I wonder if Red will actually consider this?

Ever thought about installing an editor and fixing those little bugs?

Here are some maps that are votable:

http://maps.game-host.org/baseoa/

This will proly grow as I have time to check em out.

Oh.. And turn on your downloads :)

Am I supposed to unzip these files or do I just rename them to PK3 files in order to use them?

They seem to already be pk3 files...

they are pk3 files.. your browser is trying to rename em to .zip.. so just rename them back to pk3

I'm pretty tight on time right now.. But I'll be adding more when I have time.

if you use safari :P it reads the header and you have to rename the .zip to .pk3

ya my browser WAS renaming them to zip files. I took the zip away and it's all good. Now I know what's inside PK3 files. :p

Yes, thank you for the server, RS! I can do without Void but please try to put some new maps in rotation like perhaps Dade again..? Those stats are scary and crazy precise.

Theres a few maps in the rotation now... Not sure how fond of them I am yet... need to play them a bit more.

Haha even if you hate them leave them in because new map starved folk like myself are happy to hear that. :p

Hi there,

I have been playin OpenArena at your server lately, always a good time.  I noticed some new maps in the rotation at this server both seem fun, but I have weird texture artifacts in both.  In one, every light source has a black volume comming out of it, and in the other, some water and jumppad textures are missing. Do I need extra files for these maps? or are they just betas? or what?

VeGa

These are from the maps that work with oa page on the wiki... Since these are quake 3 maps, the stuff missing is likely stuff from one of the original q3 pak files.  I'm sure as work progresses on oa there will be less and less of this stuff showing through.

Ok cool, i was thinking that they were just incomplete but didn't know if it was something in my setttings, thanks man!

VeGa

i like these new maps. any chance that these maps can make it into the next release, or are they gonna be only in the beer garden server?

There are probably licensing issues...

Most certainly licensing issues.

Yea, I've been wondering that myself. I wonder if the new release will only have maps made by contributors specifically for OpenArena, or if they'll be some new maps from the past in there as well such as the BeerGarden's new maps.

Yeah i'm working on a map currently, I'll bring out more info on that later on. The stats are nice on your server by the way Redshirt, great server, lots of fun playing there. I ran into a guy on there last night though when there weren't many people on who kept telling me to f off haha. He left though after I killed him enough hehe. I think you've ran into me before though about a week ago, I think I complimented you about your server then too and now finally signing up for the forums and hoping to contribute a bit to this awesome project if I can. If not I'll at least get some nice frag videos out there for people to watch to bring in some new faces.

Nice to hear your working on some maps. New maps rock. Ya, people can be a little mouthy on there sometimes, especially myself. :p Expect to be called a "whore" once or twice if you get some frags off me. :D

I just wanted to comment and say that you have a great server, Red.

Thanks.. too bad I havent been around much to play :(