upcoming Pub play update!

[the_snake]

24.7.09
-Added !withdraw command
-Multiple challenges can be sent now, but you can only be in 1 of them at a time. If a player rejects/passes 30 seconds, then you may challenge another player.
first pair to !accept will begin the duel.

BETS!!!!!

You can now bet on players only if they have more than 1 win and 1 loss.
use the !bet playername:amount

At the moment you can't bet for over 100 prize points.

Odds are given in percentage, and when you use the !bet you can see how much you gain

lets say player the_snake has 120% odds

!bet the_snake:10 would return: Bet 10, Get 12, Accept? !yes

It means you will get 12 _IN ADDITION_ to your 10 points you've bet.

!yes will accept that bet.

Notice that you cannot bet while a duel is in progress!
*** IF the odds are too uneven, the bot does not let players bet!

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COMING IN LIKE A DAY!!!!

This one is a big one(also expect another update in 2 weeks)... so it will be divided into 2 categories.


Normal Pub Play:
Prizes costs:

Costs of Prizes: Recharge: 65 Energy: 200 Stealth: 50 Cloak: 150 XRadar: 50 Multifire: 300 Repel:70 Burst:60 Decoy:30 Thor:30 Brick:50 Rocket:40 Portal:70 TopSpeed:65

Max Prize Points = 1000

Can withdraw once per round, up to 110 prize points.




Prize points gaining system:

• killing - each kill is 1 pp
• Flags held by your team at ding- each 20 is 1 point. 10 would be 0.5 pt. Private freqs get a modifier of 1.5 for over 20 flags held

Awards at the end of a round:

• Being on the award list will reward you with a random prize
• Random prizes can be anything on the buy list, except for multifire
• If you already have 3X energy or 3X recharge, you won't get more from the random prize!
• If you already have the max of the prize given, you will not be able to use it!
• If the pub has under 10 players playing, the prizes will be converted to 15 prize points

New commands:

• !deposit <pp> - you can now deposit prize points to your bank
• !peebreak - using this command, will make the bot warp you to nkz after 10 seconds. Going to nkz without this command will result -10 to spree, or reset of your natural spree.
• !ch/!challenge playername:amount - You can now challenge another player to a duel to 5. If you win you gain amount - 5% that goes to bot.
• !a/!Accept - accepts a duel from a player.
• !r/!reject - rejects the duel
• There can be only 1 challenge at a time, if a player does not accept within 30 seconds, it will be rejected automatically.

Challenge Duel Play:
How to use:

• !ch playername:x Will challenge a player for X prize points!
• The challenge uses your bank points! the profit of the duel goes to your prizepoints
• You can't challenge for more than the bank points you have. use !deposit to increase bank!
• If you challenge a player for more than the bank points they have, the challenge will be changed to their max!

Rules:

• IF you accept a duel, your spree / prizes will be gone!
• Duels are to 5.
• Changing a ship/team during a duel results in +1 kill to your opponent.
• Speccing/leaving arena - results in +1 kill for your opponent and 120 seconds time to return before forfeit.
• Any ship is available. No specials!
• The buying of thors is disabled during a duel for everyone!
• Duelers cannot buy prizes!
• peebreak is disabled if you are dueling!

I hope i did not forget anything :P

comments/thoughts would be appreciated!

-Snake

[Crage]

Hahah duel challenges, what a great idea. I very rarely step foot into pub these days but I remember all the trash talking that used to go on. And I remember challenging ppl to meet me outside of the star/bar to settle a dispute. (yes, irl too)

[Outlaw]

Good job snakey.

[Ssseth]

Sounds like fun.

[Outlaw]

tho.. you should really test those bots somehow before putting them in to the pub arenas

[the_snake]

well i cant test with 30 ppl in my dev arena

hartd to get


they work for the 2-5 ppl that help me test :P


the duel seems to be bugged a little when it runs on the server.... wonder why!
so thats disabled :/

[Outlaw]

Could you add !betting for the duels?

Like if you and Rasher are starting a duel I could '!bet teh_snake:50' and bet for you to win.
All the !bets would be gathered together and the winners would receive it according to how much they put in.

for example:
player A bets snake for 50
player B bets snake for 100
player C bets rasher for 50.
The total win amount would be then 200.

If snake would win player A would win 66 and player B 134.

[the_snake]

That will be implemented in a 2 weeks time or so after i finish few exams and the DUEL THINGIE ACTUALLY WORKS ON THE SERVER.

Also i'd first need to collect dueling stats for a week or two to have good win-loss odds ;P


Its half ready btw :P you will see

[hora]

nice work snake.

but what if you already are prized and get challenged to duel?

[the_snake]

then be smart enough to not accept it :P

[Swe]

yea I was helping him, argh, siting there for hours and getting kicked out of arena when bot warped me like crazy, spaming me! Bet it was snake way of having fun:/

[the_snake]

lol today i was d/ced too by my bot :P

[Outlaw]

Could you add a squad column for the victory post in the pubs?

[Seriel Killer]

Good idea Outlaw!

[wO]

cool but i still think once a round is over it should display the stats of everyone who played just like a league game, or maybe all who played for at least half of the time. its fun to compare stats with other ppl.

[Entr0py]

Originally Posted by wO

cool but i still think once a round is over it should display the stats of everyone who played just like a league game, or maybe all who played for at least half of the time. its fun to compare stats with other ppl.

Agreed.

[Rasher]

If you want to compare - just use the website (and it displays peoples squads like Outlaw wants :P).

http://deathstarbattle.com/latestmatch.php?menu=pub

[Seriel Killer]

snake, I had 2 duels during a round and since I won 5-1 and 5-0 I had highest KPM: 3.50. And so I got prized with a brick.

In the middle of the duel it was 3-0 when I layed a brick on top on lenner which caused him to warp to safty and thus making him get a loss, it turned 4-0 and the duel went on.

Why is the buy command or prizing still allowed while dueling? I don't mind, it's rather funny

[lyse]

Are DSB bots still coded in C?

[Seriel Killer]

snake, thor is much more effective than a burst right now and it is half the price.