Training arena, with bots

[enkei]

You guys should make players donate $10 - $20 to undergo intense training by the administrators themselves. Like boot camp / basic training.

[Gryphus_One]

Ohh yeah, I'm sure all the new players that come to the server for the first time are thinking about donating.
I'm suggesting this training arena exactly for the newcomers to help them, make them stay and get the server more crowded. Donators are experienced players, so what is the point in training them? (which of course does NOT mean they should be unable to use the arena).

Like boot camp / basic training.

Boot camp is not what enables you to install Windows on a Mac? maybe you meant door camp? well, that's forbidden...

[enkei]

Boot camp is training used in the U.S. military

[Gryphus_One]

abd get the DAMN SPANW TEC9S AND SAWNS BACK AND DONT FORGET TO MAKE NEW RESPAWN POINTS U NOOBS!!
and RESPAWNING IN THE DUST IS THE PAST NO 1 WANTS TO DRIVE 5 MINS WHEN THEY GOT KILLED SEROUSLY 

Well if you ask for things in that way, they will never listen to you.
But yes, I would like to know about the spawn Tec9's and shotguns, dugi said there was a bug, but I haven't had any news since then. Will those weapons eventually come back, or you have decided to remove them forever? I only want to know what to expect.

[Gryphus_One]

Hello?

[MidNight]

im sure when the weapons will be back we get a nice player amout boost,
the nubs will not be so defenceless so the rage/q amout will be decrased

[Gryphus_One]

Of course, that's logical, and in fact, when those weapons were available, I saw we had some more players, specially new ones.

[Slice]

EVERYONE LISTEN UP!
Quit tripping on acid. It's not possible to script this stuff..

[Gryphus_One]

I have realized that those bots are impossible to script, but is also the rest of the idea impossible too?

In this case (with only human players and no bots), which I don't really think is so hard to script (if we have duel arena, the code for the training arena shouldn't be very different), my complete idea is the followiing: as I said, there could be 2 or more human players, and at least one of them would be the teacher (for example an admin, or any regular who wants to help newcomers and keep the server alive). The kills and deaths inside this arena should NOT affect the stats (and this should be clearly announced, for nobody to be afraid of getting into this arena). Instead, there could be a kill and death counter, and when someone's health gets to zero, instead of dying and spawning back in the city, his death counter would add one and his health would be refilled again (this would allow him to keep staying in the arena), until he decides to leave the arena (for example with an /exit command), moment in which his kill and death counters would reset to zero for the next time he gets into the arena again.

[[iTrampy]]

Very good idea +1

[j.king]

EVERYONE LISTEN UP!
Quit tripping on acid. It's not possible to script this stuff..

just a lil reminder because i want a higher post count