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Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch => MM8BDM Discussion => Topic started by: Orange juice :l on December 26, 2012, 11:18:20 PM

Title: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on December 26, 2012, 11:18:20 PM
A few Best-Ever serves have been put up for your MM8BDM'ing needs. If you have an idea for a server you're certain would get a lot of traffic and enjoyment, feel free to suggest one. If you have any questions, complaints, or death threats, post those too.

These servers are made with new players in mind. Doomseeker (http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5246) is highly recommended, but here's a tutorial if you want to use the internal browser for some reason. Download the mod files highlighted below, put them in your MM8BDM folder, and select them with the "add file" button on the launcher. Once you've got the game loaded, simply A. Type in the console "Connect [ip address of the server below]" without quotes, or B. Locate the server through the internal browser in the Multiplayer -> Browse Servers menu.

If you have the address http://static.best-ever.org/wads/ (http://static.best-ever.org/wads/) on your wadseeker list [Requires Doomseeker (http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5246)], all wads will be downloaded automatically when you connect!

Red Signifies Servers that are down.
Blue Signifies Servers with a known issue.
BEST-EVER servers are wiped often, so don't panic if you don't see any or an old IP suddenly doesn't work. If this information is outdated and you would like to connect via IP and obtain your wads here, just post and I'll recheck the info.

:: [BE] New York :: MM8BDM TDM
108.61.83.66:15005
Ix-packv1f.pk3 (http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1908)
This is a run of the mill 2 teams TDM server. No longer will you need to suffer months without this staple gamemode!


:: [BE] New York :: MM8BDM TLMS
108.61.83.66:15007
SHARPv2a.pk3 (http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2711), AMP-MP-v1.6.pk3 (http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3000)
Another server dedicated to a popular gamemode.

:: [BE] New York :: MM8BDM Possession
108.61.83.66:15002
AMP, Rocpack, Sharp
The manliest mode.


:: [BE] New York :: MM8BDM Duel Dojo
108.61.83.66:15030
2mandmitemremovalv3a.pk3 (http://static.best-ever.org/wads/2mandmitemremovalv3a.pk3)
This server was made for people looking to explore the mode or just ask for help about the game itself. There's a strict limit on monopolizing the server, such as winning game after game. If you want to play seriously, feel free to join...

:: [BE] New York :: MM8BDM Duel Arena
108.61.83.66:15031
2mandmitemremovalv3a.pk3 (http://static.best-ever.org/wads/2mandmitemremovalv3a.pk3)
This server is no holds barred duel. If you want to fight tooth and nail and win 10 duels straight, feel free to do so.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Shyster on December 28, 2012, 05:20:17 AM
Anyone know where I can grab the Sharp v2A packet? From the Google search it looks like it's still being worked on.
Zandronum keeps crashing on one of the duel servers also, and I can't figure out why.
This is help and editing, right?

On topic, I'm wondering why there's no standard DM server.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on December 28, 2012, 05:23:45 AM
Sharp's right here (http://cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2711)

Duel's still having stability trouble with MM8BDM from over a year ago. I suppose if it keeps being an issue we'll change back to 2-man-dm. I recall there's going to be an add-on that implements a proper line made eventually.

There's no standard DM because there's already a dedicated Deathmatch server or two.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: MusashiAA on December 28, 2012, 05:36:21 AM
We need more Classes TLMS (all classes, daily rotation) and CTF-to-KOTH when that's updated, which totally should.
Title: SHARPAMP TLMS, heh.
Post by: Shade Guy on December 28, 2012, 10:50:40 AM
Just a heads up that SHARP and AMP maps are not in the TLMS server's map rotation, despite being hosted on the server.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on December 28, 2012, 01:38:20 PM
I don't have the RCON for the TLMS server currently, so I guess we're waiting on KD to surface again :ugeek:
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on December 29, 2012, 10:54:30 PM
A BUNCH of maps are missing in the Saxton Hale server. I think only the MM1-MM7 maps are being used, and the mappacks are just sitting there.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on December 30, 2012, 02:01:07 AM
The TDM and TLMS servers have been fixed rotation-wise. We're waiting on the host of the Saxton server to either give us Rcon or fix it himself. He's been informed.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Galactan on December 30, 2012, 04:58:07 AM
Can we get an IP for the Saxton server?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on December 30, 2012, 05:03:12 AM
Done, I'll update this for any other BE servers that pop up.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on December 30, 2012, 09:10:50 AM
What about, say, a Screw Scramble Server?

I remember playing that online only once. It was quite fun, and I really don't see why it isn't hosted alot.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Korby on December 30, 2012, 04:15:02 PM
Because it's the second most rage inducing mode, behind only CTF.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Galactan on December 31, 2012, 11:16:04 PM
For some reason, every time that I try to connect to the Duel Arena, it says that I need to make sure that I'm using the same wad(s) as the server.  I loaded 2mandmv3a, but it's just not working.  Any suggestions?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on December 31, 2012, 11:21:10 PM
Try connecting after moving your skins folder. See if there's anything in there that shouldn't be.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Galactan on December 31, 2012, 11:57:58 PM
I'm still having problems
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on January 01, 2013, 12:11:19 AM
Try redownloading the mod from the link given. If it doesn't help, I don't know what could be causing it.

The port has changed though, so I'll update that if you're using the IP.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Galactan on January 01, 2013, 03:02:51 AM
The new IP fixed it.  Thanks.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: King Dumb on January 03, 2013, 01:28:59 AM
For future reference, complaints about disruptive or otherwise experience-ruining behavior on the part of individuals can be directed to me via PM or Skype (k1ngdumb); please refrain from posting such personal complaints publicly.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Balrog on January 04, 2013, 01:14:11 AM
Quote from: "King Dumb"
For future reference, complaints about disruptive or otherwise experience-ruining behavior on the part of individuals can be directed to me via PM or Skype (k1ngdumb); please refrain from posting such personal complaints publicly.
what

no

Send Jenova or Watermelon a message on IRC. It's right there in the MOTD.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: King Dumb on January 04, 2013, 02:23:00 AM
The vast majority of Cutstuff users do not have Zandronum accounts, and even fewer have IRC accounts.

I doubt very many people pay attention to the MOTD, and so would many would naturally post such complaints here, which I nor anyone else really wants.

It is also quite possible that personal issues can be easily solved withing this community rather than bringing them to the attention of Jenova or Watermelon, who would be less familiar with the offenders and are quite busy with Zandronum matters; we wouldn't want someone to get banned because of a random complaint to one of these disconnected admins when the issue is a misunderstanding or misjudgment that can only be fully understood and resolved by admins within this community.

But yes, I would and will convey any serious issues to one of them, and those who wish to do so may do so as well.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Hilman170499 on January 04, 2013, 02:32:28 AM
This is a really big problem:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Can't really say how Jenova will act, anyway.
Post by: Tesseractal on January 04, 2013, 02:35:36 AM
Quote from: "Balrog"
Send Jenova or Watermelon a message on IRC. It's right there in the MOTD.
Watermelon wanted a separate master server for MM8BDM to cut it off from the Zandronum community.

There's no way he's going to help anyone from this game, let alone minor disputes amongst players that have been posted on the forums in the past (which are almost always complaining about vote kicks in servers).

At the very least, he might be able to solve problems relating to the zandronum client itself (like master server bans that happened on Skulltag) but it's very doubtful he'd offer help to anyone here. (If you don't believe me, just look at the last time he was here.) A good example would be the problem of map rotations in servers - although I believe King Dumb already handled that issue for his.

There are probably a few people on CutStuff already familiar with Zandronum, anyway.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on January 04, 2013, 02:37:03 AM
Apologies for the chat settings. It'd be nice if the people putting these up shared RCONs so these issues wouldn't surface, but I suppose I'll hunt down whoever requested it.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: King Dumb on January 07, 2013, 05:00:16 AM
Important Announcement

I have recently been getting a number of complaints about the :: [BE] New York :: Silversin's Saxton Hale w/ Hotfix server. Neither Orange Juice nor I own, run, or have RCON access to that server. I believe the owner of the server is the who goes by Light in-game.

I will try my best to contact him about the issues with which I have been approached, but from now on all complaints about that server should go to him, as I don't have a very effective way of contacting him and the server isn't mine.

EDIT: Just to clarify, neither Orange Juice nor I run any of the Hale servers you may see on Doomseeker. Currently, I run the Duel Arena and the TLMS, TDM, and CTF servers, and Orange Juice runs the Duel Dojo.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Galactan on January 07, 2013, 05:27:17 AM
The title of that server states that it is a private server.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Jenova on January 08, 2013, 02:57:23 AM
Hello, I am the owner of the BE server cluster. I'd just like to remind players that if anybody has any concerns, or wants to start their own server, you may want to pop in irc.zandronum.com at the channel #bestever (assuming you cannot get ahold of the current administrator of the server).

Quote from: "Tesseractal"
Quote from: "Balrog"
Send Jenova or Watermelon a message on IRC. It's right there in the MOTD.
Watermelon wanted a separate master server for MM8BDM to cut it off from the Zandronum community.

There's no way he's going to help anyone from this game, let alone minor disputes amongst players that have been posted on the forums in the past (which are almost always complaining about vote kicks in servers).

At the very least, he might be able to solve problems relating to the zandronum client itself (like master server bans that happened on Skulltag) but it's very doubtful he'd offer help to anyone here. (If you don't believe me, just look at the last time he was here.) A good example would be the problem of map rotations in servers - although I believe King Dumb already handled that issue for his.

There are probably a few people on CutStuff already familiar with Zandronum, anyway.
Can't speak for Watermelon, but I don't really have anything against MM8BDM, so you might just want to message me instead.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Gumballtoid on January 09, 2013, 11:28:42 PM
I'm being rushed out the door so I don't have time to take care of it, but there's a Gumballtoid in the Saxton Hale server that isn't actually me.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on January 09, 2013, 11:30:23 PM
I don't see anyone named "Gumballtoid". Probably just one of the ten thousand people slapping your name on food products and not foul play.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Tfp BreakDown on January 11, 2013, 08:15:27 PM
Hey I got a question, What is the limit of players allowed on these things, because whenever I try to join a server it says the server is full yet doomseeker says there is 8 out of 24 slots taken? What is up with that?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Gumballtoid on January 12, 2013, 02:10:54 AM
Quote
[8:12:45 PM] Alice: ok, why cant i join servers with just 8 people
[8:53:28 PM] Alice: hmm
[9:09:32 PM] Gumballtoid: Every time I go to join the LMS server it says it's full
[9:09:34 PM] Gumballtoid: What the hell
[9:09:37 PM] Gumballtoid: It's just 8 guys
[9:09:53 PM] Alice: seems to be a bug
[9:09:57 PM] Alice: it comes and goes
[9:10:25 PM] Gumballtoid: rbr posting on Cutstuff
[9:13:57 PM] Stardroid Kirbz: It is a bug
Essentially Alice and  I are having the same problem. I've tried joining repeatedly and I still get the '"server is full" error.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on January 12, 2013, 02:17:40 AM
We don't know who's hosting the classes servers, but I suspect it's an issue with a clientlimit lower than the joinlimit. You'll have to find whoever put them up and ask them about it.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on January 15, 2013, 01:21:30 AM
I have to ask, guys...

Do we need this many classes servers?

Seriously, 6 out of the 12 or 13 servers hosted by Best Ever contains the Classes wad in it. For Saxton Hale, it's 3 out of 4 servers. When everyone is playing in servers with wads you do not like to use, would you even bother playing? I may just go back to playing League of Legends with bots rather than try to relearn Classes all over again, and the former option is not too fun. Can't you guys just host anything vanilla for once?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: LlamaHombre on January 15, 2013, 01:40:05 AM
Quote from: "TailsMK4"
I have to ask, guys...

I support all of this 100%. I myself enjoy the time I spend in Deathmatch servers loads more than any variety of mods can supply. Hell, host a spiritual mapchella and add assloads of map packs for the sake of variating gameplay if that's what you desire, just do something different for the love of god.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on January 15, 2013, 01:42:42 AM
We're not hosting those servers. My classified info points to Light being the host of Saxton, and Mysteryman1 being the host of Classes. Bring it up with them.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: King Dumb on January 15, 2013, 02:30:56 AM
As Orange Juice has indicated, we do not own the Classes or Saxton Hale servers.

I can guarantee you all reliable service regarding the TDM, TLMS, CTF, both Duel, and Possession servers.

As a further reminder, if you do have suggestions about game modes or mods to host, as the OP states, please do post them here!
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Jenova on January 16, 2013, 03:53:07 AM
Quote from: "TailsMK4"
I have to ask, guys...

Do we need this many classes servers?

Seriously, 6 out of the 12 or 13 servers hosted by Best Ever contains the Classes wad in it. For Saxton Hale, it's 3 out of 4 servers. When everyone is playing in servers with wads you do not like to use, would you even bother playing? I may just go back to playing League of Legends with bots rather than try to relearn Classes all over again, and the former option is not too fun. Can't you guys just host anything vanilla for once?

The point of BE is to let users host whatever wads they want. The servers are started and administrated by the player who started the server.

Anyone can host their own server simply by joining irc.zandronum.com #bestever and following the instructions at http://www.best-ever.org/ (http://www.best-ever.org/)
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: King Dumb on January 16, 2013, 04:01:34 AM
Quote
Can't you guys just host anything vanilla for once?

Just so you know, we are always hosting vanilla TDM, TLMS, and Duel. There is also a vanilla Possession server up.
Title: pls
Post by: Gumballtoid on February 02, 2013, 01:58:24 AM
OJ I am going to pester you until MM8DW1 is added to the Duel Arena's map rotation.

Choking Kribz with Thunder Claw has become a regular thing and I can't have it end so abruptly.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on February 02, 2013, 02:17:46 AM
The entire rotation has been mangled, apparently. Again, not my fault, as an unknown party decided to host a server by the name of MM8BDM Duel Arena without our consent. I also had to fix the flags. Whoever you are, please don't go around claiming servers as your own unless you're willing to put in the effort of bringing them up to standard.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Zard1084 on February 02, 2013, 03:09:16 AM
So if i join the irc.zandronum.com #bestever i can host a server? cool!
I have a bad network.... so this will be really handy for me...
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: tsukiyomaru0 on February 02, 2013, 03:50:37 AM
Quote from: "Zard1084"
So if i join the irc.zandronum.com #bestever i can host a server? cool!
I have a bad network.... so this will be really handy for me...
Not only that. You have to register in best-ever.org, register in irc.zandronum.com, then upload (or use) the wads and cfg files. After that all, you can easily start a server.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Zard1084 on February 02, 2013, 03:58:27 AM
Quote from: "tsukiyomaru0"
Quote from: "Zard1084"
So if i join the irc.zandronum.com #bestever i can host a server? cool!
I have a bad network.... so this will be really handy for me...
Not only that. You have to register in best-ever.org, register in irc.zandronum.com, then upload (or use) the wads and cfg files. After that all, you can easily start a server.
It turns out my at&t email is not liked by the website i need to try my other email...
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Jenova on February 04, 2013, 06:20:55 PM
Quote from: "Zard1084"
Quote from: "tsukiyomaru0"
Quote from: "Zard1084"
So if i join the irc.zandronum.com #bestever i can host a server? cool!
I have a bad network.... so this will be really handy for me...
Not only that. You have to register in best-ever.org, register in irc.zandronum.com, then upload (or use) the wads and cfg files. After that all, you can easily start a server.
It turns out my at&t email is not liked by the website i need to try my other email...

We don't own nickserv, and we do not deal with emails (at the moment). The problem you are facing is most likely nickname registration and you may want to check in #staff to see if they can help you.

As for registering on the website, that is only if you want to be able to upload wads and configurations. If you'd like to host MM8BDM servers, I believe most (if not all) of the wads are available.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Zard1084 on February 04, 2013, 10:35:40 PM
Alright then i'll try again later...
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Hallan Parva on February 05, 2013, 12:31:43 AM
Quote from: "Jenova"
stuff
I'd just like to take this moment to say that the Best-Ever staff has generally been very helpful and friendly to any inquiries I might or might not have had. It's been a pleasure using Best-Ever so far and I hope it continues well into the future.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Zard1084 on February 10, 2013, 04:27:25 AM
Ok quick question do i place the MM8BDM-v3.pk3 in mapwads or just wads or both?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: tsukiyomaru0 on February 10, 2013, 04:45:03 AM
For those hosting Saxton with or without classes, here's an advice until the crashes are figured and dealt with: refrain from keeping more than 8 players slots. In fact, keep maxclients and maxplayers at the maximum of 8 and make two or more servers if needed.

Apparently, all the crashes are linked with ENTER scripts, and a minor "freeze" can be witnessed at spawning and after some time after spawning.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Balrog on February 10, 2013, 01:27:12 PM
Uh-oh. The entry script that called per-world ACS scripts is an ENTER script, meaning that it's called up to 32 times in the same tic, with each copy trying to spawn its own version of a script that can only exist once. I'll see if making it an OPEN script doesn't break things.

EDIT: Now the crashing is completely reliable! Finally begging for help on the Zandronum forums.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: ChaoticChao on February 22, 2013, 05:00:26 AM
I joined a Best ever server, and in ten seconds i was banned. How do I fix this?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on February 22, 2013, 05:22:16 AM
What was the name of the server you joined? There's a number of servers that have been taken out for private usage. Not the nicest practice, but I guess it's still within Best-Ever's rules.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: ChaoticChao on February 22, 2013, 10:40:35 PM
I don't remember the exact name, but it had 3 capital letters at the ending
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on February 22, 2013, 10:42:49 PM
If it was
:: [BE] New York :: Backup Server HNG
Then there's nothing I can do to help. That server is run by someone else.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on March 25, 2013, 06:04:47 PM
Please.

No more BestPackever thing really weird.

It kills our eyes too ! (but it's worse than that). °3°
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: FTX6004 on March 25, 2013, 06:21:06 PM
Quote from: "Stonefunk"
Please.

No more BestPackever thing really weird.

What you mean the bestmappackever i want it is the best map pack ever so make more servers with it.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on March 25, 2013, 10:18:03 PM
Whoever is hosting Saxton Hale (no classes), the MM8 maps and Time Man/Oil Man maps are missing from the stock map rotation. Other than seeing everyone in a Classes server every time I'm on, I'm ok with Best Ever Servers.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: rtist on March 25, 2013, 10:52:37 PM
Dunno why this is, but the Best Ever duel servers seem to be bugged. You can't move around the maps. The server manager needs to reset the servers so they can be used again. Thanks.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on March 29, 2013, 05:16:49 AM
Well, after finally deciding to give BE a try, I am rather enjoying their service for hosting. I think I will finally resume what I had been doing when I could host servers. Right now I have Vanilla TLMS and Vanilla CTF up, along with another CTF server hosting Knux's CTF Map Pack. I may rotate the servers every now and then, so if there is a particular mode any of you want hosted (minus Deathmatch since we already have a few servers for that mode), I might consider it. As for the third server, I will have that one hosting wads. I am taking requests for what could be the third option, but what I do have is limited. For instance, I do not have any kind of classes wads whatsoever. Just one request, though: make sure the wad is compatible with MM8BDM v3a. I unsuccessfully tried to host Bot Apoc today, and the wads available on BE's website are outdated. Basically I can host any wad that is already available on the BE website.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on March 29, 2013, 10:17:59 AM
Quote from: "FTX"
Quote from: "Stonefunk"
Please.

No more BestPackever thing really weird.

What you mean the bestmappackever i want it is the best map pack ever so make more servers with it.

Why ? What's wrong with you ? This pack map is just made for retarded guys. It's 0/20 fun. That's all.

I dont know why your are the defender of this packmap..wth!
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: FTX6004 on March 29, 2013, 11:58:47 AM
Quote from: "Stonefunk"
Quote from: "FTX"
Quote from: "Stonefunk"
Please.

No more BestPackever thing really weird.

What you mean the bestmappackever i want it is the best map pack ever so make more servers with it.

Why ? What's wrong with you ? This pack map is just made for retarded guys. It's 0/20 fun. That's all.

I dont know why your are the defender of this packmap..wth!

Is a joke map pack and jokes are like great thats why we want it and before i din't like the map pack but when i saw how many things copy robot added i love that map pack then.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on March 29, 2013, 01:45:36 PM
Jokes are funny the first time around.

That map pack has been around for about a year now and it has absolutely zero entertainment value when it comes up while you're trying to play an actual match.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Colonel ServBot on April 02, 2013, 04:39:16 PM
Actually, I think the BestMapPackEver thing is actually real fun when playing Saxton Hale.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Fyone on April 02, 2013, 04:45:40 PM
I agree with OJ and Stonefunk, BME is not the Best-Ever.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 02, 2013, 07:30:29 PM
Silly Fyone, Best Maps Ever IS the best ever.
Perhaps you're just unworthy of the holy goodness that such a pack brings to small children.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 02, 2013, 07:35:09 PM
Yeah, it's fun to small children.

Not so much fun for people over the age of eight who are here to play a game instead of look at rainbows.

BME was NOT made for Deathmatch, LMS, CTF, Duel, Possession, Terminator, Classes, Saxton Hale, Roboenza, GVH8BDM, The Hunted, Screw Scramble, or Any Gamemode Ever. As a rule of thumb, if you're going to host a server where players are going to shoot at one another, for the love of god, leave BME out. People are only going to vote it away when it comes up.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 03, 2013, 01:16:37 AM
Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
Yeah, it's fun to small children.

Not so much fun for people over the age of eight who are here to play a game instead of look at rainbows.

BME was NOT made for Deathmatch, LMS, CTF, Duel, Possession, Terminator, Classes, Saxton Hale, Roboenza, GVH8BDM, The Hunted, Screw Scramble, or Any Gamemode Ever. As a rule of thumb, if you're going to host a server where players are going to shoot at one another, for the love of god, leave BME out. People are only going to vote it away when it comes up.

But you see OJ, it was made for EVERY mode, you just can't seem to appreciate it. Try to vote as you please, but it's part of the metagame now, you can't escape from it.

Or, you know, just don't play on a server with it.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 03, 2013, 01:17:19 AM
Your sarcasm has been noted and the authorities contacted. [/sarcasm]

Thank you and have a good day.

But on a more serious note, making more servers is not the answer. Do you not see how many servers MM8BDM is currently using? How many see very little to no use? Best-Ever servers don't just magically appear out of thin air, you know. Show a little respect for the guys providing them and use them responsibly.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: DarkAura on April 03, 2013, 03:08:19 AM
But that doesn't STOP people from setting those damnable servers up just for the hell of it, or as a cry for attention, or as a wake-up call to patch an incompatibility or mistake in a certain mod.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on April 04, 2013, 04:57:11 AM
Just figure I'd give everyone a heads up regarding BE. I got a response from what I assume was one of the admins of the IRC chat, (his name was Water), and my question was regarding why one of my servers was removed. Apparently BE is reaching their server limit (100) and shuts down inactive servers in order to accept new servers. If you have servers just sitting around empty, and you do not plan on getting people anytime soon, mind shutting them down? Otherwise other servers, including some of your own, might get shut down to meet demand. Since the admins may not know what servers were active, this could include servers we commonly play in.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on April 04, 2013, 05:12:30 AM
BE packmap is the worst idea ever.
Everybody is bored with that packmap... (except some guys who don't care about the sens of the life).

I think, the guy who host all the MM8BDM servers with it, he want kill our community with that packmap, just to show how retarded can be some things in our community :/

But it's just this packmap right?

Yeah, it's a weird though but i try to understand the point.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 04, 2013, 05:37:52 AM
Quote from: "Stonefunk"
BE packmap is the worst idea ever.
Everybody is bored with that packmap... (except some guys who don't care about the sens of the life).

I think, the guy who host all the MM8BDM servers with it, he want kill our community with that packmap, just to show how retarded can be some things in our community :/

But it's just this packmap right?

Yeah, it's a weird though but i try to understand the point.

I understand the sense of life, you're just discriminating against a mappack, and that's NO GOOD.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: tsukiyomaru0 on April 04, 2013, 06:36:29 AM
Quote from: "Rozark"
Quote from: "Stonefunk"
BE packmap is the worst idea ever.
Everybody is bored with that packmap... (except some guys who don't care about the sens of the life).

I think, the guy who host all the MM8BDM servers with it, he want kill our community with that packmap, just to show how retarded can be some things in our community :/

But it's just this packmap right?

Yeah, it's a weird though but i try to understand the point.

I understand the sense of life, you're just discriminating against a mappack, and that's NO GOOD.
That one person doing this is literally wanting to damn the community. Best Ever Maps and 2nd Coop aren't meant to be hosted that much or often, because they are non-serious packs. 2nd Coop would be acceptable because even Skulltag had something like that (A purposedly poorly made map pack for coop games that had humorous elements to it), bust Best Ever Maps is just a joke Map Pack that goes straight to fads within the community (Another Medal Please, Pharaoh is the best Robot Master, Hotel, etc).
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 04, 2013, 06:44:07 AM
Again, just don't join the server if you see .wads you don't like. Really really REALLY simple solution.
Title: I wish I had a voice sample of Lil' Jon saying "what"
Post by: Mendez on April 04, 2013, 09:42:45 AM
If you guys want to know who made the server with BME in it, I can go into the irc and ask the admins who made which server. I remember when all the classes servers popped up and I got curious about who kept making them. Mysteryman1 made at least one classes server, if I remember correctly.
Also,
Quote from: "tsukiyomaru0"
Map Pack that goes straight to fads within the community (Another Medal Please
Wat
Title: Re: I wish I had a voice sample of Lil' Jon saying "what"
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on April 04, 2013, 11:14:48 AM
Quote from: "Mendez"
If you guys want to know who made the server with BME in it, I can go into the irc and ask the admins who made which server. I remember when all the classes servers popped up and I got curious about who kept making them. Mysteryman1 made at least one classes server, if I remember correctly.
Also,
Quote from: "tsukiyomaru0"
Map Pack that goes straight to fads within the community (Another Medal Please
Wat

Good idea!  :)

It can be good to have the servers WITHOUT this packmap (but with some others who are good like cscm/amp/ix pack ect...)  :|
Title: Re: I wish I had a voice sample of Lil' Jon saying "what"
Post by: Rozark on April 05, 2013, 01:34:25 AM
Reading BestEver servers as of now:

MMSP COOP (No BME)
Classes V6F Duel ew (No BME)
Another MMSP COOP (No BME)
Yet another MMSP COOP (No BME)
Classes Saxton Hale also ew (No BME)
MOAR MMSP COOP (No BME)

I realize this isn't all of them but there's just an overload of MMSP COOP.

Also I was on a regular hale server earlier with no BME.

This isn't a problem, I have no idea why you're addressing the 1 in 99 servers that DO have BME.
Title: Re: I wish I had a voice sample of Lil' Jon saying "what"
Post by: tsukiyomaru0 on April 05, 2013, 01:56:09 AM
Quote from: "Rozark"
Reading BestEver servers as of now:

MMSP COOP (No BME)
Classes V6F Duel ew (No BME)
Another MMSP COOP (No BME)
Yet another MMSP COOP (No BME)
Classes Saxton Hale also ew (No BME)
MOAR MMSP COOP (No BME)

I realize this isn't all of them but there's just an overload of MMSP COOP.

Also I was on a regular hale server earlier with no BME.

This isn't a problem, I have no idea why you're addressing the 1 in 99 servers that DO have BME.
I think you haven't been around when 6/10 BestEver MM8DM servers were only BME with Classes, Ragenza, Saxton, T Party,,,
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: fabledfrostbrand on April 05, 2013, 04:18:42 AM
Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
Your sarcasm has been noted and the authorities contacted. [/sarcasm]

Thank you and have a good day.

But on a more serious note, making more servers is not the answer. Do you not see how many servers MM8BDM is currently using? How many see very little to no use? Best-Ever servers don't just magically appear out of thin air, you know. Show a little respect for the guys providing them and use them responsibly.

Total agreement here.  As of writing this, there are 19 (!) MM8BDM servers hosted by Best-Ever.  That's freaking rediculous.  I liked it better when the only Best Ever servers were just Deathmatch/Team Deathmatch/the two Duel servers/etc.  Looking at the list of currently hosted Best-Ever servers, there are clearly some servers that should not exist:

:: [BE] New York :: BR91 CLASS SAXTON HALE (why? Classes Saxton Hale is just stupid, and we already have a Vanilla Saxton Hale server anyways)
:: [BE] New York :: Classes V6f Saxton Hale (see above, also why do we need 2 of the same server)

:: [BE] New York :: BR91's 1 FLAG CTF (CTF barely gets any attention as is, so this probably deserves the boot/replace with regular CTF)
:: [BE] New York :: Chaos Generator (Hell Edition) (chaos gen is fun once in a while, but most of the time the same effects are chosen over and over)

:: [BE] New York :: Just Megaman Co-op Updated
:: [BE] New York :: MM8BDM Mission for sane individuals
:: [BE] New York :: MM8BDM Mission Mode Public Demo-for GalaxySisbro
:: [BE] New York :: MMSP Coop (64 players)
:: [BE] New York :: MMSP Public Demo (5 of the same server, seriously???)

:: [BE] New York :: Private MMSP
:: [BE] New York :: Private Server (private servers, seriously? if you want a private server, host it with your own damn bandwidth)

There are probably a few others that could also use the boot, but these are the obvious ones...

It would be nice if people looked at existing servers before hosting their own servers, and if people maintained their servers properly (shutting them down if not in use), but clearly people are even too lazy to do that.  I really think we should just go back to the just the stock servers (Vanilla DM/Duel/etc), a few servers for Classes related stuff, and then a few servers for new releases/other game modes.  We really should not hog more than 10-12 servers or so at a time.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: SmashTheEchidna on April 05, 2013, 04:21:56 AM
Don't boot CTF. It may be (severely) underplayed, but it's always good to have something different available.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: fabledfrostbrand on April 05, 2013, 04:26:09 AM
Quote from: "Gizmo The Cat"
Don't boot CTF. It may be (severely) underplayed, but it's always good to have something different available.

What I meant to say was, boot 1 flag CTF, and just have regular CTF in its place.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Tengu on April 05, 2013, 03:01:39 PM
For the record, the only servers on BE that I own right now are Megaman Mafia, and Tsuki's Special Classes TDM.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Beed28 on April 05, 2013, 03:33:19 PM
They've been hosting Chaos Generator Ver. Hell, the version only ment for an April Fools prank? Wow.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on April 06, 2013, 02:38:29 AM
I guess I'll go put regular CTF back up, though I will make it vanilla. At least it is something else to do on MM8BDM if Classes, Roboenza, Saxton Hale, or Deathmatch do not sound good at the moment.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 06, 2013, 03:50:05 AM
Quote from: "TailsMK4"
I guess I'll go put regular CTF back up, though I will make it vanilla. At least it is something else to do on MM8BDM if Classes, Roboenza, Saxton Hale, or Deathmatch do not sound good at the moment.

I wanna throw out there that combining everything with classes is now not only cliche/expected, it's also unoriginal and boring.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TheDoc on April 06, 2013, 04:57:15 PM
Quote from: "Rozark"
I wanna throw out there that combining everything with classes is now not only cliche/expected, it's also unoriginal and boring.

/me agrees
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Korby on April 06, 2013, 04:58:25 PM
There's a reason I was hosting just classes TLMS >_>



I took it down because uki wanted me to put cscm on it
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Gumballtoid on April 06, 2013, 07:10:12 PM
As of this post, there are 21 Best-Ever servers up.

Two are private servers, which are unnecessary and inconsiderate. Frostbrand put it quite well: host your own. Don't use precious BE bandwidth for limited use. Very rarely do I even see them being used. (Looking at you, Senkle/Light fella).

Six are co-op servers, when there would really only need to be two at max: one for Cooperative and one for Survival. Anymore is just redundant and wasting more BE server capacity.

Four are Saxton Hale servers. Three of those four feature YD classes. I understand Saxton Hale is a popular mod, but there shouldn't be that many of them. Shave off the classes servers and play the game mode as was intended.

Six servers feature YD classes. Three are Saxton Hale servers and one is a private server. The other two are for the Classes TLMS Tourney (which was cancelled and thus shouldn't be up) and the other is a duel server. Five out of six of those don't need to be wasting BE servers when the duel server and maybe a TLMS server are all that are necessary.

Those that I haven't mentioned include a CTF server (basic, seems viable), a One-Flag CTF server (should go down, nobody seems to play), an "unused maps" server (this is non-classes TDM so it seems viable), a special classes server (a unique wad, seems okay), a Hell Chaos Gen server (a joke wad at best, should go down), a Mafia server (unique wad, fairly active, seems okay) and an obstacle course server (appears to be active, unique wad, should be okay).

Of the 21 presently up, roughly 13 of them are unnecessary and redundant, meaning there are only about 8 servers that deserve hosting. That's just ridiculous. If you want to host a server that's already being hosted by BE and you dislike for some inane reason, don't put up another BE server: host your own. Please don't waste bandwidth that is better used elsewhere.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: *Alice on April 06, 2013, 07:16:38 PM
Because you are THE authority on WAD quality?
While I agree that having multiple servers for the same thing is bad, I don't see any point in saying "This WAD / combination of WADs is bad, it does not deserve to be hosted" (And Saxton with / without classes are two seperate things, they play differently enough).
And yes, private servers on BE should die in a fire.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: MagnetMan497 on April 07, 2013, 02:07:56 AM
Quote from: "Gumballtoid"
As of this post, there are 21 Best-Ever servers up.

Two are private servers, which are unnecessary and inconsiderate. Frostbrand put it quite well: host your own. Don't use precious BE bandwidth for limited use. Very rarely do I even see them being used. (Looking at you, Senkle/Light fella).

Six are co-op servers, when there would really only need to be two at max: one for Cooperative and one for Survival. Anymore is just redundant and wasting more BE server capacity.

Four are Saxton Hale servers. Three of those four feature YD classes. I understand Saxton Hale is a popular mod, but there shouldn't be that many of them. Shave off the classes servers and play the game mode as was intended.

Six servers feature YD classes. Three are Saxton Hale servers and one is a private server. The other two are for the Classes TLMS Tourney (which was cancelled and thus shouldn't be up) and the other is a duel server. Five out of six of those don't need to be wasting BE servers when the duel server and maybe a TLMS server are all that are necessary.

Those that I haven't mentioned include a CTF server (basic, seems viable), a One-Flag CTF server (should go down, nobody seems to play), an "unused maps" server (this is non-classes TDM so it seems viable), a special classes server (a unique wad, seems okay), a Hell Chaos Gen server (a joke wad at best, should go down), a Mafia server (unique wad, fairly active, seems okay) and an obstacle course server (appears to be active, unique wad, should be okay).

Of the 21 presently up, roughly 13 of them are unnecessary and redundant, meaning there are only about 8 servers that deserve hosting. That's just ridiculous. If you want to host a server that's already being hosted by BE and you dislike for some inane reason, don't put up another BE server: host your own. Please don't waste bandwidth that is better used elsewhere.

Completely agree with this. While I don't think we need 13 or so to go, I definitely think there are 5 or 6 that could go. Servers like Saxton Hale classes with so many wads are also using way more bandwidth than needed.

I'm hoping BE can host a vanilla deathmatch server with some of the best map packs -- IX, CSCM, AMP. All the vanilla DM servers nowadays are just default maps and I've never really got to play multiplayer with those great maps -- those are really what most of them are intended for anyways.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 07, 2013, 12:23:19 PM
While we do agree that we could trim down the classes with hale/Coop servers, I completely disagree that Gumballtoid is "correct"
Modes such as 1flagctf can stay up due to a diverse amount of choices that are needed so the same things aren't always hosted.
Go host something that needs love, dont kill me when I say screw scramble, not another server that we already have.
Bring in other mappacks and stop "restricting" it for the most part to AMP/CSCM/IX. While those packs may be "great", they feel like they could use some fresh blood.
Bring in variety, get new things going. How can you people possibly just keep doing the same thing OVER AND OVER AGAIN and not get tired of it (when restricted to the small choices that are given here).

Just.. do something different for a change.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: fortegigasgospel on April 07, 2013, 01:12:55 PM
I just wanna add to what Rozark said, cause I agree whole heartedly with him, hosting map packs from other people also allows people to make oppinions on the maps and become more likely to give feedback to the mapper, thus they can improve their maps, and future maps/actually want to make more maps.
A large problem I see is that no body ever gets feed back unless they are brand new, and that feedback usually doesn't last long. With the amount of people getting none they tend to feel their maps are getting overlooked or no one wants them to improve, and lose motivation to make maps, thus resulting in less mappers, or at least less skilled mappers.

Moral of the story, host more map packs, give more feedback, help mappers improve so we have more good mappers, watch more expansions get completed (cause we all know maps is usually what kills expansions).
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Knux on April 07, 2013, 06:54:43 PM
Quote from: "Rozark"
Bring in other mappacks and stop "restricting" it for the most part to AMP/CSCM/IX. While those packs may be "great", they feel like they could use some fresh blood.
Bring in variety, get new things going. How can you people possibly just keep doing the same thing OVER AND OVER AGAIN and not get tired of it (when restricted to the small choices that are given here).
This, emphasis on the bolded part. IX, CSCM and AMP are great packs, yes. But I also feel the need for variety, and for packs that have time and dedication placed into them to see the light rather than hanging around as just another mapping topic for the collection. This is part of the reason I don't get on servers as much anymore (though there's also college, but meh).
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 07, 2013, 07:03:24 PM
If you want these "lesser used map packs" or "niche game modes" to get feedback and improve, Host them with your own bandwidth. Best-Ever is not your sandbox. It's a public service for people to play modes that will get traffic. Hosting things like BME and underplayed 1 flag is like kicking out dozens of school kids from the park so you and your three friends can play checkers in the middle of the soccer field.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Knux on April 07, 2013, 07:06:06 PM
Except BME is a joke and probably had minutes invested on it at best.

Best Ever is what, now?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 07, 2013, 07:08:09 PM
That's the whole point.

Some people either don't understand that or are callous enough to use up BE slots on what they feel is a joke.

That, or they're griefing.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Knux on April 07, 2013, 07:11:05 PM
Well, the worst thing anyway is probably the repeated servers. There's no need for that unless one gets full and lost of other people wanna play, too. Not the case here.  :|
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: *Alice on April 07, 2013, 07:24:07 PM
If something is unpopular in such a small community it is not entirely the servers' fault.
Either the wad itself is bad or the community has bad taste.
And yes, hosting it yourself can even be an option, theorhetically.
Also, it is not like we only had Deathwind before Best-Ever came.
Also, wasn't Mapchella made to resurrect map packs? And wasn't the only thing it accomplished the revival of BME?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on April 07, 2013, 07:25:11 PM
All right, so after some struggling and some help from Jenova, I am able to upload wads now on BE. So, I plan later on to host a Deathmatch server with these lesser known mappacks. If anyone would like to have their mappack hosted on the server, PM me with a link to your download and I'll upload it for my server. In the meantime, I shall be taking down my Coop server to put up Bot Apocolypse.
Title: My server has Knux's maps because GOTTA SUPPORT INDIE MAPPER
Post by: Mendez on April 07, 2013, 07:28:34 PM
The way I see it, most of the servers are really unnecessary. I actually feel tempted to ask the admins who hosts each and every one of these servers, but I really don't want to blackmail people that have good intentions for their BE servers. I mean, I have an unused server up right now, but that's only because I want to promote underplayed maps.
Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
If you want these "lesser used map packs" or "niche game modes" to get feedback and improve, Host them with your own bandwidth. Best-Ever is not your sandbox. It's a public service for people to play modes that will get traffic. Hosting things like BME and underplayed 1 flag is like kicking out dozens of school kids from the park so you and your three friends can play checkers in the middle of the soccer field.
Just a quick question: Where exactly on the Best-ever website/topic does it specify, or even imply, anything that you just wrote? In fact, if I may take a quote from the actual topic, (http://zandronum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=713)
Quote from: "Jenova, on the BE topic"
Why make BE?

BE is a solution for developers who want to test out wads, or just players who want to host a stable server without the drawbacks of a home server. Some players cannot host servers from their home, and BE lets them create a unique customized dedicated server instantly, free of charge.
So yeah, I think they are okay with people hosting obscure wads and not having to worry about bandwidth issues.

EDIT:
Quote from: "*Alice"
Also, wasn't Mapchella made to resurrect map packs? And wasn't the only thing it accomplished the revival of BME?
It was intended to bring obscure map packs into the spotlight for one weekend. I think it helped get obscure map packs like Kappak and SHARP into more servers, but that could just be tooting my own horn here.
Title: Re: My server has Knux's maps because GOTTA SUPPORT INDIE MA
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 07, 2013, 07:40:32 PM
Quote from: "Mendez"
Quote from: "Jenova, on the BE topic"
Why make BE? Some players cannot host servers from their home, and BE lets them create a unique customized dedicated server instantly, free of charge.

While testing out a wad is certainly fine, I don't think Jenova intended those wads to be hosted for months. I think he meant that you would test it over the course of a few hours. As it stands, BE is actually running out of slots for servers. If you're going to host an underplayed mode, PLEASE shut it down once it's been up for about a week. By then, anyone who cares will have played it, and you can then host your next underplayed mode. The problem is that everybody goes directly to BE to host any little mode they want without a second thought and then abandons it. That's where the issue comes from.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 07, 2013, 10:54:13 PM
Running out of slots, you say?
Sure, as I've said before, we could thin our excess servers, but you do realize that there are others besides MM8BDM using BE right? They're using many, many more slots than us, (Filled with empty servers x10 as we do) and you're saying we're a "major" problem? What. I'd call it minor at best, with room for improvement to perfection, which is what I believe you're trying to achieve.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 07, 2013, 11:00:51 PM
Zandronum wasn't exactly made for MM8BDM, you know. We're guests, and that goes for Best-Ever as well. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that we could find ourselves with our hosting rights revoked if we keep going the way we are.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 08, 2013, 02:37:32 AM
Zandronum was created with the doom engine in mind; it's not game specific.
You're just trying to restrict variety upon us and not host anything that isn't "metagame", and that's NO good!
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: fabledfrostbrand on April 08, 2013, 03:13:42 PM
If the way some of us have been using Best-Ever is really that huge of a problem, don't you think Jenova/Watermelon/Metal would have come in here and issued a stern warning at the very least?  I even spoke to Jenova over IRC regarding the members of our community who misuse Best-Ever (multiple servers with the same wads/private servers/abandoned servers/etc) and he himself said it wasn't a big deal.  He even mentioned that they are considering upping the server limit at a later point.

Not that I'm saying this lets us off the hook or anything, because I certainly think it doesn't.  These guys are doing a great service to us all and the very least we can do is pay them the respect they deserve by using these servers responsibly (which is what OJ alluded to earlier).  Just because there are probably people outside of MM8BDM who misuse Best-Ever doesn't mean that we can't hold ourselves to a higher standard.  Right?  RIGHT???  At the very least people, stop hosting servers and abandoning them.  Can't we just agree that, at a bare minimum, is what we should be doing?  That, and looking at the existing list of servers before hosting so as to avoid redundant servers.

Though, not sure what good me saying all this does.  Especially since there are those who use Best-Ever and probably don't even frequent this message board.  Unless one of us suddenly becomes a Best-Ever admin, I'm not really sure what we can do.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 08, 2013, 09:15:27 PM
You're looking for motives that aren't there, Rozark. I'm looking to make sure we don't come off as entitled children who take things for granted. Fifteen servers is a good amount for MM8BDM, considering the current size of the community.

1. Vanilla Deathmatch
2. Vanilla TLMS
3. Vanilla CTF
4. Vanilla Duel
5-8. Other popular modes, depending on current trends
9-12. Underplayed mode of the week/month/whatever
13-15. Temporary/short-term private servers

Is that so much to ask?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 09, 2013, 07:44:09 AM
Isn't there already around that amount anyways?
Except, you know, it isn't divided like that.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: fabledfrostbrand on April 09, 2013, 06:24:34 PM
Now that I think about it, why are we even bickering about this?  Even if we all could come to a consensus as to how we as a community should be using Best-Ever, no one here has any real power to force anyone to do anything.  Sure, it'd be nice if people were a little more considerate and didn't just host servers and abandon them or host redundant servers or host private servers that last more than 1 day, but it's not like anyone here can prevent people from signing up for a Best-Ever account, or take down servers created by people.  These things aren't even against the rules on the forum topic (http://zandronum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=713) (still doesn't make it okay, but whatevs).  Ultimately, it falls in the hands of Jenova/Watermelon/Metal as to how people are using Best-Ever, and if they aren't making a big fuss over how we're using Best-Ever, why should we?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Tengu on April 13, 2013, 05:32:48 PM
As of right now there are two regular Saxton Hale servers and THREE classes Saxton Hale servers. I am greatly disappointed.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: fabledfrostbrand on April 13, 2013, 06:48:33 PM
Welp, looks like a good number of Best-Ever servers were purged.  Guess they got someone to close inactive servers.  From what I hear, next version of Best-Ever will auto-axe any inactive servers.  Good stuff.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on April 15, 2013, 01:38:34 AM
I don't understand why so much people like Classes no-buckshot DUEL....it's a bad joke.
Classes are made for TLMS right? Or TDM (but less). But not for possession, duel or CTF.

Duel classes is like : You see the map, you see your partner, use the best robotmaster to take the advantage....It's fun sometimes if you want to be cheap for the LOL but it's boring....specially with no-buckshot.

A lot of people play it and will be against me but i think, a TLMS (with more than 1 life by exemple) can be really more fun.

But people want so much do a show off with duel style :/ ... (and some guys play ONLY Duel classes)......

Duel normal mode is pretty better, it's the normal mode of this "doom-like". So it's made for it but not classes mode.

Can you imagine TF2 with Duel classes? Not really the same thing but a little right?

My Tourney were really for the fun of a fanboy thing but it wasnt really so great I think.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 15, 2013, 02:24:39 AM
Classes duel isn't exactly balanced, but it provides variety. It's "casual-competitive".
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on April 15, 2013, 05:29:14 AM
Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
Classes duel isn't exactly balanced, but it provides variety. It's "casual-competitive".

Sure. :v

I can try to make a TLMS server but not sure It works with my internet o:
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 17, 2013, 08:20:49 PM
Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
Classes duel isn't exactly balanced, but it provides variety. It's "casual-competitive".

How in the world is classes duel "Casual Competitive"?
That doesn't even make sense.
You're basically just making compound sentences like you did back in the 2nd grade.

You took the Classes (Casual) and the Duel (Competitive) and put them together to make Classes Duel, which must make it Casual Competitive, right?

RIGHT?

No, it's not right. Separately they have different meanings, but together it's competitive.

It's as if a sandwich was a witch who casted desert based spells. It just doesn't work like that.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 17, 2013, 08:25:41 PM
It's a more casual take on competitive gameplay. Classes is a way to take duel less seriously, while still keeping the competitive atmosphere.

I realize you're probably getting angry because I'm not agreeing with you in this thread, but try to keep it mature.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 17, 2013, 08:33:33 PM
Because using a real life example of exactly what you're doing is getting angry.
Ok.
It's not as if I don't USUALLY throw some sort of silly example in to back up my point.

Anyways, Classes doesn't lighten up duel, if anything, it makes duel more competitive.
For instance, in regular DM everyone is a Megaman. Ok, besides weapons that isn't really competitive.
Classes increases this by x10 simply because of the variety. Oh, you're playing Gyroman? Allow me to be a prick and play Gravityman, screwing over your duel record and not being competitive about it. Because OJ, you seem like a man of refined taste that would know that counters don't at all make a game more competitive.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 17, 2013, 08:38:02 PM
Quote from: "Rozark"
Anyways, Classes doesn't lighten up duel, if anything, it makes duel more competitive.

Quote
Allow me to be a prick and play Gravityman, screwing over your duel record and not being competitive about it

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not being competitive

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counters don't at all make a game more competitive

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Classes doesn't lighten up duel, if anything, it makes duel more competitive.

I'm getting some serious mixed signals here.

And real world examples aren't a sign of anger, but you certainly came off as angry when you ignored my argument, called me a second grader, and insulted my wording.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 17, 2013, 08:43:08 PM
There's this new thing called sarcasm, that must be why you're getting "mixed signals".

I never said you personally were a second grader. I said that making compound sentences was a second grade skill.

I'm not ignoring your argument but rather making it invalid. You're not even providing evidence besides saying "This is Casual Competitive because it's classes". I'm not going to use an example here because you're not supposed to get into those arguments on the internet, but you know what i'm talking about. subliminal messaging at its greatest

Now until you present solid evidence on anything at all, stop making it seem like you own the best ever servers, and acknowledge that non "metagame" mods can and will be hosted on bestever, I have no further comments.

Thank you and have a nice day.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: SmashTheEchidna on April 17, 2013, 08:51:22 PM
Good lord, what does it even matter?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 17, 2013, 08:51:58 PM
Quote from: "Rozark"
There's this new thing called sarcasm, that must be why you're getting "mixed signals".
You can't read sarcasm. That's something you learn in Third grade, so sorry if I haven't learned quite that far yet.

I never said you personally were a second grader. I said that making compound sentences was a second grade skill.
You smell like garbage.
Don't worry, I didn't say you were garbage, so it's all ok!

I'm not ignoring your argument but rather making it invalid.
You didn't.
You're not even providing evidence besides saying "This is Casual Competitive because it's classes".
Did I even need to prove this in the first place??? I suggested that Classes Duel was a casual take on competitive gameplay to Stonefunk, which, I may add, he agreed with, and then you totally flipped your shit about it.
I'm not going to use an example here because you're not supposed to get into those arguments on the internet
Yeah, better rescue your image while you can. But really, if people don't argue, nothing gets done, and the world comes to a standstill. Put on your fourth-grader pants and have a mature discussion.
subliminal messaging at its greatest
It's almost like you wanted to have some sort of rhetorical meaning here, but I can't really find it. Let me put on my sarcasm-reading glasses.

Now until you present solid evidence on anything at all
Oooh, now I'm scared. He wants evidence on something subjective.
stop making it seem like you own the best ever servers and acknowledge that non "metagame" mods can and will be hosted on bestever, I have no further comments.
Again, you're going after something that has no base in reality. If you honestly think I'm conspiring to take a monopoly on Best-Ever, I think you should just leave and think about life for a few hours.

Thank you and have a nice day.
So does that mean you're giving up?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Ivory on April 17, 2013, 09:27:46 PM
This is edging too close to be insulting and a flamewar. If this keeps up, there will be warnings and this applies to both of you. Got it?
Title: Another edition of 'Shade is late to the party'.
Post by: Shade Guy on April 18, 2013, 11:47:26 AM
I'm seeing the word 'competitive' thrown around a lot here. I thought 'balance' was the go-to word!

...Anyway, there is little reason to think that Classes makes the game more competitive. It looks like Rozark is suggesting that simply, variety=competitivity, which is a bit dubious already, but keep in mind that with Classes, there may be more, well, classes, but you're restricted to an average of two attacks at a time. With vanilla, you have access to every weapon available to you at once. Sure, you can swap classes, but alternating classes (and subsequently, weapons) still requires you to die and respawn/spectate and rejoin/whatever. Here, variety is less restricted in vanilla, to an extent...And following the logic presented, less restriction on variety=more competitive.

As for countering, it is also more immediate in vanilla, once again because you have every weapon available at once. Sure, you can swap classes to Gravity Man to counter someone playing as Gyro Man, but you still have to wait until you die/whatever to counter it. If someone is spamming Leaf Shield in vanilla, you can swap to a fire/ripping weapon, and that's it. Once again, less restriction.

Plus, the existence of classes like Gravity Man (who has access to AOE attacks + ceiling walking, which MM8BDM maps weren't designed for) certainly sounds like it lightens up Duel.

But now I've gone too far off-topic. That's probably why OJ has apparently not posted 'solid evidence' on the matter of Classes, since it isn't relevant at all...And I'm probably too late to discuss the subject, anyway.

On the subject of Best-Ever, it is silly to suggest that OJ is acting like he owns the Best-Ever servers. He's only calling for some sensibility when using the service, and to put some thought into what you're hosting. He doesn't appear to have many (if any) servers up using BE either, so he can't really be accused of monopolizing either. It seems like most people have agreed on the matter of responsibility, but for some reason people are still arguing? I don't get it. And what is Rozark referring to by 'non metagame' mods? Does it mean 'competitive only' or something? Because when OJ suggested hosting possibilities when conserving BE use to 15 servers, he did acknowledge and accomodate for those sort of 'non metagame' mods.

Also, I noticed that the Best-Ever server 'MM8BDM Mission for sane individuals' is using an outdated version of MMSP, which is no good. I dunno who set it up, but just pointing it out.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on April 18, 2013, 03:38:02 PM
I'm trying to remember...I think it was Balrog who set up the Mission Mode Server. Anyway, Survival is broken in v1c atm, so it's fine.

As for the server count, BE is setting up an updated version of BestBot so it removes inactive servers. This is why the server count seemed to be cut in half recently. As for me, I only do two servers at a time, and right now it is Saxton Hale and CTF.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Rozark on April 18, 2013, 03:38:09 PM
Quote from: "Shade Guy"
Because when OJ suggested hosting possibilities when conserving BE use to 15 servers, he did acknowledge and accomodate for those sort of 'non metagame' mods.

Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
If you want these "lesser used map packs" or "niche game modes" to get feedback and improve, Host them with your own bandwidth. Best-Ever is not your sandbox.

Yea, he basically told other mods to get out.

Quote from: "Shade Guy"
it is silly to suggest that OJ is acting like he owns the Best-Ever servers.

Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
It's not beyond the realm of possibility that we could find ourselves with our hosting rights revoked if we keep going the way we are.

Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
Hosting things like BME and underplayed 1 flag is like kicking out dozens of school kids from the park so you and your three friends can play checkers in the middle of the soccer field.

Quote from: "Orange juice :l"
Best-Ever is not your sandbox.

Gee I wonder why it sounds like a dictatorship.

Quote from: "Shade Guy"
And what is Rozark referring to by 'non metagame' mods?

Mods that aren't hosted often. Example: 1flagctf/KY Classes/Screw Scramble/insert mappack not named CSCM/IX/AMP here

I'll conclude on the note that no matter what you add with duel, duel will ALWAYS be pure competition. It's a 1v1, fight to the death, who's the better man, bragging rights mode of gameplay. There is no way to lighten it up, especially when the community is divided among casual and competitive players.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: TailsMK4 on April 18, 2013, 03:40:49 PM
Um, does it really matter what is hosted, as long as people come to the server? I think this discussion of "non metagame" modes is getting off-topic. I even hosted Mafia to try to figure out what was going on in the other server, and it ended up staying up a bit longer since there was interest.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Tengu on April 18, 2013, 05:08:08 PM
He's not trying to run BE, he's trying to get some sort of a regulated system going,  and to some extent I agree with OJ. For example, I don't think its fair to host a testing server for teapartyclasses. At least not keeping it there. I think hosting test servers is fine as long as you take it down when you're done. BE is for everyone to enjoy, not a personal hosting tool. Its nice of BE to even let us use this, so we shouldn't abuse it. You wanna host saxton? Go for it. But if someone else already put it up, then just play in that one instead of making a new one. You don't need to own a server to play in it.
Title: Don't ban me pls I come in peace
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 18, 2013, 05:12:25 PM
It's fine when you host a Best-Ever server for 15 minutes every couple of days or so no matter how silly or pointless or private, because You're not eating up much of Best-Ever's limited resources. If a Saxton Hale server is getting 15 player-hours a day, that's fine, keep hosting it. If you're hosting some obscure game mode that's only played every couple of weeks for 3 hours, there's no reason to leave it up in that downtime. Close it until the people want to play it again, so people can host their own servers with the freed up space. This way, people get to play More niche game modes. See how it works?

And please, tell me; how are four Saxton Hale servers LESS monopolizing than this plan?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Zard1084 on April 18, 2013, 05:39:55 PM
Oh about the teapartyclasses testing server the person who put up the server never killed it when i told him to... so blame him
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 18, 2013, 05:44:04 PM
Or, you could take responsibility and get him to take it down, or contact the BE admins if he's no longer around :|
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Zard1084 on April 18, 2013, 05:47:29 PM
Ok then i'll contact him and also i would host it if i wasn't such a derp and learned how to use it...
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Knux on April 19, 2013, 12:29:08 AM
I see a Saxton server hosting maps I posted on the CSCM thread. The first time I saw it, my first instinct was to go and take down the maps from Mediafire, simply because having people download so many files (which aren't even in the map rotation!) is retarded.

And the sad part is, people actually go there. Well, SHIT.  :|
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Jenova on April 19, 2013, 08:01:21 PM
Just thought I'd pop in to address some concerns.

First of all, we're going to be addressing the empty server problem in a future build by pruning servers that have the least amount of playtime (time of players in server / uptime). We're hoping that this drastically reduces the number if unplayed servers.

As for the server resources, BE can physically handle a larger amount of servers. In fact, servers like chillax use an order of magnitude more resources than a few megaman servers would. The 101 server limit is just an arbitrary number that I picked out so that we wouldn't have too many servers. We're actually going to be increasing this number to either 150 or 200.

Thirdly, if you need to find out who hosted a server for whatever reason, you can pop by the zandronum IRC network (irc.zandronum.com) and join our channel at #bestever. From there on, you can simply type .owner <port_number> and it'll display which user hosted the server. If you want to request we take down a server because of inactivity, you can feel free to message us regarding that in #bestever because when we prune the servers right now (manually), I usually just shut down all of the servers with passwords on them.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Orange juice :l on April 19, 2013, 08:14:07 PM
Thanks for filling us in. Looking forward to that automatic pruning feature  :)
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: cosmos5000 on May 24, 2013, 10:38:05 PM
i cant download this wad saxton&friendsv3d-sprites+music+misc but it was set to private and whem i try to download on best ever wads site it downloads a zip instead of the text and my doomseeker cant download it is there anyother way to get that wad?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on May 26, 2013, 01:56:05 PM
Oh yeah, we don't have TLMS Classes server (i hope one when v6g will be online)

And the V6F SAXTON HALE server CRASHED! And is not more online..
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on June 20, 2013, 04:57:31 PM
Ok there is a TLMS but lol, it's only NEEDLEMAN MAP and we can't CALL VOTE. WTTroll ?
And TLMS is 1-3 life, now, it's like TDM with buckshot.....must be a time limit with 100 lifes .....

Anyways...

EDIT: Now maps are ok but cheats can be used........ xD


EDIT: Tsuki told me, Class v6F are made for TDM, right? Woohoo told me: a lot of class are op" and we are on the duel server....
Tsuki told me, Classe are made specially for TDM and DM.

So, maybe i didnt understand well....It can be good to have a general TDM server for class? (with pack map)

But do you think, guys, class are made for TLMS or TDM? It depends yes, but the best to do ?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: tsukiyomaru0 on June 20, 2013, 07:13:58 PM
Quote from: "Stonefunk"
Ok there is a TLMS but lol, it's only NEEDLEMAN MAP and we can't CALL VOTE. WTTroll ?
And TLMS is 1-3 life, now, it's like TDM with buckshot.....must be a time limit with 100 lifes .....

Anyways...

EDIT: Now maps are ok but cheats can be used........ xD


EDIT: Tsuki told me, Class v6F are made for TDM, right? Woohoo told me: a lot of class are op" and we are on the duel server....
Tsuki told me, Classe are made specially for TDM and DM.

So, maybe i didnt understand well....It can be good to have a general TDM server for class? (with pack map)

But do you think, guys, class are made for TLMS or TDM? It depends yes, but the best to do ?

Basically, I meant that Classes V6F are more suited for DM, TDM, due to the way it was balanced. People can play on LMS and TLMS, but have to expect "OP Complaints" because of how easily some classes can absorb or deal damage, and add to the fact there's no Health Pickup in those modes.

For Duel, it feels OP because the classes pretty much give you the desired weapon all the time, rather than you having to look for it in the map (Imagine if someone modded Doom to always have classes that allows you to start with a Shotgun, Super Shotgun, Rocket Launcher and others. For added nightmare, add INFINITE AMMO to those classes. That's how cheap it can be in 1v1)

But I think this ain't subject for here, instead let's Discuss the servers: We could use a Chaos Generator server, don't you think so? After all, we want to have a party at times, and what mode is better for it than Chaos Generator?
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on June 23, 2013, 03:42:29 AM
I see.
__

Anyways, i hosted since Best-Ever SERVERS, 2 servers.
KY class are robotmasters class but try to be really like the game and looks to be balanced (gameplay modified compared to YD class who is more speed/nervous/active).

Chimera told me, KY class can work with TDM, so i made a server for it. But the gameplay type is different.
And the terminator mode is like Saxton hale but different, if you get the evil energy, you will become a special boss.

Anyways, need some comments about this version of class mode for mm8bdm v3a.
ENJOY!

EDIT: Just one rule: Don't spam Gemini clone with the respawn (fall into a pit/hole and spam gemini clone) or i will kick....or ban if you continue.
Or, all the big trolls who try to bored us hardly will be kicked. Same thing for the "spammers" of mm8 weapons (bug).
But i think, the only problem will be the gemini clone thing (who must be fixed).
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Metallix on February 17, 2014, 11:37:35 PM
SO I had this idea. Feel free to murder me if this is terrible.

I've been putting together a massive WAD compiling every custom bot I've come across, for my own personal use while playtesting things and just generally seeing what I can break. Included are the Online/Offline Skirmish player bots, TF2 bots, Stardroids, and a handful of chats shamelessly stolen borrowed from the old bot chat thread, plus a few of my own.

I've also seen that Bot Apocalypse seems to be making a mini-comeback.

You can probably guess where this is going.

I can release that massive Frankenstein of a bot file (so long as the chat writers don't have an issue with it) and we can throw 'em together. I think it might be entertaining, at least.

... "Entertainment" being a few people fighting an army of Daleks. Or Steven Colbert (http://www.cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2193) clones.

EDIT: Uh. WELL. I completely missed the dates on this thread. My apologies.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: ZeStopper on February 18, 2014, 12:05:19 AM
Holy sheat, Metallix.

I'm sure that could work out freakishly amazing.
Title: Re: MM8BDM Best-Ever Servers
Post by: Zard1084 on February 18, 2014, 08:12:29 AM
Quote from: "Metallix"
SO I had this idea. Feel free to murder me if this is terrible.

I've been putting together a massive WAD compiling every custom bot I've come across, for my own personal use while playtesting things and just generally seeing what I can break. Included are the Online/Offline Skirmish player bots, TF2 bots, Stardroids, and a handful of chats shamelessly stolen borrowed from the old bot chat thread, plus a few of my own.

I've also seen that Bot Apocalypse seems to be making a mini-comeback.

You can probably guess where this is going.

I can release that massive Frankenstein of a bot file (so long as the chat writers don't have an issue with it) and we can throw 'em together. I think it might be entertaining, at least.

... "Entertainment" being a few people fighting an army of Daleks. Or Steven Colbert (http://www.cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2193) clones.

EDIT: Uh. WELL. I completely missed the dates on this thread. My apologies.
Did you grab all the custom skins for the bots?  :ugeek: i also have a bot made for my custom user skin (http://www.cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4712) btw  :geek: