Also, map rotation. It would be great if we could include a lot of the maps we have been using in FML from the map making contest. Also, I think if people see these maps bein played it could encourage people to make new ffa maps too which keeps this old game fresh.
Just give me the top 3 contest maps (in due time) and we will add them up.
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Finally, my biggest concern is navigating a Russian site. I'm already bad at navigating the interwebs, and I worry with no stats access in English it will deter people from competing. I mean, for me, the ladder statistics are the big draw, so if it's too hard to get to the statistics site or understand the ladder rankings because they are all in Russian....well it seems like it could be a problem. Hopefully there is a solution to this that we could figure out.
Thats why I suggested a data integration here. Im sure Renaud can do it, he did it before.
And please don't come up with your own website. FFAMasters.net should become the one stop shop for all your FFA needs. Therefore I suggst to fully integrate it into our current website.
I do not intend to run a site or even run the ladder, Im too busy nowadays. Thats why I suggested that @FML|Renaud can integrate the stats somewhere here or elsewhere, whatever you guys like.
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People can see the current ladder with stats of all players (just like Battle.net Ladder Page or w3arena). Due to the auto saving functionality of the bot people can download all replays from the games played. This is to improve your game and report cheaters or rule breakers.
I will add replay downloading to the list of the specifications
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Thankfully, we have working bots with toom.io (noot, egel, accu etc.) that implement these functionalities. These bots also save their replays and provide the maps in case you are missing any. Please see here https://archive.toom.io/wc3/replays
I suggest you to talk to niels on discord about the setup.
Of course I know niels, the bots and everything about those My questions are about the ladder, I am dealing with the rest.
I am feeling a little nostalgic all of a sudden, going back to talk about FFA ladder, hell yeah!
FFArena
I keep hearing bad feedbacks about the ladder, in short : - it does not work or not update statistics properly - maps do not change - desync - no access to management - anything else?
It is also expensive for w3arena to maintain.
I am trying to do something about it with General @FML|WorpeX and several people involved in a very tricky situation.
Onligamez old deal
When I came back in 2016 to fix the bot malfunctions, there were two bots running for FFA. One russian for Onligamez (Somethingwicked was admin there) and FFArena. This killed activity so we brokered a deal to merge both in one.
At that time our bot was working ok, because under lunaghost administration and my management. Now i dont have access to anything and lunaghost is dead.
The idea is. If our current bot is so terrible, why not let the Russians run it again? They had a way better system for the ladder with way less "loss bugs" and are good people to discuss with.
Their site : forum.onligamez.ru
So we are discussing with them and they are interested to start their bot back. Their ladder was on this page, inactive now of course : http://stats.onligamez.ru/?st=3&top=
Onligamez new deal
They agreed to start it back and put a server not in Russia but in Western Europe. I'm overall very optimistic for a swift improvement of the situation.
You will have to deal with a ladder page in Russian but Im sure @FML|Renaud could extract the datas somehow and make a page in English somewhere.
Since @SomethingWicked should be in the admin team, your requests for improvements (new maps, new seasons or else) shouldnt go unnoticed.
What we need to know
- Technical upgrades you want to see on this bot that were lacking on the current one (anonymousness for example or else)
- Would you pay for the bot fees? Should not be too much money (coming back for this one)
- Are you having a lot of desync on the bot currently? This should come from the different versions 1.26 and 1.28 (w3arena/Iccup vs the rest of the servers).
- Any objection to doing this move?
Waiting to hear from you. Speak now or don't complain after!
There is no good journey that does not end with going back home
I would like to help organize a FFA Cup late October or early November. I of course need your help and make sure you are motivated to support the project... There are some things I cannot do!
What Ugri can do
- Set up a fundraiser on matcherino - Promote on Social Medias - Find casters - Get famous players - Coordinate management (from discord) - Take dictatorial decisions to make Shave happy ( ) - Have a Liquipedia page made for it, so we dont lose the history of the event (i've found a trick!) - Give 100 euros (i received a generous donation from a WC3 supporter out of the blue)
What Ugri cannot do
- host games / take care of bots - be there until the end or maybe not there at all (living in China) - Manage players on Dday - create a logo or do any design
Up to discussion (with designed admins)
- Map choices system - format
-> best would be to have 3 serious admins with at least one Russian speaker -> we could innovate and have it played on a two days system (one day for R1, one day for Semi + Final) ->if you are ok, we will create a small designated discord group with chosen admins
Just an idea, let me know what you think (and btw, when will all FFA Cups winners be listed in the Hall of Fame? )
sorry for the wait, but i was unable to play on battle.net for the past few days; i have a problem with new gproxy installer and i cannot play any online games, right now we are trying to figure out a solution (on the official eurobattle.net page), so when it eventually gets fixed i will let you know if i can join the ffa hostbot. thank you for the effort anyway, i appreciate it ;)
can you ask friends of yours to check then? i need to know its fixed 😋
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My questions are about the ladder, I am dealing with the rest.
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