Pim's rant; Let's talk about Ambrosia

[Red Wolf]

Hi people,
I read almost everything covered in this topic and posts, but im going to talk only about CSGO servers.

1v1
First of all, 1v1 was just plug and play (kinda), it didnt have much thing to do, all the colours pim is talking about were by default. I never had to compile 1v1 plugin, only edit some cvars.

JailBreak
This is the server that took us quite a while to finish (aka pain in the ass). There is so much, but lets start from the beginning. While I was looking for jailbreak plugins, there was only SM Hosties v2, and that barely edited for CSGO (original plugin was for CS:S). With all advanced maps and such a buggy plugin, I had to make some modifications myself.

Not to mention that there was a model bug which took me days to fix.

I still had a lot to do, there were many other plugins such as flashlight, doors, CTBans and many more. With this being said, I was only half way through.
Another thing to be done was football/soccer, there were soccer fields, and to make the matter worse there was a ball aswell. I had to find a way to remove all ball entities (not to mention there were tens of ball entities in some maps) by trying their coordinates 1 by 1 until i found which one was the one I needed. After this I had to install a ball plugin, which by the way was released literally 2-3 days before we started to set up the server. I had to edit ball plugin so It wouldnt crash the server.

Meanwhile I was working on warden aswell, it was a pretty decent plugin with nothing to edit, but I had to implement this plugin into other plugins. For example, make ball only for wardens (as it was only for admins) using warden plugin natives.

Later on, I came across MyJb, which had been released only 2-3 weeks ago, and had had only 2 updates. This plugin had tons of bugs, some I tried to fix myself and for some others I had to notify and wait for the developer to fix them, but after a while it turned out to be a great plugin.

Rocket Jump
This was a new mod which had been released on June, it is in BETA stage, although I never encountered any bugs. This plugin works with cksurf, a modified one, and those two reasons add to the server being in beta stage.

I dont haven anything to say about RJ, it was pretty much between 1v1 and Jb, had to edit some things but cant say it took me a lot of work.
The only reason it wasnt released earlier is that I wasnt able to install and configure maps when I was supposed to, because I had some things to do (IRL)


And about me, I'm not an expert when it comes to CSGO servers, probably setup a server, read and barely create/edit a plugin and some other small things.
As you can see there are suggestion topics in each CSGO server board, and people rarely post there, instead they post useless raging topics.
The only thing I'd appreciate right now (about CSGO servers) are suggestions, everything you think that can help the server boost.
I mean, i havent even configured rates (i did but idk if they are correct or not).

[Pim]

man the plugin is 100% plug and play but there's so much you can bullshit with. for starters you could add a knife round possibility, perhaps 'monthly specials' where people can put a preference into special rounds like deagle only/scout only or smth like that. People also get pissed off at the pistols at awp round so take these away already (yes that's hardcoded as well) and might wanna take away armor, to avoid hitmarkers
just cus it's plug and play doesn't mean you can't optimize it. there's also a ton of basic settings people usually prefer some changes in. cant remember them all but simple things like augs/sg disabled/enabled, at least there's a choice you haven't thought of yet and others might be bothered by it. Also i don't think the elo system is actually working because i dont believe you hooked it to an sql database
and the maps man, zzzzzz

for the rest i wouldn't know about jb and rocketjump which is why i haven't commented on them. I bear with you on these . I wonder where the easy dm server is though. just a basic one might get some players in...?

ps. there's never been suggestions cus there's never been a real decent playerbase. the only playerbase pretty much existed in my friend list and i highly suggest you to do the same. make gathers on the server and find some guys online, contact them and ask around instead of waiting for them to make a forum move