Bug 2677 - transfer credits/points on team change
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tremulous
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Misc
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 enhancement
Assignee: Tim Angus
QA Contact:
URL: http://tjw.org/tremulous/
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-04-21 13:31 EDT by Tony J. White
Modified: 2006-05-16 17:16:12 EDT
2 users (show)

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Attachments
transfer credits/points when changing teams mid-match (1.28 KB, patch)
2006-04-21 13:32 EDT, Tony J. White
transfer creidts/points only if player has not changed teams recently (2.17 KB, patch)
2006-04-24 11:51 EDT, Tony J. White

Description Tony J. White 2006-04-21 13:31:55 EDT 
When switching teams in the middle of a match you lose all your kills and more importantly all your evolve points or credits.  This keeps people from balancing the teams.

This patch does a simple translation of alien to human points when switching.  It's not a perfect since it doesn't count currently used upgrades and the exhange rate isn't really uniform, but it solves the main problem.

Let me know if you would prefer this behaviour to be controlled by a cvar.
Comment 1 Tony J. White 2006-04-21 13:32:31 EDT 
Created attachment 885 [details]
transfer credits/points when changing teams mid-match
Comment 2 Tim Angus 2006-04-22 18:40:29 EDT 
Having credits zeroed is intended behaviour, otherwise there is no penalty to briefly switching team to gather intelligence such as enemy base location, current stage etc.
Comment 3 Tony J. White 2006-04-24 11:51:00 EDT 
Created attachment 892 [details]
transfer creidts/points only if player has not changed teams recently
Comment 4 Tony J. White 2006-04-24 11:52:36 EDT 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Having credits zeroed is intended behaviour, otherwise there is no penalty to
> briefly switching team to gather intelligence such as enemy base location,
> current stage etc.
> 

The second patch addresses this issue by restricting the credit transfer to those who have played for their current team for 5 minutes or longer.
Comment 5 Tony J. White 2006-05-01 12:05:08 EDT 
(In reply to comment #4)
> The second patch addresses this issue by restricting the credit transfer to
> those who have played for their current team for 5 minutes or longer.

In practice 5 minutes seems like overkill.  1 minute would probably be sufficient.
Comment 6 Christophe Cavalaria 2006-05-11 11:34:08 EDT 
Would it be ok to just plain prevent quick team change ? Players with little money or evo points can still change teams, ruin the other base and change back like that, or scout info.
Comment 7 Tony J. White 2006-05-11 13:35:39 EDT 
(In reply to comment #6)
> Would it be ok to just plain prevent quick team change ? Players with little
> money or evo points can still change teams, ruin the other base and change back
> like that, or scout info.
> 

Yeah, there should be some type of locking method since someone can flood the /team command currently.  Whether or not it should be as long as this credit perserving thing, I do not know.  There should be a special case though that you can join spectators at any time.