[HostMaster]

The idea behind these ideas is pretty much the same. To tie in the server with the forums and build a better community. I think to start, I may just have hourly pop-ups that praise the high score holders, and perhaps mention the current active threads of the day or something. That tied in with being able to see who is in game in the forums I think will be a good start. As time allows we can think about integrating other rewards for high score. I dont think its a good idea to allow prizes that offset the fairness of game play unless it is during a certain time of day. Like 11pm-12am is fun hour. Anyone who's high score gets invisibility, anyone who's posted in the last week gets noclip, anyone who's registered on the forums gets free guns. Then just go crazy go nuts for that hour. It will encourage people to at least register on the forums so they can get free guns. Even if it is only 1 hour per day, I think it should be time restricted and be opened up so that everyone could get some added benefit for just registering.

[Alt F4]

Heh. Fun hour because that's the time of day when you're in game!

[RoDenT]

rofl exactly.

[Kitch]

*sigh*

I suppose this means I have to put in an actual admin request app.

But all the ideas seem good, but I think the extra money for arcade champions should have a cap. That way we don't have arcade highscore whores just to get a couple extra thousand per round.

Maybe have an extra $100 per round per arcade game, max $300.

And intergration of the forums/game is a pretty good idea, as long as it doesn't clutter up the game. I've seen plenty of servers where you see csays and tsays all game talking about how your percentage for hitting your opponents left theigh and stupid crap like that.

There should be obvious site advertisements to include
-Donations
-Server Purcahsing
-Forums
-Advertising forum extras(IE, extra money arcade champs, etc)

Top 5(10?) players every stats update(half hour?)

Those should be the major ones.

Also the server name should include "West Coast" or "California" or similar to attract people wanting local servers.

And admins need to be cracked down on more, potentionally those who alter aspects of the game. I had a good tier system typed up on the old forums...I'll see if I can copy/paste it. But tsay/psay and whatnot are harmless, but map changes, godmode/noclip, kick/ban and slaying/team slaying are the most abused, and as such, in-depth tracking should be intergrated into the site

Perhaps have an "Admin Only" section which shows admin stats. Playtime vs Slays/kicks/bans and so on. That way we get a percentage of who is using the most commands while playing and its easier to see who is using their admin too much. If your a good admin, the players won't even know you're there.

And should the server get as active as it once was, reserved slots again?