idea for server, 'practice' mode

[zeppelin]

Just had this idea, when you were on yesterday you were saying that !challenge could've been causing some of the server lag. For the most part no one uses it, and you could probably just remove the mod from the server completely and it wouldn't be missed (it's a good idea, just never used). Really the only time anyone ever uses it, is if someone knows how to do a particular level fast (new shortcut or whatever) and an other person wants to see how they do it. So instead of having to surf all the way to the stage with the shortcut to be able to show them, you just get them to challenge you on that level, then they can just go to spectate and watch.

So the idea is !practice, I'm assuming you could poach most of this from the mod that was written for !challenge. But basically you type !practice and a menu opens ala !challenge and it will allow you to choose what stage you want to start practicing on. I guess it would be also convenient to have the !teleport command function with !practice, that is, if you're practicing a stage and you teleport, you just go back to where you started practicing. This would be similar to !bonus, then when you want to go back to the start and attempt a timed run you just use !restart.

edit: forgot to mention that it would also be nice to have an output of your time for your practice runs. So I guess you'd need to use the !challenge mods starting/ending method rather than just a starting destination. Without the ending destination you wont be able to recieve output times, which defeats the purpose, if you don't know what your time is for a particular section how will you know if you're going faster/slower.

[Sl4sh3r]

A good idea that I will take into consideration. My only concern is end zones being at the very end of the map. If a person practices the last level it'll allow them to finish the map, screwing it up for everyone. This is a problem with Surf Challenge as well. I'll see if CK likes the idea and maybe he'll take out the racing aspect to Surf Challenge. If not I'll do it myself. However, it might not be something that's done over night.

[Helix]

A good idea that I will take into consideration. My only concern is end zones being at the very end of the map. If a person practices the last level it'll allow them to finish the map, screwing it up for everyone. This is a problem with Surf Challenge as well. I'll see if CK likes the idea and maybe he'll take out the racing aspect to Surf Challenge. If not I'll do it myself. However, it might not be something that's done over night.

Maybe, in practice mode, after someone finished a stage, they get teleported to spawn again. Automatically. Then this function cannot be abused.

[Sl4sh3r]

That is already a feature of the Challenge mod. If someone decides to practice on Phase 4 of ny_advance, they have the opportunity to finish the map almost immediately after the map starts.

[Paul]

How about you just make it so that starting challenge mode or practice mode stops the timer? AMAZING WHAT THINKING CAN DO!

[Sl4sh3r]

Lol.. Amazing what reading can do. That's not the issue.. Moron.

The issue is ENDING THE MAP. AKA GOING TO JAIL

Stay in school kids.

[zeppelin]

It's a valid concern, I guess the best way to figure out whether or not being able to practice a maps final stage would in turn ruin the overall playablity for the server, is to just add the mod. If there are complaints about people abusing it, well, it could be removed/altered.

One way of getting around this problem would be to only allow players access to stages 1 to N-1. I'm not sure if this would be feasable.

And with the way !challenge is currently set up, if a player chooses to practice on stage N-1 and they beat it, they will be teleported back to the stage the began practicing on. Rather than continuing on to the final (N'th) stage, thus preventing them from abusing the mod.

[Paul]

Ask untouchable then, he managed to make a practice mode thing for ny_advance using only stripper source.

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