Empires Pick-Up Game (PUG) Sourcemod Plugin [Server]

Just updated it so it will keep the same captains/teams until you use the !pugoff command (previously, it would reset everything after the 2nd round). To change to the next map in the PUG rotation, use the !pugmap <map> command (i.e. after say 2 rounds on canyon, type !pugmap emp_isle to switch to the next round on emp_isle). Right now, the teams will keep swapping sides on the same map until you use the !pugmap command so you can play as many rounds on the same map as you desire.

 

Ok, I think I fixed the problems, but I'd like to test the player selection part before the weekend. V0.5 is up.

 

Feel free to contact me if you need players to test, I'm sure creeper can set-up a server for us to test on before saturday.

 

i'd love to test this thing out. it sounds amazing. i'll try and be online tommorrow

 

maybe test today?
better than one hour before pug

I should be at pc in 8 hours from now for long enough

probably need atleast 4 people overall, to test everything properly

just creeper gotta set the server

 

So to recap a bit of feedback.
First off a bug, Like Paradox said, sometimes the menu doesn't show up. Also, apparently, if you type just "!pick" it might skip your turn. Of course I forgot to record like a derp so we can't re-check what happened.
However you can type !pick "name", but that has to be the exact name, but I think you have something planned for that, right? I see it has been discussed that a menu should pop-up with the names that include whatever you typed.
Yesterday we found out that picking 50+ players takes over half an hour, so adding an !endpick button would be nice.
One more thing I thought of during the night, using the same method you use to reduce the timer to 10 seconds when both captains are !ready the time should be set to a predefined amount (in the config) when both captains do !endpick or when everyone in spectator has been picked. So you do not end up with a random amount of time.

One more idea, in the interest of making it autonomous, I think there should be a way to trigger it through vote. I'm thinking something similar to !rockthevote, but instead it triggers a votemap and starts the PUG. At the end of the first round it asks if the players want to continue on the same map, change map, or stop.

Anyway, great job!

 

If it helps at all, I recorded a demo which includes most of the picking process.

 

I've update the plugin to fix the problems and add some needed features.

• Alltalk turns on during the team/player selecting phase
• There is now a 15min (by default) time limit for the captains to pick players. After that, any player in spec will be randomized to a team
• The captain has indicate he is finished picking players by typing !endpick
• Admins can now easily add time to the comm vote time by using !addtime

 

some random dude markus etc complete new player managed to just join NF and then be invunerable to admin commands except kick off server.
pick system worked after 3rd pick or something
endpick didnt work

 

!ready didn't work on the second map, since there was no pick phase it was supposed to work.

 

If we're going to organise more PUGs we need to first organize a test to debug Scardybob's plugin as it was having troubles last time we played. Could someone with a server organize that, Scardybob can you get in touch with us?

 

This is going to sound like a complete dick move. And I know with such a small community we shouldn't make competing plugins.

I had this idea yesterday and I haven't been able to shake it. The commander vote GUI is the perfect place to pick players in draft style games. You can block opt in and opt outs, you can set everyones bwantscommander property to 1 and have it so that only the captains can pick players, which then get removed from the comm vote.

Stage 1
Players join NF and are blocked from joining BE. They vote in the commander vote GUI for the captains. the two players with the highest votes become captain. 50 secs

Stage 2
All players are added to the comm vote and each comm has 10 seconds to pick a player or it is picked randomly. The players are removed from the comm vote and have [NF]/[BE} appended to their name. you can detect name changes and change them back where necessary.

Stage 3
the original commander vote time is set, players are placed into their teams and names changed back. they can't join a team they weren't assigned to.

I just think using the commander vote GUI is a much better system than typing !pick etc and this system is fully automatic and doesn't require admin intervention.

 

holy shit, why is mikleo so revulotionary smart.
Holy fuck

Also, scardy is pretty chill guy, he'd prolly wanna work together with you

 

Thats when you learn a bit about SM scripting and realize all the things that are possible to be done for empires, relatively easily with SM scripting

But anyways, that sounds nice.
I always thought maybe add SM menu for this PUG plugin, but yeah...would be bad listing in it.

This sounds pretty nice.
Just hoping that the whole clunky comm vote thing wont be making problems for it

 

I think with my squadcontrol plugin I can easily fix comm vote numbers for players, that's if the devs aren't willing to fix it.

 

I'm not opposed to this, but I don't have any experience messing with the comm vote menu. If you can figure out how to restrict who can choose from the menu, I'd certainly add it to the plugin. I've never liked the SM menus for choosing things, but its the only thing I've been able to find that can automate the picking process.