Appeal: The bot specced all players prematurely due to an improper setting on behalf of the ref staff. This resulted in one team losing a repel advantage.
Decision: Denied by vote (5-1; Voting Parties: Rost, Mizerie, WarEngine, Demishadow, blur, Crunchy)
Reason: This case was close enough to our precedents of egregious ref error that resulted in a resetting of items midgame. In multiple prior cases, the ref made a keystroke error that nullified an advantage for one side. That is the same case here. Historically, in these games all players were burned and the remainder of the match was played out as there is no way of knowing the status of every item for every player. Loss of team morale or percieved purpose of the game is not grounds for an appeal.
Arnk has been busy fixing bugs left and right this week and he's found a pretty critical one. It has to do with objects and thus the scoreboard module has been removed for now. You may also notice the zone is less laggier than before, as the bug also caused a memory leak which made things considerably slower if the zone was up for a while.
We're just about ready to resume the regular season. Our crash issues have been solved (uptime of 4 days, woo) and Arnk is in the middle of setting up a few more people whom have volunteered to help with access to our codebase.
Brivulture or Chris69 will make an announcement once the league is ready to go. But like I said before, you'll have 5 days notice.
Again, sorry about all the server crap that's happened the past couple of weeks. So yeah, shave that rust off in pub(scrim) and get ready for some league play!
We now have a 24/7 dedicated bot in ?go rzjpl. It is set up for public play and events. These are some of the pub features to get games going with a small amount of people.
STARTBOUNTY
Less than 5 people Set Start Bounty 70. 70 default.
10 people or more. Set start Bounty 50. Arena message the change.
15 people or more. Set Start Bounty 30. Arena message the change.
20 people or more. Set Start Bounty 10. Arena message the change.
25+ 0 Start Bounty.
FREQSIZE
Less than 6 people. Set Freq size to 3. No private Freqs
12 People or more. Set Freq size to 4. Arena message the change.
18 People or more. Set Freq size to 5. Arena message the change.
25+ People. Set Freq size to 6. Arena message the change. Private freqs open.
The bot also tracks stats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
for pub play - We are currently working to get them up and running on our website main page with other info also!
ALSO: For pub play you can type !spam to zone spam and try to get your own games started!
Not retiring, but definitely taking a break
This is also a good time for me to take a break, I don’t plan to participate in Pro next season. The Dark no longer needs me as a starter every weekend and I’ve been too busy to maintain my skill level at a point where I could compete against Assassins. TD has made good on it’s goals for the last couple of seasons, I think the team’s goal will be to beat Assassins next season and finally at least break into the finals. I am also interested to see how Premier will change, there is plenty of talk about doing a Pyramid league. For the sake of 4v4 I hope the transition is done.
