Kingpin: Life of Crime SKILL Mod Development History

• Basic game rules running.

Some bugs found during testing:

• At round changes spectators have weapons and can shoot players
• 'ghost' players after forced respawn

To Do:

• Add admin voting system - server vars can only be changed by rcon at present.
• Chase cam for spectators/dead players.
• Scoreboard to reflect wins, not frags.
• Player status - alive, dead, or spectating.
• Active players rejoin at map change - everyone becomes a spectator at present.
• Decide if players can/cannot pick up dropped weapons - can at present.
• More anti-camping code - maybe award win to player with most kills in round if more than one player not dead at time end?
• Remove 'ghost' players at forced respawn.
• Armour at round start - most code done, but not active.
• Add support for grenade launcher and flamethrower?

• Fixed 'ghost' players after forced respawn
• Some fixes to game logic - handling of event when change from 1 to 2 players, and from 2 back to 1 player
• Scoreboard now reflects wins, not frags

Some bugs found during testing:

• 'ghost' player when player enters game for the first time - same after map change
• chasecam 'jumpy' - probably some flags incorrect or not set
• Scoreboard reflects frags at map end but OK during gametime - turns out I missed a couple of calls at intermission DOH!

To Do:

• Add admin voting system - server vars can only be changed by rcon at present.
• Fix chase cam
• Player status - alive, dead, or spectating.
• Active players rejoin at map change - everyone becomes a spectator at present.
• Decide if players can/cannot pick up dropped weapons - can at present.
• More anti-camping code - maybe award win to player with most kills in round if more than one player not dead at time end?
• Remove 'ghost' players at first-time spawn.
• Armour at round start - most code done, but not active.
• Add support for grenade launcher and flamethrower?

• Fixed 'ghost' players after first respawn
• Player status display on scoreboard
• Scoreboard now reflects wins, not frags at gametime end
• Removed weapon drop after death
• Added anti-camp code - camping = less frags = dead if timer runs out if not most frags ;-)
• Chasecam messages added - chasecam works OK when spectator (on entering server) and after death
• All players will become spectators at map change until I decide otherwise ;-)
• Armour code implemented - choice of 3 levels - none, 50%, and 100% using CVAR

Some bugs found during testing:

• Minor logic issue after map change - first player to join game gets a free win
• Chasecam - incorrect function after a player 'specs' after being in game, but OK after death and at first entering server if only 2 players - similar problem to 'spec' issue if more than 2 players - strange - maybe because I want to keep stats in case player rejoins action. Change of method required I think........

To Do:

• Add admin voting system - server vars can only be changed by rcon at present.
• Fix chase cam
• Remove spectators from main scoreboard to separate display
• Active players rejoin at map change - everyone becomes a spectator at present.
• Decide if more anti-camping code is needed
• Include a delay before first round starts to allow time for ISDN and 56k'ers to rejoin server
• Add support for grenade launcher and flamethrower?
• Add support for random choice weapon at round change?
• Maybe force no armour if only pistol is supplied. Leads to a pipe fight and timer runs out over 95% of the time. Change pipe for crowbar also?
• 'Most frags' code to decide out of time winner possibly not functioning - further testing required

• Added pistol damage mod
• Added crowbar
• Added flamethrower
• Fixed 'most frags' per round code
• Changed server start delay to 30 seconds
• Changed reading of RCON variables for weapons and armour
• Minor logic change when only 1 player in game - checks RCON vars for weapons and armour
• Added wins to HUD
• Moved code for custom HUD value display

Some bugs found during testing:

• Minor HUD display issue when 1 or more win displayed - hired guy icon from single player appears
• Flood protection when in spec mode after just joining server - cannot talk for 10 seconds - after first show of this error, always flood protection
• Spectating a player who then dies, and then spectates, you continue to spec the dead player and follow who they are spectating
• Complaint from playtesters - flamethrower does not make for a good game
• Request from playtesters - grenade launcher request

To Do:

• Add admin voting system - server vars can only be changed by rcon at present.
• Fix chase cam
• Remove spectators from main scoreboard to separate display
• Decide if more anti-camping code is needed
• Add support for grenade launcher? - allow on very small maps only
• Add support for random choice weapon at round change?
• Fix HUD display issue
• Fix flood protection issue
• Remove flamethrower from weapon rotation - will leave manual select capability
• Add grenade launcher support

• Fixed chasecam stat display - chased player stats now show correctly
• Replaced flame thrower in weapon rotation

Some bugs found during testing:

• No problems apparent

To Do:

• Add admin voting system - server vars can only be changed by rcon at present.
• Remove spectators from main scoreboard to separate display
• More anti-camping code is needed - I have noticed that if there are some players on equal frags then the players with very little health occasionally avoid other players until timer runs out. Since no-one wins if no more kills are made then no loss to the player from their point of view - I have thought of a solution based on remaining health to avoid this.
• Add support for random choice weapon at round change?

• Added full admin support - a player can 'elect' to be admin - the other players have the opportunity to vote for or against the request for admin. The requesting player must be awarded admin within 30 seconds or the request for admin will fail.
• elect - request admin
• settimelimit - sets map time - minimum 5 minutes
• setroundtimelimit - sets round time limit - minimum 1 minute
• setweaponcycle - 0 = OFF, 1 = ON - if on, weapon will change each round to next in cycle list
• setweaponstart - sets weapon for next round - 0 = pistol, 1 = shotgun, 2 = tommy gun, 3 = HMG, 4 = rocket launcher, 5 = grenade launcher, 6 = flame thrower
• setarmourlevel - sets amount of initial armour for next round - 0 = none, 1 = 50%, 2 = 100%
• dropadmin - stop being admin

Some bugs found during testing:

• Error on setting roundtimelimit - I was converting to minutes at entry, and again at round reset to minutes became hours. DOH!
• Voting for admin did not work correctly - using ints instead of floats when calculating percentage.

To Do:

• Admin is cleared at map change - decide whether or not to keep current admin at map change
• Remove spectators from main scoreboard to separate display
• More anti-camping code is needed - I have noticed that if there are some players on equal frags then the players with very little health occasionally avoid other players until timer runs out. Since no-one wins if no more kills are made then no loss to the player from their point of view - I have thought of a solution based on remaining health to avoid this.
• Add support for random choice weapon at round change?
• Add 'setmap' admin command to change current map
• Add 'reset' admin command to restore all admin accessible values to default
• Add 'admin' command to allow server operator to override any current admin
• Fix roundtimelimit setting
• Fix vote counter

• Fixed 'elect' stats - forgot to cast a float as an int

To Do:

• Admin is cleared at map change - decide whether or not to keep current admin at map change
• Remove spectators from main scoreboard to separate display
• More anti-camping code is needed - I have noticed that if there are some players on equal frags then the players with very little health occasionally avoid other players until timer runs out. Since no-one wins if no more kills are made then no loss to the player from their point of view - I have thought of a solution based on remaining health to avoid this.
• Add support for random choice weapon at round change?

• Added rcon to select weapons to included in weapon cycle. Changes take effect at map change.

• Modified 'setmatrix' parameters to include setting pistol in rotation - I forgot about this ;-)
• e.g. setmatrix NNYNYYN - sets only tommygun, grenade launcher and rocket launcher in rotation.

• Server reset defaults grabbed from initial cvars.
• Full electable admin covering all game specific variables.
• Server Op can grab admin and set all game specific variables. Default server reset values can also be changed. Server Op has own password to allow access.
• Weapon matrix for choosing weapons in round rotation - includes intelligent matrix validation.
• Server idle reset hard-coded at 10 minutes - will only reset if something has been changed.