Gogo no! This is not who you are! You must see that trolling is a pathway to the dark side, there is no hope once you reach it. You must turn back now, learn how to saber, learn how to gun, become what you were destined to be. Become a tryhard!
I don't think there's any migration from Saber Showdown to MB2, there isn't even a link to MB2 on their mod page. Would be cool to have a link on their page that can also measure traffic.
Made a shitty graph in case people care about that
Graph source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vNxDHHP0-koK06zN_Ts6ysCl42n3hFb2zxzOJ23swOQ/edit?usp=sharing
Data source: https://stats.moviebattles.org/d/KOGzA7kRk/movie-battles-ii-main?orgId=1&viewPanel=48&from=now-5y&to=now&kiosk=tv
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As a programmer I'm sympathetic to the technical needs, but as an end user it was jarring to have things rebound, and then having to bind or sometimes double bind some keys to keep the same functionality. It will probably pay off in the long term but it definitely doesn't help first impressions
Just chiming in on a more serious note. MBII's player base has been declining for years (if not decades) now. Hell, even when I was hosting an open server and active during 2020 to 2023 it was only really possible to populate an open server after work hours. I think the reality of MBII being an...
I'm afraid you are trying to reinvent the wheel. This problem was solved on the internet decades ago now, the answer is an account system. I'd much rather require a forum account or even better, a steam account. This is not only more reliable but also creates friction for ban evaders. Evading a...
A general banlist is impossible with the way it's currently handled. IP Addresses can not and should never be used to identify users and (speaking from experience) will cause lots of false positives even for people who have never played the mod before. Banning a specific address in Hungary can...
A good distinction to make is that "the mod" is not apathetic to this behavior as its against forum and official rules. The problem is that all the attempts made at bettering the community fizzle out because of the sheer amount of effort necessary to curb a single bad actor. I've had to deal...
The current way bans are handled are more of a suggestion than a hard rule anyway. Bans can be circumvented with ease so any strict enforcement basically becomes a full time job. People will have to deal with the current state until the ban system changes :waytogo:
There was a big discussion about this exact issue, I can tell you that you will be better off trying to argue for changes to marktk than getting the old settk back. It will probably net you more results. Long story short marktk is designed to get the outcome you are describing here, if it...
(written before the ACM changes last Sunday)
I'll write up a more complete summary of my thoughts about the open beta later but before I do that I want to put some criticism out there on a specific system.
ACM, ACC and how it fluctuates
I think a lot of things the build does right is bring...