Posted on 12 March 2016 - 09:23 AM

Alright, so starting off I just wanna clarify to those who don't know this yet that badlion is a server pretty much based on UHC. That's what people are coming for when they go to badlion.

Now, I don't think that badlion UHC players get what they deserve, including donators. UHC's easily fill right now and sometimes get double the amount of players than slots in games during the weekend. This insane amount of people just causes a huge load of lag and lag is ofcourse not accaptable on a PvP server. There is 2 suggestions I have for improving badlion UHC's which are:

Remove anti x-ray

Anti x-ray just causes frame drops for a bunch of people and even though there's a forum thread on how to improve your fps lag, there is no way to fix the server lag it causes. I have no idea if I'm actually right in this, but I believe that anti x-ray is defenitely a cause of tps lag and server lag spikes. And back in the good old times of badlion in which auto generated world weren't a thing yet, we could easily do without anti x-ray. I mean, badlion has UHC hosts for a reason. Not only for answering questions, but also for catching the hackers. I don't think anti x-ray is necesarry and that it only causes disadvantages in gameplay.

An actual maximum fill on UHC's

Pretty cute and funny how it says on the website that there is a 'maximum amount of slots' for a UHC when in reality there isn't. Ofcourse the 'maximum slots' is a good indication for non-donators to see whether they actually have a chance of joining the UHC or not, but if donators can just join whenever they want you just get FFA's with 650 players (as an example). Ofcourse that's very nice for the donators to be able to join when it's actually full, but think of the disappointment when they just have unplayable lag in their game. Just implement something like this:

Maximum amount of slots is actually the maximum amount of slots;
Donators will kick non-donators (not letting them stay in the UHC);
Lifetime donators kick normal donators;
Donator+'s kick lifetime donators;
Etc… etc… you get the idea

I think that this will improve the badlion UHC's a lot. Now I know that people will come with an arguement in the sense of 'but than donators donated and can't even play UHC's!!1!1'. Badlion has over 70 hosts. Some on LOA, some not being able to host on exact times, but if you can't host 2 games at the same time in the weekend the hosts are defenitely doing something wrong.

Hope these suggestions were helpful, I will hear whether it can be implemented or not.

Posted on 12 March 2016 - 09:47 AM

kicking?no fack u

Posted on 12 March 2016 - 09:51 AM

Remove anti x-ray? No thanks, it causes a notable decrease of x-rayers and makes hosting a lot easier. Improve anti x-ray? Sure! Any suggestions you have would of course be appreciated!

Maximum fill? People paid for a perk, taking that perk away would be considered fraud, as someone paid for something that got taken away. That is by law forbidden, as far as I know.

Posted on 12 March 2016 - 09:58 AM

How are you taking away a perk

Last edited on 12 March 2016 - 10:05 AM by HAPPYBDAYFRANKA

This is word for word what one of the donation perks is, as described on the site where you can buy ranks:
"You can join games that are being setup still (get on before whitelist is taken down)."

Taking away a perk people paid for would be considered fraud, as far as I know.

Last edited on 12 March 2016 - 11:59 AM by tikkalawl

Well if it's in badlion's TOS that they can change perks then it's not fraud(edit: I think)

Posted on 12 March 2016 - 01:17 PM

I don't know how the EULA exactly works, but I always looked at it as it's just a counter act for donating to the server. You're not actually buying the rank, the server just thanks you for the donation this way. Correct me if I'm wrong though, I don't know what the EULA wants and stuff

Last edited on 12 March 2016 - 01:17 PM by FarmerMarten

snip

Last edited on 12 March 2016 - 01:18 PM by FarmerMarten

And lion has barely any to no advantages over donator+
It just adds some more advantages to your rank and stimulates people to donate as well

Posted on 12 March 2016 - 01:59 PM

-1

The anti-xray is the reason our servers don't have the huge amounts of random xrayers they used to. There are still a few clever ones, but turning off the anti-xray would be awful.

As for max player limits, I'm not UHC staff so I'm not sure how that would work.

Posted on 12 March 2016 - 02:42 PM

Honestly, I like how all of the players always say that there were too many xrayers on badlion and even the staff team. But,,, let me tell you something, there were not. I used to be a host, I have the right to say that there weren't that many xrayers and if there were any, I would catch them. Anti xray is unnecesarry, hosts don't have to be lazy like they are right now…

Posted on 13 March 2016 - 09:19 AM

1) -1
2)+1

Posted on 16 March 2016 - 12:24 PM

Have a maximum fill and donators can kick the latest non-donator that joined.. they should have priority

Posted on 16 March 2016 - 03:45 PM

-1 for whole thread.

Posted on 16 March 2016 - 04:47 PM

^ for these reasons -1

Posted on 16 March 2016 - 05:47 PM

Exactly.

Posted on 19 March 2016 - 09:39 AM

At least let non-donators be kicked then, cause I donated for the server to improve. Did it improve? No, it only got worse