Stats

[StingBot]

Now there are stats spamming the chatbox, will there be a website to access them at some time?

Regards,
Stinger.

[Bicketybam]

When we have finished tweaking them we will let you know. It will also come with a reset (most likely).

[Trixxter]

Some things might need changing, I know some people *Cough Engiee* farm the points by building a sentry, picking it up, and placing it back down over and over. It's how he's currently ranked 1 at the moment. (or was, last night)

[StingBot]

There is probably an abuse setting that can be turned on.

Is it normal to make 500-1000 points a night though? some kills were making 11 points, where others were only getting 1 point.

[Mythor]

Once you get past the initial 50 kills required to earn "normal" points you can start earning more points based on the skill of your opponent and the weapon you use and so on.

Points for some actions were adjusted this morning, will see how the new values go.

As Bickety said, when it's all up and running properly there'll likely be a reset of the stats involved. It's only on a trial basis right now and might not stay, depending on player feedback and any issues it causes for the smooth running of the servers.

[Soothsayer.]

Maybe the messages should be opt-in rather than opt-out? I gather a lot of the opposition to it is to the spam in chat. Is it possible to have detailed points off by default and just have a message when you join the server saying it's running HLStats, type x to turn on details, y for help etc.

[Anon. E. Moose]

There is probably an abuse setting that can be turned on.

Is it normal to make 500-1000 points a night though? some kills were making 11 points, where others were only getting 1 point.

If you kill someone who has a considerable higher amount of points than you, then you "steal" some of their points, and receive a much higher amount of points for the kill.

[Mythor]

Maybe the messages should be opt-in rather than opt-out? I gather a lot of the opposition to it is to the spam in chat. Is it possible to have detailed points off by default and just have a message when you join the server saying it's running HLStats, type x to turn on details, y for help etc.

It should be defaulting to having the text spam off for newcomers, existing players can switch it off by typing the following into text chat in-game:
/hlx_display 0
and
/hlx_chat 0
(ie; hit Y and type the above lines, not in console)

You can replace the 0's with 1's to switch it back on or to enable it if you're a newcomer and it's off. You can also have just one or the other on. Can't recall which shows what text lines but it's easy to experiment for yourself.

[.♥. Cupcake .♥.]

How come you don't get any points extinguishing people with the manmelter? It's a tiny petty complaint, but I did notice!

[Drakand]

How come you don't get any points extinguishing people with the manmelter? It's a tiny petty complaint, but I did notice!

do you get points for extinguishing with other weapons? I know on some servers with stats that does happen.

[.♥. Cupcake .♥.]

How come you don't get any points extinguishing people with the manmelter? It's a tiny petty complaint, but I did notice!

do you get points for extinguishing with other weapons? I know on some servers with stats that does happen.

Sure do Normal airblast extinguishes give me 1 point per person extinguished

[Drakand]

maybe it is only set up to register a primary weapon doing the extinguish? since manmelter is fairly recent, may also just have not been updated.

Two questions: what program is being used for the stats and is it free?

Edit: read GON announcement, HLstats, now looking at website for more info

[Bicketybam]

How come you don't get any points extinguishing people with the manmelter? It's a tiny petty complaint, but I did notice!

It's because the manmelter is newer then the stats program. We are still looking at tweaking the stats anyway but as soon as they add either a new version or commands to include the actions of the manmelter we will add that to the stats as well.

[.♥. Cupcake .♥.]

How come you don't get any points extinguishing people with the manmelter? It's a tiny petty complaint, but I did notice!

It's because the manmelter is newer then the stats program. We are still looking at tweaking the stats anyway but as soon as they add either a new version or commands to include the actions of the manmelter we will add that to the stats as well.

Ah I thought as much, thanks

[StingBot]

I like the stats on the other node servers, but is it not running on the 32p servers? The only annoyance is the chat box spam