The scoreboard on the server now has 3 updates:

A. It tracks your all-time frags. At the end of a match your all-time total will be calculated and shown (see pic below)

B. You can press F2 to see the top 120 all-time players. If you are in the list you are in purple. If other players who are playing at the time are also in the list, they will be in green (see 2nd pic).

C. It can show spectators in the list, and it will show the spectator's career total as well (sorry no pic).

Any comments, issues, let me know.

P.S., it does tally the bot career totals out of interest, but their totals are not shown in the all-time list.

What do you mean, is it free? Why, what would you pay for it? 

The basic one, version 100, is available. You've probably seen that one on Hook's server. I wasn't really planning on making the current one available. It's 98% done for DeathMatch, but 2% done for the other game types. I likely will never finish it.

The version on the server is now 187. Many minor updates, but of note would be:

A. When you are looking at the stats (with F2) you can see any chat message. This way you don't miss anything if someone is talking to you. See the inserted image as an example of what I mean. (This is only supported if your screen resolution is at least 1024x768 or higher).

B. The server/contact info is customized and neater.

C. The top player list can show up to 160 players now (it used to max out at 120). The number of players you actually see depends on your screen resolution. To see up to 160 you need the width part of your res to be at least 1680.

D. Fixed a bug where if you hit F2 too fast (either after joining or after a map change), not all of the information would load. It still takes a second but it all loads up.

E. The specific resolution of 1152x864 didn't align too well, fixed.


This pic is pretty big, to see it all at once either just click on it, or there is a scrollbar at the bottom of the post.

Hermskii - Use the medScoreboard100 basic version.
It is still very good and Very EASY to set up!

First I guess I should let all know that I did do a mini-update, but I hadn't posted it. Version 188 has column headers for the stats, so it indicates "Player" and "Frags", see pic.



Now to your post, Kelly:

Kelly wrote on May 15^th, 2011 at 12:16pm:

Because of the way I designed the storage of the totals, that would only work for those already in the top 120. If a player is not in the top 120, I don't know the player's rank, only their total.

I built it to work for a server that is going to be around for a long time. This mute will be able to save up to 300,000 players (and their scores). To do that and still work efficiently considering the potential file sizes, that was my consideration for the design.

Just a note on the max size (300,000) since I mentioned it. If it ever gets full (wow wouldn't that be a dream) there are cull commands to remove players. For example you could cull all players who have a score of less than 100 and who have not been seen for 1000 games. Stuff like that. You get to specify your own numbers.


Kelly wrote on May 15^th, 2011 at 12:16pm:

Neva! On the mountain, F2 means THE HALL OF FAME


Kelly wrote on May 15^th, 2011 at 12:16pm:

Agree/disagree. Disagree first. Web page beats HUD? Depends who you are. I love the in-game stats. Your rise to fame is real-time, and it spurs you to play more.

But yes, firing up a web page in the morning over coffee to view your stats is fun and popular, so I have been keeping this in mind to try and accomplish. I know I could do it right now in a roundabout way, but I'd rather figure out the generic works-out-of-the-box solution and work on that. That is, the solution for this mutator in particular. Oh and of course it would be able to list all players and have them ranked, because it would not have the in-game limitations.

Anyhoo, I don't even have this on the burner really. I'm going to start a new map right away. 

Kelly wrote on May 16^th, 2011 at 2:39am:

I'm a big thinker. 

Kelly wrote on May 16^th, 2011 at 2:39am:

Like I said I only have 120 ranked, or sorted, ever, so no problems for me there.

I sympathize with your sorting lag time. Any file manipulation, be it sorting or whatever, will of course take longer the larger the file size, so not much we can do there. I split up the files with the players so that reading/writing is not bogged down by every single player name. I also capped the size at 300,000 based on saving times during testing.

The fact I only have 120 sorted at one time - it is not a concern for me, it works perfectly ingame, as I intended. But if I want to post all rankings like on a website, I would still have to sort all the others. No big deal I figure, easy enough to do outside of the game when it won't lag things. If I eva get around to it.

Yes, that is the concept, two ini's. One for players, the other for the top 120 (correction it's actually top 160).

Technically though, the top 160 is actually 7 ini's, and the players are broken amongst 30 ini's. This helps with snappy loading/saving, as well as minimum file management, believe it or not.

One day I'll finish it.