Thread: A minor suggestion for the voting keys/numbers

Binds and for noobs.

Why should a map vote ever interupt gameplay?

Why are we using weapon switch keys to vote when it can be easily fixed. It's an inconvenience. And a dumb one at that. Why is switching to 6-0 a big deal and why would it be hard to do so?

Why should I be hitting a random key to get rid of the vote, then type "revote" to actually vote. Revote actually means - vote again. If I'm using revote to vote first, then what's the point in having a revote?

Is it possible to have 1-5 active while the map vote is up? This would give players the opportunity to vote when they wanted.

Guys it doesn't work like you think it works.

The menu system is completely controlled by the source game engine itself. LS just asks the game to pop up some text in a special dialog box. That's all the control LS has.

The game engine then takes over, puts the text in a special dialog box, disables the numeric keys that normally operate your weapons, waits for one of them to be pressed, and once you press a valid one it will take down the dialog box and tell LS what key you pressed.

LS has no control over the dialog box. It only has control over (1) the text shown and (2) what number keys are considered "valid" to press. It can't use special binds, can't use non-number keys, can't make the numbers available to switch your weapons, etc. The game engine itself shifts all of that around.

At best LS can not use number keys 1-5 so that you don't vote when you were trying to swtich a weapon (this works because LS will say 1-5 keys are not valid, so the game will keep the dialog up until you hit something that is valid). But note that because the dialog is still up, the game engine itself will still not let you switch your weapon.

I think the better answer is to be more intelligent about when it pops up.

Originally Posted by Ewok

I think the better answer is to be more intelligent about when it pops up.

Maybe beginning of the next round (at least for TF2). That way the map doesnt change in the middle of the current round (could possibly be a firefight). Round ends, vote comes up, and 45 seconds later, youre off to a new map. That way that last 45 seconds is just for shits and giggles, kind of like how TF2 gives about 20 seconds at the beginning of a map change to Wait For More Players where people just dick around.