CSS Reg map vote

**GReYVee** · 09-05-10, 08:54 PM

Ewok and the other dev's of this mod, take your time. But please consider the out-cry of our CSS community (and possibly TF2) in regards to how the regular server issues out map votes. I believe the following would be very easy to implement, and appease all crowds.

http://www.teamplayergaming.com/show...-rotation-idea.

I will call it the vote opportunity.

Toss a vote that does the following options every time a vote becomes automatic. (change as needed for Tf2) --> Only apply this rule to regular servers. Top5 is as is.

1) Random map
2) CS hostage map
3) Custom map
4) Top 5 map
5) Extend

**~~insanegammer109~~** · 09-05-10, 10:45 PM

I don't follow

Would this be under map votes? So if you select one it will bring up a vote consisting of only (Hostage/Custom/Top5/Bomb) maps as choices?

**flame** · 09-06-10, 01:18 AM

http://www.teamplayergaming.com/show...TV-Options-TF2

It would apply to both games the same, multiple map lists with specified numbers for each being pulled for a map vote

**Ewok** · 09-07-10, 09:15 PM

This doesn't seem too hard, and I think it folds into TF2 nicely as well based on the other discussion. What I need from CSS / TF2 people are the maps they want in the vote options, broken down by "category"

So for CSS, a list of all hostage maps, a list of all bomb maps, a list of all custom maps, a list of all top5 maps, etc.

**Ewok** · 09-07-10, 09:23 PM

Imis, did you want to tackle this? It should be pretty straight forward.

What I'm thinking in my head is the following:
1) We should only have to change map_voting.py
2) Introduce a cvar to turn this category vote behavior on and off
3) In map_voting, there's a method that generates the vote choices from random map list choices. If the cvar is on, it instead generates 1 vote choice per category for each category. In memory, the map voting manager has a list of categories, and each one of those is a list of maps.
4) When picking a map for a category, it filters out all of the recently played maps just like the next map vote does, and the picks a random map from what's left over. If there are no maps left over, that category gets no map to vote on
5) In order to have the above in-memory categories, etc, rather than having lonestar figure it out, we'll just make server operators define all of it in a a lonestar config file. This avoids the issue of trying to second guess what server ops want (for instance how would lonestar know what "top 5 maps" are). We can call it map_categories.cfg and It'll be a JSON payload like the other config data entries. Because its JSON, it can be a list of lists. For each top level list, the first item is the category name and the rest of the items are the maps.

Example for CSS:

Code:

[
  ["Random", <put all maps here>],
  ["Hostage", "cs_office", <etc>],
  ["Bomb", "de_aztec", "de_dust", "de_dust2", <etc>],
  ["Top5", <whatever maps top5 has>],
  ["Custom", <whatever custom maps tpg has>]
]

**Sosiego** · 09-13-10, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Ewok

What I need from CSS / TF2 people are the maps they want in the vote options, broken down by "category"

So for CSS, a list of all hostage maps, a list of all bomb maps, a list of all custom maps, a list of all top5 maps, etc.

Here ya go. This is what I would propose:

Random map not played in the last five map changes
Random map not played in the last five map changes

Popular de map not played in the last five map changes

Code:

de_cbble
de_chateau
de_dust2
de_inferno
de_losttemple_pro
de_nuke
de_piranesi
de_season

Less popular de map not played in the last five map changes

Code:

de_aztec
de_contra
de_cpl_fire
de_cpl_mill
de_cpl_strike
de_dust2_night_fix
de_prodigy
de_russka
de_scorch
de_train
de_tuscan

Custom de map not played in the last five map changes

Code:

de_crane
de_forest
de_forge_v2
de_frost
de_inferno_pro
de_navarrobase
de_nighthawk_pro
de_promhoz_b3
de_sewer_b3
de_site23
de_stadium_final_v2
de_villa

Cs map not played in the last five map changes

Code:

cs_747_css
cs_assault
cs_backalley2
cs_compound
cs_estate_source
cs_havana
cs_italy
cs_kismayo
cs_militia
cs_office
cs_office07

Extend map.

**Imisnew2** · 09-13-10, 06:23 PM

Sorry, I didn't see this thread until now. And yea, this sounds like a good idea. I'll try to get it working tonight (on my server).

**Sosiego** · 09-14-10, 08:52 AM

Per this post from Hub, de_forest and cs_backalley2 were removed from the servers last night for fixing. Don't know if they got put back up yet. Just FYI, don't know if that affects you guys at all in doing this.

**Sosiego** · 09-17-10, 02:24 PM

The following maps have been removed for not having working mini maps and/or texture issues:

alamo-mds
de_cantina
de_corruption_css_b2
de_pyramid_css

My post with the categorical list of maps (see here) has been updated to reflect the change. I also moved de_nighthawk_pro to "Custom de maps not played in the last five map changes."

You guys also might to sit tight on this as (1) we may be replacing these maps with different custom maps, (2) I'm going to try to create a working mini map for de_corruption_css_b2, and (3) we may also be removing de_crane for an issue related to choke.