Suggestions (loading screen, motd, rank, accounts)

[mintsz]

i'm sure you've all played games where in the loading screen it will show server info, name of the game, while loading the game (You see all the characters and the little loading bar on the bottom left)

My idea is to implement this into MTA. What I was thinking was a transparent window (maybe dark gray or something) with white writing (you don't have to follow this template) it could say something like

Mintsz Pure Deathmatch Server -

Welcome to mintsz' pure deathmatch server, you can upload maps at http://www.mtasa.com, cheats= ban, etc...

This could be good for enforcing rules.

Another idea of mine is to give the host an optional use of when the game starts up you recieve a window that says a 'message of the day', such as, welcome to mintsz' server, make sure to eat your vegetables.

this could also be another idea for enforcing rules to make sure people don't say i didn't know there was rules, and then everyone will gang them saying it was in both loading screen and/or the message of the day.

Has anyone played C&C renegade? i'm sure there are a few people who have. On gamespy arcade, in some servers, there is a recommendation tool, recommends them for Good teamplay. You can get recommendations for getting the most points in the game, blowing up 2+ buildilngs, etc. For MTA however, it could be things like winning a race, killing 30 people, and then some. There is also the ability to recomend someone yourself by typing !recommend Playername. Spam recommend could be prevented by making a filter for people that they can only recommend one person/day.

My last suggestion is accounts. Partly applies with the above recommend suggestion, it will also prevent people from posing as someone else to get everyone angry at them, become an automatic administrator, etc. This could be made by making everyone use their account on the MTA website. Doing this will also be able to add a 'global rank', such as most hours played on MTA, most games played, most wins, etc.

That's everything

[Greg0rz]

I really like the idea of the loading screen and MOTD. As for the accounts I'm wondering how difficult it would be for the MTA team to implement after the whole game has already been programmed. Lets see what a team member has to say.

[lil Toady]

Sounds like MOTD that was in mta 0.x versions.. a transperent window with some text in it, there was a topic about this and MTA Team said they probably won't add this to mta:sa

[eAi]

I think we will add it, at some point, I don't think it looks like it'll get into this first release though. An issue with showing it over the loading screen is that the loading screen doesn't always show - if the mod is already loaded (i.e. you've played on a server once already), it just goes in instantly.