I've spoken with Nite. He is on-board to port the creature script to TF2.

Basically this will be a modified version of what we had going before.

As many of you have noticed, there are some players in the stats that are WAY out in front.

So, I've decided to even the playing field a little.

The top 5 ranked HLSTATS players will be the creatures.

They will receive a bonus for being the top 5 players in our servers.

Increased health. Regenerating health, and a slight speed increase (not crazy nuts, but you'll notice).

Players who kill these creatures will receive 50 stat points. These points come from the server, not from the creatures. This way creatures aren't penalized, but normal players have an incentive to hunt them down.

Creatures will not receive a bonus from killing other creatures.

The system will come fully with automated messages informing players of how the creature system works, as well as informing players when creatures enter the arena, and leave. It will also periodically remind during the game.

I believe this system will provide an interesting and exclusive feature to our servers. Adds another aspect to the game.

This will also help ease down on the stats argument about balancing it. Newer players can now gain points quicker by annihilating the big guys, and the big guys will need to watch their backs against those ranked 6 and under.

I think it will mix it up a little.

Nite says we should have something to test in a couple weeks.

Thanks to Nite!

I don't know...the thought of Daniel or Leon as a spy with extra speed and health...scares the shit out of me.

I'm against hlstats altogether so naturally I voted no. If this was implemented I'd probably play on the servers a lot less. Not to sound threatening or anything.

We already get around 50 points for killing the creatures, and by the math, you'd still have to kill them hundreds of times to see any real movement in the rankings. Meanwhile, the creatures are still accumulating points at an exponentially faster rate, especially since under this system, they would have even greater strength.

Increase the reward to at least a triple-digit figure and I'd vote this in. 50 points has been seen too many times because we've killed the "creatures" at least once. Yeah, 50 points is a lot, but it's a little drop in a big bucket. If I saw "{pDs} TripleBam got 150 points for killing {pDs} War" then I'd be a lot more excited about it. That's a fist-pumping adrenaline rush. 50 is just not enough to motivate or create any excitement.

What if we left it at a slightly increase in health and forget the other stuff?

Then when a player kills them they get a the same increase in health for one death + points.


And the points are totally customizable. I can boost it to whatever I want.

i voted "yes" before thinking about this because i liked it before.

i think that if you kill the creature that you should get 100 points.  most people already get about 30 points for killing on of the top 5 players, so if the top 5 players are getting all these extra bonuses then i won't even want to kill them.  i think that the top players should AT MOST get like 25% more health, thats it.  they aren't losing extra points for dying, so you don't want to give them too much extra stuff.  the only thing that you should not do is increase the speed at which they can move.  too many people would think that they are hacking and it will throw off everybody in the game.  i think since they aren't losing extra points, only a bit more health is sufficient bonus for them.  but if you kill them you need to increase the points to 100 or so.

'HEADHUNTER' comes to mind.

if you unbalance the classes ill stop play on the servers.