How do you make a new gamemode in Sauer?

Greaserpirate | 2012-07-18 19:42

I made a new gamemode for Red Eclipse a while ago called (Secret) Killer Mode. In this gamemode, there's one Killer that has some resistance to damage and tries to frag as many other players as possible without getting caught. Eveyone else is a Citizen, and they have to find who the Killer is without killing other Citizens. The Killer gets points whenever a citizen dies (including if the citizen was killed by another citizen), and the Citizens get points for fragging and/or damaging the Killer. I currently have a server up (sometimes) that uses this mode.

I decided that I should port this to Sauer, but there's one problem: I used a server varable called "killeractivated" to turn the mode on and off (and several other vars to adjust the gameplay), but I haven't found any equivalent in Sauer that isn't client side (which would mean players would have to download a modified version of Sauer to play this gamemode). Is there any way I can make a server variable that turns the mode on and off, or will I have to overwrite normal gameplay so that Sauerbraten always plays Killer Mode?

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Suicizer | 2012-07-18 20:47

It sounds pretty similar as several other modes (like quadholder, which the only difference between your version and that is that 1 person can make more damage and is sightable to other players because of the quad. If the holder of the quad dies, it is being spawned again on a random place).
Your mode seems pretty unstable, as it's teamkiller's paradise ("Oops sorry, I thought you were the Killer!"), which you don't have at Quadholder (it's clear to everyone who wears the quad because of the quadrings).
There are servers which commonly have modified insta-team into something else (like hide-and-seek). Maybe you should try that also.

I still warn you, don't blame me when your server is getting banned from the master server as Eihrul isn't font of such modifications.
Your probably still free to do so on your own master server...

Greaserpirate | 2012-07-18 21:49

I forgot to mention: citizens lose points from killing other citizens, so intentionally teamkilling gets nowhere except the bottom of the scoreboard. There can be some confusion as to who is the Killer, but that's the whole point of the mode- to see if you can identify the Killer based on their behaviour, and to see if you can avoid detection from the Citizens if you're the Killer. I've been working on it since the fall with feedback from my server, so at this point the instabilities have been thoroughly ironed out.

Will my server get banned from Sauerbraten (if I'm able to fix the problem and port it successfully) if I make it clear that it's modified? It's been around on Red Eclipse for a good while now without any problems.

By the way, Quadholder sounds like a cool mode. Red Eclipse already has something like it: hold bomber-ball, except instead of getting extra damage the person holding the bomb gains points and is slowed down slightly. It might be cool to make a variation on it that goes the other way around tho.

eihrul | 2012-07-20 01:02

Your server will be banned from the Sauerbraten masterserver if you use a gameplay modification of any sort. Sauerbraten masterserver is strictly for the Sauerbraten game.

Chasester_aka_you | 2012-07-21 19:56

speaking more to the game mode than the problem:
y dont you make the kill have less health than every one else, That way you can shoot some one once or twice and no there the killer ;)

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