Today's results:
- Players - While the MotK numbers were around expected, quite a few pubbies joined in, leading to some 5v5 and 6v6 matches. Overall friendly or quiet group today. The lower player limit (19) should keep us from constantly playing Arena only. :V
- Highlander - went smoothly for most everything; few complained about class lockout. However, using gScramble with Highlander on caused some very strange quirks, crashing Exuro and Alpha's clients in the process.
- Lag Issue - still there, still obvious, and it affects even those of us with good ping. Later determined to be possibly server-side and hardware-related; a fix may arrive shortly.
- As for actual playing - for me, I spec'd most of the games but made a few mean plays (in particular, one stab fest on Freight that left the entire BLU team dead on their 2nd point).
- Other things of note:
o Sunny asked me about packaging all the maps into one giant archive. While this can be convenient for installation, I would rather link the original map pages instead (when possible), and I find mega-archives a bit risky to download, especially for those with spotty connections.
o A 'Pubs v Pros' style match-up (6 competitive-style advanced players vs. 9 highlander-style 'pubbie' ones) is definitely under consideration. Such a meet probably won't occur for a bit; I'd prefer that the next match have no special rules. I'd add the
MatchMod plugin to that by then to facilitate the implementation.
So yeah, that's that.