Today's Progress Report: Great!
o More maps were tested (mostly by omgkitties earlier in the day, later by me and others). koth_megaman6_b5 was fixed by re-zipping the archive under Linux instead. arena_pool_day is confirmed by Frey to not work for auto-download, however.
o Bot Rush mode created! Basically, in most CP, PL, or KOTH maps, a few players go on one team, and the other gets filled with bots (usually locked to a single class, melee-only, admin-given weapons, etc). Depending on the bot rules, damage multipliers are usually modified. Trying this on Minepit and 5gorge resulted in pretty quacky situations, such as Heavy rushes with Ali Baba's, Danger Shields, and KGBs, or 23x capping multipliers. This seems to favour small (8 or fewer) gatherings, naturally.
o Playing with damage multipliers resulted in healing wars. Funny that equipping the super Valve RL with certain low negative (eg. -0.005) multipliers can actually end up healing people to death. :V Doing this in VSH resulted in a very slow Hale and about -7800 damage done by Alpha (a regular non-member, excellent Scout, knowledgeable about mods and item values, and one of Frey's associates), which made the match too silly to continue.
o Never turn on Highlander mode with VSH is on. Hale just spawns with everyone else (hey free kills before round start), and some have class errors.
o Never freeze people in VSH (makes it even easier for straggling Scouts). However, in moderate cases giving a weaker ranged weapon (eg. Diamondback) to Hale can quicken things, without resorting to caps, slays, timebombs, etc.
o Alpha has recommended MGEMod on this server, which can make sense considering that we oddly have one MGE map installed (I don't select it for actual play, however). As for my position, I'm for now neutral.
o I think a hat-giving plugin should be inserted too; my reasons are not to let anyone wear whatever hat he/she wants, but for, say, making an entire team of Special Delivery Scouts.
o Also I'd suggest plugins for advanced teleporting (eg. TPing user A to B; right now I can only TP users to where I look, and can't TP myself), class/team management, and god modes, but the catch with that is that it can overlap with some of our existing plugins.
o On an off-note to MC server players, well, consider this a PVP arena :getdown: