Sammy

A long post but words on gameplay.... Reduce the gravity a bit so you can jump higher than normal to look for spots where some people will use jump tricks to get to glitch areas. And always approach it with the assumption that even though some action sounds silly to you or that players would never do it... they will. Always. ? Now is the time before spending a whole lot of effort in the editor to decide whether you want a specific type of gameplay that favors certain styles and weapons or a more balanced one (my preference). Little things can have huge impacts. Include three ways to exit spawn areas to cut down on unfair spawn trapping. Make sure spawn points are reasonably protected to prevent campers zoomed in from a distance waiting for players to pop in. Not every mod has spawn protection. At least three general pathways to get to enemy areas. Its common to have one open path in the middle and a CQ path on each side (Crossfire) or some other combination (Overgrown/Farm). If its a small map make the pathways take roundabout routes, or many obstacles, so its not a straight shot from A to B nor too quick to get there (Combat Medic / Lightweight). This is especially true if you want it to work with CTF or other objective games. Camping and snipping are valid play styles so dont want to prevent them but dont make it too easy. Yes thats a no-brainer but mappers can come with their own biases and give advantages towards their own style of play. Someone may detest snipers but it must still be just as fair to them as others. Rushers should be vulnerable to explosives but make it difficult. Teamwork and pushing should be encouraged by allowing good defenses along the way. Most general areas should be open to attack from at least two directions, either by direct player fire or grenades. Objective points are a bit of an exception and the two team objectives should require attacks from close range and hidden from view at long range. The center objective should be open (Convoy etc) so it is heavily fought over. And then... its your map and you are not going to make everybody happy. Some are going to complain that it sucks because it cramps their style and doesnt give them what they want. The logic: "My K/D isnt good compared to other maps therefore it is bad". Save yourself the grief and good gameplay comes first always.

My resolution is to stop reading news forums where every other post is by a troll or a bot.

Since this is a cod4 question, I am going to assume you mean a new skin for a player character. In which case, you cant unless you are talking about a 'single player campaign' modification. All such modifications for MP must be done by the server.

So many contrails go over my house every day... those big big jets from China/Australia/Japan on their way to LAX or Dallas... that its scary. Brrrrr.

Recorded? By yourself? Downloaded? What program are you trying to use to watch it? Otherwise its like telling your doctor that your leg hurts and want to know whats wrong.

Merry Christmas everyone. Bang!

You would have to edit menu files and recompile the mod.

You can get them on Hulu. They are also on WGN America.

Rumor has it that Santa made a major purchase of coal this year. Must be a pretty big naughty list you are on.

Santa! Get to the choppa!

They'll let anyone be a moderator these days. ?

You never know. ?

Shortcut keys to help make things go much faster. http://modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-708.html https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GtkRadiant/Keyboard_and_Mouse_Commands

I dont think moderators should be able to use smaws. Do I have a second?

"yes or no" Sorry, someone had to post it.

How about reloading sounds?

Uh. Ok. Bye.

There is a much easier way. Dont run over dead bodies. In any case, if you run over a weapon the same as yours you automatically pick up the ammo from it. That is internally game controlled and the only way around it is to simply not drop them. And since nobody knows beforehand which weapon is there, if at all, it would be unfair to penalize those that did have the same weapon and didnt have the choice.

All these birthdays. ? I guess the website doesnt like animated gifs. So here is a different one.

How do you know the difference between someone that is overly aggressive to someone that just isnt very good among servers with a great many veterans that spend hours every week playing?

The end is near.....

Listen to Bubbles. She is the smartest Powerpuff Girl and knows of what she speaks.

Sure easily done... or more properly said... easily prevented so long as the script files are available. Dont know if they are in this case. However yes there must then be a replacement since in freezetag that would mean no weapon drops at all. And no, before anyone asks increasing max ammo for weapons isnt a good option.

I suppose voting is like brushing your teeth. Problem is, not enough people brush. Or only once every couple years if they have the time.