Myth@Bungie.Org

Thursday June 13th 2002

MariusNet News { Zandervix }

MariusNet has a number of things going on, so here's the scoop. First off: TFL night is tonight (Thursday), and SB night is tomorrow (Friday). The map for SB night will be "House of Pain." You can get it here. Here is the description from MythForums:

Some history of HoP...

Basically, House of Pain's idea was to do 'deathmatch' before the deathmatch option was in. You started with 16 dorfs in cells outside the playing field, then one by one they would spawn in to 15 spawn points in the arena. When one dorf died, another one would spawn in.

Then Bungie put in the deathmatch option... and so the map was tweaked with 'deathmatch' variants that have only 1 dorf per team, and of course with deathmatch he'll respawn in the cell when you die, then spawn to the playing field. This mesh was added bacause the WW2 solders were able to rpg the 'cell' units - kinda breaking the idea.

So basically, choose either the Dwarf Riot Ghol Riot Detchmatch meshes, turn Deathmatch *on* - and you're good to go. You'll get the hang of it quickly. If you turn on Titans, then ghols become grenaders and dwarfs become RPG solders.
Also, here is the skinny on the scoring updates going on over at MNet:

Well, we've been making changes to the TFL scoring system (to mirror the SB scoring system), those changes are mostly done. First, the data is now being processed over on MythForums. The formula is basically the same as it's always been, but now it looks at game data for the last 90 days instead of 31 days. Be sure to check out the TFL Leaderboard for various custom rankings, such as FFA Only, No Plugins, Game Specific, and many others.

Also, the TFL (and SB) ranking and stats are now updated every 5 to 10 minutes, on the web and on the game server. Remember, this isn't your 'old' b.net scoring system, it is based on several factors that are computed rather than a 'point' system. If you want to get an idea what is used to compute the MCS (Mariusnet Computer Score) - check out an earlier explanation here. It is mostly accurate but I do need to update a few things, you can get the general idea though (some day I'll create a web page for it, heh).

Anyway, enjoy and have fun. I'll mention this on the forum and if you have any questions just address them there. More stuff in the works ::checks to do list::