KAG Gather : how to create a competitive scene

The gather system was pretty popular in soldat for the competitive scene.

With irc, a bot and some servers, teams were just randomized and players just had to join the server to play a mini clan war.

I think we can try this system on kag.

How it works :


1. You have to join an irc channel //Edit by FBB: Current IRC channel is #kag.gather. Somone please tell me if that changes.
2. You need to type !add to get in
3. If the gather is filled, teams will be randomized
4. The bot will send with a private message infos of server (ip + password)

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Some gather images :

 

Yes, for the love of God someone set this up.

I would be all over this shit, even seeing if the other moles would find a way to get a server up for it if it hits off.

I haven't looked into coding a bot at all but the logic isn't hard at all.

 

We can imagine some quick ctf matchs with 8 players.

Something like that :


<SpideY> !add
<KAGather>| Type : CTF(8) | Playing : 4on4 | Rayne - Jerloch - MM - Geti - Shad - Kouji - EJ - x
<KAGather>| Type : CTF(8) | Playing : Rayne - Jerloch - MM - Geti - Shad - Kouji - EJ - SpideY
<KAGather> The Gather is full and teams have been randomly generated :
<KAGather> Blue Team : Jerloch - Geti - Kouji - SpideY
<KAGather> Red Team : Rayne - MM - Shad - EJ

The bot will send a message with the ip of server + password. If its possible, it could be useful if a script allow to change the password between each match.

 

Maybe I'm going a little bit too far but I think it could even work as an in-game function. You press a button which sends a call to the bot on IRC, when the game is ready it sends you back the server address and within, let's say 10 seconds, you get automatically redirected to the game.

Nevertheless, I'm still a little bit skeptical because without some player-rating system we could get many uneven games and I think it shouldn't be a thing in something like this.

 

We need someone who can create a kag gather script in a first time and i can assure you that with a team of moderators, gather is a good system. We can imagine, if its popular, a player rating system.

 

I am not sure if there will be enough people who are active on the irc to create such games periodically.
Here ( https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1188135/kagircbot/ircbot.pl ) is a rudimentary perl script for a gather bot. I am not sure how stable¹ it is, but it has some simple features. It can be tested at the moment in the #kag channel. Message "!stuffbot help" to get the list of commands. If there is enough interest it should be possible to implement more advanced features like the rating system.

¹: It looks like KAGdedi doesn't flush it's STDOUT often enough to make the direct monitoring possible. My script looks periodically in the latest log file. Let's hope it doesn't cause any problems.

 

I will do my best to get prototype of this bot ready next thing tomorrow.
</br>--- merged: Nov 10, 2012 6:05 PM ---</br>
IRC Bot prototype is ready, now working on software that would run these servers when needed with proper passwords. Right now it's needed because i can't "invoke" password change programmatically through Kag itself.

 

It could be fucking nice dude.

 

Also Beo is willing to host 3 Gather servers at first, just to get things rolling.
I also want to have an live updating ranking website, so the project will be quite huge and awesome at the same time.

 

If anything, I would duo with a friend and lower my ranking so I can go steamrollering.


Sounds like a pretty sweet idea though!

 

It'd be nice if we could apply it to that KAG events site that is never used.

 

All right, I know that posting in this thread might make me look like a forum archeologist but... Is it already possible? I mean that remote server access? Or is it going to be available once scripting build is released? I've heard some things about so called tcp rcon but I'm not sure is it the right thing.

I'm asking and refreshing this thread because I'd really love to see KAG Gather going on. It worked extremely well when I was back then playing Soldat. And now, when Arthurian League is going on and we have finally established cool ruleset and maps we could make use of them outside the ArL, specifically on the gather and allow people to experience how is it like to play a match for ArL and thus maintain hype for it. Doesn't it sound neat?

 

Most people dont even see the irc, it needs more publicity and maybe a guide about how to use it.