Quake 3 Arena - Freeze Tag
There already are ef_novoicechatbeep and ef_nochatbeep commands or something similar.
Atrey, I already made several suggestions to protect thawsteal, and I would gladly provide one to avoid spam. Such options could be defaulted to disabled as they would consume more computation (so CPU) resources on the server.
I do not know how feasible and easy it is to implement them but I'd gladly join you and help in developping them.
well atrey, its all there on "collecting new ideas for efreeze"! I tried to sum up the points and highlight the important ones for you! U can thank me later 
ADD: new scoreboard (NN!?)
ADD: player score and thaws stays the same when changing team (e.g. from red to blue) (req: many)
ADD: unlagged grapple (req: fndr)
ADD: eFreeze settings menu
FIX: frozen body colors (req: atrey)
FIX: inactivity drop (req: andi)
FIX: spawnings (great idea about spawning at items location) (req: andi, insanity)
ADD: different spectating views: ego, third person, free float (req: andi)
ADD: possibility for team players models to not be forced as one model (req: andi)
ADD: smaller fonts on HUD (req: andi)
ADD: sudden death gauntlet option (req: andi)
ADD: "Accuracy" sound for killing 3 players in a row (req: andi)
ADD: different triangular on team players (req: andi) - maybe a "frost sign"?
ADD: new hook (osp alike) (req: andi)
27. "A" letter to mark admin
28. Muting whole server ( only team_say allowed ) for cws
29 ad_tellblue, ad_tellred, ad_tellspec, ad_telladmin
31. Some nice field to type password when connection in server ( i never saw something like that in other mods :P )
32 ad_readyall for forcing /ready
- server news (like in osp when player enters to server, they see info/news box)
- when u spectate, person name is not as big as it is now. (player name text blocks so much from the screen)
- voting and fraggedmessage smaller
- timeout option (all players freeze - could be usefull during cw's if problems comes)
- map_list command what shows what maps server has (it prints to console)
- new efreeeze connection image (i can make one - using my previously known frozen
make it possible to check /wall 1 in efreeze to make it easier to look at demos
#make new/different design skins for the railgun
/reconnect prevent people from this abusive command!
remove this "weapon drop"?
add vision „autothaw percentage“
when spectating players (when you are frozen) and you get hit by gauntlet/rail the spectator mode jumps to the one who hit you
When i play i force models, enemies to green keels and teamates in whatever i want. But sometimes (especially in clan wars) when i spec 333 i see them as enemies (green keels) whereas id prefer to watch them as teammates
make same protection as on 1.32 pb /name flood protect, /vsay flood protect... /reconnect protect
make /min /max borders for settings like /maxpackets /rate /snaps
don't know if it's easy to make or not... but it would be cool to have some more color-options
/peace
.
i know this is a bit off topic - but here i am sure some more read it 
, but what i would want (and have said it a 1000times) is to have a complete new set of maps!
we have been playing the same maps like what? 7 years? and yet noobs, yes noobs! only vote for dm2-dm7. it is the same everyday every hour every time i connect. except weed server!
new maps make the game more interesting as new maps and their spawns must be learned and new tactics could arise. also the very good teams (thats maybe why they will cry about it) would loose strength because for all new maps would mean new challenges.
its hard i know, cause people (again noobs btw) change server when they dont get the map they want (reminds me of very small kids too) anyway all servers would need to set them up and all people would have to help to spread new maps.
which maps? i know this is not true new map = good map. we would have to check out many new ones to get a good set of them. i am sure many of you have some "diamond" maps deep down in their folders, we must just dig them out!
and why it's not completely off topic ---> while atrey (and others?) create the new mod we find good maps and they must be in efreeze version so when one gets the new mod they get the new maps too, the size would be big but thats not a problem now is it?
--------> come on guys back me up and help, together - yes we can!
ef_novoicechats
. Such activities are always welcome.
good doomy, also DR should try beat real S8 on real maps.
( benny lava lived on same street as NoNE rofl )
Aahahahah ='D always makes me laugh!!
@Atrey: ask adam about updating efreeze anti-cheat, we found some bugs (no cheats and it found one in logs) but more, it doesnt find many.
noghostlike timeout sucks. better do ufreeze/cpma like.
why it sucks? Imagine this situation: dm6, 1v5, everyone is on bridge. Then 1 player presses "pause" button, then after unpausing, this one player is spawned near frozen teammates 
ok, i only commented on the points you mentioned as not clear! pin the list? I hope this helps you further <3
atrey Told :
Andi, pin the list in the first post of this thread. Then make the changes as the discussed things are negotiated.
* inactivity drop. There is already implementation for that. but it doesnt work!!!
* spawnings (great idea about spawning at items location). I think we rather should add more spawn places to the maps (edit them). great idea!
* different spectating views. Not quite clear. i mean: thirdperson, freefloat, follow - adam pls help my in which mod this is for a good example.
* sudden death gauntlet option. Not quite clear. player dies on first gauntlet touch as option.
* different triangular on team players (req: andi) - maybe a "frost sign". Gimme the image I will integrate it. T <--- something like this!far more fitting and more nice than the triangular, but still simple.
* Muting whole server. Monkey is right. Need to workout a better solution. true.
* make it possible to check /wall 1 in efreeze to make it easier to look at demos. you record a demo, play it in freezedt /cg_playwall 1 and you see the game with wallhack, so you can check if one is wallhacking much better!
* #make new/different design skins for the railgun
* remove this "weapon drop"? Why? cause they are disturbing!
* add vision „autothaw percentage“. This can be a visual effect instead. Need to discuss it further. when you see a frozen teammate, you see his percentage of autothaw maybe beneath/above his name "thawed 33%" for example with visual countdown. just an idea.
* when spectating players (when you are frozen) and you get hit by gauntlet/rail the spectator mode jumps to the one who hit you. Should be not as hard. ye, out with it
* make same protection as on 1.32 pb /name flood protect, /vsay flood protect... /reconnect protect. Describe it more detailed. flood protect: you cant press 100names in a row anymore, same with vsay's
for all design stuff we need skilled pwnage volunteers. I think there are some in the community, we just need to find and activate them! apart from spiral, code seems to have skill, others? go go go!
2 touches won't add fun.
There are many situation, where are many people in same place, hooking near players. 2 Hits are easier than railing
if you can all argue about gauntlet so much it seems all other suggestions i made are perfect! I dont care much about gauntlet, it just was an idea. leave it then if adam gets sad, the gameplay could be made a bit slower maybe. the other points i mentioned i find very useful (almost all) - comment on them too! dont you like my ideas?
If i may add my 2 cents, there aint much to add, efreeze is a good mod right now.
Maybe adding some gadgets, and some cfg restrictions: why do i feel like pinging 70 when i have 20ms. More: i never reach 20 ping even on quasi-lan servers (near french servers are always 30-35, never less) The point is i dont know how other players make it, but i shoot through them and i dont lag, that is a real thing since im aiming the same way i was aiming 8 years ago, but i dont hit. There must be some kind of lag stuff in the code or something. And the weirdest is that sometimes, it works like before....Depending on what? Too much beer? Or am i right? 
![[big]](../images/smileys/bigleu.gif)
Merry X.mas guys (u know that i mean gays D)
good holydays
fixing spawns is really important, yesterday in dm8 i spawned beside a thaw - good, a sec later an enemy spawned and fragged me in my thawing back. the map is big as you know but the enemy spawned exacetly at my place.... isnt it better that team members spawn where most of his team is?
what can be done about not hitting with the rail? is it that you need better position calculating of players, or rail shot calculating, or better packets/rate/snaps... or a mixture between unlagged and normal?...
- mr. sva you on board?
fixing spawns is really important, yesterday in dm8 i spawned beside a thaw - good, a sec later an enemy spawned and fragged me in my thawing back. the map is big as you know but the enemy spawned exacetly at my place.... isnt it better that team members spawn where most of his team is?
what can be done about not hitting with the rail? is it that you need better position calculating of players, or rail shot calculating, or better packets/rate/snaps... or a mixture between unlagged and normal?...
Oh yeaaaaaa i understand what you mean there--->i have my own spawn point in my ass.....
Please no unlagged.
We foud that à xmas party, the scoreboard didnt showed the 30 ppl!!!
Making 100 pings play like they have 50 ping is a nice improvement IF that doesnt make 30 pingers shot like they have 70!
I dont pay my isp to have correct ping to feel a lag in my favorite mod =/
if 30 seems laggy
you should host your own server and see how 0 is.
otherwise its just fps lags and a shit computer <3
atrey Told :
the rail miss thing has a strange nature. during the time i was working on ef-1.2 i found that mod built from the sources differs in shooting from the already compiled 1.02 mod. and this was even without any code changes from me!!! so i untroduced the delta mechanism which in my opinion smoothed that difference. it could be easily removed. but!!!! it definetely will make shooting on high pings harder.
we (miss, other rus clans) now playing with pings 60-100. it is already a disadvantage for us to play with such ping. with the delta removed, it would be an even bigger disadvantage.
i don't know if some1 cares about it, but we most probably either will not play any more, or will challenge others on our moscow or saint-petersburg servers, where others will have 120 ping. then tell us it will be unfair.
i vote for the shooting to stay as it is. it is not for players with ping 10-30 to complain about it. ask burzyk and tokz how do they shoot normally. or try to change the cl_timenudge variable.
hitting on higer ping is harder now, than it was on old efreeze.
I have a guess its not coming from my cfg, but from the target cfg...
Snaps 40
Maxpackets 100
Rate 25000
Timenudge 0
8 years with that, no probs.
atrey Told :
the rail miss thing has a strange nature. during the time i was working on ef-1.2 i found that mod built from the sources differs in shooting from the already compiled 1.02 mod. and this was even without any code changes from me!!! so i untroduced the delta mechanism which in my opinion smoothed that difference. it could be easily removed. but!!!! it definetely will make shooting on high pings harder.
we (miss, other rus clans) now playing with pings 60-100. it is already a disadvantage for us to play with such ping. with the delta removed, it would be an even bigger disadvantage.
i don't know if some1 cares about it, but we most probably either will not play any more, or will challenge others on our moscow or saint-petersburg servers, where others will have 120 ping. then tell us it will be unfair.
i vote for the shooting to stay as it is. it is not for players with ping 10-30 to complain about it. ask burzyk and tokz how do they shoot normally. or try to change the cl_timenudge variable.
Posted on 29 December 2008 at 10:06:20
hitting on higer ping is harder now, than it was on old efreeze.
much easier on freezedt or freezeinstaunlagged<3 =]
@Psylle: Ye, thats one of reasons too
@Crissy: Ye, but they told me, freezeinsta=freezedt with renamed folder, but i dont believe'em! xD
Isnt that "shoot throu" problem linked to the "walk through other players" aka "i spawn within another player" thing?
Something like "server-side players locations infos" ?
@Nonek: Probably i've on hdd efreeze with unlocked delta, so u can try it "in action"
Code Told :
Is there any chance of including timestamps on each line of text in the console or would that have to be done directly in the Q3 Source ?
It's possible and added to the features request list. A complete timestamp sounds kindda big, though why not. Here is its description, please correct me if i'm wrong:
Chat timestamp: Ability to add a timestamp at the start of a chat line (whether vsay, say or say_team). Four format possible (e.g. 4th July 1776 13:12:43):
- 1 (short_time): "13:12"
- 2 (long_time): "13:12:43"
- 3 (short_date): "4/12 13:12"
- 4 (long_date): "04/12/1776 13:12:43"
