2012-04-27 New Maps

baserace_desert (with 16 omnibots)
castleattack_b5 (with 12 omnibots since it is a laggy map)
mlb_egypt (with 10 omnibots since it is a very laggy map)
mml_helmsdeep_b4 (with 14 omnibots since it has rain which causes lag)
mml_minastirith_fp3 (with 16 omnibots)

The omnibots will reset to the new values at the start of every map. We have been debating for a while about the best way to manage the bots. Some people want more and some people hate them.

My point of view is to prevent them from making a map lag. Having a separate maximum omnibot number for every map is best. What is a fun number of bots on Minas is very bad on a small or laggy map.

I raised the omnibots up to 20 for minas. Have fun. Let me know if it lags and we can reduce it.

The server seems to be running better than it was the last couple weeks, so hopefully whatever was making it laggy has been fixed at the data center.

I have been seeing some of those super high fake scores again, where people who weren't playing much get 200 kills for no reason. Last night I was getting 200 kills and I know I didn't get that many kills. This is a common jaymod server bug that pops up when you have a lot of users in the database and the server has been running a long time.

We have around 10,000 unique human player accounts on the server. I really need to write a program to remove most of the old accounts. If someone is interested in programming and has oceans of free time let me know. I can't give out the actual user data, but I would love to work on a batch script or excel macro that could do this.

I can fix the high score bug temporarily with a reinstall of the jaymod core files. Then add our stuff back onto it to make it the funboy server again. Then it runs ok for a few months until the bugs reappear.