Cman

Some of you may have noticed or not but I haven't been on in awhile or seen me that much. Even fewer of you know that I had a car accident a few months ago that also made me have some time off the server. I just wanted to let you guys know I started having seizures from the car wreck trauma to my head. I had a bad one a few weeks ago that I actually ripped my rotator cuff so badly I had to have surgery and now I am going through therapy to be able to use my left arm again. On another side note I have a form of epilepsy now that has a variety of triggers and gaming is on the list. SO until my arm heals and I can use it again and they find the right medicine to prescribe to me to suppress the seizures no more fast paced bright colored games for me either. Just wanted to update the people who care. So now you know. I will see you guys when I can  

If there is a limit on SO's, why? more admins that can be on at one time, the better.
 
That's not how you use the emote sir! The emote you were looking for was either "" or "". If you have any questions about emotes you can always ask me!

I can take care of that

I can take care of that

I have not heard otherwise, so I'm going to assume yes.  Terran ghost is pretty much a human marine just with an auto sniper that shoots a little slower than normal.
 
All gun spawning races are restricted from their rifles until round 3 for obvious reasons.  They can generally buy any pistol, so they're not pieces of shit as a race.  

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
Recently as a war3 community we are all noticing a large amount of SOs getting promoted for our server (which is an amazing thing). We believe that the individuals being selected for SO are not an ideal fit for the community. In our opinions an SO should be an active member of the server and not a show up once or twice a week for 5 min to 1 match. We understand that an SO position usually requires an applicants request, but this has not been providing positive results. We rarely see the majority of the current SO WAR3 members in the server and we would like to request that the SOs are re-evaluated based on what they will provide in the leadership position. It is understood that it may be the case of not enough members putting in an application for the role. A suggestion is that the current, active SOs for the war3 server, are able to provide a recommendation of the most adequate current SG members of the server for the position without having to submit a request. By viewing all potential nominations the current SOs can debate among themselves on which they believe will fit into the role of SO the best. After selecting a few nominations that they believe are capable they can contact these specific members and ask if they would take the position without having to jump through the hoops of the current application process. As a community we believe it is fairly obvious which members should be revoked SO, and we believe that there is no need to point them out individually on this thread. 
 
*I am not sure if it would be a good idea for the server population to have a voice as well, because we are the individuals that have the greatest understanding of who would be an ideal fit. Also an SO should never be given a postion by having "hook-ups" or people that have it given because of their relationship with certain individuals*
 
The most appreciated current SO:
Man-Bear-Pig
 
Server populations suggested SO:
sG | ۩۞۩ Serif The Sheriff
 
Thank you for taking the time to read this and understanding the current situation!
 
Respectfully,
The WAR3 Playerbase
 
*This is not directly my opinion (everything that is written I made sure were the beliefs of the general populations). I was told many times to post these server wide views on the forums to get the word out, but many don't have faith that it will even change anything. I am always asking what players opinions are on how the server is being run and this was one of the biggest responses. I just wanted to do my part and get the word out. If anyone has any questions or statements I will most likely not reply because this was the opinion of the vast majority of the playerbase and I am not willing to speak for them on matters I have not addressed. If you are curious about the subject just join the server and ask everyone and you will receive responses from the direct population on this issue. Thank You*
 
 

-de_shipped (Broken bomb reset)
-de_institut_v3 (Map doesn't load)
 
+de_cambodia 
+de_log 
+de_cobetura 
+de_haven_v3 
+de_highrise_sg 
+de_vertigo
+de_seaside
 
Please report any map issues to me immediately. Exploiting map glitches is against the rules and anyone found doing so will be punished.
 
EDIT: Map Edits Round 2
 
-de_westwood_2 (Only one westwood at a time)
+de_westwood_07_2
+de_zoo
 
EDIT 2: Maps not working as of right now that I cannot fix tonight due to things outside my control
de_log
de_zoo
de_vertigo

@CanadianBill FUCK OFF YOUR DUMB
 

@CanadianBill FUCK OFF YOUR DUMB
 

@CanadianBill FUCK OFF YOUR DUMB
 

@CanadianBill FUCK OFF YOUR DUMB
 

@CanadianBill FUCK OFF YOUR DUMB
 

hermes is soooo 2016..
 
what do you think im doing swed, do better king.

"MS FINSTER MS FINSTER! NARWHALS DIDN'T GET PUNISHED FOR SLAYING ME AND NOW I WANT HIM TO GET INTO TROUBLE" - @CanadianBill

Thanks for responding to the survey!
 
In an effort to be fully transparent, 4 surveys were removed.
2 Surveys were removed for not selecting "2" for the bogus question. 2 Surveys were removed for answering "ALL RACES" to both what should be nerfed and what should be buffed - this is obviously trolling or not reading.
 
First up - balance ratings.
 
Average balance rating for the last year: 3.32

 
Average balance as of today: 3.45

 
Change in balance. This is a comparison of the first question (balance over the last year) to the 2nd question (balance as of today). If they rated balance higher today, that means balance has "improved" in their eyes. If they rated lower for today, that means balance is "worse" in their eyes.
 

 
Unfun races. 2 users responded with 5 races between them (while everyone else properly put only 1), so there's 3 more races present than the total number of survey responses.
 

 
Number of races that need to be buffed

 
Number of races that need to be nerfed

 
Level requirement that new races should be placed at

 
Player opinion on having races playable only via ROTD (like Witch King)

 
What war3 staff should focus on. Each response was weighted (1 = lowest importance, 5 = highest importance).
Below, you can see the average of all responses.

 
 
FEEL FREE to comment on the data with your opinion - I encourage you to even. You may see something I do not.
 
My opinion on it:
BOTH BALANCE QUESTIONS have 84% of respondents saying balance is at least a 3 - approximately 50% in both questions say balance is a 4 or 5! This to me says that although everything isn't perfect - the majority of players think we are at least "average" or slightly above average in terms of balancing races.
 
CHANGE IN BALANCE: 82% of players think balance TODAY is the same or better than it has been over the last year.
 
UNFUN RACES: We got some work to do with Hederine, Infected, and Ravinick. I already altered Hederine's screen flash in an attempt to make it less aids (while simultaneously helping someone with epilepsy not have seizures from it). I intend to do more with Hederine to make it less frustrating (I'm open to opinions) - as well as figuring out what I can do to Infected. I know the problem with Ravinick is the reflect - it was greatly buffed when physical damage was changed a couple months ago on the server, so it will be toned down to a more appropriate level.
 
# OF RACES TO BUFF: The vast majority of players agree - there's a handful (or two handfuls) of weak races. As always, I'm open to suggestions on these. I already have some ideas for a couple.
 
# OF RACES TO NERF: The vast majority of players agree 1-5 races need to be nerfed. I think if we asked what those races are - we would find some large disagreement though. I think to some extent I would expect to see the big "unfun races" (from prior question) to appear on that list for most people - which will be addressed.
 
LEVEL REQUIREMENT FOR NEW RACES: I still internally disagree with this question to a large extent, but over 50% of players want races in the lower range. I think the correct play here (for me and the server) is to sprinkle in some low ones more frequently, instead of only doing high (or low) level races.
 
ROTD RACES / WITCH KING: At least 34% of players dislike Witch King - so that's an interesting fact. The server is pretty split on the idea of ROTD only races - 43% said they don't like them, but 57% said they do. However, 16% (from the 57% that like ROTD races) said we don't need more. I think this is a "do nothing" situation based on these responses.
 
FOCUS OF THE WAR3 STAFF: I am honestly surprised how Bug Fixing received almost all 4's and 5's. I've always had a strong focus on it - you can tell from my institution of the bug tracker (thanks to Klark for setting it up - of course) and the # of bugs I have cleared from it. If people keep posting bugs as much as they can, I will keep clearing them as I have time. Balance also received a high rating, which tells me most people aren't content with every race on the server (no surprise there - though). I was surprised to see how low Supporter Benefits and Expertise ranked. I guess the traditional trifecta (balance / bug fixing / new races) reign supreme yet again.
 
I chose not to do any aggregation of data for the last 2 questions because they largely were free response.
 
Here are some ideas from the free response that I see that stand out - feel free to comment on them as it is largely 1 or 2 people's opinion and I don't really intend to make changes based only on that:
Add more hidden races Need strong support races to offset the reliance on regen/leech to make races strong Supporter cosmetics - skins (I'll go ahead and say no to this), tags, bullet tracers Ignore Serif (lol) Anti Knife races are out of hand (Molecule, Khadgar, Night Elf namely) Shop menu is overpriced Don't let infected respawn Don't let "unfun" races be blocked from tomes (specifically mentions gimmicky knife races) More Rats maps More fun and interesting gimmick races Focus on balancing and bug fixing - don't need more races Kid Fearless uses scripts  
 
Again - feel free to add any thoughts below. Obviously I'm not perfect and neither is the server - but the goal is to get it as close as possible.

After THOROUGH questioning of the 20 random players on the server tonight, I have made the following buffs:
 
Ravinick can no longer buy boots or belt Battlefield Pro now has 30% bonus speed (up from 20%) Donald Trump now has a 26% (up from 24%) chance to evade magic and physical damage and also has a 220 unit knockback radius (up from 160) Hand of God now deals 35 damage on forward slash (up from 25) and it has a 3 second cooldown (down from 4 seconds). The slash damage radius was increased from 250 units to 350 units. If he is on a 5 hit combo or greater, he gains 1% evade Master of GO ultimate now has a 25% chance of affirmative When affirmative, Master of GO gains 10% speed Master of Three now deals 3 bonus damage per hit (previously it said this was the case, but it was not the case) Master of War now generates ammo slightly faster and takes 12% of damage via armor. His ultimate values were also corrected for some minor bugs. Nature Wisp now begins regenerating after 2.5 seconds (down from 3.5). Ultimate now has a 18 second cooldown (down from 20) Takeno now has 50% bonus speed (up from 40%). His ultimate temporarily makes him 99% invis (up from 95%) Transient Entity now has a 1.3 second bash duration (up from 0.9) and now stores 25% of damage as leeched health (up from 20%) The players have spoken!

Barry keeps on growing but he won´t stop biting, that is why I have to cuddle him so that he cannot bite me :c

(I have to keep my head down otherwise he bites my nose lol)

(Recommended companion song for this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKl6umkwKfU&t=0m30s)
 
Transfers are temporarily disabled and will be added back sometime towards the end of the event. Cash is now limited to $30k balance. Shopkeeper and Blackmarket Dealer are also limited to 30k, and their transfers do not give someone more than 30k. Staff cash is now always limited to 16k, even for War3 engineers. You should not have more than 30k after receiving cash from admins or staff members. When transfers return: If you transfer somebody excess cash, the transfer will be reduced so they only get 30k total. (e.g. both players have 16k, you transfer "all" to the other player, they will have 30k and you will have 2k leftover). Transfers are always limited to 16k max - even if you have 30k and they have 0k you can only transfer 16k. If you transfer cash to a player, you cannot transfer cash back to the same player for 5 rounds (keep in mind - transferring to player X who transfers to player Y because you transferred to Y too recently is circumventing the rules) Players are limited to 5 transfers in a map. You can no longer transfer cash from Default, New Game, Takeno, or Spymaster. These are all the races that spawn with cash - I don't believe I missed any. This is to further discourage people from "not playing the game".  
This was not brought on by my belief that anyone was explicitly breaking any rules. We have said before - if a player wishes to dump all their cash to a friend or friends, we aren't really trying to stop them. We are concerned, however, about stopping any potential future abuses and about players potentially circumventing cash restrictions previously put in place on Default and New Game, since they receive a lot of cash. We are largely trying to prevent future abuse in the system.
 
Also in the spirit of preventing future abuses, Takeno and Spymaster are now limited to keeping $5k cash when they change to other races. I've considered applying this restriction to all races, but haven't come to a conclusion on it yet.
 
I've also considered adding a sort of restriction to tomes/books - like a purchase cooldown before you can buy another. This seems like it'd be an inconvenience to those playing normally - so I'm not certain I want to go that route unless I can find a clean solution for it.
 
Nothing is final, and you may very well see even more changes coming.
 
If you ever have any questions about your actions or the actions of other players, I recommend you read this thread then consult with 1 (or more) War3 staff members if you still have questions.

I know nobody will care, but it would be fun if the detectives wore santa hats for Christmas seasons :P.

I am also older than I was at this date.
 
 

Fixed bugs:
Brewmaster evaded hits no longer add to "staggered damage" Slow immunity on Bunnicula no longer prevents it from being slowed by itself for not jumping frequently enough Forest Elf invis now resets if you die to the bomb during ultimate Frodo Baggins no longer sets armor lower than your current armor with it's mithril armor skill Lilith armor regen should now properly resets across lives/rounds/maps Succubus Hunter should no longer have mask of death issues. Succubus Hunter headhunter damage is now magic instead of physical. The text prints for headhunter no longer print to console if it would deal <1 damage.

Today I learned that 1 rdm is considered mass rdm 

That one RDM hurt his feelings real bad so its considered Mass RDM.