ZM Update Thread

[Natalya]

06/20/2008

Messed with Prop Menu:
- Vending Machine is now 7 Credits
- Exploding Barrel is now 8 Credits

The exploding barrel may now only be used to kill people who are in illegal spots or to break very large barricades. Large = 5 vending machines or more. (Or an equivalent size in other props...) Don't use it to kill people who climbed on top of something or are in a hard spot. Like using it to kill people in the shower in onadega would be illegal.

MotD Updated
- New Image
- Rules Updated

[Natalya]

06/23/2008

Added Maps:
ze_licciana_escape_v2
zm_luv_city_b2
zm_mystery3

Licciana is another escape map made by Gargantua.

Luv City 2 seems allright. Not sure about it though.

Mystery 3 is a minor update of Mystery 2 which we already had. I may edit Mystery 3 to add more spots.

[Natalya]

06/23/2008

Added zm_neko_canyon_beta at Cancer's suggestion, but we played it and it sucked so after 5 rounds I removed it.

[Natalya]

06/25/2008

Added Maps:

zm_end_v2
zm_lila_panic_l_v3


zm_end_v2:



End is a pretty cool map. It's basically a destroyed rail bridge floating in the middle of nowhere. Many spots are inside the bridge, and there are a few climbing spots on the top. Map is in the server rotation.


zm_lila_panic_l_v3:



I put this lila on the server because the one we have has been having some sort of glitch where the map goes completely black. This one here actually looks half decent with lighting and is optimized for large numbers of people. Normally I don't like lila but I think every ZM server has at least one, so I'm just replacing the old one with this.



Removed Map:

zm_lila_panic_v2

Again, we had this map forever but for some reason (probably since the map is fullbright) the map has started turning dark after about a minute and players can't see anything anywhere.


*EDIT*

New 6-Month Activity Graph




We went up rapidly just before my hospital trip, but slowed down during that week... We're on our way up again now though. I'm gonna do my best to keep us on track with new maps and this skin contest. Still need to talk to Sios about it though before it can be confirmed. In any case, the two-month slump ZM had is now over, but we're still not up to pre-March levels. I'm aiming for more than that though. I want us on the top 50 of all CS:S ZM servers by August. (Currently we're like 137 of Zombie servers.)

[Natalya]

06/25/2008

Edited config for zm_end_v2... Because of so much human suiciding, I set this map such that when you die you respawn as zombie, not human. I also set credits_max for this map to 7 so zombies won't repeatedly kill themselves to rack up 8 credits for the exploding barrel. I don't like to do this but there was too much abuse of the easy suicide.

[Natalya]

06/29/2008

Did some beta testing with two different beta versions of zm_salon_moon. So far things look good, but I need to add more to the map before it's released. This map isn't in the rotation though.


Added Map:

zm_lila_panic_hero

Random Hero made this map so I added it for him. It's sort of an Italian-themed lila panic v2 with some changes like the vents on the main building and the big cooling tanks have been knocked over.

[Natalya]

06/30/2008

Added Maps:
zm_acid_export
zm_salon_moon




zm_acid_export

This is a small map, but has 64 spawns. It's an urban industrial feel. This map is almost exclusively a climb camping map, but it does have a couple barricading spots. No secrets here, but there are a few hard to reach areas.




zm_salon_moon

I made this over the last few days because someone confused Sailor Moon with Salon Moon in game and someone else said to make a map of it, so I did lol. The map is a space salon on an asteroid. There's also some underground portions. Cool stuff here is turning off the gravity and the shuttle that circles the map.


Skins:
- Fixed a bug in the Jr. Owner skin menu.
- Switched the predator models. Random thought the old one was too cheap.

[Natalya]

07/01/2008

Added Maps:
zm_crazycity
zm_holdout_mountain

zm_crazycity


This is a remake of the crazycity maps done by MoOnLiGht and me. MoOnLiGht did most of the changes here... I just added a couple rooms and did some optimization in the sewer area that Moon added.


zm_holdout_mountain


A mountain base. Lots of climb camping outside, cade camping inside.

[Natalya]

07/02/2008

Map Removed:

zm_mall_beta1

This map crashed the server two times in a row when we switched to it. (It would crash on map change, server didn't even get to the map itself...) It never did this in the past but it's getting removed for now.

[Natalya]

07/03/2008

We have moved up to rank 128 now, up from 137 a week ago. Here's an activity graph of this month:



The very start is the end of the 2-month dead period, followed by a big activity spike when we started to turn this server around. Then theres a week of slowdown while I was away, but after that its started to pick up again. We're starting to see really heavy activity this week, which matches levels we haven't seen since February with 20+ people on at one time, so things are looking up.