Restriction on trails

[awesomedude]

Hi guys

I have several times seen players who will troll everybody else, by activating all trails, while spectating other players . This will cause most people to lag insanely much, and is simply really annoying, so i was thinking that you could put a restriction on the total amount of effects activated. That amount could be 2 or 3 maybe

Thanks people

Edit: Here's an example: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656 ... tab=public

[ant_8490]

Any decent graphics card should be able to handle all the trails at once. Although we prefer that donators do not activate all at once, there is no forced rule on it. Most donators dont do this since they probably don't want to lag themselves.

[awesomedude]

Any decent graphics card should be able to handle all the trails at once. Although we prefer that donators do not activate all at once, there is no forced rule on it. Most donators dont do this since they probably don't want to lag themselves.

Yeah, but they will just remove them right before the next round starts. Doesn't take long, if you bind !effects

[Anonymous]

Any decent graphics card should be able to handle all the trails at once. Although we prefer that donators do not activate all at once, there is no forced rule on it. Most donators dont do this since they probably don't want to lag themselves.

Yeah, but they will just remove them right before the next round starts. Doesn't take long, if you bind !effects

Actually it takes pretty long to remove ALL trails, if you activated all...

[Nicdel]

Any decent graphics card should be able to handle all the trails at once. Although we prefer that donators do not activate all at once, there is no forced rule on it. Most donators dont do this since they probably don't want to lag themselves.

Yeah, but they will just remove them right before the next round starts. Doesn't take long, if you bind !effects

Actually it takes pretty long to remove ALL trails, if you activated all...

Which is what you did, right?

[awesomedude]

Well no, i'm not a troller
My graphics card can easily handle the effects, but for an example, aya is still being trolled by other players (no names needed) with fire, energy core and vertical trails or something equivalent, and her computer apparently isn't that good. Not that it's only her.

EDIT: I understand why a limit or restriction isn't necessary, i was just wondering if it was a possibility

[Anonymous]

Which is what you did, right?

Yep, and ppl are mad at me because of that. LOL

[Cpt.Travis]

Any decent graphics card should be able to handle all the trails at once. Although we prefer that donators do not activate all at once, there is no forced rule on it. Most donators dont do this since they probably don't want to lag themselves.

You could probaly replace the energy and fire trails with some other trails that demands less computer power.
As I see it 50% of the player base have problems with the energy and fire trails, not only do they lag people, but they are so oversized too so they can blind people.
You can't expect everyone to get a decent gpu in this generation to handle those trails when hl2dm itself only require 4-5 generation cards behind our currently generation.
I'm pretty sure most of the players and donators doesn't have anything in mind if you replace those lag trails and I'm pretty sure that you won't lose donators either.

[Anonymous]

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

Lol. Afaik it's only Aya, awesomedude and Thomas.

[ZeroKateo]

Its also not the graphics card, alot of it has to do with processors, like mine is some shitty amd x2 5000+, My GPU can keep up if I had a more powerful CPU but since I dont my graphics card is bottlenecked. ( 9500 GT )

[Cpt.Travis]

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

Lol. Afaik it's only Aya, awesomedude and Thomas.

Far away from only them, I've heard alot of people complain about it.

[Ryan]

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

As I see it 50% of the player

Lol. Afaik it's only Aya, awesomedude and Thomas.

Far away from only them, I've heard alot of people complain about it.

Lots of people with stone-age computers.

[Cpt.Travis]

Lots of people with stone-age computers.

That's true Ryan, that's why I want to take care so everyone can have a clean play.

[Cpt.Travis]

Update: Now I can see a group of people harrasing players with those trails. What they do is that 4-5 ppl wears all the trails at once and spec a spesefic person just to harrash him.
I know I have been told from Ant and Nick that donators can do whatever they like with trails and stuff, but its getting out of hand. 5 fire trails+ 5 energy trails even makes my computer lag, x2 gtx560ti's.

[Nicdel]

Update: Now I can see a group of people harrasing players with those trails. What they do is that 4-5 ppl wears all the trails at once and spec a spesefic person just to harrash him.
I know I have been told from Ant and Nick that donators can do whatever they like with trails and stuff, but its getting out of hand. 5 fire trails+ 5 energy trails even makes my computer lag, x2 gtx560ti's.

The hell? If that makes you lag, a cheat server would crash you or what?