flags: Player was locked by user ! Session not ranked !

[DooC-Gauki]

Hey everyone :)

i love tb, its nice to see which people play on which server and how activ some players are. but now the question xD
Why "good" & "skilled" players on toplist lock there own sessions ? how is it possible ? and why is it possible xD

Thanks 4 keeping this side up, nice job @ all ;)

[JoNny]

Well,
first of all thanks for your feedback!

The 'good' & 'skilled' have the ability to make some high rating because they got 'skill'.
So if they are e.g. in the top 10 then they are also being displayed on the mainpage of trackbase (http://et.trackbase.net/index.php).
Everyone can see when they are playing and when not. So all guys which don't like this rater could just wait until he's offline and then start playing very bad -> the result is getting '- rate' so he may would be out of the top10 again just because some guy played with his name!

Therefore we have developed the playlock.
It allows the user who has reserved the name to lock any sessions which will be played.
That means that if anyone else is going to play with that name, that the session won't be rated/ranked, so there may could be a very bad session but there won't be a '- rate'.

Now you probably think that every session which got locked has been played by another user,
not; of course the user which has reserved the name can lock his playername in any time, so if he is playing very bad he also can lock the name to prevent from '- rate'!

How that works?
Well you need to reserve your name (http://et.trackbase.net/?mod=reserve) first!
Then you go on the reservation page (http://et.trackbase.net/?mod=reserve) and will see a table with all your names.
In every line is a new name(you can maximum reserve 5 of your names), but also a field which is called 'Playlock'.
For default it will contain: 'http://et.trackbase.net/img/offline.pngOff -> Disable rating'
Disable rating is a link to lock it.
If it's been locked then you can easily unlock it again, just click where 'http://et.trackbase.net/img/online.pngOn -> Enable rating' the Enable Rating link.

You can also lock/unlock your name while playing with an awesome program which has been made by the TrackBase developers.
Click HERE (http://forum.trackbase.net/threads/1049-Trackbase-Minimizer) for more information.

Now you probably noticed that there is another field, called 'Colortags'.
If it's blank the feature is disabled. The Feature is also disabled by default!
This feature helps you if you have the rating on your name enabled when you start playing
If you then still play just for fun but don't want your session being rated then you can type in the playlock field of your name, your name with colortags, e.g. '^1[DooC]^4*^0Ga^zuki'.
Now the session will just be rated if you played with exactly that name & colortags minimum 2/3 of the map.
So much easier when you just need to press a bind to disable rating, but not the most secure way, because other users can play with the same colortags in another server which will be rated then, so i prefer the playlock!

I hope i could have helped you,
and if you have any questions just ask here or pm me/add me on xfire:dssjonny

Thanks

[DooC-Gauki]

long time ago, but big thanks for the informative reply ;)