[Xpilot-hacks] 4.5.5beta pause tax

Kristian Söderblom ksoderbl at niksula.hut.fi
Sun Jan 4 19:21:29 AST 2004


Hi.
	In 4.5.5beta there is a new feature described like so:

"Now there is a pause tax of 0.01 point per frame.  This is
to discourage the long pausing of players who have accumulated
a high score."

My opinion about this is that a better way to implement this would be to
have an option pauseTax which would tell how many points to subtract per
second (e.g. 0.1), default pauseTax would preferrably be 0 for backwards
compatiblility. Having a hardcoded pause tax might not be what all server
maintainers want. Also someone running a server at high fps would have
pausers' scores dropping very fast (in theory e.g. 100fps gives -1 point
per second).

--
kps




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