Hey Guys!
i came across this forum by accident, but i thought i would sign up anyway. i think i should start with a small introduction:
Im and employee at Rayleigh Megazone. Rayleigh is situated in south east england. the arena is proud to announce that it is the largest megazone site in the UK with up to 45 max player games. im not trying to advertise before anyone gets the wrong idea. im merely trying to make the place known considering no one has ever heard of us lol.
ive been playing about 6 years. and im getting to the point where public games are boring me. unfortunately weve stopped doing tournaments simply because we have no members. this is because the company is more concerned with making a good turnover, as any sensible company would. so im putting rayleigh out there a bit if any members of other zones are passing this way then by all means drop by. ask for James S and we'll see how good you think you are

lastly, are there such things as national competitions? solo or team reginal games?
Thanks for you time

Heya, yes there is a Regionals tournament, dates for next year to be announced in january. Its just realy a national tourny, but most active arenas are in the midlands area any how..

I did sent out registration forms and information to your arena earlyer this year but head no reply.

www.mz-uk.com will be updated with infor on next year as and when. there is an official regionals website in the making which will be up later this year. btw i never got round to updating the results from the final leg this year as i moved to australia and now working for p&c micros

Hi Assassin,

Yeah, playing in public games does start to get borring after a few years, specially now we don't have any player handicap scorings like years ago. Your site is not alone on not having any members or low numbers of members, as it seem to have become more the norm now system system t & t2 is mainly in use. Though Wellingborough have a good number of members at the wellingborough lasermaze, but the owner stan puts alot more effort in to making members business work along with making members & custmers welcome, and you can feel that in the amosphere when you enter the reception.

A 45 pack system, sounds impressive. What is the system in use at your site ?

Raider

We are running system T. well thats not true there is a members handicap system. we use them for parties. its a 60% handicap and non members when hit gain points rather than losing them.

yes there is a handicap system available on T and T2 Infusion

LMFAO.....thanks for the pm spam there kiddo...betcha ya didn't know that I know the inner workings of Chelmsford intimately and for a while I was pretty damn regular at Rayleigh....then when I left Rayleigh I even looked to bringing folks down from Leicester to visit you guys and hand u your asses
Rayleigh IS known.
I also know that it is possible to beat that handicap and win games....as I have seen it done twice by different members.
Incidentally have any of your staff visited Canterbury lately and taken a look at their 60 packs?

Dave, the handicap system on T is pretty simple, all ya need to do is assigned a score percentage to anyone logged in. Every type of player has a class and the classes all affect the score. Traditionally Non-members are class 1, members (AA) are class 2, elite (RPG) members and staff are class 3. There is also a class 0 that was used for the bunny button. The same principle applies to T2....the classes can be given different score handicaps.

Also T1 has a team handicap on the game screen (F5 I think) that allows the seperate colours to be given a score handicap that shows on the team scoreboard but doesn't affect the solo scores.

Assuming he is still there...Send Nick White @ Rayleigh my best wishes

Yeah your right System T had similar server software to system Z, so i wouldn't be suprised if they had the same handicap system, though im not sure if System T had the same player class handicaps as System Z, though its possible if they had the same scoresets.

On System Z the different classes were:

Class 0 = Non-Members
Class 1 = Defender Button, also known as the bunny button, since it gave more score advantages than class 0, and was used sometime for the really weak players.
Class 2 = AA members
Class 3 = RPG Members.

Some big differences when the solo scoreset 3 handicap system was in use, and it really made a challenge for members in public games, so much infact that most members came out with 0 or minus scores. The level 0 players made alot more score for tagging AA & RPG members, they lost nothing when they were hit, where as the AA & RPG members made far less for tagging class 0 players, and lost a lot more than normal when they were tagged by class 0 players.

Raider

Actually the Rayleigh handicap party system was designed by our own technical guy...and you cant have seen our system because if you were at rayleigh 6 years back then you wont have seen the system considering it hasnt even been up for a year..

Rayliegh, so you handicap system made by a guy not affilated to zone, ou do know that voids your warranty.


And i doubt it mate, ive worked at zone for 2 years now and i know every single site that has upgraded or a new site install , and you aint been one of them so wheres your packs come from

Oooo...Something's going off, lol. I think Ian's right you shouldn't go around blabbing out about that kinda information. It could get into the wrong hands...Or ears.

That sounds about right Dave...except that the server software from Z to T changed dramatically....the idea was the same but the execution ws different if I recall...Ch@os would be able to confirm that though.



Well let's put it like this Assassin...you haven't got T2...cos I'd know if you had. You won't have gone back to an older system....cos who does. The only option that you could have for a newer system would be T1A, which is identical to T1 in hardware, but has the Acacia FEC software with it.....which is identical to the system used at Star City in Birmingham, managed by a close personal friend of mine. Although I beleive that you recently acquired some new PC's. This is what makes me think that you must be running T1A atm.
The handicap system is integrated into the software from the word go. Designing it and activating it are hardly the same. The only difference I can see is that the handicap system that you are using is tweaked to make it MUCH harder for members to win games...which leads me nicely onto...



My thoughts exactly mate

Funny how your 'new' system has been up for a year.

I just came off the fone from Rayleigh Megazone.....a staff memebr called James just told me that Rayleigh doesn't have a new system, but has had a refurbishment.

Some how I KNEW Deadman and myself would be right on that one.

I may be a 'stuck up pompous prick' with a 'sad pathetic life' as you said in your PM to me Assassin...but by your standards so are most of the community on here. At least we don't go around trying to BS people who know more about the system that the staff!

Members 1 - Staff 0

You still want to try to beat me in the arena, then get your ass upto Leicester and show me if you have something to prove. Failing that get your team upto the next regionals....I'll make sure you guys get entered despite not being from the region....it should prove amusing.