Winny wrote:I don't really believe that our problem with voting is people not knowing how to use it, but that they just don't bother. If they don't care, they won't vote, no matter what manner it's presented.
I disagree. I'm sure there is a proportion that do abstain from voting, but I think there genuinely is a lack of knowledge on how to vote. What is there for a n00b to find out that typing '/vote yes/no' is how you vote? Chances are they don't even know that you run commands with a '/' in the chat prompt.
I think the best option would be to have two settings available. One 'chat voting' setting, that acts exactly as what we have now, and one that will display a voting message on the HUD when you die. Basically just two interfaces to do the same thing, and have the option to choose your prefered style. I'm sure some people wouldn't want to have polls in their face when they die, but similarly i'm sure some people would.
PETER wrote:In xmoto, you can have a box that when entered will show a message
I think this would be an obvious addition to the zone object. Enter the zone, display a message. Alternatively have it on the physics object, and act exactly the same as the death option, but without the dying, if you catch my drift.
I guess that could be currently achieved with a plugin - there are already plugins available that perfom actions when a player entwers an area of a map. Perhaps it wouldn't be too difficult to build upon one of these and send a chat message instead of fire a world weapon, for example.
Actually some quite good ideas PETER.
