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Hi there people! I'm here today to give an alternative that may not be as pratical, but yet still an alternative to the sadly failed Wardrobe. Forrest and I were talking about the wardrobe yesterday when he discovered that, after the introduction of the wardrobe for Gold and mods (were it before was just avaible for Division Leader and higher), caused a very a problem with the server that made it lag and run with one of the worst performances. The result of this lag, made his decision to fully remove the wardrobe from the server to no longer be added back, meaning no one will be able to use it, nor those who had access for it before. The reason of what caused such lag as commented by himself was " Highly likely it's massive bandwidth usage from sending constant huge net messages ", althought he said that it's really unknown. As said above, I'll now talk about my not so pratical, but at least more controllable, alternative for the wardrobe. Keep in mind the idea can be refined and further modified (or not in case of the idea being already fine as it is) by any of the comments below. My alternative is the following: - We already have a tab with models for Donators, which every one above and including Gold+ have access to. As a start, my idea is to change the name of that tab by calling it "Gold+" as well as a new Section on the forum called "Gold+ Playermodel request" What would happen as following, would be that any member above and including Gold, and I mean every member as for: admins, mods, staff, DL, Directors, Council, so on, will have to post a topic requesting a player model that they want to use in game to be added. As soon as the topic is created, a Division Leader would have check it in order to evaluate and test the model to see if it's not breaking any rules. After the model has been tested, it would be added as a general model that any of the Gold+ members could use, as an exemple: If I request a model and it is accepted, any other member present from Gold and above could also play using the models I requested. - Now something to keep in mind as a alternative in case people start to request too many models. All members have in total of a max of 1 MODEL IN GAME PER USER. Here is the exemple: I requested a model a week ago, Now I want another model to be added, this means that the LAST model I REQUESTED, will be deleted in order to add the new one, this does not affect models requested by others, as for each one has the right for 1 model. What was said above, is either to prevent a Gold+ member to resquest too many models, or to prevent the server from having models that no one really uses anymore, OR if the server somehow endes up with 50+ Gold+ members, to prevent having countless models by the higher number of Gold+ members present. Thats all I had to give about my alternative, thanks for reading and feel free to refine or modify it by using the comments. -Special thanks to Techmo btw.

Just to be clear we are talking about ZS Gmod Server.. So our wonderful staff updated the server yesterday & my favorite thing about it is the new arsenal crates, they look bad ass! Sad to say along with every new update spawns a new bug.. not anything major tho its just I joined in a ZS game right before I went to court today, which was a hour & a half ago took 30 minutes to get there, 30 minutes of talking & 30 minutes back, when I came back I was in a whole NEW GAME on WAVE 3 with no indication of being AFK or a kick timer I was just spectating & I realized it wasn't just me getting this AFK BUG because we had a AFK boss on our team the rest of the game & people kept making polls to get him kicked but nothing happened so I just made this forum so it could get fixed, thank you.

Given the fact that most of the times you have to ask for one and this takes a lot of time waiting for a nice player to put one.

Sup homies

The AFK kick system was disabled since I noticed that the hook it added "StartCommand" was insanely expensive to call at high player counts. I'll re-enable it since I found the cause of the massive serverside lag

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@Hugin&Munin Until it gets implemented, and when it gets implemented into the ZS server, we'll just have to play it by ear.

@Snowyamur Once thi feature is added as the new wardrobe (if added at all), we should try to get feedback for those who are checking the models. Nonetheless I think that for now we will have some small model request traffic once added, but after the members who request it are dealt with, it will not be a every day rush with very long model traffics that cant be dealt with. I do agree with one thing that should carry on based on your idea. Requests for a new model / workshop item should have a cooldown for each user. Something around "Every Gold+ member can re-request only once per week from the day of your last request" and even further in case this turns into a huge traffic to "only 3 weeks per month" This can reduce any future traffic with the requests. THIS WAY we make sure that you have to really pick up something that you really want to use for a very long time before re-thiking on picking something else. This would work nicely with the "1 workshop item with 5 player models" or the General model "able to use every model from every gold member requested including yours".

@Hugin&Munin If that's the case with the Wardrobe no longer being a usable feature for ZS, then I'll take my chances with your suggestion. As I said, it sounds like an interesting idea, but I compared it with the old Wardrobe feature in-terms of efficiency. If we took that out of the equation, I think this newly-revised feature could work, but it'll need some adjustments upon implementation. The only reason I opposed the Gold+ player model request applications was because I don't like giving extra work to people if it's unnecessary work. However, if the work turns out to not be as bad as initially-perceived, then I'll play it by ear and go along with it.

I think a system in which players can suggest models to be added to the gold player model collection is a good idea. Players wouldn't need to download during gameplay when a player changes a model, or download it as an asset from the server. We could simply add the workshop id to a list, and have the client download them as they join the server. It would be added to the standard list of assets to be acquired by the client, after being approved by staff of course. If changing the model of a player during the game is a significant source of lag even with all assets present on each client, perhaps we could also apply the player's desired model when the map changes to avoid spikes in lag. Having some system in place for custom models is better than nothing at all if it can be done without causing any major problems.

i think this is a really neat idea i would hate to see the custom playermodel option go away entirely one thing to clarify though, as i may be misunderstanding you say any gold+ member can choose a model thats been requested by other members but also that if someone changes their 1 model the previous one would be deleted if you were using another member's previous model would you just have to request that model yourself or could you still use it?

I like this summary format. This should be a continuing-thing for Events Team.