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Quoted from Crafz

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Why?

There is a lot of overlap in skill and even in pickup2 there’s multiple pugs going on at the same time. It’s rare, but it happens.

Quoted from Koeitje

There is a lot of overlap in skill and even in pickup2 there’s multiple pugs going on at the same time. It’s rare, but it happens.

I’m not talking about that. I’m just saying that there are not going to be different lobbies in one channel.

I have no idea how reliable this information is, but I remember being told that the CSGO utilities are available for TF2 should the team choose to implement them – they just simply don’t want to/can’t be bothered/don’t see any $$$ in it.

I’d be glad to help out however I can, though keep in mind I am no master at programming, just know the basics and I basically google anything I need to find out how to do / if it is possible in the given language.

Quoted from Arie

It solves all the nasty bits of a system like this, like rconning servers.
Don’t underestimate the huge amount of work it would take to build something yourself, especially without experience coding.

Obviously something like this would be a pretty big project to create something good and polished, but why do you pinpoint rconing? 5 sec google search got me to : http://www.phpclasses.org/package/4756-PHP-Manage-remote-game-servers-via-RCON-protocol.html

When I made a Java IRC bot a couple months ago, I used a Java rcon class, no need to get messy.

Someone at the UGC forums has been working on a lobby alternative, made with Python. If anyone has interest on developing a new web based pickup, I’d suggest helping with this one.

https://github.com/TronPaul/lobbypy

(http://www.reddit.com/r/truetf2/comments/11mcr9/how_would_you_change_tf2lobby/c6nty17)

I started programming this a longer time ago.
I wrote an irc bot with a “web-frontend”. So you could add from a webpage and from irc to the same pickup.
I’ve never finished this because of several reasons:
– not enough time due to the job
– there was no place / not enough activitiy for another pickup channel
– there was already TF2Lobby which does nearly exactly the same (without the irc part)
– had no real goal, made this more for learning stuff

It’s a lot of work but the programming is not too difficult tho. Can be done by anyone with a little experience and motivation. But I would use Java now instead of php for the irc part.

When I have some spare time I still love to play those pickups. I would appreciate any attemps to create a good pickup, the question is how active it will be.
But please don’t try to create the next-new-super-pickup. Try to talk to the other admins and make ONE big pickup which does not die the in the next 2 month.

Quoted from LikeThis

What happened to nightbox and his tf2 matchmaking?

He “merged” it with the Pubcomp project, but that project died too.