No kit selection Bug

WatchOutForThatCouga · Post by **WatchOutForThatCouga** » 2008-01-21 07:49

I have seen alot of people complaining about this on servers, and I myself have run into it. You're in a squad, at ANY kit selection location, and it either will not let you select a kit, or it will say wait 1 minute. For more than 5 minutes. The only way I have found to get rid of it are to commit suicide, or run into enemy fire. Nothing serious, just aggrevating some times?

MrD · Post by **MrD** » 2008-01-21 07:56

Most of the time people cannot request kits is because they :

1 ) haven't read the free manual that came with the mod
2 ) been squad hopping
3 ) In a force that is limited in kit requests
4 ) didn't read the manual
5 ) requested a kit, died almost immediately and isn't allowed to request another for a while till they've learnt to play better (it's a score thing)
6 ) didn't read the manual about the changes in where you can request kits from
7 ) aren't in a squad anymore after being kicked and not noticing
8 ) player awareness of what is going on is lower than Paris Hiltons knickers

PhiR · Post by **PhiR** » 2008-01-21 09:35

I've ran into this issue myself. I couldn't get any kits for a firebase, no matter how long I waited. It seems the firebase itself was bugged, because when our team built a bunker I could request kits from there.

Maybe it's a feature rather than a bug, but in that case it would be nice to have a different message

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2008-01-21 18:13

I have seen the "wait 1 minute" message for much longer than one minute, but I just assumed the time limit for a kit after squad change was upped.

Billy_Crook_Foot · Post by **Billy_Crook_Foot** » 2008-01-22 16:55

I have noticed something similar.

If you are a regular kit and decide to leave a squad and start your own - you need to get an officer kit. These are of course requestable from wherever... However, you do get the "..must wait X secs.." message when asking for the officer kit. This is not really a problem as on your next spawn you can just start with the officer kit. I assume the 1 minute delay is because it triggers the same "delay when joining a new squad" code.

The other problem that if you keep asking for the kit (and the counter is dropping down towards 0) eventually it not longer allows you to get a kit at all and stops responding to your requests with how long you still have to wait. I don't mean full-on spamming the request, more like 3 or 4 times within the minute. Not sure, perhaps this is a feature to stop spamming for kits (good idea) but maybe you could lift the restriction for officer kits? Again, it is a small thing, because you can always just spawn with the right kit at the next death. The only problem is on large maps - you may have a long walk before you die and therefore the option to get the officer kit can be a little tricky.

All in all, it seems the officer kit request (as opposed to selected before spawn) is getting tangled up in the other request limitations and spam prevention code you have in place (good things however.).

P.S. Good job making the officer kit selectable before spawn.