Pirates Cove

Questions

1. How are "points" calculated?
2. What are all the weapon points modifiers?
3. How can I edit my profile and set real name, e-mail address, homepage and ICQ number?
4. My rank is embarrassing. How can I opt out?

Answers

1. How are "points" calculated?

A new player has 1000 points. Every time you make a kill, you gain a certain amount of points depending on a) the victim's points rating, and b) the weapon you used. If you kill someone with a higher points rating than you, then you gain more points than if you kill someone with a lower points rating than you. Therefore, killing newbies will not get you as far as killing the #1 player. And if you kill someone with your knife, you gain more points than if you kill them with a rifle, for example.

When you are killed, you lose a certain amount of points, which again depends on the points rating of your killer and the weapon they used (you don't lose as many points for being killed by the #1 player with a rifle than you do for being killed by a low ranked player with a knife). This makes moving up the rankings easier, but makes staying in the top spots harder.

Specifically, the equations are:

Killer Points = Killer Points + (Victim Points / Killer Points) × Weapon Modifier × 5

Victim Points = Victim Points - (Victim Points / Killer Points) × Weapon Modifier × 5

Plus, the following point bonuses are available for completing objectives in the following games:

Player Action	PlyrPlyr Action	Team Action	World Action	Action	Player Reward	Ranking
Yes	No	No	No	Big Game Hunter	+18	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Blood Bath	+12	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Dominating	+2	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Excellent	+14	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	First Blood	+10	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	God Like	+8	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Headshot	+1	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Impressive	+17	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Jihad Retribution	+5	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Juggernaut	+25	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	Yes	No	No	Kill Assist	+3	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Killing Machine	+10	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Killing Spree	+4	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Maniac	+9	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Massacre	+20	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Mega Kill	+15	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Monster Kill	+5	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Multi Kill (Double 2x)	+2	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Multi Kill (Insanity 5x)	+5	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Multi Kill (Quad 4x)	+4	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Multi Kill (Triple 3x)	+3	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Outstanding	+13	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Payback (Revenge)	+10	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Post Mortem Vengeance	+10	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Rage Enforcer	+25	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Rage Quit	-25	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Rampage	+3	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Round Victory	+25	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Spawn Camper	-10	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Tent Pitcher	-10	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Translocationist	+1	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Ultra Kill	+7	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Unreal	+16	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Unstoppable	+6	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	Vocalizer	+15	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Yes	No	No	No	War Path	+19	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch

2. What are all the weapon points modifiers?

Weapon points modifiers are used to determine how many points you should gain or lose when you make a kill or are killed by another player. Higher modifiers indicate that more points will be gained when killing with that weapon (and similarly, more points will be lost when being killed by that weapon). Modifiers generally range from 0.00 to 2.00.

Weapon	Name	Modifier	Ranking
357	357 Magnum	3.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
AR2	AR2 Assault Rifle	2.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
PLAYER_BERZERK	Berzerker	5.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
ENV_EXPLOSION	Cluster Bomb	1.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
COMBINE_BALL	Combine Ball	1.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
CROSSBOW_BOLT	Crossbow	2.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
CROWBAR	Crowbar	3.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
GRENADE_FRAG	Frag Grenade	1.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
PHYSBOX	Grav Gun (Punt)	6.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
PHYSICS	Grav Gun (Throw)	3.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
PISTOL	Pistol	1.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
PLAYER	pTelefrag	2.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
PHYSCANNON	Rail Gauss	2.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
RPG_MISSILE	Rocket Propelled Grenade	1.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
SHOTGUN	Shotgun	2.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
SLAM	Slam	1.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
SMG1_GRENADE	SMG Grenade	2.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
STUNSTICK	Stun Stick	3.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
SMG1	Sub Machine Gun	1.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
TRANSLOCATOR	Translocator	5.00	Half-Life 2 Deathmatch

3. How can I edit my profile and set real name, e-mail address, homepage and ICQ number?

Player profile options can be configured by saying the appropriate gameme_set command while you are playing on a participating gameserver. To issue commands, push your chat key and type the command text.

Syntax: say /gameme_set option value

Acceptable "options" are:

realname
Sets your Real Name as shown in your profile.
Example: /gameme_set realname Joe Bloggs
email
Sets your E-mail Address as shown in your profile.
Example: /gameme_set email joe@hotmail.com
homepage
Sets your Home Page as shown in your profile.
Example: /gameme_set homepage http://www.geocities.com/joe/
icq
Sets your ICQ Number as shown in your profile.
Example: /gameme_set icq 123456789

Note: These are not standard Half-Life console commands. If you type them in the console, Half-Life might give you an error.

4. My rank is embarrassing. How can I opt out?

Say /gameme_hideranking while playing on a participating gameserver. This will toggle you between being visible on the Player Ranking and being invisible.

Note: You will still be tracked and you can still view your Player Details page. Use the Search page to find yourself.