ABOUT SWAGVILLE

Outdated since 2011
Thing is, the only major difference between those servers is just the configs, while Swagville servers tfdb mode is build upon YADP plugin too, it changing many aspects of original core code, with preserving it's good ol' spirit.
There are probably more fancy integrations or even newly made plugins worth a review, but none i'd know of, due to them being non popular, plz report if u know some.

Rocket's tickrate
pre-post offsets (rocket dragigng/flicks)
rocket bounce
rocket damage
low rof
rocket speed
RTD as major part of gameplay
Jetpack
Bot
rank out of that

Rocket tickrate is calculated each game frame, rather than 0.1 sec timer as most other server use. 1 game frame equals to 0.0166 frames, which makes rocket turn rate x6 smoother and far more natural

Originally (and by nowadays) tfdb plugin uses weird ass system (you can watch it in it's code source) of calculating each tick (0.1 second) if rocket was hitted, and if so changes its parameters and new target. Since the game strictly runs on 60 frames per second, not 10, this code execution causes random delay between those timers, making the rocket be in idle moving state in the direction of your aim after reflect (having no target), behaving just like regular soldier rocket being reflected by pyro, and only then starts re-taargetting, when next 0.1 sec timer executes (random interval of 0-6 game frames).

They call them flicks. What are they?
This is what players called "rocket dragigng." How does it work humanly speaking? After you hit rocket you have randomly 0.01 to 0.08 seconds to change the rocket orientation just by moving your mouse. This is used for flicks/switches (article about flicks/tricks is yet to come) and other things that made dodgeball so unique as it is.

Do we really need them?
This is a nice feature out of technical bug. Once it was attempted to be fixed in Redux tfdb plugin, but as the result, the gameplay has been ruined completely, even tohugh some servers still continue running that version. But no matter how "flick n drag bug" spiced up the game, there is one significant flaw about it - randomness. You do not control that random delay of the time you can drag the rocket. But at SV you can!!!

More control over flicks
How does rocket dragging works in Swagville: You have same interval of time to drag your rocket as on most other servers (0.01 to 0.08 seconds), but the delay picked not randomly, but by the aim offset of your character aim and aim to the rocket, proportionally to the amount the time since the rocket entered your hitbox. Humanly speaking - the faster, yet least accurate (tricky) you hit the rocket, the higher drag rate will you have. So you can do contorlled confusing flicks, or simple rocket 1 frame mirror reflect, or instant redirect, if you manage to hit the rocket pixel-accurate (looking right at the rocket in the moment of hit). This non-significal changes makes the rocket feel very responsive to your mouse, comparing to other servers, where you make a god-like flick but rocket was not flicked at all due to you having bad luck and hitting it right before the moment targetting executes.

Waves
 SV has default vertical wave physics mode making vertical flicks abit more unpreictable n complicated, this is commonly used in american servers. Since december 2019 there is also new created methodics of horizontal waving, which techicaly increase rocket complexity of a nicely made flick. Horizontal wave only enables on high multiplier flciks, where rocket is not "direkt", becuase as it always was before, nice x18 flcik was too easy if it wasnt direkt. It also is speed-related, the faster speed the weaker force of wave will, to not make it too unbalanced

Target lock
 New feature since december 2022 - Even though you normally send the rocket by your flicking direction, sometimes picking targets might be impossible even with using backfire, or 270+ degree flick to switch to closest target. So new feature was added, especially useful in tourneys - target lock. No commands involved - just look at someone you want to target, and followed by audio message and text in chat, rocket will always fly to the player you locked. Can be switched any moment by looking at other player, and if you want to reset the lock - aim down to the ground (no better implementations were invented), but be aware target lock automaticly disables on its own each time new rocket creates.
!targetlock - disabled/enables this feature (enabled by default) - resets to default each disconnect.

Originally in tfdb there were no bouncing at all, which was causing rocket constantly exploding in the middle of intense battle beacuse of rocket touching. Of course people didn't like that fact, and after some time they did what? Made a rocket bounce plugin OVER the TFDB plugin, without no further integration (past xzibit jokes in here). Appearently the tfdb devs were too lazy to integrate that addon correctly, so it lead to this scenario: when rocket fired too low, it eventually touches the floor, after when RAWKETBOUNCE plugin tells the rocket to mirrorly reflect off the touched surface, and dumass tfdb plugin still keeps sending rocket down each 0.1 tick ignoring rocket's new orientation. This players called "snake/worm jumps" (or whatever) and regular people call it WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT, WHY ROCKET GOES SEIZURES WHEN IT TOUCHES THE FLOOR.

Rocket "floor worms" fuck ups
Seriously, instead of fixing this minor bug, people started using and aboosing it, since when you're not used to it, it is impossible to hit the rocket whcih flied with stable speed and then goes all 30 waves per sec under your feet.

 
fuck outta here

Solution?
Some servers attempted to fix this, but that lead to another problem - due to slow rocket interpolation (high ass orbits) after rocket mirrorly bounced off the ground by sharp angle, like after upspike, it jumps for over 1000 units n headstab you from above same unexpected way as if it was "snake launched", which is not nice either. But at SV its perfectly balanced!!! Due to the "waving" physics, rocket touched the floor even at high speed and sharp angle, rocket bounces 1 time, maximally jumping over the ground surface by 300 units max by the destination's position (which is still player's hitbox area)

Also there are some purposed exceptions at SV rocket bounce - rocket will still explode if:
• rocket is nearby any player
• rocket hits any entity (like soawned barrels, breakable map brushes etc)
• rocket owner's aim is below 45 degrees to ground (owner looks down) - lost your aim, lost the rocket, dumbass

Rocket damage might look random, killing some players in 1 reflect, and not killing others in 3 hits, but it is not random, and depends of 7(!) factors:
    • Rocket speed - This one is obvious and the only factor elsewhere - the faster rocket travels, the more damage it makes.
    • Multiplier - The higher flick multiplier (count in pts), the more damage rocket makes.
    • Hit distance from head - the more distance from player head, the less damage
    • DUcking - when player is crouching, sitting, ducking etc, distance from head multiplies x2, causing lower damage unless its hit straight in the head
    • Rocket fly time since last reflect - The higher distance between the players (timewise), the lower damage will be.
    • Time passed since rocket entered player's hitbox distance - directs cause more damage, orbitted rocket cause damage nerfing
    • PTS proctection: the more pts you have during the hit, the higher rocket damage protection you gain. To be exact - the damage received from rockets is multiplied by the coefficient according to the formula (0.0 - ((800.0 - CURRENTPTSPLAYER) / (0.0 - 800.0)))^3 where CURRENTPTSPLAYER = the player's current PTS, with a maximum coefficient limit of 0.2 (20% of actual damage with pts >= 332). Also top players are sorted by this pts. Use !logpts to see how much you gain per each reflect or !logall to see how much everybody get per each reflect
    
    To sum it up: on other servers rocket damage calculated only by its speed - faster speed, more damage. On swagville at 60mph strongly flicked rocket straight in the head of a close range low pts silver makes 500hp damage, while same speed 60mph rocket deflected by a silver at 100 meter distance hitting a high pts ducking player in the leg after full orbit might do only 30hp damage. But normally rocket still deals 175hp+ hit when a player plays with someone of his level
    Use !logdamage to see all the changes ingame, which shows originally income damage based on rocket speed only, and modified damage after all these filters.

tfdb works on using original tf2 pyro's flame thrower compression blast, which is stricted to delay of 0.75 seconds, which is nice block for people to rapidly click the mouse without carrying of a timing. Once you have missed the rocket, you still have a chance to hit it after 0.75 seconds, whcih means you have to ORBIT the rocket and hit it when compression blast works agian.

That's how all tfdb servers work, but what are the vars of this, and why would SV change the original game flame thrower parameters? There are some reasons.
    • Orbitters be gay af real niggas dont orbit the do og ass flicks n direkts.
    • Game disbalance. A skilled player doesnt miss, so he doesnt orbit, and therefore he will hit the rocket properly, while the one who misses will orbit the rocket and most likely will do easy direkt straight into your face at 200 mph which is no good player is kapable to counter when it was unpredicted.
    • Dirkets at close combats are impossible to deflect without orbits, simply because that is below 0.75 sec delay, which turns the game into battle of orbitters

In summary, At SV rocket starts to shorten it orbit right after it reaches it's victim back, to make spin-direkts impossible at high speed. Combined with rocket interpolation being pretty high comparing to servers on its own, that would make you die at 100 mph simply because you will not be able to wait whole 0.75 seconds to re-attack. There comes Low Rate Of Fire (blast) fixing all those problems at once - scales up the time at close combats, making the game much more intense, and generally more skill-oriented and balanced (no more homo spin-direkts at high speeds, because GAME FORCES TO), and skilled players who's aim is right can still re-hit any missed rocket on any speed.

Low ROF is made through weapon hacks, and uses it's own timers in order to not cross low Rate Of Fire and bot-like m2 spams. Those timers causes visual bugs on everybody else but player himself, making it look like everybody else hit the blast 10 times per second, but the cure to that visual bug is yet to find.

Fixed by july 2019
Low rate of fire has been (randomly) edited in a way, that the visual bugs are client side now - you will not see others spam fake airblast as before, but u will not hear ur fast blasts either (only wind blowing, which is still proceeded by server as valid AIRBLAST). Also if you click too early, airblast will be ignored and u will have static 0.3 sec cooldown again, instead of completing 0.75sec delay of prevous airblast as it was before. Techically hard shit simple - you have 0.3 sec cooldown instead of game's default 0.75, with the only exception you can not hold your mouse but should be only CLICKING instead.

Normally on every other dodgeball server you visit, rocket increment is fixed to static acceleration speed per deflect (like +5 or +25 mph per reflect).
On swagville rocket initial speed is pretty slow (40mph), and basic acceleration speed is low and noob-friendly too (+5mph) but acceleration is based on how you actually reflect the rocket (distance between players matters too), meaning in same scenario you can set reflect speed to +20 (not to mention multiple self reflects), and at same time make it go even slower, as -10mph. Key values in calculation order that pluses or minuses base rocket speed increment of +5mph per deflect are:
    Aim speed on reflectRanges: adds extra 0mph to 5mph. Adds this value to base speed, based on your aim speed while reflect (long drag flick aint guarantees fast mouse speed on deflect frame though), hard to achieve on actually aimed flciks
    Flick angleRanges: adds extra 0mph to 10mph. Adds this value to base speed, based on your drag angle, where to achieve +10mph on this takes above 270 degrees. 360 flicks reflects are best to achieve this, but server tickrate may fail you, being not that extremely accurate
    dodging/spinning factorReduces all higher values by 0.5 if rocket dodged, by 0.25 if rocket spinned. Meaning if there were no any flicks or drags, but rocket was fully orbitted, speed increment will be close to zero.
    Previous reflect speed incrementWhen distance gets close and speeds getitng high, this starts to affect, dealing 0-100% speed penalty of PREVIOUS deflect. Meaning if you recieve rocket at close range at 100mph and you orbit it and reflect it with no flick, your sent speed increment will be (5+0+0-(10-20 depending how actually close it was) = -5 to -10mph
    Reversed rocket speed - new since 2022Combining all previous factors, you can actually reverse the rocket speed (to be exact - multiply add speed number by -0.5, with no basic +5mph adding) and actually slow the rocket down, by whatever reason - slow down too high speed, or to confuse your victim. Also considering previous rule (Previous reflect speed increment) your opponent gets extra boost on next reflect, so you won't be able to actually slow the rocket in long term, until both players purposely do so. To do so you must be holding crouching button while reflecting, but not actually crouching (meaning you must be holding ctrl while reflect but not for longer than ~0.1 sec). Currently is "bind supported" as rocket jumps, - copy these lines into your autoexec.cfg file to bind left mouse click to reverse speed reflect:
-----------(WARNING - THIS LEFT MOUSE BUTTON BIND IS PERMANENT UNTIL YOU MANUALLY REMOVE IT)-----------
alias "+reverseairblast" "+duck ; +attack2"
alias "-reverseairblast" "-duck ; -attack2"
bind "mouse1" "+reverseairblast"
-----------(WARNING - THIS LEFT MOUSE BUTTON BIND IS PERMANENT UNTIL YOU MANUALLY REMOVE IT)-----------
note: TO remove it back yo default, type in console: bind "mouse1" "+attack"

RocketSpeed/PlayersDistance ratio A variable that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0, where 0.0 = 1 second+ fly time, 1.0 - less than 0.1 second fly time (expected rocket travel time to hit the target with direkt vector)
Base rocket accelerationRanges: +5mph. When "RocketSpeed/PlayersDistance" > 0.0 base rocket acceleration drops to 0. Meaning at high enough speed or close range further acceleration is possible only through flicking. Reversing speed technique always sets base acceleration to 0
Aim speed on reflectRanges: +0 to +10mph, adds on "Base rocket acceleration", along with "Flick angle"
Flick angleRanges: 0 to +10mph, adds on "Base rocket acceleration", along with "Aim speed on reflect"
dodging/spinning factor reduces "Base rocket acceleration", "Aim speed on reflect" and "Flick angle"  by /2 if rocket dodged while reflect, by /4 if it was spinned
Previous reflect speed decrement based on "RocketSpeed/PlayersDistance ratio", where zero speed deducts on 0.0 and Previous hit speed deducted on 1.0;
Reversed rocket speed - new since 2022 In case of originally negative number, this sets rocket speed to 0, making this technique prevent speed decrease in some occasions.

Combining all above, rocket speed acts very unpredictable in experienced player's hands, creating higher gap between pros and silvers, also giving advantages to those silvers playing vs each other on easy slow mode.

    
Additional cheat commands
When cheats are enabled, you can also control some rocket variables via !rocket command - initial speed, speed increment per deflect, speed increment per time, rally mode (lock x and y axis as it is on most of other servers, making the rocket has seizures on 150mph+ )

Here are shit ton of different power (but fair and balanced) RTDs with very low delay to spice up the intense, which do also gets more delay and less effective the more people playing online.
For those who never played this server before, but played sum panda/oracle instead, the server might look like all modded-up minecraft Syria Jihad simulator at times, - simply couse this server has much MUCH more intense in it, especially the more skilled people in there at once.
Server uses this version of rtd plugin, but there is also like 50 custom server-special perks, a list of which is yet to come (there are like 50 of them)

Server use sum simple jetpack plugin, allowing players to travel across map, airpush other niggas etc. Jetpack is hard to master too, becuase it works not obviously, and actually nobody knows how, but if u learn how to use it right, you can accelerate up to 50mph for whatever reason.
Fast travel
You can jump to rocket, get into any position fast or whatever
Fuel
Jetpack has limited fuel (in original plugin fuel is unlimited) - when u keep flying for more than around 15 seocnds, fuel will run off and u will fall. Fuel regenerates the faster the lower you currently have (you can track it by /fuel command)
Airpush
Since may 2019 you can push niggas from the sky to perform frictions/falldamage hurts. Pretty fun thing, but requires lotta non-tfdb situation controlling skills to counter it, especially if u get puhed right before the rocket hits you. Useful at teamrushes, and useless at 1v1 battles.

BOtis a real niggah ere oto
Levels of difficulty
Achieved by commands:
botlvl - change bot's rocket reflect complexity, where botlvl1 - stock bot, botlvl5 - walking killing machine (also secret levels of botlvl44 and botlvl55 - which add extra randomness to botlvl4 and botlvl5 respectively)
botspeedreverse - block/allow bot from using speed reverses (allowed by default, resets each time)
botmultireflect - block/allow bot from using fast multiple reflects a.k.a. swaitis mode (blocked by default, resets each time) - if doesnt work use other method - "!cheats" , "!forcertd @blue fasthands 10000"

more to come later
Nice AI
Bot will always support a nice conversation
THe only loyal and top #1 player for server
He will never rq (until you ask), never abandon you, and will always be there to play with u at 06:00 of morning.