AI would only classify skill/balance properly if the dataset you're using (logs.tf in this case) isn't a complete mess on a player per player basis. You'd have to prepare and clean up that data and afaik there's roughly three million logs so good luck with that. There's people with logs for dumb maps like 2fort upsidedown, mess around pugs, ultiduo bball HL 6s Prolander 4v4 you name it. Some of these will be from scrims, offis, TF2C, pugs or other stuff. It would also need to consider individual classes, other individuals on the team you're playing to really make sense I think. Probably do-able with something like Keras/TensorFlow, but sounds like a pain to train a model for that with all the variables you have.

Not only that, but you'd have to feed it data it can actually understand. Just throwing 30GB of raw text logs at AI isn't going to do much so you'd probably end up making several monster CSV/JSON files first (parsed from those 30GB logs).

Using some sort of elo score or assigning a score based on ETF2L/RGL division sounds a lot easier. If you want to go the extra mile you can check amount of matches played on ETF2L, how many won/lost etc. But if your goal is to just make the life of a handful of people easier, I think that'll go a long way.

If you like what you have with trends.tf you could just scrape the data rather than use an API. You should probably ask the creator if they are fine with that though.

https://i.imgur.com/kv62G2r.png

Where does it even state in the rules that throwing a game leads to a ban? Are admins this desperate that this falls under the 'match betting' rule? Please show me these people betting on Div 2 6s main season games

The Steam API uses 64-bit Steam ID's, so before you could fetch the name you'd have to convert your SteamID3 to a 64-bit Steam ID.

They can be mathematically converted to a 64-bit ID, the actual math behind it is briefly explained in the official Valve documentation but I'd recommend you grab a library for your language of choice since there will almost certainly be someone who already built a package to do the conversion for you.

Once you're at that point you can use the Steam GetPlayerSummaries API to get their current nickname (or better in this context probably: use the league's API to fetch their primary alias).

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Web_API#GetPlayerSummaries_.28v0002.29

RGL used to have an undocumented API to fetch stuff by Steam ID but it seems like it's not available anymore, last time I asked them about it they seemed equally confused about having an API. Not sure if they've built a proper API by now (doubt it), you might be out of luck on that front unless you want to try scraping the data

https://i.imgur.com/qw2samM.png

Alternatively, since the logs should contain names as well you could build a script and see which alias gets used the most for every player

Building the technical infrastructure for a league (minus all the game servers I guess, but other leagues like ETF2L don't provide those either) isn't that hard to arrange and I strongly doubt that no one in this entire community has the skill set to build something that matches or outclasses RGL.

The real problem imo is that the people who are capable to make this have no guarantee that people will actually move over to a new platform, and it'll probably end up segmentalizing the existing playerbase over multiple leagues. No developer is going to spend a few weeks coding for the laugh just to realize that people would rather stick with RGL because b4nny plays it (while said developer(s) pay out of pocket to keep that infrastructure running). Marketing a league, sustaining it, finding volunteers to actually run the whole thing and do admin/AC work + incentivizing people to play on it (with or without prize pools) over RGL is the hard part, Valve's not even adding new medals to the game afaik and just rehashes old models (which is one of the bigger incentives for newer players to join like it or not).

When ESEA died it was a no-brainer to move to RGL since all it took was for them to add a gamemode to their already existing platform (also b4nny plays it). The only competition at the time ESEA died that wasn't a wip or ran by questionable people was UGC (lol)

stop playing tech support for this website

lots of the information you spread is just wrong or so completely irrelevant (at this point in time) that it hurts (posting about an RCE years after the code leak, talking about how changing DNS servers increases your in-game performance etc)

even when it's not and whatever you are saying is technically correct people are not asking you, they are asking the original creator of whatever tf2 customization is around

https://imgur.com/gallery/FgVnKt0

Changed some fonts and other things on srshud

Don't know much about how you'd go about solving the first or third problem but I found a copy of the no disguise smoke mod on my drive so here you go (I think it only works for STV demos though, not sure).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RrCxo7I2_-aJCRDTJdJa76r1lnBAPZ6y/view?usp=sharing

Using it with Lawena should just be a matter of dragging the folder inside of custom (Lawena's custom folder) and then enabling it on launch.

It's a good system, no random crits & spread, decent map pool, queue times are roughly 1-3 minutes and most importantly no automated cheating bots. It took me a while to get the anti-cheat working as I had to disable Hyper-V and run some weird command line tool to get it working, but now it's fine.

Pubs are quite enjoyable and they don't take years to finish thanks to stopwatch. Haven't seen too many stacks but most of the people who queue with their friends are just vibing from what I've seen. I've only ran into like two 6 stacks with like 3 medics that run perma kritz + banners to farm points for a ~€10-20 hat/weapon from the shop, but honestly it doesn't matter cause your game will end in no time, you get one less point and just move on from there.

Just look for scoreboard.res which is usually located in the resource/ui folder and copy/paste it into another HUD in the same location. Depending on fonts & colors that the HUD you are copying it from is using, you might need to tinker a bit more than that by adding color/font definitions in your clientscheme (most modern huds split these up in separate files nowadays).

Alternatively, if you are using Hypnotize's updated version of this hud there should be a 12v12 scoreboard in here.
https://github.com/Hypnootize/Rads-Hud/tree/master/resource/ui
https://github.com/Hypnootize/Rads-Hud/blob/master/resource/ui/ScoreBoard_12v12.res

Rename ScoreBoard_12v12.res to Scoreboard.res and you should be good to go

Also:
https://www.teamfortress.tv/19073/hud-editing-short-questions-quick-answers

I tried changing the font to Surface and while it does work for the health pretty much everything else is broken. I uncommented Surface in font_customization.res and commented out Product Sans, am I doing something wrong?

https://i.imgur.com/B99oko5.jpg

I'm pretty sure the only way you could accomplish this (sort of) is to have a static HUD crosshair that doesn't scale and an in-game crosshair (the one that enlarges) that is smaller than the scale of your normal HUD crosshair. For example you use a dot at size 24 (hud crosshair), use an in-game crosshair at the same time with a smaller scale (20 or whatever works for you). The HUD crosshair will hide the in-game one but when it enlarges it'll grow bigger than the HUD crosshair.

https://streamable.com/8n31yh

Is it possible to arrange the players on the match HUD vertically rather than horizontally?

Is it possible to change whether HUD elements hide when holding tab (scoreboard)? For example, my health disappears when I open my scoreboard, could I make it so that when I hold tab my health remains visible too?