uhhhh, interesting to say the least

How exactly are these games played? Pub settings, or ESEA, ETF2L, UGC, OZFortress rules?

Initially, TF2 servers will be Vanilla pub configured. In order for BattlePoints to grow from inception, we will need to fill a large user base quickly. Competitive TF2 servers are planned for the future and will enable players to create their own teams and challenge other teams, (much like the current lobby systems, but more formulated for competitive play). Teams that win rounds/competitions will be awarded points etc.

Do you have anything other than a few screenshots of what you would like 2 pages of the website to look like?

Although BattlePoints is at a very early development phase, we have more design concepts and are currently working on a full developers specifications document, wire-frames, user journey maps and more.

Right now we are consolidating ideas and transforming them into viable documentation for people to understand and utilize for development.

How big is your team at the moment and who is in it?

We have three people so far, a business strategist/analyst, myself (designer of 8 years) and a junior developer. All based in Melbourne, Australia. We are obviously seeking to quickly advance with support from passionate gamers who have time on their hands to volunteer for this developing project.

You're still not saying who you are.

Really love how TF2 seems to be getting some more love, but

really relevant.

edit: *ninja'd*

Apologies, but I'm not willing to publicly disclose peoples names online, it also doesn't make a difference, although if people are genuinely interested in helping out, you can PM me or contact me through steam and I can discuss much more detail about the project and who we are.

My name is Tom.

Wait, so whats in it for you? It seems like there's something you're not telling us, since nobody would just give prizes like that out for free

I'd be discussing it with a steam account that seems to have been made shortly before this thread though. It doesn't make a good impression, and if you look around most other public projects at least have human looking steam accounts attached to them, and surely you'd look to have some public leadership at some point?

I'm not asking for Elon Musk here, but you do get a lot of people hiding their identities for less than noble purposes, mainly their existing reputation being trash. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ymmv

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http://i.imgur.com/m5jeQA3.jpg

We plan on using advertising as the primary money flow. We are also thinking of adding the ability for players to purchase points, although it would be discouraged since it defeats the purpose of the idea. We wouldn't make much money as it would be used for server costs etc.

I appreciate the interest guys, I just created that account because I wanted to take the BattlePoints name for steam and use it for this purpose only. I don't think there will be a lot of 'public leadership', the service will be mostly automated. I understand your point of view, but this is totally legitimate and genuine. I'm not trying to scam or steal or whatever. I have a passion for games and think I have a great idea and need some help launching it off the ground.

I'm just a pubber who plays a few games. TF2 is one but I generally play CS:GO.
I was suggested to post here and was told it has a strong community following.
I'm not attempting to 'beg' for help. I hope it doesn't sound like that.

dad stop it please he's just trying to help

No one is ever going to pay you for playing kritz demo in a pub. Stop dreaming son

The idea sounds very cool; however, are you aware that community servers (pubs that are not valve servers) are kind of dead in tf2 right now and most people won't find your servers through quickplay? You will need a lot of advertising to let people know that your thing exists. And unless your prizes are so dank that people will actually commit to pubs to get them, you'll have to keep up that advertising so you always have new people coming in when the others get bored/decide to just click quickplay.

Also, you might have to worry about moderating your servers against cheaters at some point because even though lmaobox is being detected now, new hacks can always appear and people will use them in pubs undisturbed for 10 years before valve finds out.

Ok here's the thing, When people in this community are being skeptical of your idea it's partially because we have had issues with scammers and such, but also because we've had so many people come out of nowhere, get our hopes up with some ambitious project, and end up disappointing because they didn't understand what they were trying to do.

I'm sure you think you've come up with a great idea, but what you've described is a very ambitious project, and you are asking people to donate their time to bring it together, but you haven't really demonstrated you really understand how much work it is to create and run this kind of site.

That said, there are people that have successfully started projects based around tf2 in the past, so its certainly possible, everyone is just trying to make sure you know what you are getting into

Good examples:
http://www.teamfortress.tv/27662/tf2stadium-com
http://www.teamfortress.tv/17109/saloon-tf

Bad examples:
http://www.teamfortress.tv/20505/tf2games

Thanks Spartan.

Yes, servers will have to be moderated. Although PHP can use point regulation codes which can be built into the core system to disallow points accumulated at a rate that is deemed too high, and other examples like that. I am aware that community servers are on the downfall since Valve introduced their own servers, hopefully this idea will reignite community servers a bit. According to Steam's Game and Player statistics, TF2 has the third most online players for a game, so there are actually many people playing it. TF2 is one game that will be using the points system, other games that have APIs or can be modded to talk with MYSQL can also be added to the list.

And yes, hopefully the MarketPlace items will be dank.

Could have fooled me.

You have an idea and now you "just" need people to build it for free, genius!

Yeah but you see mate, almost all of those people play on valve servers and most of those who do play on community servers are probably trading/idling/ponying/whatever they do. If you're looking to "reignite" community servers, you'll need huge advertising and servers in US as well as EU. Not saying it couldn't happen but it's not easy. Most of these players probably don't even frequent r/tf2 or other community sites so unless you get some top streamers to play your servers and people open the main menu to see "PLAYING PUBS FOR PRIZES" a bunch of times, I'm not sure how you'd let them know you exist.
Even huge communities like multiplay or Star's server that's linked in all his videos aren't really frequented that much anymore.
Your idea is basically faceit for pubs, but I'm not convinced it'll be easier to pull off; I think it might actually be harder to do for pubs than competitive because there's no easy way of getting pub players interested.

This project will benefit a lot of gamers and this idea is already turning into something more. I will be working extremely hard on this as well, don't mistake it for me just sitting back and letting people do all the work. I'm not about that at all. I am thinking of some sort of remuneration, but everyone involved will be credited and have access to everything that is available and more.

You are right it will be challenging and a lot of work. However, the more games that use the system, the more advertising it will generate.I think people would rather play a server that offers something than play a server that offers nothing. It also adds a competitive feel.

Yes it's ambitious! I understand your skepticism. And no I can't make any promises except that I will try my very best to make this happen. And I do think it is a great idea, I hope more people share my enthusiasm and point of view. I have done enough research to know its possible and with the right people can be done well. I have successfully setup test servers with points systems connecting with gaming servers and done a lot of research to come to this point. But my coding skills are limited and need some help. This project is not only based around TF2 but a variety of games can be integrated.

If anything it means skail badwater may not be the most toxic gaming community anymore. Im sure people would literally kill for some "battlepoints"

I don't know anything about 'skail badwater' but having just looked at their underwhelming website. I can tell you it will be nothing like it.

There is a business strategist/analyst on the team

And my name is Kenneth Anderson. You can contact me at Kenneth@ozfortress.com if you're interested in reaching out to the local Australian community.