Thanks for moving this to the right area.

@killer, I'm afraid I don't see how that makes much sense. To your first point about the default excessive health of over 300, you're assuming that all servers are using excessive and not any other type (in my case, vq3 weapons).

To your second point, I'm not quite sure why you'd use an IPS of 100 if in excessive -- you'd set it appropriately for each config. I'm certainly not asking for it to be locked to 100 if that's your concern. It was an example in my case demonstrating the bug/counter-intuitive functionality of Impact Score (100 is an easy test to demonstrate that it only counts health damage). If I was running excessive, I know I'd probably use an impact score of the 300-500 (that's the whole point of it being changeable, no?). What if I was running Vq3 weaps with 5000/5000, wanting people to just get points from impact score and not kills? I'd set it to 100. If I double all weapon damage for some reason (instead of just halving health), I'd set it to 200.

It makes more sense to have it relative to total damage done. If it's not that way, then what about people running configs where armour takes up all the damage? Your example only works within a narrow, static definition of using only excessive and not modifying anything. I think the point of excessive plus is being configurable, not being locked down to something.

Even further, I could say points are relative. If you use a low impact score value, all scores will increase, so what's the problem? They are still relative to each other, so the differentials are still realtive to each other by around the don't change.

To your third point, I don't see why you'd use map ents over the map items configuration, but maybe there's something you'd like to replace it with or whatever. Still, why go to all that hassle just to get around an issue?

I see no negative reason why Impact Score should not be changed to include armour damage. The comment says "if set to 100, you will get an extra score/point every 100 damage inflicted on your opponents", not damage to health done. So at the very least it's counter intuitive, counter to described functionality. It's not a big issue, but I see no reason why not to include armour damage. Especially since it was requested with a reference to QL (in the thread a linked). It's inherited from RA3, btw, where they'd have a separate field on the scoreboard for the damage score. It gave a better idea of what the player was doing vs just points, since in RA3 gametypes you may not get the kill, but do a hell of a lot of damage.

Finally, to your last point, I was only referring to q3's age, not to E+ . To continue modding a game this old is admirable.

Edit: One more point, killer, using your example of the excessive server/config you laid out, if they did change IPS to include armor, it would not change anything in the server, since there's no armour... Not sure what the fuss is about.