Re: New CG server!

Thomas12255 wrote:

Well other servers also do not experience the player numbers that BlackIntel receives on CG nights, to have a completely fair experiment we would need the same player count, the same map and everyone doing exactly the same thing but with two different server providers running, to see if it was the mod's fault or a server problem.

Er..that would be because up to now CG's were only held on the BI server....

Also, the crashes occur outside CG's on weeknights with very few players in.

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Re: New CG server!

Twigs wrote:

That was more because he'd advance then jump in the pot, let his team get killed and remain in the pot without going anywhere further towards the cp.

Basically, I jumped inside the pot for the joke factor, and I did get out to revive people and take pot shots at the enemy. When I was constantly popping in and out I was just screwing with you. tongue

FSDev| TALON wrote:

What would be cool to make things fairer and more realistic is if we could make them destructible objects, so you get limited cover, say they could take one grenade blast, but if you stayed in there after that, more fire would shatter the thing, that would be a pretty cool way to balance the thing.

I think it would be absolutely hilarious to watch someone hiding in a barrel get their barrel shattered. I would probably freeze up and be sitting there for a moment. roll

In other words, sounds good to me. They're still funny, they're still limited cover, but they aren't horribly unbalanced and shamelessly unrealistic.

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Re: New CG server!

S-Guy wrote:

I think it would be absolutely hilarious to watch someone hiding in a barrel get their barrel shattered. I would probably freeze up and be sitting there for a moment. roll

In other words, sounds good to me. They're still funny, they're still limited cover, but they aren't horribly unbalanced and shamelessly unrealistic.

lol     Agreed.

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Twigs wrote:

Bi doesn't have too many rules, they are actually fairly simple, but very conflictive. You can roof in one area but not in another. Area's you cant roof on are mentioned, as is the type of building. Those with a poor grasp of English may believe that applies to all types of those buildings, and not realise that unmentioned maps can be utilised in that manner. Griefing is also mentioned and I have no idea what that means. Is it just being a general nuisance? Who decides when being stupid become being annoying and at what point to warn/kick/ban for it? Wouldn't different people have different levels of tolerance?

I find the concept of roofing quite simple: you're "roofing" when you're using the ridiculous flying abilities of a speederbike to land on an otherwise unaccessible roof inside the CP radius, and capturing the CP from there (with or without the aid of a spawn beacon/ spawning on Squad Leader).

This means capping from the roof of the outpost CP on Bestine, for example, is tolerable because the mapper placed ladders leading to it. Same applies to the Slave Quarters static, as you can access them with a little jumping skills.

For griefing see Wikipedia

I think the pots are quite funny and have never seen players trying to exploit them. Honestly, I fail to understand how they could become a problem.

Making them destructible would be neat, but going over the trouble of creating a "pot" vehicle, removing the static from every map that has them and replacing them with objectspawners for each gamemode is bit excessive for such a small detail, especially as there's many more pressing matters.

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Re: New CG server!

These players will often consider the following actions to constitute griefing: kill stealing, player killing, spamming, team killing (or team wounding),

(taken from Benu's wikipedia link)

So, the rules don't apply to everyone I guess? I've had many occasions wheren Gwynzer himself has carried out those actions against me. Then there's the time he pushed me over the edge of the Imperial building on Null thereby killing me but without the hassle of getting a teamkill.

I don't complain about it, I dust myself off, call him names then shoot hi in the face. But yes, it basically comes down to being a nuisance on the server and appears to only come into effect when the admin at the time decides he doesn't like something.

As to slave, read previous posts Ben. Some of us are against it because of the current problems leading to exploits. Again, I get the feeling this is one of those occasions where it suits a set group of people to behave how they see fit and attempt to bring the community round to that way of thinking.

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Griefing can be summarized as deliberately ruining the fun for people. 

So, the rules don't apply to everyone I guess?

Too true. Gwynzer hopping onto a server for then to just idle? Populating a server. Me getting bored and taking a break out of the way, thus essentially doing the same thing? I get flamed for not playing the mod enough (as if I'm supposed to regularly play the mod every single weekend for years on end to satisfy some sort of attendance requirement by BI).

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Re: New CG server!

About the barrels, i don't see the problem, just wait for him to pop up and shot at him, and if he gets tired of popping up and getting laz0rs flying everywhere just watch it then get close and drop a nade or stab him.

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