Balmung

That was pretty good, I've been critical of your stuff in the past, But I really ddi enjoy this. Though The lighting I felt could have been darker at alot of points

Get the pthreadVC2.dll file, at least thats what your error points to.

Encouraging someone to break rules is just as bad as doing ti yourself, Don't know why we don't have a rule for it yet.

Aren't enderpearls already enabled, Someone was using them to get in our base the other day.

Still thinking you should give extra rewards for the more consecutive months people subscribe for.

I think the point the OP is trying to get across is that he got disconnected from the server and died upon logging in, If you were engaged in combat before hand it is likely the anti Combat-logging plug-in that got you. If you're attacked and then disconnect you die upon logging in.

Hi, This topics pretty much here to explain the changes that will be made to the arena server based on feedback I've received from talking to players, some of this you wont agree if, if that is the case just make a post saying where you disagree and we can all discuss it. It's probably going to come as no surprise when I say the TF2 server is in need of some serious attention, For anyone who is new to the community, we used to run several TF2 servers for all game modes, but as time progressed TF2 became a lot less popular as a whole causing player count to drop and server merges and removal to occur. Upon the release of F2P the game gradually increased in popularity as a whole whilst our servers pretty much remained where they were before the update. Since then there has been a gradual drop in player count ultimately resulting in the removal of one of the two remaining servers, the payload server. Today the only server which is still standing is Arena, The Arena server has always maintained a strong base of regular players but even now that has started to dwindle, I've spoken to both regulars and people in-game to try and find out the reasons why people are leaving and it brings up some of the age old topics. Firstly, No crits, when you like in the chat logs for any day of the TF2 server you'll likely find someone complaining about these and whether you love the luck element or hate it, It has been one of the bigger factors in turning people off the server. My intention here is to remove random crits from the server, what this entails is that RANDOM criticals will no longer occur You will still be able to use Crits which are caused by weapons (Jarate, Crit-A-Cola, Kritzkreig, etc.) however your weapon will no longer fire off crits at random. People find crits a big deal as they feel that a shot that would usually deal around 45 damage instead deal over 120 damage which for most classes is an instant death, This can completely changes the flow of the game, For example, Imagine you've just started a nice 6v6 match, your team walks out of the base and is shortly confronted by a demoman, It's demoman's lucky day and he fires a nice critical grenade which hits your team for over 350 damage, This lucky crit has now caused the demoman to get first blood crits where he then precedes to coat your team in even more critical grenades leaving you in a 6v1 situation. I understand how some people think of this as a part of the game which I too agree with and understand, however the majority of the feedback is that people don't like this situations, for many it makes them angry or annoyed causing them to leave for the day. After all it is more likely that those who don't mind crits will no doubt not mind if they are removed either. The second thing I want to come onto is team choosing, Along with No Crits team choosing has come up just about every time as a complaint, It just doesn't belong in game modes like arena. When all of a team pile up into RED the people in BLU are never able to win and this then leads to two likely scenarios: A ) Players from BLU leave the game, The direct effect this has is that it lowers the player count, lower player counts result in less people wanting to join the server as they are looking for near-full games to join. B ) Players from BLU try and stack onto RED, While not causing people to directly leave it lowers the amount of players on one team making it even more one sided and when it is balanced It's more than likely that the players who were balanced will then try and stack back causing the people who originally changed team to go to BLU and the cycle repeats until A) happens or the map changes, at which point people just try and all get all back onto the RED team again. A lot of arena servers do not have this feature and I've always thought of it as quite a unique idea here, but seeing other players reactions to this makes me think that perhaps practicality should come before individuality. The third and final complaint I intend to correct links nicely into the second, this is autoscramble, for those who aren't too sure or just don't know about it Autoscramble is a server feature which will completely mix up teams if one team seems to be dominating another, people get bored of losing all the time and would rather play somewhere else where they may have a better chance. I know I've gone on about past problems a lot here and I doubt I've hit all of them, those listed above are going to be changed as a little trial for next week to see if I can rack up regulars playing again, it would be appreciated that if anyone who has contact with any of the old regulars who still play TF2 could bring this topic to their attention it would be really appreciated. Just a last word here If I've missed off anything crucial that you think needs to be changed drop a reply and we can discuss it, if others share the opinion It will be something else we can trial. tl;dr - Go read it all (18/10/12 23:33) Edit: Forgot double posting merged posts.

If anything the public enchanting tables/Brew stands are more likely to cause people to not get high enchantment armor, On the previous map the safe areas were surrounded by factions who then killed anyone attempting to get higher level armor. It's alot easier to enchant something from the safety of your own base so new players will find it easier to enchant their gear that way. There were alot of complaints about the public enchanting/brewery areas last map, It's likelly that would come back if they were re-added.

Haha Might be heading to scotland for a lan with my sister some time soon.

And I succeeded! And yet you're not satisfied with anyone you sleep with, you heartless monster. Then again you are ginger, so I guess that's why. Apparently Gingers are easy.

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We need to know whats wrong before any fixing can occur, Only real problem mentioned is the Lag.

Just to repost what I said in my first response. "although server admins are not always in-game they can be easily accessed by use of Steam, IRC or the Hacker reporting topic, as for what you mentioned about hackers."

I'm not sure what point you're trying to get at here, although server admins are not always in-game they can be easily accessed by use of Steam, IRC or the Hacker reporting topic, as for what you mentioned about hackers. Hacking and mods such as X-Ray are permanent Bans, All X-Rayers have already been given a second chance, these rules are made clear upon logging in, If people really wanted to play here they'd respect the rules and not cheat, I dont see how reducing the bans from permanent to temporary would deter cheating, if anything it would only encourage it. The server is primarily a PVP server, occasionally people want to just build to show off which is why there are peaceful factions, I'm not sure what the point you are trying to make about people not wanting to PVP is but from what you've said It seems like a non-existant problem. As for the lag, yeah It's been a bit of a problem these past few days but thats something only Clavus can really sort (Which may be out of his control anyway).

Just stop bumping it.

Happy birthday Corby

Noticed after I'd already posted. which is why I striked it all out. Made an ammended reply below all that.