Ctrz

+rep to @Bystry & @eMMiel who also helped a lot!  

1 hour ago, Darky1951 said:

I know what you mean, on the BG server we have sometimes to deal with so called Rambo medics. Mostly they just like to frag and dont care about anything else.

Playing rambo medic and holding of positions is a strategy in ET. Same as emptying areas with panzer or airstrike/arty.
 

1 hour ago, Darky1951 said:

..and maybe TM should change the name of the server.?

To what? What is your suggestion ? 

8 minutes ago, Darky1951 said:

Does it make a big difference?? Dont think so, one bot more to play with and one mnore to play against. !? Problem is , members/players seem to have something against Nitmod, why, I dont know. If members would visit more on a regular base, maybe it would attract more guests/players and the BOT issue is gone. I personally dont like servers with loads of people playing, I would be laying more on the ground then playing. I played a couple of years in another clan purely and alone on a Nitmod server and was able to get more players on a regular base and even get more members for the clan.  But that is behind me now. Y tru the same here, but it seems to be a lot more difficult because members seem to avoid the Nitmod server.

 

I doubt people have much against nitmod but the main "issue" is that it is supposed to be beginner server.

If played laid back and easy then people get bored easily. If regular players will play more agressively then usually I have much higher K/D than regular beginners in that server. 

Also there are people who dont like the tripmines or throwable knives or fast fire for example.  

5 minutes ago, m0si said:

Hey. Just wanted to say that in my opinion the spawn killing rule with light weapons should not apply for allies on second axis spawn. This is one of the two ways in order to get to the objective .... 

You are free to kill in that spawn as long as that kill comes from return fire. Its not allowed to shoot first but as soon as you get shot from there or someone runs out from there and then back - feel free to shoot and kill (with light weapons only).

5 minutes ago, m0si said:

...besides the point if axis mortar is mortaring from that spawn and someone takes him out with light weapons is this also considered spawn kill?

If you shoot him with light weapon when he is shooting, then it is considered (in my experience) as return fire, which is allowed.

29 minutes ago, azerty said:

Thanks Charlie , you are a fair admin (total opposite of Ctrz ...).

I won't do these kind of jokes anymore , i promise .

 

Let's see what your word is worth then.

wow, impressive introduction . nice to meet you and see you in servers!

7 hours ago, azerty said:

s commute my 1 year ban to a week ban or maybe 3 weeks ban so i dont lose all the prestige points i gathered !!!

Come on ! just unban me and at the first infraction you can ban me forever .

Dont be unneccessiraly  cruel !

You are not even understanding what you did wrong. That is so sad. 😕

Classical case where you are appealing not because you were wrongly accused or regret what you did. Oh no - your only regret lies in the fact that you got caught.

There is no need for fortune telling to know from life experience that you will not change the manner of how you behave but just be more careful and make jokes like this again.  But this time only just when no admin or TM member or vocal community member is around.

For me the first infraction was already over the top and I wouldn't give you any leeway or easing on this.

45 minutes ago, azerty said:

Do you really think that not making jokes about that situation would improve whats going on ??

I do have empathy but i exercise my empathy in the real world when i'm facing desperate people in need . I do not pretend to be a saint like you . Acting like you is just hypocrisy , im sure you think you are some kind of a good guy but let me assure you that at the end of the day your actions brings absolutely no change in the world .

And do you think that making those jokes would improve the situation?

At the end of the day, the people you play in the server with are humans and may even have any relatives that are currently living in Afganistan in trouble. You ever tought about that before taking a piss? Its not just beeing saint or not - we expect grown-up mentality and decency from both our members and guests. That at least they know what are things you can or cannot joke about. If you are unable of beeing in shared space and respecting other people - then you have no business in TM servers, discord or elsewhere.

Beeing respectful towards others is one of the main rules and principles. 

The way you went from original post promising "if you unban me i swear to not do anymore jokes about talibans " to "Do you really think that not making jokes about that situation would improve whats going on ?? " shows that you really dont care or understand what you did and dont wanna improve.

Feel free to go in some bot filled server, crack your jokes there and dont come back to any server where real people play. People who behave like this are disgrace to ET community.

If the only change that my actions bring to this world is isolating behaviour like this from TM community then I'll damn sure will work towards it.

4 hours ago, azerty said:

my mistake was to make a stupid joke about talibans , i reckon it . Does it really warrant a full year ban ?

A year ago, I would have given you 2nd chance. But you really gotta live under a rock to not understand what is going on and to make jokes on times like these. I would warrant you even 5 year ban. Play elsewhere where people with such low empathy and understanding of world is welcomed.

1 hour ago, m00f said:

and also throw minas tirith in there, so charlie might come and play more

Pretty sure you earned second bow from @Charlie    someone is on a streak!

8 hours ago, CAROTAL3 said:

I'll look into it when I'm back (2 months no ET due holidays).

Can you maybe get some more rest and let others also get some frags in server ? 

Just now, Boosted said:

Noticed that Setting in Game when i tried it, but didnt make a difference.

Do you have the same issue with any other game? Are you able to record that muffled sounds and if yes, then is it muffled also when played back?

38 minutes ago, Sebast1an said:

The thing about the needle revive while alive is it makes the game flow a lot smoother. For example, I will go out of my way to heal someone who is at 20hp with the needle but I would not go out of my way to heal someone half hp with medpacks. I would just kill and revive at that point, if anything. It's just easier to give 2 headshots (with love) and revive.

Lets just make needle work with all healths and let medic keep his medpacks as a reward.  

2 hours ago, hettoo said:

Great idea indeed. I think the reason it hasn't been done is because the reviving alive players feature is not part of etlegacy but implemented with a server-side lua script, which cannot change such client-sided view features. So unless the feature officially gets incorporated this probably won't happen.

Thinking a bit about the revive feature, this is seems to have been the development:

• Originally players could only be revived when dead. It thus became easiest to heal almost dead players by tk'ing them before reviving, which is not great.
• As a solution the alive revive feature was introduced. However, now if players are slightly less than almost dead (just above 25%) they still need to be shot before able to get a revive.

It seems that the feature is more of a partial fix, as teamdamage is still needed/expected but just in a different way. (Not needing the tk is of course a big improvement though.)

One alternative I thought of is allowing revives below a certain threshold but proportional to how far below the threshold the player is. For instance, say the threshold is 50%. A fully dead player would be fully revived, but a 25% alive player would be revived to 75%, 49% to 51%, and so on. This still means doing some teamdamage allows for a bigger revive, but (I think) to an extent that it's more sensible to use medpacks instead of doing so.

Other way is just to make the revive give 60hp to whatever the current status of health of the player is. If player is fully dead, then after the revive health will be 60. If player has even 55hp then syringe adds still 60hp but as the overall healt is capped to a certain number, then even using syringe on 95hp player would not give some extra health boost. Then medpacks would not be so much used to revive at scene but to be dropped down to some key parts where someone can find them and get health back (for example in goldrush medic could drop some packs as allied to bridge area and move on).

Currently the revive train as youcan revive 10 people in a row faster than 10 seconds is bit absurd and something could be maybe capped there (syringe speed, amount of health..?).

Hip-Hip-Hooray! 

4 hours ago, Jaime said:

There are plenty of topics about maps. All ends with the same. Players vote for the maps they know well, so new maps don't have a chance.
Some maps are fine but not balanced, so they are removed. IMO we can try to adjust the balance by changing spawn points or something, but I know that it's easy to say for me, but there's prob no one who can do that.

Once I proposed a cyclic event. One day a week (or one day per 2 weeks) with only new maps. I think my idea didn't find enthusiasm.

Well its pretty organic. I think there are plenty of us who chimed in with new ideas (about rules, maps etc) and got the reply that we didnt invent the bicycle and it has been tried before.

From the experience, Temple map could be improved and balanced immensely but we need someone who know how to update and change the map.

For example: if allies had 2nd spawn at the beginning near the bridge, it would help a lot. If allies would have at the end a way up to the 2nd floor then it would balance map even more. 

But that needs some work that I have no idea how to accomplish.

But I like active people with ideas.  keep it up!

3 minutes ago, hettoo said:

Ok, after playing a bit with bots on saberpeak I realise it's indeed not great.

I'd still like to try falcon2 and/or mlb_temple though 

Temple last stage has been too little for 20vs20 and also the first part where you have to either cross narrow or wide bridge or climb up are real bottlenecks for allied players. 

Falcon is not big enough for even 10vs10 as axis have very nice places to defend allies and they cannot do anything.  Both maps needs allies to be much stronger to have a chance to win.

I think falcon is currently active in beginners server mappool - try it out there  

3 hours ago, Stumpel said:

I have seen somekind of protection script used before in ET.. It was like that if player doesnt move in spawn the enemy cant kill him or his own teammates cant kill him.. But if player starts moving then proteection stops..

Well killing someone AFK is one thing but there should be some protection even when you start moving. I wouldnt mind something more sophisticated and automated but we have many maps and they change over time .. would be pretty big work to go and review them one by one (how far the protection distance should be, etc).

8 hours ago, Trinorae said:

I have the feeling it's the other way around. The delay wasn't there until recently (though it should've been imo) and it was being (ab)used massively. Now that the delay has been added, people just need to get used to that again.

Votes say that 18 dont like delay and 11 would like to have delay.  One way or another - there will be a group of people who just need to get used to something they prefer other way around.  

2 hours ago, 0wN1x said:

You're implying I said such thing, which I didn't. Let's keep this topic clean and stay on topic please... 

If I would have implied that it was you, I would have said it was you  . 

But I support the idea to hear "yes" vote explanations too. TY for yours @RandyMarsh.

1 hour ago, 0wN1x said:

Curious to know the reasoning for a yes vote. So far only no voters have shared their opinion in a reply.

I remember someone once saying that "yes" votes dont actually need explanations.  

But surely would be cool to know that side opinions too.

@0wN1x if you could choose - 1sec prone delay vs 1sec selfkill delay - what would you choose?
 

1 hour ago, Ande said:

We should disable selfkill in battle too if we going fix things like this... Dont like this delay

Playing with fire here. I like it. Add selfkilldelay instead!  

Is the "1" value the lowest it can be set on pronedelay? Maybe its possible to still have a delay but 0.5 sec or lower? Like lets meet in the middle. 

I've played with it and I would like no delay / shorter delay but if we decide to keep 1sec delay then its not gonna make me uninstall the game and I will continue playing it once a month  

3 hours ago, MiniMuppet said:

There is 3 version but I think most people know the second one, I will add it to the server later.

First one is actually even cooler. Third one can be confusing but its also fun and refreshing I like all three equally. 

1 hour ago, DiNg said:

 

My two cents: I really appreciate that SR based on map winning/losing because since then people have actually been going for the objective, even the good old braindead wannabe mAus rambo camping medics.

Still you got a point there, stack allies when server is almost full and it's free points all night long

Maybe we shouldnt show or give out openly how the SR is been calculated so people are not focusing on trying to raise it artificially (if that can be the case...). 

 

23 minutes ago, Jaime said:

Amm without looking into a data I can't propose any equation. I don't even know if it is possible to change to SR calculations @Eagle_cz @MrMuppet?

I think thats a suggestion to legacy devs too? Surely they should happy to improve if we give them enough logic.