MrMuppet

Hi Mr.loosing_spree, Welcome to the TeamMuppet and the forums. If you need to know any thing then please post on the forums or the home page. Good luck with the application.

Yeah, sims and farmville, come on Donald get off of farmville and on mafis wars, it's a lot better! Perhaps a pm to all saying that if they are playing et then they need to on our servers, not all the time but they need to show support to ours more than others, if not then a removal of admin powers on servers. Regarding recruitment, perhaps we need to push more for people to join, in turn they will speak to people who they play with and come to us and so on. I like the sound of loosing_spree, 38 years old with a good attitude!

Anyone fancy playing cod2 online? And I dont mean you will have to buy it to play!

Right, Miraro is now level two, what about the other things discussed?

How do we want run/manage TM? We currently have just two "leaders", myself and Donald, followed by only two or three forum mderators/server admins, looking at Bravehearts team they have numerous leaders and server admins and they are quite successful. They use a server points system and then ask people to join and don’t wait for them to ask, this means, you have been on the server for X amount of time, gained X amount of xp you can now be part of TM on a trial basis and still use the poll system to confirm their appointment. Do we look at promoting another leader? If so what will their responsibilities/duties be? We have several level two honourable members, should will look at bringing Miraro into the level two sections for his commitment to trying to promote TM? I think we should look at giving him more responsibilities regarding the clan and game servers so this would be the start for him, Crop is busy with uni so perhaps he could go has joint war arranger, not just against other clans but promoting the Sunday nights to non members.

Yeah, the CSS did not really take off, only four of us having the game and not being around at the same time could not really promote the CSS server but at least we had a go! The nq server is up and running again at 85.234.148.28:27960, max 8 bots, xp and skill reset upon map end, this will allow the people who want to play the game the opportunity of playing on a level playing field instead of against people with 10 billion xp and max skill levels has we had before. When an average player joins the server against an average player who has max skills, it is difficult for them to compete against, get frustrated and leave, also the xp save did not bring regular players back so there is no point in having it. This still leaves two l4d servers running, one will be going to l4d2 next week. This might bring virus and the boys back from bravehearts, what we don’t want to do though is split the players we do have across two servers again so people need to check where the players are. L4D is a totally different game, non competitive, with it being only a four man game, you and three mates can meet up and have a laugh trying to kill zombies, if you don’t make it to the end of the map then so what, you just start it again! Many people have moved on in the terms of games, if we played cod6 mw2 on the ps3 I could enrol another 15-20 colleagues because that is where they all play, but I will not, I am still loyal to the pc, read the TM blog! I will be on ET tonight but it will be nq to check this is working, it took three hours to set up last night but I only went on it for 5 mins so I don’t know if this is working correctly, If I don’t do this tonight I won’t be able to until Wednesday due to work.

Come on guys, this has had 16 views and only one comment, let’s have some feedback on what people think can improve TM. Do you want the NQ server back up and running? If so, in what format? xp save, xp reset each map, bots - how many, skill level saves or not. I have put a link to our site on the host’s forums but most people on there are not et players so that may not create any interest. Do you think inactive members should be removed? If so after how long? or have the admin levels dropped? I still personally do not think they should be! Why do our members play on other servers and not ours, let’s have some feedback from these people that play on other servers and tell us why they do. What about arranging some friendly matches? that will start and get our members interested again and even if they don’t want to play they will turn up to watch or practice with. If Crop is going to be absent for a while longer then let someone else take this on, Winston - Miraro? We have some interest for some L4D players but they don’t play ET nor will, look at one of the l4d servers http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/85.234.148.28:27960/ this is ranked 163rd in the world and has been played on by nearly 6400 people but if they are not interested in ET then we cant make them come here or on the ET servers and play, so I tell them we are an ET clan and not L4D clan. This is your clan and servers, let’s hear what you think and want.

Welcome to the site Anthony, hope you enjoy your stay.

Guys, Miraro has pm'd me with concerns about TM and my activity. He is right; I am not very active now and have not played any game for the last two weeks at least, either et or l4d. This does not mean though that I have walked away from TM, I am still committed to TM in other ways, I still maintain and improve both sites and forums, the new site took many, many hours to set up to work correctly, but not only this, the sites and servers cost money to run and I provide this for all sites and all but one of the servers that Doanld kindly pays for. We have many features available to us that other clans do not have, 3 teamspeak channels, an irc channel, unlimited server file downloads, unlimited storage for game files, photo's, YouTube video's and music streaming, unlimited email accounts etc etc I have never really been the leader of TM, but preferred to be more democratic about all the decisions of TM from recruiting and expelling of members to mods and maps installed on the servers, obviously some decisions regarding the safety of the sites and servers have to be made without consultation of members and this will always be so. I firmly believe that no member should be removed because of their inactivity no matter how long this is but would appreciate all members that do play, to do so on our servers. Regarding being the leader, I do not see this has my position, Donald looks after the jaymod server and is the contact for recruitment, Crop looks after clan wars (though we don’t seem to have any now), Winston, Donald and Crop moderate the forums and admin the servers. Perhaps we need to discuss who else can help with the promoting of TM? I see today that we have a new site and forum member so we still have the interest but probably need someone else who has the time and desire to promote us, any suggestions of who or how we can promote TM better can be discussed in a separate topic. Due to the shift pattern that mini and I work, we are not available on many Sundays, the last two and the next two included, and with the release of l4d 2 next week I can’t guarantee that I will be on ET in the coming weeks, myself, mini and two of the original members from seven years ago, fulloffish and the ripsnorter still game together on l4d, along with Maddy, Silverdot and Tiny, l4d has a small following in TM. Regarding ET, I am an old school player and prefer to play the game and try to do the objective has the game was developed for, I enjoy playing etpro, pure shooting ability and team work to get the objective done and not loads of xp and skill upgrades, if ever you have played against mini and I on the likes of Goldrush you will know that we defend the object to the death, be it the tank at the start or the gold crates later, that’s what ET is all about. Has Miraro says, the clan needs to see its leaders in the game to promote TM,I am still here for the financial and technical side of the operations but regarding constant server activity and promotion of TM I am not and perhaps this needs to be passed on to others to help Donald. I will post this also in the forums so any opinions can be voiced in public to all members.

He plays l4d and the l4d demo! He is on our steam list.

Sorted, took me less time to fix than it did him to delete and it pruned our none active members for us, some thing I just had not got round to. http://et.splatterladder.com/?mod=claninfo&idx=119505

Happy birthday young man :occasion-birthday: :occasion-cake:

You should not have to login every time you join now, found the cookie domain was wrong, it was set to .co.uk and not .com because I used the old forum database backup to retain all the posts.

Added some new maps and campaigns to the downloads section http://www.teammuppet.co.uk/l4d/modules.php?name=Downloads&cid=1 some of these are large! They are all zipped but the smallest map unzipped is 155meg and the silent hill campaign is 610meg unzipped, 265meg zipped so they will take a while to download.

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14352245/left-4-dead-2/videos/l4d2_gmp_swamp_092109.html http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14352245/left-4-dead-2/videos/lfd2_gmp_carousel_90409.html http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14352245/left-4-dead-2/videos/lfd2_gmp_baseballbat_90409.html http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14352245/left-4-dead-2/videos/lfd2_gmp_highwayfirekatana_90409.html

Looking at getting one of the l4d servers on to a 8 man survival only server and keeping the other for all modes, the servers are mainly full which means some times I cant get on either so increasing this to 8 man not only gives us more chance to get on but being only on survival mode means some people wont join anyway. I played on et last night until about 21:15, then me and mini went on one of our l4d servers at 22:00 and didn't come off until 04:00, solely playing survival mode with two other guys, loved it! What do you think to the survival mode Maddy? Have you played this on the new crash course campaign?

Ok mate, cheers, caught up with silverdot on steam and got him on the group.

OK, we will go with the new home page then, it's nearly ready.

You got a 184px avatar for the group then maddy?

I.D 1132085 http://steamcommunity.com/groups/themuppetclan/ Group TeamMuppet

After the disastrous steam update including the new download content I think, both L4D servers are now running correctly with the new maps installed.

Miraro, post a screen shot of the home page and the resolution and screen size of your monitor. Also check out the sites below to see how they look, http://www.teammuppet.com/mw2/ http://www.teammuppet.com/main/ http://www.mywebsitetesting.co.uk/newsite/ http://www.mywebsitetesting.co.uk/html/

http://teammuppet.co.uk/main/news.php

Server browser modules now added to home page.

There has been plenty of people on the servers with the tm tags on who are not in tm so its always best to post on here before confronting anyone, so well spotted. I have added a splatterladder link on the home page which still has a lot of the old members on, just to update with new and remove some really old and duplicate members when I have time.