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Off Topic / Doh

« on: January 27, 2004, 08:02:34 PM »

I'll have to try that sometime..
Although, I don't think any good sites are blocked..
I found them trying to block sites with a hosts file, which kinda disappeared right away (honestly, I don't know where it went :p )

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Off Topic / Doh

« on: January 27, 2004, 03:37:29 PM »

If it works anything like mine, try a direct link to the forums.. using http://www.lunixmonster.org/forums/index.php should work..
I think any rejected sites are looked at on mine, and determined if they should be blocked.. Penny-Arcade was blocked for awhile, and now its not

Theres no way I know of to bypass it easily - Its not a "proxy", thats configured in ie... its something thats in between the routers and the network connection

Try bringing in Mozilla on a disk, see if that bypasses it

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Off Topic / Www.natural-selection.org/forums

« on: January 27, 2004, 03:32:02 PM »

I suggest, that they totally clear both the Bugs and I&S forums (I&S esp, there is still stuff there from 1.0).. The bugs forum needs to be kept on top of

Perfect time to upgrade the forum software (maybe its a bug in the software, because of the large number of posts)

a simply rm of all the posts would probably clear up the problems, and get rid of all the useless stuff too..

The bandwidth is probably coming from the 4000 "Funny Screeny Threads".  that a few people managed to find, and sat there looking at

Did anyone think that maybe ther forums were being indexed by a search engine?

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General / Ns 3.0 Thoughts

« on: January 26, 2004, 07:52:38 PM »

I see a lot of potential in 3.0.  Combat will gain a lot of players, while still encourgeing teamwork (due to the fact you get xp if your near the person that got a kill).

Its just very very unbalanced..
Aliens:
SC is utterly useless, cloak is nerfed so much, theres no point in getting it (Come on, 3 seconds to cloak? Then turning the mouse too fast causes uncloak)... Focus is useless in anything past very early game.. and SoF isn't used much anyway

DC is a bit better, hasn't changed much.. it needs a faster heal rate though

MC hasnt changed at all

Skulks are pretty good, they die a bit too fast now
Lerks suck.. the new flight model is all messed up (They need to combine the new and old), spikes are gone, meaning the lerk only has spores as a long range attack
Gorges are still doing ok, although the general structure costs needs to be decreased a little bit
Fades.. havent played as one yet, cant tell
Onos.. needs to go back to its 2.0 stage.. it should be a tank, it should cost 100 res, it should be a pain in the ass to kill.. It now needs about 1000 hp, just because of how quickly it dies

General alien gameplay is reduced though, the amount of res the aliens get per tick with no rts is about 0.0000001.. meaning that a rush to the aliens starting rt will set them back.. and marines win..  

Conclusion: The aliens suck, because people learned how to use them in 2.0, and all the marine players started complaining.

Marines:
Now have grenades, which hurt the lerk even more..
Got a useless updgrade (cat-packs)
Have beacon screwed over, it now moves live marines back to base, even if they were already there.
Elec now extends very far out, making it a pain to take anything out as a skulk

I have concluded that the game is now very unbalanced.. Combat needs to be dropped, until Ns can be balanced..

</RANT>

I'm loosing faith in the NS community.. the "veterans" think they become all-knowing when they get that little icon (I witnessed one tell the other to "keep him on the clan list" so he could keep his icon)  The people who donate become infected with this veteran stuff (most, not all)..
The I&S forums have become just a novelty.. The good ideas sink to the bottom, while bad ones stay at the top.. I find myself wondering how some of the people remember to breath daily.. and any attempt I make at improving that forum is met with hostility.
I don't want to see NS turn into CS.. but I fear it is slowly happening (/me holds his copy of 1.04 protectively)

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General / For Lb

« on: January 25, 2004, 05:26:47 PM »

See the news stuff? Is that hardcoded?
I thought it might be possible to link it to new posts in the annoucements forum.. meaning it would be updated whenever someone posts there

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General / For Lb

« on: January 25, 2004, 04:35:48 PM »

Now what would be cool is if cracks news came from the announcements forum

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General / For Lb

« on: January 23, 2004, 08:54:53 PM »

My comp reports a corrupted archive..

You did these in "frontPage"? Why not use something like dreamweaver..

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General / Don't Comm Like This

« on: January 22, 2004, 07:52:35 PM »

Its better then the comm who gets in the comm chair in a small game, and goes afk.. meaning he cant be ejected, until the game gets bigger
That was not a fun game..

And I'd rather have someone do that if noone will comm to start with, so we don't loose right away

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Off Topic / The Amazing 'post Your Desktop' Thread

« on: January 22, 2004, 07:41:34 PM »

U-235: The reason I did that was because its the same thing we can't talk about on IRC, I figured the same rule applied on public forums.

Bob: Yea, it doesn't seem to like commandline stuff, I'm using seperate shortcuts for my hlds stuff, which seems to work fine, although its inconvenient

I'm trying to figure out how to have the number of unread emails on my desktop too.. which means I have to parse the stuff from yahoo main, or code a pop client

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General / What's Your Playing Style

« on: January 22, 2004, 07:30:29 PM »

The only problem I have with the fade is running out of adren.. I always run out at the least oppurtune time

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Off Topic / Www.natural-selection.org/forums

« on: January 22, 2004, 03:33:06 PM »

/me envisions the forums coming up without being able to upload stuff

:/ I'll actually have to use the ftp that my isp provides

Now would be a perfect time for them to update the forum software

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Off Topic / Play, Play, Play

« on: January 21, 2004, 08:09:07 PM »

Hm, write plugins for mods.
Play more.
Chat on IRC.
Robotics (at school)
Play more.
Customize XP some more

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Off Topic / The Amazing 'post Your Desktop' Thread

« on: January 21, 2004, 04:47:33 PM »

I give you version 2 (56k warning, about 1mb) of my desktop
Now I just have a few icons to remove

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General / Comming Woes

« on: January 21, 2004, 03:43:35 PM »

edsf seems pretty good, I just need to adjust to it (my fingers work by where the buttons should be, so I keep switching to my pistol when I try to goto my lmg)

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Off Topic / The Amazing 'post Your Desktop' Thread

« on: January 19, 2004, 06:36:59 PM »

And yes, I use almost all of that stuff.. and no thats not the resolution I run at
And all the blurred icocns some of you may recognize and realize why
Bob, where can I get the basic html for that?

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General / So Many Newbies...

« on: January 16, 2004, 07:37:19 AM »

Hm.. Does this mean I am going to have to expand on this plugin I'm starting to include f4 blocking if the teams are equal?

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General / Just A Friendly 'heads Up'

« on: January 15, 2004, 05:43:45 PM »

Oooh yea, I just put it here because I thought it would fit this more

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General / Just A Friendly 'heads Up'

« on: January 15, 2004, 05:17:04 PM »

I'll suggest a possible solution.  A plugin.
One that does not take effect until at least 2 players use a command within a minute (or less) of each other.
What this plugin does, is check if the teams are off by more then 1, if they are, and there are people in the readyroom, it sends them to the team.. (Possibly even non-admin spectators)
If there still are not enough people, it f4's some of the bigger team, and switches them to the smaller team.

There would also be a command for the admins that does the same thing.

I guess I'm gonna take a look at the differences between AMX scripting and AdminMod.. if they aren't that different, I can make this plugin for you

Does this seem like a good idea to everyone?

This also means if you want to have largly unbalanced teams, you can, and the plugin won't yank you back.

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Media / Fun With Cwag!

« on: January 14, 2004, 08:01:42 PM »

I guess noone here reads Penny Arcade, and the cardboard tube ninja

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General / Any Progress On Sven?

« on: January 14, 2004, 07:58:48 PM »

I thought someone might know if any of the server stability issues have been fixed - I want to play sven again, but its hard to play with people I don't know :/