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General / Magnum.

« on: December 06, 2004, 05:10:43 PM »

As I stated elsewhere, the cvar sk_plr_357 should control the amount of damage the magnum does.  If it doesn't work (I can't get it working on my test server), then it might be possible to write a plugin that did this, however, looking at the SDK, it wouldn't be too easy to write.  I don't know of any plugins that do this.

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If you tell me how to make a plugin, I could mod the SDK to pull it off.

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General / REQUIRED READING FOR PLAYERS

« on: December 06, 2004, 05:08:31 PM »

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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General / REQUIRED READING FOR PLAYERS

« on: December 05, 2004, 12:07:01 PM »

As said, spawncamping can be countered easily, and would help make our players better. While I think llama spawncamping is terrible, legitimate spawncamping in the hopes of building or taking things down I think should be just fine. But at the same time, it seems that many of the admins that DON'T PLAY NS are making these descisions.

...I find that just a tad ironic, myself.

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General / Magnum.

« on: December 05, 2004, 10:54:37 AM »

Why is it one shot kill weapons makes everyone so angry all the time....

Man valve was asking for it on that one.

One thing that did surprise me once, i got killed by a single madnum shot with 100 hp 100 armor

that's some magnum.

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Indeed. And being shot in the toe kills you too.

Also: Ah, it is true, the magnum does not go through things. But still, you must admit its overpowered :p

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General / Magnum.

« on: December 04, 2004, 09:40:31 PM »

Decimator and I tested the magnum out. It goes through nothing, not even a little cardboard box, which only got knocked out of my hands.

If someone is using the magnum, grab a barrel, crouch, and creep up on them until you can nail them with it.

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And proceed to get owned by every other Magnum wielding nub on the map

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General / Hi everyone, this is CWAG.

« on: December 04, 2004, 09:38:46 PM »

I too support unbanning. As long as he keeps his thoughts about religion from becoming insulting, then I'm fine with him.

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General / Magnum.

« on: December 04, 2004, 03:37:33 PM »

Mal, read my post: THE MAGNUM GOES THROUGH ANYTHING. Desks, barrels, toilets, radiators, filing cabinets- everything. The least we could do is get rid of its penetrative properties.

Having to wait till then is killing it off for me. I go in, want to have fun, and don't even get the chance because of the massive whorage. In NS we don't change it because unbalances are at least tolerable. Here, the game just ends because of that- and everyone quits because it isn't fun anymore.

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General / Magnum.

« on: December 03, 2004, 07:33:49 PM »

This is the 4th time in 2 days I've gone on a server, and all it is, is a magnum whoring session. You can't spawn without getting whored by one. Its a physical impossibility. It makes coming on the server not fun, and it removes any fun that it may have had thanks to the fact that it goes through any item you may be carrying with the grav gun(thus, no way to counter the weapon).

I'm looking to see who else here things the gun is so overpowered that we have it removed from MP until underpowered, or have LB himself alter damage on it to half of what it is.

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General / REQUIRED READING FOR PLAYERS

« on: December 03, 2004, 06:19:13 PM »

Here, for you people who seem to be too thick not to read it the first time:

The reason they/we fight for scripts is because we've spent time on them making the game easier for us personally(no advantage). Its like spending 2 hours working so that you can buy that MX1000 mouse, then when your done, being told you can't use it because "We say so", even though they don't even know the jist of it. It doesn't give a unfair advantage, its just simply a matter of preference. I find it funny that so many of you argue against it, and yet fail to ever learn anything about it.

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General / REQUIRED READING FOR PLAYERS

« on: December 02, 2004, 08:05:56 PM »

Scripting in NS seems unnecessary, I really can't see any advantage to it, and if there is one it must be small however I consider it to be unfair.

I don't use any scripts, never have and never well, I don't even know how to do it and I don't really want to. I play just fine without them, and so should everyone else, you do not need some extra boost, whether it has a placebo effect or not.

Seems all the scripts are good for is causing arguments and casting doubt on a player’s skill. I have to wonder why the problem was not headed off and scripting was not disabled from the beginning of NS. Now that many people have them removing the function would be much harder.

To be concise, scripts should be removed from the game, you are not a developer, you should not take game play into your own hands, play the game the way it was meant to be played.

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If the developer didn't want us to use scripts, THEY WOULD RESTRICT US FROM USING OR MAKING SCRIPTS. SIMPLY USING THE COMMAND "alias" WOULD BE MADE ILLEGAL. Notice, THEY HAVE NOT DONE THAT. Also note, that as for the sv_blockscripts, it turns out that ALL of the devs were against it, sans maybe one(Voog, and thats a maybe). Why did they implement it then? Because it was a highly requested feature.

Seriously here, half of you that are making these allogations seem to have never touched a script. The only scripts I use are for chatbinds(Roger that! Res tower or phase here! Orders? You don't see that everyday....thank God.), and otherwise, I'm without. But guess what? I don't look down on them either. You know why? They don't affect your skill. Theres no script in the world that could help you aim. Theres no script in the world to make you a better fade. Theres no script in the world that could be actually useful to make you blink/swipe or leap/bite. Theres no script in the world that is enabled in Half-Life that would give someone an unfair advantage. Using scripts is the way the game is meant to be played. If it wasn't, they would hardcode aliasing out, now wouldn't they?

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General / REQUIRED READING FOR PLAYERS

« on: December 02, 2004, 10:40:25 AM »

I've *never* heard of a script that can give you a advantage, except for the "press this to blink" script. Everything else I've seen is a advantagious bind.

For example: Mousewheel. I use this to BHop myself.  It gives me a much larger advantage than those using a 3jump script, because I can spam it 12 times in a second(or more), and they can only do it maybe 3 or 6 times.

Another example: The so-called "pistol script". AKA, just binding attack to the press and release of your attack key. Once again, a bind.

Also, as ben said, leap-bite scripts and blink-swipe scripts aren't used, and frankly, are about as worthless as you can make it.

Saying all scripts are bad is just as bad as when people say "Video games make killers."

And for those saying that they shouldn't mind to if they outlaw scripts or not, think about this: You spent a good hour or two working to get money for a MX1000, then someone saying you can't use it because it unbalances things. You CAN play without it, but you won't like it, or go down without a fight.

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General / Hi everyone, this is CWAG.

« on: December 02, 2004, 10:26:43 AM »

It seems though you were banned before I came along. In my opinion I think everyone deserves a chance to redemption...Humans were meant to make mistakes eventually.

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But well over 100 mistakes, all over a 2-3 month period? Thats a bit excessive.

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Well that's how Humans function.

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Not online. There are quite a few who online I've never seen make a "mistake", because they always think before they do. I'm guilty of not sometimes, but I don't do as bad as that.

CWaG: Yeah, I do take them as insults. How am I not supposed to take it as a insult when you call me a sheep?

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General / HL2DM rocks!

« on: December 02, 2004, 10:24:43 AM »

OMFG THESE FORUMS HAVE FAST REPLY!

Keyser, PR forum as bans aren't discussed anywhere else!

Bacon, Nice sig!

all you people who actually have Hl2 and a computer good enough to play it, be thankfull for that =(

Guspaz, it's refreshing to finally find someone who has the gaming is winning startegy

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You can probably run HL2 man. If you get 50+ fps in HL, I'm sure you could run HL2.

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General / Hi everyone, this is CWAG.

« on: December 01, 2004, 07:27:08 PM »

It seems though you were banned before I came along. In my opinion I think everyone deserves a chance to redemption...Humans were meant to make mistakes eventually.

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But well over 100 mistakes, all over a 2-3 month period? Thats a bit excessive.

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General / Hi everyone, this is CWAG.

« on: December 01, 2004, 05:46:56 PM »

what you say is simply not true. I think the worst thing I've ever said to you was I didn't like how religion turned people into puppets, and also, Nemesis does not feel that way because we correspond frequently over email. Also, we emailed me asking to discuss the term of an unban on IRC.

Please dont lie quan.

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Don't lie? Hey, I forgive more than most people, but frankly, I'd like to go and search up all the things you said about Christianity if their still around. You said some VERY hateful things, that frankly, got me in a uproar, along with most of my Christian AND non Christian closer friends- because frankly, even then, saying it turns people into puppets is like saying that Government gives people money. Sure, it happens once in a while, but generally, they do the opposite.

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General / REQUIRED READING FOR PLAYERS

« on: November 30, 2004, 07:19:33 PM »

Legionnaired I like your idea.  To me the idea of a perma ban is a little harsh for one infraction.  I understand why a reg would get banned for spawn camping or recycling base, but perma banning a random puber for doing something that is common on other servers seams a little harsh.  This is especially true after Steam came out and people can no longer read the rules while joining.  I vote for a week temp ban on pubers who brake the rules and only use prema bans on complete jerks and res sloters who knowingly broke the rules.  I know I'm not a admin, but that method seams a little more fair to me.

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I too agree, and am willing to put myself up for public humiliation!(its fun!)

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General / REQUIRED READING FOR PLAYERS

« on: November 30, 2004, 11:22:09 AM »

I don't think anyone's about to ban you for a statement, so long as its not a flame.

My opinion is covered in the big text file, I can see bits and pieces of my viewpoint there.

Ban system works, the only real problem is when people decide that the server rules are dumb and therefore feel exempt to following them. Justification of server settings/rules etc is all very well but lets not forget the example of the NS.org forums - one thread over 30 pages long full of a circular argument. Some people will not be happy with a "bs_1" server on pure principle, and will not accept any argument against their viewpoint. You can't have a mature discussion with these people.

I always thought it was to LMs credit that the banhammer is wielded against the nub and the elite with equal vigour. Its just the scores of nameless griefers never make a thread in PR about it, or run off to the NS.org forums to start a quest for the holy grail. Sure, some of the NS community will think "ogm tehy are banning teh clannorz" but anyone who's been on the server knows its not the case.

Look at servers where clanners have wilfully been banned on sight. They're clearing all their bans because they're dying. Yet LM is still pretty full and has a community with a broad range of skills, despite the propaganda of being a banhappy server. I'm not saying the server is perfect, but on some level SOMETHING is being done right.

As for the downward slide in NS gaming, I lay the blame squarely at the feet of a less than exciting B5, to the point where if I have a spare 15 minutes I'd rather blast through C&C than have a formulaic and stilted game. In fact I'm taking a break from C&C now, go figure.

I'll say this for LB and the admin team, I remember a game where I threw a hissy fit because I believed that we were being horribly spawncamped with the game being dragged out. Now, I wasn't banned, I wasn't griefed, I wasn't called a noob.. we had a rational discussion afterwards, shared our viewpoints, and it was all settled amicably. So anyone who picks up a line where LB is the powercrazy admin of banhammering doom, and means it SERIOUSLY, is working on a flawed premise in my eyes. Not unless a switch has been flicked sometime recently. And yes I have played games alongside the Onos.

"<Anonymous37> You wouldn't come over as a guest in his house and then whine that his "no feet on the couch rule" is lame and he should throw it out"

Gold star for that person. I know some people don't like the concept of "my way or the highway" but thats how the world works. NS is made the way Flayra wants it, LM run how LB likes it run, Star Wars is made as Lucas sees fit. Sure, we might not all like how it works, but that doesn't give us any real right to having them change it to suit us.


Anyhow, roll on B6. Hopefully it'll break up the formulaic play and make things a bit more enjoyable for us all.





Edit - I have no beef with Mal (not on my end), tbh it was fun to have a fellow person who suffered slotkicks and having to stay awake at unholy hours to get into a game. But I don't run the server. Fair enough I'm not on the server much anymore but jobhunting, dull play, and 7am starts mean I can't afford to stay awake late at night for sporadic gaming sessions of varying enjoyment.

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As to a specific line- "Anyone on the server knows that we don't ban clanners", I guess you haven't thought of me, Malibu Stacey, Leggionnaired, or anyone that doesn't look at clanners as a whole as bad people. Its obvious LM hates clanners, and I think its BS- and I've played on the server just as much, if not more, than 90% of the community. Malibu Stacey, when he wasn't banned, was there even more than me, and after 4+ months, STILL never got his RS, but instead, was banned for something he said in another channel altogether. And he was one of the prime things that made the server a better place, because unlike most of you, he believed that if people knew about the problems, they'd try and fix them. Sadly, because he had a vet icon and was a known clanner, no one listened to him. And because I am a known clan sympathizer, and go about things in a crude way, no one listened to me. The only reason people listened to Archi is because A: he's an admin, and B: he basically kissed ass to get them to say things(no offense Arch <3). I WAS telling everyone 2+ months ago how LM needs to clean itself up badly, and learn its old role all over again, because I knew that the regulars weren't liking it as much overall- especially when so many were leaving for piss poor reasons.

It just isn't right that we have to put up with BS rules at a place that didn't used to have them. Because as your anology from 37 about "You wouldn't go into someone's home and say the no feet on the couch rule was lame", I could equally say you BETTER say somethings wrong when you go into someone's house and find the dad raping the daughter. Sure, its a rule that she must get raped every day, but is it right? No, not even if she enjoys it. Saying we should just abide by rules doesn't make anything better.

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General / Hi everyone, this is CWAG.

« on: November 30, 2004, 11:14:04 AM »

After all this I really can't see him behaving badly if he were un-banned.

The NS community is, as far as I can see, in no position to be tossing out well known members for, IMO, shady reasoning. He had apologized multiple times, and has a decent sized "un-ban movement" which speaks for it's self.

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Half the reason the "unban" movement is even there is because of the fact that whenever there was a even halfway religious post, thread, or person, he flamed it/them to death, constantly. If he honestly means sorry, fine, but frankly, on the ns.com forums, he deserved that ban a lot earlier than he got it. Hell, he called me, my religion, and anyone involved with it "Pedophiles", "Morons", "Liberals", "Bleeding Hearts", and several other derogative terms, because of stereotypes or the hope of a laugh. Nem0 doesn't want to talk to CWaG because of the fact that so many people are trying to get him unbanned, and it WILL NEVER HAPPEN. No one has ever, or will ever, be unbanned by them, especially with the warning system they have.

If you think he got the short end of the stick, check out my reason for a 1 week temp susp- calling someone a "12 year old idiot who couldn't use a program easier than his OS". For all the things CWaG said about MANY people all over the forums, if they could, Nem0 probably would have thrust him into a pit of angry Christians/Muslims/Jews/Hindus/Shintohs and more.

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Off Topic / HD pwnt

« on: November 24, 2004, 10:15:54 AM »

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...yeah.

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General / How Did You Find Ns?

« on: November 02, 2004, 10:27:40 AM »

PCGamer April 2003. I first played on March 20th, 2003. Watched the flash slideshow tutorial. Played, loved the atmosphere. v.1.04 ftw