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« on: December 03, 2004, 07:10:50 PM »
Blockscripts only keeps clanners that casually pub away from your server. A fair amount of the serious players stay away because they don't like getting banned and/or harrassed while playing.
I believe the inane rules which are selectively inforced to be at the root of the problem. The "no advertising" one for instance keeps me from wearing my tag on your server (I'm #cri.nner by the way). I found this to be an assinine rule but seeing as how it isn't my server I went along. Apparently the admins failed to see the humour when I changed my name to "POUNDcri.nner" as a compromise. Since then I've been banned every time I join the server, without warning, no matter what I change my name to.
Everybody make such a big deal about mp_bs 1 but most people seriously could care less as there are plenty of both servers. I personally could care less whether or not you decide to run with mp_blockscripts on or off. I choose to use a 2jump and 3jump script for scrim/clan play but I can rebind my keys quite quickly for servers where the admin thinks it gives me some advantage. I do this on a number of other servers that I frequent.
Plain and simple the reason why other servers have much larger communities is because they choose to just let people play the game instead of enforcing arbitrary rules with the banhammer. If someone is using an aimbot, ban the :Der, but are you just going to keep on banning everyone else just because they don't play the way you want them to?