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Wakim wrote:
ukickmydog wrote:

For what it's worth, I think we've been kicking people way too quickly / frequently lately, especially on non-full servers. If a person isn't trolling, I see no reason 95% of the time to be kicking people when the server isn't full. Also, I prefer to mess around with people instead of just straight out kicking them. It's funner and it keeps the server population up. Like if someone has an offensive name, I'll use the admin name change ability and force change their name instead of just kicking them :)

I tend to agree with this. I get very frustrated some times when I look at the team, and see two snipers/spys/scouts at the bottom of the list of contributor are realize that is a big reason why we are failing. I don't think I'd mind if those people are kicked for performance after a few warnings, but we should make sure they know why. BrainHz does a great job of letting people know, and tormenting them verbally if they don't rethink their strategy. More of that would be more helpful than just kicking people.

Also, when tormented, the real assholes will smart-off back, giving reason for kicking. The good ones (people, not necessarily players) will take the hint, eventually.

tboon wrote:
Psych wrote:
pgroce wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

Walken Dead (pgroce)

I'm starting to think I should get someone to change my name on here to Walken Dead, as it seems to have stuck on Steam and it would reduce confusion. Any idea whom I should pester for that, and if it's worth it?

Many people have done it, I don't believe it is much of a hassle. Just PM Certis if you decide you want to change.

Yeah Certis will take care of it.

-- Nightmare

Oh yeah, where did that Nightmare guy go ?

Queueball wrote:
MrAndrewJ wrote:

This one's for EvilHomer. ... rest of quote

It's not the pubbies that we get frustrated with. It's the pubbies that don't listen.

I can see that.

I mostly answered because I didn't want EvilHomer to feel bad about telling us how to do our stuff. It can be helpful. Otherwise I just kind of assume that the Internet has no shortage of people to get angry at.

Mex wrote:
tboon wrote:
Psych wrote:
pgroce wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

Walken Dead (pgroce)

I'm starting to think I should get someone to change my name on here to Walken Dead, as it seems to have stuck on Steam and it would reduce confusion. Any idea whom I should pester for that, and if it's worth it?

Many people have done it, I don't believe it is much of a hassle. Just PM Certis if you decide you want to change.

Yeah Certis will take care of it.

-- Nightmare

Oh yeah, where did that Nightmare guy go ?

What, I can be Datin here now instead of a name that confuses people when they try to pronounce it? Well heck I'll get right on that.

Also, more TF2 tonight. Need to get back into the groove after my horrible ping-filled night last night.

Datyedyeguy wrote:

What, I can be Datin here now instead of a name that confuses people when they try to pronounce it? Well heck I'll get right on that. :)

Please do! Even though I've finally figured out how to pronounce it, it still doesn't look right. It's Dat Yed Ye-guy! =)

The GWJ Powers That Be said that one-time name changes are okay if it's to conform to your Steam (or other) nickname. Tboon and I have both done it.

Mex wrote:
tboon wrote:
Psych wrote:
pgroce wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

Walken Dead (pgroce)

I'm starting to think I should get someone to change my name on here to Walken Dead, as it seems to have stuck on Steam and it would reduce confusion. Any idea whom I should pester for that, and if it's worth it?

Many people have done it, I don't believe it is much of a hassle. Just PM Certis if you decide you want to change.

Yeah Certis will take care of it.

-- Nightmare

Oh yeah, where did that Nightmare guy go ?

I don't know, but I'm glad he's gone. That guys was a world-class jerk.

Fun game to watch. Love the sword Walker uses. Ending of the match is also really funny.

Brian and I are so mad still.

EvilHomer3k wrote:

We can check with Dimmer on the replay. Since we rarely use the private any more (thanks to people like Moo) I don't know that we need it on there any longer. The setup isn't too difficult, though.

My hosting account has more capacity than I will ever reasonably use. I should probably hop on that account and wipe the past howeverlongworth of old replays, but I'm fine with the pub pointing to the same spot that the private used, if we'll be disabling it there.

One caveat: the shared server my hosting account is on has unlimited upload/download limits, but not unlimited bandwidth. I remember some folks complaining that the private was a little less responsive when we added replays, and a pub server is likely to be more demanding in that regard.

So, it may be that I don't have a big enough connection on this box to support doing replays on the pub, but I'm game to try.

Also: it was very nice of folks to let me MVP a couple rounds earlier tonight. A kind welcome-back gift, and very appreciated.

evilseed wrote:

Brian and I are so mad still.

IMAGE(http://ct.fra.bz/ol/fz/sw/i55/2/10/18/frabz-hey--U-MAD-BRO-b22111.jpg)

Seriously though, when the hell are they going to fix the terrible lung capacity in this game?

Also

IMAGE(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/19865538.jpg)

I can honestly say that is the first time I've heard complaints about lung capacity in TF2.

SpyXpert let me down last night. I was very sad.

EvilHomer3k wrote:

I can honestly say that is the first time I've heard complaints about lung capacity in TF2.

Weird pubby talk from last night.

ukickmydog wrote:

SpyXpert let me down last night. I was very sad.

Bristles is not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed.

You and Dimmer still owe me. I accepted the trade but it never connected, I'm pretty sure you sabotaged it.

Gumbie wrote:

I'm pretty sure you sabotaged it.

I bristle at that suggestion sir.

Anyone have experience with scripting? I am trying to bind a key to say a lot of text into voice chat. The max characters in text chat is about 125 and What I'm typing is about 200+ characters. Here's what I have so far:

alias "dumbassscout" "dumbassscout1;wait 150;dumbassscout2"
alias "dumbassscout1" "say Hey, SCOUT player. Try pyro/soldier/med. If you MUST play scout then flank or get behind them and go for the medic."
alias "dumbassscout2" "say Harass and run away towards their spawn. Pick off lone players or people retreating. Use Bonk to get behind them then destroy teleports."
bind "]" "dumbassscout"

I can bind both of those to separate keys and they both work. I can switch the order of the first line to run dumbass2 first and that works. The full alias only runs one of them, though. No errors or anything it just ignores the second alias. If I set the alias to "dumbassscout1;wait 150; +attack" it works fine.

Walken Dead wrote:

Hey check out my new forum name - pretty spiffy, huh?

I agree.

Hey I just wanted to think Wakim on this thread for gifting me the Strange Festive Huntsman last night.

Spoiler:

Not a euphemism, jerks

I haven't come up with a good name for it yet. Suggestions welcome!

evilseed wrote:

Brian and I are so mad still.

OH GOD I FORGOT! I AM SO ANGRY!

Dimmerswitch wrote:
Walken Dead wrote:

Hey check out my new forum name - pretty spiffy, huh?

I agree.

Thanks! I may need to make the avatar more matchy-matchy. OTOH, Ikea TARDIS guy. So conflicted.

Also:

IMAGE(http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/559837033789177934/E242D3D1F11EDD9A9365CAAF89ABC17C4ECAF837/)

MyBrainHz wrote:

Also:

IMAGE(http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/559837033789177934/E242D3D1F11EDD9A9365CAAF89ABC17C4ECAF837/)

I found an ubersaw, yay!

ukickmydog wrote:
MyBrainHz wrote:

Also:

IMAGE(http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/559837033789177934/E242D3D1F11EDD9A9365CAAF89ABC17C4ECAF837/)

I found an ubersaw, yay!

The more shocking revelation here is that cp_foundry won the map vote.

Spoiler:

I love cp_foundry

Walken Dead wrote:

Sounds like you want Povohat's Random sh*tterbind Script. Here's it's distilled essence:

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

Sounds like you want Povohat's Random sh*tterbind Script. Here is its distilled essence:

bind ANY_KEY +smiley_dice // pick a key, any key alias smiley1 "say Hey scout, flank." alias smiley2 "say Hey scout, flank!" alias smiley3 "say Hey scout, flank!!" alias smiley4 "say Hey scout, flank!!!" alias smiley5 "say Dammit scout, don't solo the heavy!" alias dumbassscout_waiton "alias diceroll smiley_next; smiley_next" alias dumbassscout_nowait "smiley_cycle" alias smiley_diceroll_1 "alias smiley_result smiley1;alias smiley_cycle smiley_diceroll_2" alias smiley_diceroll_2 "alias smiley_result smiley2;alias smiley_cycle smiley_diceroll_3" alias smiley_diceroll_3 "alias smiley_result smiley3;alias smiley_cycle smiley_diceroll_4" alias smiley_diceroll_4 "alias smiley_result smiley4;alias smiley_cycle smiley_diceroll_5" alias smiley_diceroll_5 "alias smiley_result smiley5;alias smiley_cycle smiley_diceroll_1" alias +smiley_dice "alias waitcheck_pass dumbassscout_waiton;alias waitcheck_fail dumbassscout_nowait;waitcheck_test" alias -smiley_dice "smiley_result;alias diceroll " alias smiley_next "smiley_cycle;wait 5;diceroll" alias smiley_cycle smiley_diceroll_1 // Wait-checking script alias waitcheck_fail "echo >> WAIT DISABLED ON SERVER" alias waitcheck_pass "echo >> WAIT ENABLED ON SERVER" alias waitcheck_test2 "wait 10;alias waitcheck_result waitcheck_pass" alias waitcheck_test "waitcheck_test2;alias waitcheck_result waitcheck_fail;wait 15;waitcheck_result"

I haven't used it, and I may have subtly broken it by dressing it up (but I don't think so). Good luck.

(e: It's me. I solo the heavy.)

I'm going to write a strongly worded letter to Robin Walker re: Lung capacity in TF2, can I count on your signatures guys? Thanks

Mex wrote:

I'm going to write a strongly worded letter to Robin Walker re: Lung capacity in TF2, can I count on your signatures guys? Thanks

Make a petition on whitehouse.gov. I'll sign it.

EvilHomer3k wrote:

Anyone have experience with scripting? I am trying to bind a key to say a lot of text into voice chat. The max characters in text chat is about 125 and What I'm typing is about 200+ characters. Here's what I have so far:

alias "dumbassscout" "dumbassscout1;wait 150;dumbassscout2"
alias "dumbassscout1" "say Hey, SCOUT player. Try pyro/soldier/med. If you MUST play scout then flank or get behind them and go for the medic."
alias "dumbassscout2" "say Harass and run away towards their spawn. Pick off lone players or people retreating. Use Bonk to get behind them then destroy teleports."
bind "]" "dumbassscout"

I can bind both of those to separate keys and they both work. I can switch the order of the first line to run dumbass2 first and that works. The full alias only runs one of them, though. No errors or anything it just ignores the second alias. If I set the alias to "dumbassscout1;wait 150; +attack" it works fine.

If I'm not mistaken, our server is set to sv_pure 1 and I'm pretty sure wait doesn't work on sv_pure 1. So, you're essentially trying to say two things at once.

Pants, this is what I was talking about on the particle error last night

http://steamcommunity.com/app/440/di...

Gumbie wrote:

Pants, this is what I was talking about on the particle error last night

http://steamcommunity.com/app/440/di...

I don't think that was the same error I was getting. I'll make sure to check again just to make sure. I've just assumed my lag was because of my internet being pretty sh*tty lately but everything in net_graph looks fine.

TLDR MvM STRATEGY GUIDE

PRIORITIES

Scout

1. Get Money
2. Milk DPS Robots
3. Mark for Death Giant Robots
4. Kill Snipers
5. Do damage
Pro Move: Reset bomb with Force-a-Nature

Pyro

1. Poof the bomb
2. Get Money unless Scout can
3. Kill Spies
4. Kill Snipers
5. Do Damage
Pro Move: Switch to Phlogistinator JUST FOR TANKS

Heavy

1. Fuss at engineer about minutia of dispenser placement
2. No closer to the corner
3. No that’s too close
4. Shoot Tiny Babies

Demo

1. Kill Medics with Sticky Bombs

Soldier

1. Change Class unless you think you can out DPS a heavy, given that robot heavies can shoot down your rockets.
2. Stand by the heavy when your buff banner is active.

Engineer

1. Keep the Dispenser up
2. Keep the Gun up
3. Be the first one to fall back
4. Know where you are going to fall back to.

Sniper

1. Change Class.
2. Max explosive headshots before anything else.
3. Explosive headshots won’t kill a giant robot but will kill all the normal ones standing around it.
4. Don’t miss
5. There shouldn’t be one f*cking robot sniper alive
6. You’re still going to end up getting pressured to change class

Medic

1. Change Class
2. Wield the KritzKrieg

Spy

1. Change Class
2. Don’t get killed by THE FIRST f*ckING ROBOT
3. JUST STAY INVISIBLE AND GET MONEY
4. WHAT ARE YOU DOING