Coward players, I hate you all

[pgh]

As I mentioned on Manny’s thread http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=8220 I see the following happening more and more on ET servers:

Take this scenario, it happened again and again on the servers I played on yesterday -

I join mid-campaign (even on normal 3 mappers) and notice that Allies are having a hard time. My spec screen is looking at the beach on Battery and all I see is Allies running up the beach totally aimlessly into smoke (bad arty smoke) and gunfire and grenades and panzers. Axis has at least twice as much XP as Allies, and often, a few more players.

But none of these cowards would even think to switch teams, for fear it would (omg \o/) affect their leet kill/death ratio, or maybe (omg, even worse \o/) it might even mean they would have to actually put some genuine effort into playing the game they claim to be so f**king fantastic at.

Then come the players that are even bigger cowards than those wankers. You see them connecting:

xxx!iaml33t connected

Then they wait until some gentlemen of the game, like my dumb self (), join Allies, until they can finally join their cowardly brethren.

These are the worst, for it is usually this lowest form of scum that will begin to taunt Allies as soon as they begin playing.

xxx!iaml33t: omg noob Allies
xxx!iaml33t: pnwed
xxx!iaml33t: The enemy is weakened! (global spam)
xxx!iaml33t: Great shot! (to himself)

etc
etc

Then arguments arise when Allies try to be reasonable pointing out that the teams are obviously uneven. And when I say uneven I don’t even mean in terms of XP, I mean in general terms of skill and ability.

eRRoL: Come on guys this is getting boring.
xxx!iaml33t: shut up noob, zzz
xxx!iaml33t: Wunderbar!

The teams are now 10 v 7 (some smarter people than myself having jumped server). You call a vote for a shuffle, and watch the NOs race up. Oh the cowards have fast reflexes to get to their F1 key when that vote is called. “OMG I might get switched to Allies and have to PLAY this game F1 F1 F1!!!”

Battery ends (the map is not necessarily Battery - I am not taking about map design or anything here - I am talking only about the fairness of players and balanced teams) with a very low-morale Allied team. And into another wipeout in Goldrush. People, like xxx!iaml33t, will say shit like:

xxx!iaml33t: a noob team don’t get camped

I am not even talking about getting camped - camping is fine if the teams are even because your team can fight out of it eventually - I am talking about your cowardice and your smugness of playing as part of a team that is made of players that are probably twice as skillful as you, but who are at least not spamming Allies with verbal abuse.

Very rarely the Allied team will get its act together at some point and play well and, say, make good ground in Goldrush or whatever the map might be, because one or two of the better Axis players have left the game. And even though the teams are now even in numbers (eventually), watch these mouthy cowards run, they run so fast that you don’t even get the satisfaction of beating them. As soon as the sniff a loss or a beating they will run to some other server and be a coward there all over again.

Well I just want to say that if you are one of these players, I fucking hate you, and I hope I never meet you on any server that hosts the beautiful game of ET.

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Has anybody got any suggestions for good servers where an average player like myself can find a good, fair game of ET (ETPro preferably)? There must be some out there. Everyone always says the clan stopwatch servers, but I really don’t have the level of skill of those guys. I am just an average player who loves the game.

Welcome to world of online gaming. :]

If you think this is bad, you should have seen CS and TFC in its day…

[ElderNewb]

i think half the problem is that the auto balance on some servers isn’t on so you got to be a lot more careful on which server you go on. If there is no auto balance then you’ve got to put up with that problem

[PH1]

Cheers for the kind words and (for want of a better words) and grumbles re the Mustard Servers.

Balanced games is always the aim, however you will always get guy’s and gal’s that cannot play without holding hands.

I will always swap when the teams are stacked or force an XP-shuffle, if ppl are not willing to to even the score.

A balanced game is far more attractive than a heavily stacked ass whoopin’.

I will pass on the input to the other guys.

A nana for ya all.

[Usayd]

Ehem, not all minors are admin whores
shame my clan doesn’t think that way

[SenF_Schmidt]

As Doddsy has said before me, thank you all for your comments, both positive and negative. The SenF members do try to run fair and playable servers as best as we can.

I know that I, and I only speak for myself with this, my fellow members are more then capable if not more then me to run the servers, do not tolerate abuse of any kind. Spawnkilling, spawncamping, verbal abuse, spamming, and the like only ruin public play. I do ask offenders to stop but when they continue I have gone so far as to kick them from the game. I do toss shuffle votes when things start to look lopsided. Once in a while I will force a shuffle to try and balance teams for more then exp but for skill as well.

If I upset people, I apologize, but public play has its rules to ensure fair and pleasant play for all skill levels and ages. I will not apologize for doing what I think is best for fair play. I want to enjoy this game as much as a new player wants to learn how.

Sometimes things just happen. SenF members are not the kind to break our own rules intentionally. A slip of the mouse while using binoculars as a field op can have interesting results. Mistakes happen. I am not trying to make excuses for others actions but it does happen.

We were all ‘noobs’ and ‘rookies’ at one time or another…

[bandit5k]

I remember the days of TFC. Played on a couple of good servers. Rest were full of assholes that called you a “n00b” when they sniped you on well…Then i went a conced them and crowbared the shit out of them.
CS was ever worse. If your the last man standing. And the opposing team has 3. You get a 2 and the last one kills you. Your whole team thinks your a n00b. When your the last in a last man standing you feel as though the wieght of the world is on your shoulders…
As Shrike and BB said, Splashdamage server is a well admined and fair gaming server. Good players and even game play.

[pgh]

Its the pressure of being the last man standing that normally results in close action packed games where every bit of play is important.

Check out any decent clan/pro team HL/CSTV demos or videos and you’ll see… dito goes for say Q3Clan Area… you always go that extra way to do anything and everything even if it just those extra hit points over frags…