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Events / Re: Lax GCs

« on: September 20, 2012, 02:41:03 AM »

Tonight was another one of these nights. Trip knows what I'm talking about. Had an Enguard vs. the world match and literally every player on the opposing team other than one player had 400ms or more, at random. Archer, Red, a few others. The claim is that the "level lags them" when confronted about why they lag in no other events.

Some, it's just blatantly obvious. When someone like Archer or Pattarat (or whatever the hell his name is) modem taps, it's horrendously obvious. Archer actually tried modem tapping in a CTF game last night and he MISSED the flag, was hilarious. Entered the flag level, tapped, and when he untapped he was running back to his base without the flag. Smooth.

Either Classic had players who have awkward lag problems in 2012, or Classic has players who are willing to do damn near anything to win a CTF. Spoiling events is gonna drive players away though, can promise that much.

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Events / Lax GCs

« on: September 15, 2012, 01:16:50 AM »

If there's one thing that is going to drive any significant portion of players away from Classic (other than the hit detection that only morons can't figure out), it'll be the relaxed attitude of GCs.

I'm aware that Classic has always had events that involve player participation and unique ideas. I appreciate and understand the role of a GC, and they're all friendly and social, etc. I've played every day since the server was relaunched and I'm sitting on 331 GC tickets right now, so I've played a lot of events.

Examples of glaring issues I'm noticing:

• Any player that intentionally lags themself, makes it incredibly obvious, yet still remains in the game
• Anyone who plays just to "sabotage" their team, yet is still (for some reason) allowed in a team game by a GC

Just played two CTFs in a row with a player who, on defense, would Tab in front of the entrance to the flag platform (causing them to basically freeze and remain unhittable) and would very, very blatantly "modem tap" in some way or another to run the flag without even being seen. GCs either have to start noticing this or they have to start punishing players who do this more severely.

I don't think anyone can argue that after you've done the quest, all you've got left are events, sparring, and PKing. Spar and PK is practically dead outside of events, so there you go. I've seen this stuff frustrate players firsthand, and it's frustrated me. It's not fun or engaging to sit through a 20-minute event and then end up losing just because someone on the other team knows how to stress the hell out of their upload or pull their ethernet cable out of the port.

I know the Classic community is pretty close-knit and you guys just take some of the communities abnormalities (for example, Skyzer's imbalanced emotions in half of team events) in stride and deal with it, but it's 2012 and players are spread pretty thin. I think that if you guys want to be able to hold on to a good portion of players who want to contribute to the competitive nature of Classic, then people are going to have to stop blatantly cheating and doing stupid things to ruin the enjoyment of others.