Clarity, and Ideas for the Gungame

[Rosie]

Camping - Strategic vs Wasting everyones time.

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Per Autumn.

Autumn | ibis.a: I'd like the option to punish either removed or against the rules to punish for nade round.

I agree the camping idea/rule is something that would be best served by putting it in the rules. IE- time limit-Scope vs no scope. As Autumn said the nade round punishment is not needed, since it has no bearing on the game itself. There should be a rule about running away during a knife fight as well. The T's loose levels when they die if time expires and I have seen people run on porpuse to let that happen.

Slightly off topic but, I would like to see the prior post about the floating bodies addressed.

[Steamer]

Floating bodies made me fail today... even worse then normal.

[Darkphoenix]

i agree with steamer its fine if they do the decintigrate thing, just don't let them float

[Nemesis]

any way to do something with the draw animation when you level up? it seems like nothing but in that second it takes to draw the gun when you lvl up and you're shooting a group, it can really screw you.

[Link]

Strictly speaking, there is absolutely no rule that I've ever seen that forbids TK punishment, intentional or accidental, after the warmup round or whatever. As far as I'm concerned, that's fine. People TK other players, the menu comes up and they've given permission to their teammate to do whatever they want with that menu.

Does it suck to get slayed for an unintentional tk? absolutely. does it suck to get slayed for start-of-the-map nade round? Yes. But remember that you are not required to kill your teammates, or shoot at them. That is your choice. When you kill them, you have indicated that you accept whatever consequences come from your teamkill. accidental or otherwise. imo anyway.

if someone doesn't like getting punished for a teamkill, the solution is extremely obvious: don't teamkill. period. and you won't have to worry facing a tk menu. This includes and especially applies to warm up round with grenades.

I agree about the floating bodies. it sucks, please to have it removed.

Regarding camping: Yes, there is strategy behind it, SOMETIMES, but it is when it becomes excessive (I believe that's best left to admin discretion) is when it's against the rules. Camping once, or twice, is NOT against the rules. The server rule explicitly states "excessive camping". After twice or so, I'd say a warning is deserved. If, after at LEAST two separate instances of camping, with warnings thrown in there, further action may be appropriate. If someone is on deagle and camps a particular spot, it isn't against the rules until they do so consistently, and excessively, and have been warned to cease and desist after several times.

I acknowledge, that to a degree, some rules have been applied in a more discretionary manner, at least in my experience. With regards to warm up round slaying, and after round slaying, in the past I have slayed for that, in an effort to discourage. However, since then, I've backed off from that approach because it's genuinely not against any rule to slay or otherwise punish for warmup or after round tks.


With regards to causing knife fights to draw out by running away, or causing the opponent to get slayed, is a big red flag for me. I won't stand for it. It's a knife fight for a reason. Not a run-away-so-the-T-gets-slayed fight. I think a rule regarding that should be drawn up and applied. Call it an exploit of the server. Why? Because they are exploiting the mechanics of the game for their own advantage (ie a T on nade level in a knife fight gets slayed because the CT ran around until time was gone and the T got slayed from nade level).

Additionally, it's been a big pet peeve of mine when players, and admins, exploit the gungame handicap to gain levels. I agree that there should be a handicap, but when someone leaves and reconnects to gain levels because they weren't doing good, is a gross abuse of that mechanic. Is there, perhaps, a way that when players leave and rejoin the server on the same map, that it can put them back on the level they were when they left? This function would still permit late joiners to benefit from the handicap, but prevent those who have already played in the same map to rejoin and jump in levels. Could this be looked into? Thanks.

Other rules of sorts that I've witnessed or enforced at one time or another..well, there was a player who took the name 'Jared Loughner', and I take names of that sort to be inherently disrespectful not only to others, but to myself especially. The very idea of glorifying a person like that, even in a game like Counter Strike, strikes a level of admin disrespect that I refuse to tolerate in good community such as this. Am I wrong? I don't know. I just wouldn't put up for things like that. :P Call it a gray area that I am pleased is up to my discretion to handle.

If i think of anything else, i will post it.

[Rezel]

Link, I believe you have a very good point with your statement, there seems to be quite a bit of discrepancy with the exploits that are being used, and how admins are handling these abuses.

There is a good bit of ideas incoming to this topic, keep them coming; Just remember this is a topic is more pointed towards getting a list of rules on the forums to better the experience for the server.

[Andrew_Pavlik]

I agree with a lot link has said, if you TK during nade or after round, your taking a risk, so I just only TK people I know that won't slay me. As for the nade round, sometimes its harder because you are just throwing grenades at will and blindly but with that said, just go to the other time and knife them.

Also camping isn't against the rules unless it's excessive, I think this is something that a select group of admins just need to learn to live with.(unless we decide on a new rule).

Of course other rules that need to be said, no leaving and re-joining to gain levels that might be the only GG related rule I think of that isn't a blanket rule for all the servers.