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if only I wasn't at an awkward stage where I will have close to no spending money for the next month or so. rip me

God you completely missed my point. There are over 700 gmod TTT servers, 3/4 of which are sitting at 0 population, and the others have an average of around ten(note I didn't actually do the math, but that's what it looks like by just glancing at it). Under the assumption that we won't become one of those 0 population servers, there's a fairly good chance we could end up being one of those ~10 population servers. Which is a lot of work to put in for 10 players on a week night. I'm not saying the game is bad. I'm saying our chances don't look great. And your argument that we have a steady population just waitin for us to bring the server back makes no sense to me. Where were these players when the server was up? It's like talking about reopening a store that went out of business a couple years ago. Yeah, it had customers, but then they stopped coming. Now they say they want it back, but can we trust them to stay? Honestly I don't know, but personally I wouldn't reopen it, I would rather invent my time elsewhere Honestly I'm not really against having a TTTgmod server, but I don't really care either way. I'm sure if a higher up wants to see it done, they will do it. Maybe it will work out, maybe it won't.

I can at least answer this The original TTT server died because, after over a year of trying, we could not regain a stable population for a dying game. Many different changes were attempted and none of them were successful, and eventually the server was scrapped. I honestly don't know how us having a gmod TTT server would go. Its around 6:30 rn, and as I look, I see about 3/4 of the current TTT servers are sitting at 0, and less than half of the ones with players have over 20. Now, my internet is shit right now, and I know yesterday when I looked, there were like 750 TTT server, and rn i'm only able to load about 400. But thats still a very high number of empty servers, considering that means that there are only about 20-40 servers that reach the same population as our CSGO TTT server. However, your point about old regulars coming back still stands. Would that be enough to get our server on its feet? Maybe, honestly I couldn't tell you. I guess it is up to the higher ups whether they want to spend the time/resources on this. I could see it going either way, although I'm still of the opinion that going back to GMOD probably isn't the best step for us. Edit: And yes, you will argue that it is not a dying game. But we started having struggles with it around the 2012-2013 era, when it WAS dying (averaging less than 10000 players) and even when the population of the game itself got better, that didn't seem to increase the population on our server.

I had a failure to understand other peoples thought processes, therefore had difficulty forming genuine human connections and nothing has changed

Neither. But when I was in high school I got into MTG if that counts

11 for Octa 197 for Octavarium

Not the maker of the rules, but when I think of prop surfing, I think of GMOD. I don't think I even know what prop surfing in CSGO refers to. Also, AFAIK if you can get there normally (I.E. Jumping) there's no issue (unless its an area outside of the map or which gives you an unfair advantage like the old space ship exploit). I wasn't 100% sure at first, but it seems like the ruling is that if you have to boost to get up somewhere, it is against the rules. I have no idea what the prop surfing rule applies to in CSGO so you will have to wait for an AO or someone else who knows what that is referring to. Edit: as Euro said, it may just be an outdated rule.

Hmmmm, I'm not sure if ban times matter all that much TBH. A max of a week for most things seems reasonable for me, and even then I usually only ban for more than 1-2 days if it is their second ban. I can't see a reason to ban someone for longer than that TBH. If someone randomly joined the server to start freekilling, chances are they won't come back after they are banned anyways. If it is a regular, then he would just appeal a 30 day ban to get it reduced, because honestly that's way too long for a first time ban. I could see you asking for the max length to be upped to a week, because honestly I could agree with that. But 30 days is too long IMO.

Yeah, I don't see how they would say anything after they DC either, good point. And I haven't had them say it before they left either. I'm not sure anyone was trying to say that they were. I've never seen someone rdm, leave, then come back. But I have seen people just wait until they want to leave then rdm and dc. Either way, I already said I didn't know if the OT of this thread was practical so yeah, I don't see a reason to get into another discussion about rdming and leaving.

Yeah, it's not common, but I have seen it probably 2-3 times so far. That's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how practical/implementable it is. Honestly I've just resigned myself to thinking "Well, I guess if they do it again or two more times I can do something about it." But then after a few days I usually forget the name of the person who did it anyways, so yeah.

If I was in for like over 2 years, hell yes I would break out. I doubt that kind of life is worth living, but I guess that's the whole point really

Depends on the prison. We talking shit hole central or tax evasion paradise?

Edit: Ok, I'll just defuse this RN, I'm not looking for a fight or anything. Maybe I've just been hot headed or something lately because this seems to keep happening. I didn't INTEND to make a big deal out of this with this post. I simply made it because I didn't enjoy playing this map 50% of the time I had to play last night, and if it was going to be a regular thing, it would remove some of my enjoyment on the server

I don't think stating my opinion=making a big deal about it. It's not like I was like "this is a huge problem that is server breaking and needs to be fixed asap". I simply said that it already annoyed me, and several of the players on the server at the time were like "wtf, we literally just played this map". I can see the argument for the maps being generally different, but I can also argue that they are generally the same. Almost identical layout with some variation, same T room, traps, similar weapon spawns, with some upgrades like better textures and it doesn't give me a stupid frame drop because I don't have CSS installed or whatever reason. To me the biggest difference is that you can't break the flower pots in the pool room anymore, which is basically map breaking because I found the map boring to begin with and you took away my only source of entertainment I guess this map is a port from GMOD? I played the shit out of our old TTT server and don't remember it in the slightest, so maybe we just didn't have it? I don't get the argument of nostalgia in that regard. But idk maybe my memory is just bad. Either way I understand if the vote goes to not remove it. But if both maps keep getting played a lot, I imagine there would be others in the future that get sick of it as well.

I saw that, and I wanted to post there but couldn't, so I just made this to point out what I see to be an issue

I must have been around 2 I was in a little wooden tree house (it wasn't in a tree so I guess it was just like an elevated play structure thing) It was raining. I ran inside and saw my mom and a huge black refrigerator That's it

Map Removal Full map name ttt_community_pool_csgoport_v6 Type of map TTT Why should we remove it Put the new map on the server, but kept the old one on for some reason. Have now played this map three times in a little more than 2 hours (New one, 2 different maps, old one, different map, new one) Maybe it won't come up that often, but I'm already annoyed that we have played this map so much today. Edit: Maybe the new map is still in testing or something, but having both on the server being played this much causes redundancy

I'll never forget you. RIP Pumpernickel

Honestly there's a lot of good ones. Durarara!! OP 1, guilty crown OP 1, pretty much anything from JoJo, both OPs for both seasons of Norigami, ED for Durarara as well. I could keep going

Well, the plugin itself probably doesn't group the players by teams, and just includes everyone on the server. There's probably a way to change that, so I guess just wait for someone like @Bread or someone who might know what can be done about it

I don't really see the point of this. If they are breaking a rule and won't stop, make a complaint and they will get banned. If they are involved enough to get on the forums to see why they were banned, then we would have to tell them anyways as they would likely appeal it. If it's about a more personal matter like consistent harassment, then PM a higher up about it. And even then, if action is taken against them, they will probably find out why. I mean, idk what made you suggest this but I can't see it doing much if any good

The only time we were really able to keep an MC server up and going was when we had multiple powerful factions more or less RPing, doing regular raids and such. But even that eventually died. We have had a number of iterations of MC servers, and none of them could keep up much of a population, being that it seems to be more of a "fad" for SG than anything else.

Congrats @frosty and @Wawa, I know both of you can do good work. And fuck yo- I mean, congrats @EvilShadow98 for being purple now. No jealousy here

Not often but sometimes. Most coffee tastes better with just sugar or black IMO