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Server List Spam FTW!

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So D*S has a "dueling" server that they've struggled to get near the top of the list. Seriously, a "dueling" server. In protest of all the stupid list spamming, and being a server operator who truly does not care if people know of my server, I have lodged my protest by changing my server's name to all boxes in the hopes that more will follow suit and maybe we will get this nonsense stopped. R1CH had/has a fix for it for the master server and while we had some fun w [...]

Ug

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The "popular" servers really have gone downhill. I said they had gone downhill berfore but wows! I join SST tonight (other servers were full or empty) and it's a 4v4, with 260BP mind you. Ug, what a pointless waste of time. Who was it who said that they play to fight people, not bases?
So I go and join DretchStorm, right into "Rampage", or as I call it, Campage. I join aliens and find I can't even spawn. From previous experience I know that Rampage is [...]

Share and Donate

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It occurs to me that while share and donate may cause people to take longer to learn tremulous, it can also speed up matches. A team that is slightly better will distribute their winnings, increasing their capabilities at ever increasing rates (as they use their increased capabilities to gain more resources to distribute.) Rates that would surpass the lesser team. All of this would be accelerated. I don't like that so many games end after SD. SD has always seemed to me to be an artifiti [...]

There is Hope Yet

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Last night a played a bunch of good matches on the MG MercenariesGuild server. Ironically, I think I also played more beta maps than I ever did when it was the Beta Server! It was a great deal of fun and I am very greatful that it happened. It's very refreshing to see that there are a lot of people who just like a good game.
I have a tendency to want to wander. In all things. I will learn about it and then wander off into the [...]

Public Servers Driving Me Insane

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UG! Good players looking to do nothing but pwn noobs. Knockback that launches dretches so far that you can't even move around larger aliens. Layouts that change per map, but are silly and put nodes all over or start everyone without reactor/om, not to mention 12 version of ATCS with different layouts!
Lots of other things are driving me crazy about them. It used to be that you could always find a good, straightforward match.&n [...]