First of all, keep in mind that the usual skill level as you pointed out is significantly above average on mgdev, so it's only natural that you'll have a harder time getting kills there. To address your actual points:

When you saw a tyrant in 1.1, the usual reaction was fear, because the most likely outcome is your death. Taking one down took the most expensive equipment or a large team effort, and in either case there was a decent chance of some casualties in the process. I think the changes to the lucifer cannon make it more of a "human tyrant" in that it's actually difficult to survive one. The original lucifer cannon hurt if it hit you, sure, but any weapon whose projectiles you can walk away from cannot inspire fear.
It's balanced by the slow charging time and high repeats. A steady stream of suicidal dretches, if poisoned, will be enough to keep you returning to your base.

The tyrant's role is much more defensive now, yes. I prefer it like that. One of the best things about mgdev is how every class remains useful throughout the game.

/bind p toggle cg_thirdperson
much, much simpler.

Sorry about this - the website is in need of renewal, the advanced dretch is down, and the PT servers have been very empty lately, so it's been harder than ever to track our recruits. We haven't forgotten you (at least, I haven't) but the recruitment system is not currently in great shape, so I'm afraid your application is delayed through no fault of your own.

This sounds like a bug. I'll see what I can do to resolve it.

Well... that's sort of the idea
I don't see this happening. Camping less useful now for various reasons, especially given that the enemy can now stageup by fighting your turrets rather than your players.
Both good things in my opinion. One of the things I love most about mgdev is how all classes remain useful at all stages of the game, and a team at stage 3 may well be composed of advanced basilisks for support, advanced marauders to zap at the tight defences, advanced dragoons to snipe and chomp what they can't manage, and a tyrant or two to mop up the human defence. It makes for a much more varied and interesting game.
And if a team of tyrants and advanced dragoons fails to take down a lower-staged human base, I think the humans should be rewarded for their defensive play.

ref: http://www.mercenariesguild.net/forum/index.php?topic=704.0
and: http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=7587.0

Firstly, it's hugely helpful to have the name you were banned under in any discussion of this sort. I've just removed a ban for william and a ban for crunk juice, but I can only guess which, if either, of these are you.

Unfortunately the logs aren't very clear on exactly what happened. It looks like your friend FakeTree was running two clients to deliberately twist the vote in his favour though, so I've banned him for a couple of weeks from mgdev2.

We can disable votes or whatever, but generally that ends up hurting as much as helping the situation. Next time, try IRC - #mercenariesguild on chat.freenode.net - and you're much more likely to get a rapid and appropriate response.

Look through your autogen cfgs for lines containing ui_menuFiles or cg_hudFiles, and remove them. That should solve your post-deleting error.

Try using "gksu" - it's essentially a graphical interface to sudo.

But I agree with David that it would be much better if you fixed the permissions so that you could play it unprivileged. Otherwise you're one buffer overflow away from catastrophe.

Nice catch[es]. The first one at least should be fixed, both in tremulous SVN and the next release on mgdev.

The other one is probably also fixed, but I didn't check.

Try it and see

Dodging forwards is sprint, or you can try setting cg_alwaysSprint to 1

dodge

These are both the same as messagemode and messagemode2 except prettier because they use a better font.


Nope.

It's inaccurate.

The only three binds unique to mgdev are
ui_messagemode
ui_messagemode2
+button6

Mods have their own settings because each has its own autogen.cfg. Open up your console, type /fs_homepath, and have a lookat the folder it gives. You'll see base and mgdev and maybe other folders: the autogen.cfg in each stores your settings.

Blender can do it, but you have to track down some scripts before it will export for you. I forget exactly which or where.

You don't need fraps to record video of Tremulous, you can use /video and /stopvideo.
It doesn't work on old clients though, so go get the MG client