Get CTF straight

Hi

If you're not into CTF, joined CTF recently or are any kind of other random, stop reading. Well, the non-CTF staff might be interested.. This is just a list of things CTF is lacking right now, and a small conclusion you might want to read if you don't care about any of the other stuff.

Okay so there has been tons of lag on CTF, don't say there hasn't. No message, no fix, nothing. This is the point where at McPvP we got a post on the forums saying it's because of this and that and that the coders are fixing it. Nothing.

Then, wool. The flag was wool before, it looked aesthetically nice and was suited for gameplay, didn't get in anyone's way or something. Banners on the other hand hinder capping a lot, the range is different, and the view is different, greatly changing the way e. g. pyro reacts to it.

Then, classes. No updates or reworks in sight. Even though they are needed..

Then, community. How about you introduce a tutorial for the noobs to read so they can grasp even a bit more complex systems of gameplay so you don't have to make CTF simpler constantly?

Then, politics. As mentioned before, the community feels very excluded in what will be fixed, updated or alike. On McPvP for example you could donate for a certain class that then would get a rework if a certain amount of donations were reached, this provided extra funding for a cause the community can directly see. If there were reworks to be introduced, polls were made, and not just sometimes.

Then, forum policies. Accept that there are some people here cooler than you.. hallopiu got banned from Slack and from the forums afaik - he is one of the best CTF players, and one of the most popular ones. He knows his way around anything CTF-related very well and is a very creative personality, shame you didn't notice. Take a joke, really. Don't ban everything everywhere you can. And if he was mean because Brawl pissed him off, maybe you should be thinking about yourself, not him^^ Because he has proven himself to CTFers, you haven't.

Conclusion (the interesting part)

The reason I see CTFers, especially the regulars in teams and from McPvP as a sort of judiciary instance in the whole matter of CTF changes is the fact they make CTF what it is. If only noobs were online, see what would happen. And there are enough CTFers out there you pissed off very efficiently who are now planning to make their own CTF - amongst them coders, McPvP staff and good regulars. And if they keep up the McPvP traditions, wool for example?

How many would leave? How many teams would disband? Can you say how popular this will be? I can't, I'm not part of any of this, but I know of the existance of multiple CTF alternative creations still WIP. Some of them have joined each other, even..

You tell me if you can ignore this or not, brawl. You tell me. This is not a threat, this is a warning^^ Listen to the community for your own good.

~Plaut

 

ok. about lag.

I uploaded this video for the only god damn purpose of proving all you wrong. When were you last on CTF? A month ago? When it's evening for EU kids, there's a ****ton of lag, 3/5 servers down, and CTF is literally unplayable.

hallopiu was cool before he was banned. As opposed to you? I don't know. You know him well enough to not spout bullcrap purely to be an antagonist.

And about the proving, did you finish reading? I am talking about trust. If hallopiu now for example (I'm not saying he is) creates a new, super cool nostalgia McPVP CTF, then guess who people will like more - brawl or him.. But I'm glad you can read the text at least. Oh wait, you can't.

The donating shows where the community thinks problems are, as you said, there are no objectively defined problems.

And you don't ever cap, do you. You don't ever steal, or defend, or do anything to make the name CTF have a point. Because if you do, be it defend or offend, you noticed differences. And not only aesthetic ones.

@Admiral_Sp00kson Sorry for not answering in correct order or quoting by the way, cba

 

@Admiral_Sp00kson I don't mean to say you have no CTF experience. But if since june you have a total playtime of less than 16 hours, that's less than one hour a week. And I don't know when or how you're online because I never see you.. But I was talking about the banners affecting gameplay where your 3 years of McPvP don't really play a role.
About donations - better to get money in like that than with engineer. There have been free forum polls on McPvP too.. Ones that were recognized by the devs, that is.

@Ironic_Boogeyman now, hallopiu happens to be quite tolerated with all his jokes and memes within Ctf chats, don't you think? It's not like he was verbally abusong on a serious level where people would start to worry.
As i said, take a joke brawl. I've had more than one serious discussion with hallo, and he happens to have a pretty big chunk of stuffs behind the meme layer, don't you think?

@Extant PROFESSIONAL? Happens to be the most amateur thing around. Looks > gameplay makes something professional? I care about more than that outer shell.

This is by the way the point where I'll stop posting here, i think I've made my point clear..

@sateburger thank thank

 

if you ask for it. Two days ago, four out of five servers were down at one point, for the most part of the evening it was 3/5. One more was totally overloaded (114/50 at one point) and seriously unplayable, the other one started to lag as soon as more than 20 people were online. Game speed with /lag was at 11% at one point, and that command usually is incorrect meaning lag is usually worse.

now, if 100ms is my normal ping as EU player (it won't get much better, sadly), and if its lagging just a bit so I have 150-200ms, I can't really play anymore. As i said Ture, watch the video >_> I watched it myself, and it doesn't even seem that bad, but also judging by the chat you can see it was really horrible.. If you play yourself, that one tenth of a second is way more relevant than if you just watch^^