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An Ode to the past: Why I'm back

Discussion in 'Capture the Flag' started by XplosionReturns, Mar 21, 2018.

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  1. XplosionReturns

    XplosionReturns PRO was the best rank so fite me

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    So a little about me:

    Memorable Stuff:
    #21 on Assassin caps leaderboard (329 caps)
    #99 for Assassin kills (an ode to my old name, Xplosion99, but had 11,657 kills)
    #26 for Engineer caps (106 caps)
    #98 for most deaths (35,718 deaths)
    #96 for most Sponge Launches (43,271 launches)

    Funnily enough, when I started CTF I was a Soldier main. It wasn't until I bought Assassin that I became an Assassin main as well as become more well-known in the community. I loved MCPVP with all my heart, and died when I found out that it was shutting down.

    The main reason why I didn't transfer over to Brawl was because I started playing other games. I became obsessed with Evolve, and I played it so much that I even got onto that leaderboard, becoming 8th in the US for Emet wins. Emet, being the character I loved to play as he was a Medic (I also made my in-game skin to look like Emet). I loved that game, and it too, died out about a year an a half ago. 2K mismanaged the game, and it died. Now after that I got into Overwatch, but now I'm starting to run from that game since it's becoming imbalanced.

    In the past few weeks I was just drifting from game to game, until an old friend of my came back into my life. He wanted to play MC so I figured I'd join him. We then played CTF and the nostalgia hit me. Idk if I'll be back for long, but if you care enough about me then just tell me your discord and I'll accept.

    Overall, my biggest highlights were helping Miskey get a stat wipe for helping him farm a killstreak with Colonel Graff, and then purchasing my lifetime PRO (now called Elite) which I've never regretted until now since I can no longer play fashionista.

    While I'm back, I might try and make a map or two, rework one of the old ones (plz Saixos lemme get my hands on coresteel station), and suffer through the Necro, Engineer, and Dwarn nerfs and reworks since I'm bad.

    Feel free to say Hi in game if you see me. And yes, I dropped the '99' for Incorporated but thats too long for an MC name so I'm XplosionReturns, but my peeps call me Xplo.

    My MCPVP Profile with all my stats: https://redsli.me/mcpvp/index.php?name=XplosionReturns&uuid=698001a7257b408286f0d23051416d4f

    Edit: Also I have 3 questions:

    - Why was Dwarf nerfed (the lvl 11 XP cap)
    - Why hasn't at least 1 new class been added over the 3+ years I have been gone?
    - Why is Elite green and not gold :C
     
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  2. Sayan

    Sayan Well-Known Member

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    Welcome back
     
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  3. AriesRam10

    AriesRam10 Old MCPVP'er

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    Hi
     
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  4. TheZombieKat

    TheZombieKat CTFer since May 2012

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    Oh hey, long time no see Xplo! How's life?
     
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  5. minecraftnoob999

    minecraftnoob999 Well-Known Member

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    1. Because dwarf is ridiculous.
    2. Because @NomNuggetNom "retired" from his developer position at brawl. (And no one, literally no one wants to ****ing touch CTF code.)
    3. Gold would appear to be the reserved color for SMODs.
     
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  6. puhdgy

    puhdgy ♡·⋰˚× ᴍᴇᴅɪᴄ ᴍᴀɪɴ & ᴇx-sᴛᴀꜰꜰ ×˚⋱·♡

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    Welcome back! About the class thing, ES is right when he said Nom resigned and for a while we were without a coder, and even if we had a coder most people felt classes needing changing/fixing was a higher priority than adding a new class. But what was not mentioned is now we DO have a wonderful dev who is called redslime. But you may know him as hallopiu :grinning: He has been coding for ctf for I believe a bit over a week now and has gotten quite a lot done for that amount of time ! love and waffles !!!
    P.S. I believe if you want to try reworking Coresteel Station you can just ask a mod for a copy of the map. I believe the rule is since Saixos isn’t around anymore, it’s available to anyone who wants to try their hand at reworking it :smile:
     
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  7. Icarus_82

    Icarus_82 Well-Known Member

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    Welcome back!!
     
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  8. THECOMMANDER5643

    THECOMMANDER5643 Well-Known Member

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    1. Dwarf was nerfed because the gampeplay style significantly shifted from what it usually was. As a result, a dwarf in the flag room with extra defense became redundant, and people complained. Rather than fixing the problem, they nerfed dwarf into oblivion.

    2. Lack of a coder. However, that has recently been fixed. All Hail Devslime!

    3. IDK, ask brawl.

    Also welcome back Xplo!
     
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  9. xGhale

    xGhale HG‘s Doom guy

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    Oh wow, nice to see you.

    Also weren't you the one who had this really nasty finger injury and caused a massive discussion on MCPvP's forums? I remember you for that for some reason ecksdee
     
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  10. ExtremeEvoboost

    ExtremeEvoboost CTF Media Man

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    You never truly leave CTF
     
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  11. super_mii2

    super_mii2 Well-Known Member

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    Lowkey really want to see ctf code, though im still learning
     
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  12. minecraftnoob999

    minecraftnoob999 Well-Known Member

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    its uh, quite a mess. To put it mildly
     
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  13. XplosionReturns

    XplosionReturns PRO was the best rank so fite me

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    Pretty null, since I'm currently failing college and had a ****ty week a few weeks back, where my parents basement flooded, Car went through $1200 worth of repairs ONLY to have the transmission blow up, then spent another $4000 on a new transmission.

    For the most part I'm over it all, but really those are the only things that's happened to me recently.

    But... Why??? Dwarf was rarely used. Now it feels like there's no point to pick it.

    I want to touch it, but A) I'm not a developer/coder B) I used to code but sucked at it and haven't touched code in years C) Pretty sure the owner of Brawl wouldn't let a random pleb in to see the code since while I am a legacy player I might be a SPY for another server. I mean if I paid to see the code, would he let me? I could, but would need y'all to support me since at least most of you know me.

    Then it's time I start working my way up the staff chain :evil laugh:

    I wouldn't mind changing the classes, because at the very least that's just number tweaking. However priority #1 would be to update the spigot/bukkit base since I still believe Brawl is on 1.8. Thus we get the new blocks, new features, and don't have to live in fear of the server breaking.

    As for Saixos, yeah. I think I talked with some mod back years ago (Birdgirl?) about it and I don't remember. Maybe I'll try asking again, but then we reach the problem where I own like 37 maps in build and don't want to get rid of any of them.

    Yes, now I remember. I did post those pictures, and actually still have them on my phone, wanna see them again?
     
  14. TheZombieKat

    TheZombieKat CTFer since May 2012

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    That sucks man. A couple years ago my parent's car's transmission blew, they got a new one only for it to blow up a couple weeks later. The back end of my car got smashed about a month ago, so there's that.
     
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  15. minecraftnoob999

    minecraftnoob999 Well-Known Member

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    Doubt it. We have @redslime who has taken up a majority of the coding. If you wanted to work on it, you'd have to go through offical channels (apply for brawl developer). I was able to get a 1.8 functioning CTF server, but it needs some severe updating. Some complicated stuff with all of the new MC versions coming out recently, especially ones that do not favor a PVP based gamemode.
     
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  16. SoCool21

    SoCool21 Bans Reports & Appeals Admin | McPvPer for Life <3

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    Nice seeing you back my dude, hope ya have fun. We have @redslime coding for CTF at the moment so there's gonna be some updates pretty soon.

    @Miskey's admin now; might be a bit of a shock if you only remember him for a few years ago when he was a "little" more toxic :stuck_out_tongue:
     
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  17. xGhale

    xGhale HG‘s Doom guy

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  18. Male__123

    Male__123 Well-Known Member

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    Devslime!
     
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  19. Andrwe

    Andrwe Well-Known Member

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    Why is that?
     
  20. lnformative

    lnformative Well-Known Member

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    Thanks :smile:) needed a reason to cry today. I feel the nostalgia man, love you
     
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