May 13, 2012, 06:30 PM
Wombraider, you're always entertaining to make a situation lighter than it should be. For that, I <3 you. As for the admin who left, I didn't know his issues were that to belong to a Dr. Phil episode.
As an idea and possible solution to all of this, why don't we sit down in a custom Steam group/irc/? with SourceOP admins and PH Regulars and come up with a set of Prophunt only defined rules? I have an example of another community who did something similar and it worked wonders:
I was a Senior eGO admin for around two years. Although the organization is frowned upon by many people of the gaming community from TF2 to DOD:S to CS:S, I actually enjoyed my tenure very much. In CS:S, eGO runs one of the most popular Jail servers. eGO servers have a set list of rules to follow regardless of what game you are playing, however, the Jail server had special rules created for it. I won't go into depth on all of the rules made, however, the new rules made it special to play on the server due to the simple fact that those who wanted to play by the rules stayed, and those that didn't just left.
In the case of PropHunt, perhaps the "no nudity, don't be an ass, etc etc" are not enough? If the engine for PH allows certain weapons to be enabled/disabled, why not turn off the heavy main weapon and only allow them to use fists, shotgun, or sandvich? This would bring more humor into the situation first and foremost, with little threat possible as well due to the heavy's slow movement. The SourceOP mod for PH is different to other PH mods as the shotgun allows 6 shots on this server, whereas other servers it's 2 -- and a much lower damage base.
Another topic we could talk about would be map rotation/maps to be deleted/possible maps to add into the rotation. There are a few certain maps that bring people into the server, other maps that kill the server population, and there are definitely other maps out there that are popular in other communities.
To fix music mic spam, how about enabling a radio function on the server? Branching out from the normal radio servers and creating something more popular these days (dubstep, MLP, whatever else is current on forums/etc) could benefit.
A voteban function (however long the time is determined would be up to the SourceOP admins) requiring 80%+ of server vote could also work. A 3 hour limit would be my sufficient as someone is in to make a disturbance would not wait 3 hours to come back in to cause more ruckus..
At this moment, I don't know if replay is turned on or off, however, if we could have that turned on it would be awesome. I've had many lulzy moments I wish I had recorded, however, was unable to at the time.
At a glance, I also want to say thank you to DF for keeping the server as PH for such a long time. It's been a staple in my TF2 career for the past year and a half or so. As a player from Beta, I keep finding new ways to entertain myself through this server. I also want to say thank you for giving us the first person view which wasn't always there in the past. Thanks for the new maps you gave us approximately a year ago... However, damn you to hell for not taking Cyberpunk off the rotation! :'(
As an idea and possible solution to all of this, why don't we sit down in a custom Steam group/irc/? with SourceOP admins and PH Regulars and come up with a set of Prophunt only defined rules? I have an example of another community who did something similar and it worked wonders:
I was a Senior eGO admin for around two years. Although the organization is frowned upon by many people of the gaming community from TF2 to DOD:S to CS:S, I actually enjoyed my tenure very much. In CS:S, eGO runs one of the most popular Jail servers. eGO servers have a set list of rules to follow regardless of what game you are playing, however, the Jail server had special rules created for it. I won't go into depth on all of the rules made, however, the new rules made it special to play on the server due to the simple fact that those who wanted to play by the rules stayed, and those that didn't just left.
In the case of PropHunt, perhaps the "no nudity, don't be an ass, etc etc" are not enough? If the engine for PH allows certain weapons to be enabled/disabled, why not turn off the heavy main weapon and only allow them to use fists, shotgun, or sandvich? This would bring more humor into the situation first and foremost, with little threat possible as well due to the heavy's slow movement. The SourceOP mod for PH is different to other PH mods as the shotgun allows 6 shots on this server, whereas other servers it's 2 -- and a much lower damage base.
Another topic we could talk about would be map rotation/maps to be deleted/possible maps to add into the rotation. There are a few certain maps that bring people into the server, other maps that kill the server population, and there are definitely other maps out there that are popular in other communities.
To fix music mic spam, how about enabling a radio function on the server? Branching out from the normal radio servers and creating something more popular these days (dubstep, MLP, whatever else is current on forums/etc) could benefit.
A voteban function (however long the time is determined would be up to the SourceOP admins) requiring 80%+ of server vote could also work. A 3 hour limit would be my sufficient as someone is in to make a disturbance would not wait 3 hours to come back in to cause more ruckus..
At this moment, I don't know if replay is turned on or off, however, if we could have that turned on it would be awesome. I've had many lulzy moments I wish I had recorded, however, was unable to at the time.
At a glance, I also want to say thank you to DF for keeping the server as PH for such a long time. It's been a staple in my TF2 career for the past year and a half or so. As a player from Beta, I keep finding new ways to entertain myself through this server. I also want to say thank you for giving us the first person view which wasn't always there in the past. Thanks for the new maps you gave us approximately a year ago... However, damn you to hell for not taking Cyberpunk off the rotation! :'(