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I'm going back to school on the 13th and because the last time i went concluded super poorly, I'm probably going to be taking the bags approach of like, uninstalling a lot of shit until the semester is over. I've had a job since then so it's not like I've been incredibly active as is, but i have a lot of problems not getting distracted by dead videogames and stupid internet conversations

i'll probably be back after that point come summer or something

yeah sounds good, best map in the game

OH FUCK I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A THING

It was a good run boys. 

We can occasionally muster a strong pop for a few hours if we get a happy medium between a map that doesn't suck complete dick and a map that people don't think is commonly "overplayed" 

In my limited experience, the server fills up when the map is on a b-tier map, from there like four people will join and usually none of these people are actually playing the game, but 4 people is enough to draw in a few more people, resulting in a population of anywhere from 8-12. At this point, people start to kinda actually play the game, there's enough people that you're not completely wandering around an empty map without seeing anyone else and from here the server starts to retain people since there's actually a reason to stick around. 
 

This is usually eventually lost when someone for some reason absolutely feels it necessary to start a rally to go to one of our abysmal maps. I don't mean bunker or duketown, I mean our maps that are known to commonly cause frame issues or that contain numerous visual glitches. After that, population usually at least halves, and from there people trickle out until nobody is left. Interestingly from what I've seen, this does not happen transitioning to maps that people deem "overplayed", although it seems initially about as hard to populate those maps as the bad ones. My best guess at why this is is that more people willing to put up with them if they've already joined since their game isn't shitting the bed, and likelihood is that the map changes soon anyway. 

tldr yeah game dead

you're an absolute fucking retard who has no idea what they're talking about crow lmfao

I know he left at least once, and it kinda sorta seemed like he was making a mountain out of a molehill, but idk if that's a huge negative so much as just kind of confusing. 

+1 seems like a mostly normal person who's recently managed to chill out.

I don't really interact much but I didn't know he was really on this "opinions contrary to mine are from bots" shit. 

For someone who seems to know what constitutes a bot he seems extraordinarily bad at recognizing one in-game 

badum-tsh 

revert tf2 to its 2007 state

23 minutes ago, ScottNi said:

What the fuck is this suppsoed to mean

+1 what does it mean?

please, it is the big funny

On the one hand, ruining things for people is funny, 

On the other, I could contribute to ruining this ban protest... 

pokemon emerald version

+1 outrageous conduct

42 minutes ago, Shadower said:

Bring back random crits on tgh, bc you dweebuses are turning everything into a tryhard shitshow,  bring back edventures bc meme maps are sometimes refreshing to play on, especially since most of the time you nerds are on the same 3 map rotation 24/7(more like 3/2 bc servers are dead as fuck anyway) I feel like admins should “abuse” (votes and shit)their powers a little bc you gamers are putting all of those epic plugins to waste if you’re not gonna use em, make it more fun, who gives a fuck if muselk joins in on 1400 sentries and 354 monoculi are blasting away at a large headed green pyro, that type of shit made playing on the servers fun. Also stop being tryhards you scum. It drives all the children away  

til that admin abuse will not kill the server dead and is actually the solution we've all been waiting on. 

We also have plenty of meme maps, if you want edventures on rotation afaik you can make a vote but I'm pretty sure we removed it because it's not gaming-related at all.

We've been able to add custom stats to weapons for a while, and while I've stated that I don't really like straying from vanilla tf2, I think a great way to give the trade servers some extra pizzazz is to give some of the worst and least used weapons some sort of functional utility. 

Once again, I don't like the idea of removing aspects of the game that people would normally play with. Even though I hate the scorch shot, I would not advocate that we change its stats to be shit because that'd only alienate players who'd like to use it. But in cases like The Volcano Fragment, Reskins, or weapons that are just so awful nobody wants to use them anyway, I think it would be cool if we could collectively try to give them some unique utility. The community would also have absolute say over the stats of a weapon via voting, which is something in tf2 you don't generally experience. Normally it can often take months or years for broken experiments to finally be fixed, but with community involvement it lessens the chance of something going horribly askew, and even if it does it's easily reversible. 

But mostly I just think it could be fun.

12 hours ago, Spoopy said:

Why shouldn't we watch lucky star foo fight you right now.

I have this vivid memory of someone recommending me lucky star when tgh was on mariokart, and then later when I was on youtube you could just watch the entire series on funimation's channel or something, so I did. 

It was really really bad imo, none of it was funny to me. 

smogon randombats community night

21 minutes ago, TBOHB said:

was going to put this one but for some reason didn't want to admit I watched lucky star

you shouldn't

I skip most anime openings because a lot of them make my skin crawl but I really like these two.

i like the boat

busty ranger elf

+1 old mod good mod

15 minutes ago, Ms.Spooks said:

Include the full stats thanks. 11.63 average players is a little low to be making the claim it increases server population. Likewise 450.5 total playtime hours is very low for the connects it gets. Just saying. @mrnutty12

 

11.63 players is low, but as a late night chad gamer a lot of the time we've ended up there, the server is already pretty dead. Additionally the playtime is somewhat low for a map we've had a relatively long while because people are sane and rtv to leave fairly quickly. I feel like this is important to bring up because I do not have issue with having a few fairly bad maps as long as they're not obnoxiously broken or poorly designed, (bonus points if people don't stick around on them for too long). 

The only other time I think this map sees the light of day is when Wave's around, and even then I don't think it's that common. 

I made that joke but I'm not really voting because I don't care. The map's bad, but imo we have worse. Bunker is almost infinitely more restrictive in the way you can play and I don't mind that so ehh.