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-1 i like when wave joins the server

your dum.b

8 minutes ago, hongkongatron said:

or just remove it entirely : )

We could, and I do like mostly trying to mirror the base game as much as possible, but it is actually insanely difficult to leave some of our spawns without spawn protection. Some/most are teleport exits or some form of very compact tunnel, neither of which you really see in the base game. The most you'll see is a single shutter door on like goldrush, which to be fair, is larger than the exit of either spawn on clocktown

CHANGE RTD TO SPOOKY SPELLS THAT'D BE SO MUCH FUN

if we could give players the uber "shiny" effect upon spawning that'd be a fairly obvious tell 

idk if that's possible, but uber is as visible as it is because being able to tell that a player is invincible is borderline required in this game.

Abstaining from voting because I don't feel we end up there often and we tend to rtv off really fast. I also don't mind having some bad maps for idiot fun (bunker), but if people really want it gone it still doesn't really matter to me.

k r u s t y k r a b

On 12/5/2018 at 7:19 AM, Rhododendron said:

I feel like if we are culling out the weak, we should start with you

WEEK WEEEEEEEEK 

CULLING OUT THE WEEK HOLY SHIT

There's like nothing to do to this fucking game anymore. I don't even know even know what you'd update outside the moronic fantasy world of "give heavy an overwatch shield". The community is the only thing keeping this game on life support, and even when they create, package, and advertise their very own grassroots updates these fucking imbeciles don't even blink. We do all the legworks for these potentially awesome map update themes and it's just fucking ignored. The cosmetics will be added in some dumb barely retextured case six months from now, but the stuff that's actually cool and matters gets binned.

I don't stream fairly often lol @Tatost. Streaming is hard because you'd have to be entertaining 24/7. If grape wants me to stream like botw or something I'll do it, but I don't find myself that funny and I'm under no illusions there. 

What I will say is that something that fucking kills a stream for me is when there's fucking notification text and noises popping up every 40 seconds. I actually can't stand it. Like if you want some text to pop up at the top of your stream and like a little noise or something, fine, but when you've got tts and a bit boss or someone screaming at the top of their lungs as your follow sound I ain't sticking around.  

If you can get friends in a voice chat it also helps cover dead air, which is a big no-no.

+1 

+1 I have to make it up to swoosh, although his recommendation was really a melee that did damage based on velocity. 

For people who think this is too good, understand that the success rate of market gardening people with something like the bazooka is incredibly low, on a good day you might go 1-3. 

On 11/3/2018 at 12:03 PM, Semper said:

I always get stuck at #15 in the pogo section, even for a intermediate jumper the course still poses to be difficult for most, it does do its job though at being what it is meant for, its very basic and straight forward and is meant for new players, im not new to the concept of rocket jumping entirely, but I am trash and not a god like Lan, or Bags.

Personally I say keep the map and instead we should remove jump_sync instead, thats just my opinion though. im gonna stay neutral though because I rarely play jump servers, but from playing on the xG server this is all I know.

I'm not a god, I just don't want to blow my own brains out. Sync is at least challenging, if I sat on that map for 3 hours it'd be engaging

xenogamers was founded on aids, it's a core value

I got the like one map I care about but basic demo maps are a good idea

19 hours ago, Dannypicacho said:

-1

Fun to speedrun

Good learning experience

It's just as much of a jump map as any of the others. This one just covers every possible type of jump. It's good for beginners.

If "le epic pro jump gods" get bored of getting "world records" they can always head to the market garden part of jumpacademy, which is equally really fun.

 

We don't even record completion times right now afaik. I'm not a fantastic jumper and I'd assume most people want something somewhat difficult or challenging, especially because we don't actually record times.

Yeah there's actually not really a point to academy if you're going to have like teachers and whatnot. The only thing academy excels at is being very descriptive about what you have to do in the absence of players willing to explain it to you. Otherwise everything in academy is pretty much covered in jumps 1-10 of other, better, lower-tier maps.

Danny made several statements about better players being bored on the map being the same as worse players being bored on a harder map, but this is not really comparable. A hypothetically worse player on a map that covers the same basic skills as academy in addition to more won't ever make it to the "more" part. If they make it to anything that academy doesn't cover, they'd have mastered the skills academy teaches. If they never make it to the additional parts of the map, they're struggling on the same stuff that would be on academy, there's just not a significant part of the server bored on a relatively short and easy jump map. 

Academy's very descriptive, but having something described to you doesn't mean you instantly master it mechanically. Forcing an entire server to sit on academy because a fraction of people really don't understand how to jump, (or more likely, some people got on the server and rtv'd before it was really populated) is comparable to going out to skate with all your friends but forcing them to all stand around your driveway while you try to master a kick-flip on your lawn. Sure, it might be a great way to learn how to kickflip, but it's not really an enjoyable or engaging experience for most of you.

+1 inb4 the "I don't play tf2 anymore, but I just want to sabotage votes made by the community for changes that won't affect me in any way" comments

On 10/26/2018 at 8:42 PM, Chrono said:

Politics is something that should be encouraged as healthy discussion and or debate. with that in mind however look at your audience and tell me honestly that there would be healthy discussion and or debate instead of "no you're fucking stupid you libtard cuck" "i bet you suck trumps dick too". While I am all for discussing politics in a proper way, I don't see that in really any gaming community save for oddly specific communities I used to play in. (=]H[= back in the Project Reality for BF2 Days where members had to be verified as 21 and above and go through heavy in game and ventrillo scrutiny is one that comes to mind)

 

for proof why politics is not a thing that should ever happen in xG, read the above posts from brady frosty and lan

Why the dig at me, my post wasn't even political it was philosophical. 

Anyway from the looks of the poll, a politics channel isn't going to happen, but I think it'd be mildly amusing to have one. I don't even know if most of the people in this clan can legally vote. 

For the most part our rules on politics aren't even really very descriptive or enforced very well, we've had discussions about net neutrality which is certainly a very political subject, we have a reaction that is literally an image of the current US president, Donald J. Trump, and we throw the word 'libtard' around like no tomorrow. And the reason all this stuff "slips" by is because nobody cares, as much shit as the clan gets from itself for being a bunch of stupid kids, I think most of the people here can take a meaningless joke. A place dedicated to higher discussion isn't really a bad thing imo, it might even be beneficial.

I kind of agree with tatost, but for the most part even if I don't think someone has what it takes for mod I don't post anything negative on their application unless I have a a particularly egregious example. I don't know if that's the case for anyone else, but that essentially means I just use standard staff protest procedure anyway. 

I do think people should be able to protest someone being staff ultimately, even if they don't have hard evidence of abuse or whatever. It allows people to get worries off their chests and forces potential staff to reconcile with past mistakes. 

My ego approves

What's against discord tos is pretty obvious, and even if you aren't sure you should be erring on the safe side and not posting it. There's literally only three limitations on what kind of nsfw content one is able to post, and while any system of categorization has flaws and outliers, that should make it insanely easy to avoid ever encountering this issue. If what you're posting looks like it's part of a gray area or could be interpreted as breaking tos, even if you personally don't feel it is, you should be doing the rest of us a favor and not posting it. 

Ultimately we are not the final arbiters of what is and what isn't allowed, we aren't the final jury or the judge, so anytime anyone posts anything in a nsfw chat they should be considering whether whatever it is would look incriminating if discord staff had to make a call on whether to axe our server or not. 

I really like the idea of a channel where none of the rules apply because for the most part it contains all the sh:tposting and spam and questionable content to a single channel, and i think it's quite the jump from 0 to 100 to immediately try and delete the channel rather than just dealing with the offending individuals with our standard punishment system. What confuses me is that this is exactly what's been done with individuals who've posted hentai that breaks tos, but now that it's furry stuff it's no longer about "individual responsibility" or whatever, it's the collective fault of the whole channel and everyone participating in it. I've mentioned before that while we've been pretty good at immediately catching and removing some questionable content, and while that deserves commendation, there's been a load of questionable furry shit that's made it past either because nobody wants to look at most of those image dumps, or possibly some kind of implicit bias. 

11 minutes ago, Kypari said:

When is it getting added to the UGC map rotation?

UGC OMEGALUL

U G C

It'd be better if you could stand on the spawn roofs because fųckers sit puppyguarding their snipers with sentries and airblast when they'd otherwise be forced to play the game due to continued bombing runs. 

Otherwise yeah it's pretty good.