Zebb

A big thank you to Floyd and all the SPARTA guys for some great lag free games tonight, i was only able to play for about an hour but it was a lot of fun. I play mainly TDM but the HQ games were a tricky challenge...

Sounds like a plan mate..

Now the real fun can begin...

Yeah no issues there mate i use adaware/Spybot and my AV at least once week as well as a defrag regularly. You can't be too careful nowadays lol

Ok mate thanks, i will be back on tonight to see if i can get it to run better i know its difficult, especially during what is the early evening over here and so the busiest time for the net, so i expect it probably has more to do with the connections over here than your servers but i appreciate the offer it may be enough to make a difference..

Ah, ok mate maybe i will drop in again tonight and see if its any better for me, it was a damn shame i had to drop because the games were good, although, and its just an observation, with the FF on please watch out for crossing in front of people because several times i was just about to open fire when someone would wander across my field of view and i had to back off, which ended up with both of us getting killed by the enemy guy i was about to fire on, i don't know what's worse, getting "timed out" for a tk, or getting killed by someone you saw but couldn't attack...

Thanks for the games guys but i had to bail after a few because i was lagging all over the maps, suddenly leaping across open ground when i wasn't moving and when i opened fire there was a delay before anything happened which made things tricky, plus all the usual lag glitches you normally expect including tk's galore because people would suddenly appear in front of me after i had opened fire even away from the spawn. Having the friendly fire on is a good idea but if you are getting that much lag it takes a lot of the fun out of it when you are killing your team mates on a regular basis.. But thanks anyway guys, if i wasn't having the lag issues i would have played all night there was a good bunch in tonight.

Damn, there goes my chance to get a load of easy kills...

Cool, I'll be there both nights....

I only had a chance to drop in quickly last night but it seemed a good balanced game, not sure if that was due to the players in there or the settings but i will try to jump in again, thanks .

Barking mate..

Thanks JJ', i'll definitely drop in for a look..

Yes mate it certainly looks like it went very well, and if the server is going to setup on the same lines then i will drop in there and see if we draw a crowd .. I will be about this week if everyone is planning on a rematch..

I know what you mean Rocky.. As you know i was playing in there quite a bit before i started back to work so i haven't been in there for about a week now but i was starting to get a bit tired of the excessive admin of certain rules, particularly the crouch rule, when someone new would join and before they had a chance to see what was going on they would be bombarded with abuse and swearing from the TSG admins because they hadn't done something they wanted done quick enough. But they didn't seem to mind the constant fragging of spawn areas and general frag fest that some games deteriorated into and a lot of the other things that were ruining the games but as long as you crouched while you did it were ok. This was what prompted me to post me previous thread about server rules that we discussed, but i was hoping that things would improve but clearly not, it would be great if we could have a public server running along similar lines..

Nice work Rocky sounds like a good balance, well worth trying out.... I'm still working tomorrow though, damn..

Lol, thanks for taking the time to reply to this mate. I know my comment about camping is a dodgy one just because imo everyone does it at some point, i know that sometimes i luck upon a good position and i'm loathed to leave it just because the other side keep coming through the same gap i have covered and can't get a good bead on me, or as you say you have to cover a position etc and to keep moving around just gives away your position. Obviously during my time in the forces i know why we would use tactics that in a game would be considered camping, but my main gripe is with the people who just hunker down from the very start of the map with no intention of moving while everyone else is running about trying to capture flags, kill opponents etc and in doing so run up high death totals on their own score with no support from people who are supposed to be on their team. That was my only exception with regards to spawn killing, when the spawn suddenly changes and without knowing it you suddenly discover you have a load of targets in front of you, personally as soon as i understand what has happened i pull out of the area back into my own teams ground but it is an awkward point and one that you have to rely on the integrity of the individual player concerned. But i can see that generally we are on the same page when it comes down to server etiquette and there are always going to be personal points that people will differ on, as long as people are trying to play within the "spirit" of the server rules then that's all you can hope for.. I hope i haven't cut into your 1337 hax0r play time any more than is necessary this time mate..

As you know Rocky i have spent most of my recent gaming time in the TSG server and despite the fact that it is a better style of gameplay for me personally there are a few points i wanted to bring up for discussion to see what other people think since i know you want to start a similar server type. The main issue that i have is that a rule is enforced that requires you to adopt the crouching position and therefore slows the game down considerably but there is no restriction on people just camping/sniping who wait for everyone else to attempt to capture flags/Hq's etc and then pick them off at their leisure with no threat to them at all, normally there are several players using this "tactic" (and i use the word lightly) and it can get very irritating very quickly, people should be forced to move position after a certain length of time to prevent this happening. The use of the "killcam" should be minimised since moving so slowly makes it easy to know where people are likely to be. It should be illegal to overwatch a known spawn point, especially with a scoped weapon since people tend to adopt the crouch when they spawn and are just getting their bearings when they get shot several times in a row by the same person just camping out, now we know that sometimes the spawn point is variable and there isn't much you can do if someone appears near you but the traditional spawn points should be out of bounds, and there should be no claymores/C4 laid at a spawn point or airstrikes/helosfor saved up until the spawn is full for the same reason. I am not a fan of the "last stand/martydom" perk where you can shoot someone half way across a map and still be killed by their pistol with no aiming at all from them, i know this is more of a personal dislike but it's worth mentioning. The game will always be a little bit uneven in relation to individual skill until everyone has had the chance to gain the better weapons, i have lost count of the number of shoot outs i have lost because i have a weaker/slower weapon, but there needs to be some kind of restraint on the use of frags, both hand thrown and weapon mounted, since some people base their whole game on throwing or firing these at spawn points/choke points at the start of a map and then camp out with their SAW and wait for people to come to them. I know that a few of these points may seem to be minor issues to some people but i guess the point i want to make is that if you want to play a slower more, and i hate to use the word, "tactical" game then it should be across the board and not just adopting a crouch and trying to survive the onslaught of airstrikes/helos/frags and sniping campers. The guys over at TSG do keep a tight leash on people who constantly use frags etc on top of those not crouching but i was hoping that if we are going to start a new server along these lines them maybe we can try to enforce some of these ideas from the start ? Everyone has their own way in which they enjoy to play this game and obviously that's the way it should be, but i am aiming my points at people who like the slower paced version and i would like to know if what i ask is reasonable ?..

I know exactly what you mean mate, i have to have a little break every hour or so if i'm playing just to return my blood pressure to somewhere near normal levels..

I would say that if you are just starting out you probably have a better chance of having fun and learning the ways of the game on this type of server than on a standard one which are usually fast and furious..

Hello, my name is Zebb and i play Call of Duty 4 ...

Yeah, i think i may have helped you on your way to your red dot sight a few times tonight.. I'm due to get the M14 on my next level jump so i'll take a look at that then.

Excellent news Rocky, and thanks SPARTA for taking up news ideas and giving them a shot.. I will be away working 1400-0200 next friday but i will be about during the week and maybe i will see some guys playing then....

Glad you enjoyed it mate, it definitely takes a few games to readjust your senses but once you do its a lot of fun.. I'll keep an eye out for you in the server..

Excellent thanks Tricky, and thanks for the games, you guys have a good team of players over there..

I know it may sound like an odd idea but once you've played a few games its better than the usual run and gun chaos, but each to his own..