We've got a few servers that aren't seeing much use. Is there anything you'd like to see?

#18 (Turbine, no crit) is very popular: would you like another single map no-crit server?
How about another instant spawn server on something other than forts?

Anything else we can do with the spare resources, or changes you'd like to see on the current servers?

Would love some replay on current servers looked around a bit but haven't seen any final answers on them from people saying they will look into it.

CP Gorge No Crit but i think we alredy have one? haven't played in few weeks

No crit means no crits i take it? Doesn't that make the game kind of lame?

It nocrits means no random criticals (kritzkreig, headshots, mini crits etc. still work), thus removing an element of luck from the game and thus allowing the results to be more skill based. In my experience, it is the more commited players who prefer tf_weapon_criticals 0, whilst casual players seem to prefer the random element.

admins

I was thinking exactly same thing ^^^

Admins you say? OK. Announcement about that one on Monday.

I'd like replays to be enabled too, being able to record on an unmetered server would be brilliant

Admins you want? It's up to you to make it happen.

We started working on replays, I'll have another look, but it might take a little time.

Can you put the 'no time limit' on Egypt? I think we lose most players at round end.

Done, I've changed the name to [24/7] to indicate that its all Egypt, all the time. I've scheduled it to restart next time it is empty to pickup the changes.

Thanks Malthius

Good idea of yours to ask for all this

TF2 is a brilliant game, any additions to the current servers are going to be brilliant =)

Thanks again

Remove those annoying kill/point stats in chat. I don't need to see those every 10 sec.
Also, would like to see a 24/7 hydro server too.

Status update on the replay enabling?

I don't want to put pressure on you, just I'd like to know whether it is not going to be done or what?

Is there any chance the game/map timer on Badwater server 6 can be disabled? I don't mean the round timer, there has to be something to make a team lose. But it is silly that with Badwater being the only map on the server it has a 1 hr round timer, then everyone is booted out and the match restarted. Especially seeing as there is now a autoswap option to shuffle the teams.

Oh, and thank you Malthius for taking the time to consider the community's requests.

Thanks =)

strato84: I'm not certain that we can put a timelimit on the round without causing the map to rotate at some point. I've removed the round timelimit at the moment, let me know how it plays, I'm happy to tweak it further.

Aqua: Sorry, setting up the replay stuff requires some sysadmin time on the backend (and TBH I've been a little busy the last week with the BF3 beta). Its something I want to do as soon as I can. I'll be adding some new GameOps very soon, that'll take the load off and I'll be able to focus on some of the harder but more fun stuff.

Prof: I can do 24/7 hydro. With the stats stuff, what's the actual message that bugs you? I can change what gets shown where.

Edit: TF2 #08 [Hydro][24/7] is up, let me know if it needs any tweaking.

It looks like it is working fine, so long as no one has any objections to the current set up. Basically, I think it will stop the team stack that happens on occasion when a new round starts. Don't the servers reset daily anyway? So that shouldn't cause any troubles I hope.

Thank you Malthius for doing that change.

Thanks for all of the time you're spending on considering what the community wants - I think we all appreciate it!

Yeah he's put a lot into GA. Thanks for making all those changes as the community requested. Oh wait, nothing happened and he's no longer admin.

GameArena the only game network with Locked Toilet's's

Actually. I believe Malthius is admin. Do you want him to change his name to a shade of orange?

Secondly, the change for the Badwater server that I requested is done. And importantly, was done within 24 hours of my requesting said change. And it appears no one has any grievances with it. You say nothing happened. You are incorrect in that statement.

Politeness goes a lot further than continual *****. Get over yourself. After all, the TF2 servers have not imploded from a lack of GA admin/Game Op presence.

A lot of the ***** is coming from another gaming site. They are Admins there. Trolling here and think people dont know who they are. They can never work in harmony. It all comes from something that happened over 10 years ago.

Sounds like you're just making up garbage rather than properly addressing the issue.

It sounds like someone is angry that they got found out...

It's hardly a secret. I don't think any of us have actually tried to hide anything, especially since we've no reason to. We just post here because GA as a community is essentially dead. Many of us tried to breathe life back into it but weeks, then months passed with no progress. I actually used to enjoy playing on GA but the lack of active admins means hackers/trolls can run riot with no recourse.

By hating on the server and essentially doing the same thing they do you are bringing yourself down to their level and thus are no better than them. No good admin would bring themselves down to that level.

Ahem.
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Believe it or not we all had a genuine interest in improving the GA community and put considerable effort into attempting to do so. Many of us played in the GA TF2 ladder from the very start and did what we could to keep it going. After it became clear that we cared more than any of the ppl GA officially appointed to care, then the situation became totally farcical and people got **** off that their efforts were all in vain.

What happened 10 years ago Ambush?

Sorry guys, BF3 has slammed me and the rest of the team. What I need more than anything else is some help, but that means I need to find the time to appoint new GameOps. That will happen early next week - we got some exceptional candidates.

I was in the final stage of testing the new TF2 ladder (Highlander, 7v7, some cool maps, you heard it here first) - we even had a server up with the new maps for testing, but BF3 just ate ALL my time.

I hate having promised and then failed to deliver, so have a look for some new names next week to get things moving.

You do realize that digging up dirt is NOT helping your case. You have yet to provide a rebuttal to my questioning and bringing in completely unrelated stuff is NOT going to answer it either!

What question?

I don't have a case, I really don't care what happens here I was just setting the record straight. That ok with you champ?

Stop frigging arguing lol

As for the anti-GA n00bs, get the hell out of here.

i dont spose you could drop the red spawn time down a bit on egypt?

that's quite a bit to ask. the ga admins are known for sleeping on the job
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Don't be mean to my osama!

got my PC fixered, what happened to the rank system thing on the servers? People used to use the servers a bit more when that was on i think

especially the Turbine one

The ranking thing broke horrifically in one of the major TF2 updates. We'll do a full refresh on the entire TF2 setup, and if ranking is something you want, we'll do it.

I think their fun but might also attract stat farmers, since a lot of younger and casual players use the GArena servers it might put them off.

what about a competitive server? ppl were angry about no ladder but we could figure out a good map pool and go from there

Just wondering whether you could enable client-side custom models, sprites and sounds?
It would make everything a lot more awesome and it would help stop screwing up my game

what exactly is a "competitive server"

i guess a server that uses maps where all classes are feasible (like maps with only small\tight hallways make it too hard for scouts), some maps can also be unbalanced and have exploits so don't use them

also limit number of classes (like 2 engie, 2 spie, 2 demo etc) then have weekly competitions, maybe have stat tracking reset every week or something

i don meen competitive in like Highlander or other bum sniffing, just competitive give peopel reason to join server and have fun instead of complaining all time

at moment i only play on "Hat's TF2 server", it cycle between CP maps and every week is reward for player of the week, i won eyes for my pyro for killing all spies all week

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hat_tf2

that's the server if anyone want's to play on it, it's mostly casual players but some pro-ish ppl join it now and then an you can try to kill them

there's a good pyro called GTR i think

someone plz gouge my eyes out so i don't have to read any more of sweatygremlins' inane scatterbrain posts

if u come 2 my house i can remuve them

sweatysurgeon

Hey, just wondering whether you would consider putting up a PLR_hightower 24/7 server...

It's a really great "mess-around" server, much better than 2FORT... There's a lot of rocket jumping opportunities, as well as there being more health packs around the place so battles last longer, and are more enjoyable.

Let me know what you think.

some GA servers allow spray paint, others deny spray paint...

i would like to see all GA servers (or at least #17) enable spray paint images

if the problem is that people spray up offensive or racist images, then why enable it on the other servers?


but more servers with no time limit or capture limit would be great in general