Dr. Hfuhruhurr

LG v10 64GB internal, 200GB sdcard storage.. Thank God LG gave away free spare batteries and chargers to the early adopters. That battery sucks giraffe ballsack....hard. I can't even make it through half a day with light to medium usage. That, and the sketchy performance of the bluetooth is all that keeps this from being an unbeatable phone. I sometimes actually long for my old Galaxy Note 3 that I upgraded from

I tried talking to him tonight (Frankie). He is under the impression...or so he says...that by staying at the lowest rank, he doesn't take points from other players. I couldn't get him to understand that it is a weighted point system and the lower ranking you have, the more points you take from others. He insisted he was taking zero from everyone (even though I verified by speccing another player and watching that player's session points drop by 24 every time Frankie killed him), and continues to suicide every time his session score nears a positive number. However, he isn't using it to inflate his own score or increase his rank, because he continues to maintain his 4,037 ranking and isn't making a hard charge for a higher ranking. The only people it is hurting are the ones he kills. I would like to think he honestly believes what he is saying, but I look at his server profile and I see he also has used the name "It's just points, don't be mad!!" I'm lost. I don't want to be the heavy and ban him if there is a genuine misunderstanding, but I don't want him scaring off regulars who don't want to lose a gob of ranks to him, because when he plays seriously he is very good. I know, even though I'm not a hardcore point whore, I sit in spec when he's on the server. :/

I'm not looking to get them banned; Chicken is a frequent player who usually never causes problems. I just wanted to know if I had a leg to stand on asking them to refrain from doing what they were doing. I'll watch for a repeat performance and go from there. Thanks for the input.

I logged on to Iceworld tonight, and heard "Humiliation" over and over....kind of like the old Wreckless days, but much more frequently. I didn't pay attention to it, and started playing. I was killed several times by "Chicken of the Sea" and "Frankie 4 Fingers COME SHORT HO." I was trying to figure out why I was losing 25 points every time they killed me, and only gaining 2 or 3 when I killed them. When I paid more attention to the suicide call outs, I noticed that the two that were doing it were these two players. I'm slow, but it finally clicked. They suicided themselves to the last two active player rankings on the server so they could suck as many points from the higher ranking players as possible. In about 15 minutes, between the two of them, I managed to lose 643 points and about 70 positions from around 10 to 81. It looks like their plan works, but it really strips the fun for "serious" players. I know, I know..."Well, don't get killed by them." "It's just a game." Etc., etc. It's still a form of griefing that impinges on other players' enjoyment. Attached, please find a demo showing how frequently they were suiciding...which is annoying as hell in itself, having to listen to that .mp3 over and over. Thoughts? suicide.dem

That was probably going to be my next move, but I wanted to make sure it didn't violate any rules and cause a potential cry of "Admin Abuse!" I guess "absolutely loving the sport of drifting" (from his Steam profile) doesn't translate into awesome CS skills. Who woulda thunk it.

Just curious. Is there any procedure to handle someone like this? Or is it one of those "just ignore him and he'll go away eventually" things? I've never been the target of attacks like this before because I'm not a dominating player. But, holy crap, did it get annoying. I wasn't even really dominating him; the logs show a 19-8 head-to-head score. Anyway, I told him if he seriously thought I was hacking, that he should record a demo and come to the website and post it, requesting a ban. His response? "shut the fuck up you hacking piece of shit" Guidance? Oh, I'm Jack Burton, BTW.

From what I can see of the player who sometimes activates it, every time he takes a shot, he crouches then stands. It's not an issue with a semi-automatic weapon, but when going full auto -- on say, an AK-47 -- he jerks up and down at the same rate as the weapon bolt opens and closes. While not terrible, it does make trying to get a deliberate headshot on him pretty much impossible. It's also very visually disconcerting. It's not a big deal, I was just curious what the script limitations are. And I don't want to tell him that he can't use it on HG servers if it's actually aceptable. Err on the side of caution, and all that. If I see it again, I'll try to grab a demo and you can see what I'm talking about.

Are duck-shoot scripts allowed on DM servers?

A large portion of those of us who started playing it in beta or the vanilla release, the reason is simple: it became too easy. There was no challenge anymore, no skill involved, just cookie-cutter builds and a lot of button mashing. Some of my fondest memories are of dying over and over trying to kill that one mob. Not an instance boss, but just a plain old elite wandering out in the wilderness. They were plentiful and they were a cast iron bitch. A party of five level 60s taking on Borelgore back in the day when he was a 61 Elite wandering the Eastern Plaguelands had a break-even chance of wiping. Back then, if you accomplished something, it meant something. You actually had to work for your gear and your levels...walking until level 40, and then getting a mount only if you had saved up the 100g required to buy the riding skill and the mount. Once they started nerfing everything to up their player counts, it began its long slow demise. I admit, I hung around longer than I should have, lasting all the way through Cata; what a disappointment that was. Pandas? Please. Ihad spent enough of my life (8+ years) doing repetitive dailys. Thus, I'm back to Counter-Strike after a 10 year hiatus. If you still like WoW, more power to you, but for me, nothing will compare to that first agonizing year, and the joy of finally getting my first toon, an undead warlock, to level 60. What a feeling!

OK, I didn't want to go overboard and kick him or something only to find out that it was the wrong thing to do. That's why I started this thread. Thanks for the info.

...with a player that has a seriously horrible connection. His ping shows as 12 ms, but he's obviously losing a ton of packets or something. It's like this every time he connects too, it's not like it's an isolated incident. He skips around so much, he becomes very hard to hit. It doesn't show up in a first-person demo, so I had to do a free look. It took me a while to key in on him, but once I do, you can see exactly what I'm talking about. He also has an annoying habit of accusing some random player who kills him more than 3 or 4 times of using an aimbot, but that's neither here nor there. I just wonder how we handle someone with a connection so poor that it gives them an unfair advantage. TIA. daniel.dem

I've been an Airframe & Powerplant Technician (Aircraft mechaninc) for 24 years now at what used to be Continental Express and is now ExpressJet...regionals....50 seaters. Not as fulfilling as back inthe mid-80's when I was a crew chief on a B-52H. Those were the days. During Alert drills, I used to take possession of a full load of nuclear weapons and occasional just walk next to them, dragging my hand along their cold metal casing, thinking "this one gravity bomb can take out an entire major city, and there's 4 of them on here, along with a 6-pack of Short Range Attack Missles (SRAM) on a rotary launcher, and a dozen Air Launch Cruise Missles (ALCM), all nuclear, attached to this pig. Yikes!" That's a lot of responsibility when you're only 19 years old. Now I'm just a glorified parts changer.