Rootbeer

Everyone, we have finished our "test phase" with the new host. Based on poll results and staff opinion we are pretty happy with the new host. I apologize to those of you who got worse pings. the gains far outweighed those few people though. Primarily the fact that we have been DDoS'd 3x since moving hosts with no one even noticing. the last attack peaked at 915Mbps and we didn't feel it at all. 
 
That all being said, with the test phase over, there will be some downtime. I have not scheduled that time yet, im waiting for an invoice and some more information. during the downtime, we will be getting a new cpu, the E3-1280-v3 which is the fastest single thread performing cpu there is, and a second 1Gbps link on a separate switch providing us additional bandwidth and some network redundancy. 
 
the delay will be caused by the HD move. after they set up the new box, i will shut our stuff down (100% of it) they will remove our hard drives (the SSD and the SATA) and install them in our new box. following this, they will put in a USB drive and load ESXi 5.5 on it. Once this is complete, i will reload our VMs into esxi and turn everything on. aside from a few IPs changing (not game IPs) which will be no problem since they are ones we use via dns(such as www.joinsg.net and voice.joinsg.net)  there will be no problems. 
 
I expect the outage to last less than 8 hours, but we will know more soon. the CPU has a 2 week lead time, so we're trying to get everything in order. I will update this as I get information. thanks everyone. 

I for one enjoyed the free respawns. It was as if our lord and savior Thorgot was giving me another chance in the round.

I for one enjoyed the free respawns. It was as if our lord and savior Thorgot was giving me another chance in the round.

Destin for event MGR 2014

No, you're a nerd :c

Wow rude. BM AF.

BM's a League of Legends(?) term, short for bad mannered. You say it jokingly when someone said something rude. AF is another way to type out "as fuck" without actually typing it out. tfw ruining meta jokes by explaining them ;_;

I think you might be retarded

No, you're a nerd :c

No, you're a nerd :c

Dreadknight is like the final stand before rage quitting, it is literally the only thing someone who isn't a headshot machine that someone can turn to when a good Sensei is on. It's pretty much the anti-grief race, as IMO the only races that have ever truly caused grief in this server have been knife races (Fyndhorn counts as a knife race).

Reddit thread on e-z mouse1 bind
 
So this new update introduced a mechanic decreased accuracy while moving but increased accuracy while walking. We can now therefore use a bind to toggle walk on when you click mouse1 and off when you release, effectively making you walk only when shooting. Of course it's easy to achieve this accuracy without using the bind, but I and other experienced players can clearly see improved gameplay with the bind. It is amazingly easy to score deagle headshots while "running".
 
What're our thoughts on the mechanic/bind and, unless I'm wrong, since we don't really care about scripts (the only one that's ever mentioned is a bhop script) what are our thoughts on using it in our servers since it's not really hacking?

wat

Dreadknight is like the final stand before rage quitting, it is literally the only thing someone who isn't a headshot machine that someone can turn to when a good Sensei is on. It's pretty much the anti-grief race, as IMO the only races that have ever truly caused grief in this server have been knife races (Fyndhorn counts as a knife race).

Yeah it was fun. Fun for the few select race testers.

Many races are restricted to 100 hp, being forced to lose even the minimum of 30 just to kill someone is definitely not fair. A hurrdurr kill me race is a terrible concept, to be frank. The way I see it, this race is aimed at people who aren't very good at this game. Deadly decoys don't look any different from any other race, unlike zombie or thor. How the hell are we to tell someone's a deadly decoy before headshooting them the split second after we see them? By the time we realize we've taken 50-100 mirror dmg because we headshot the guy 3 times, we're already dead. Why are we focusing on bad skill play? Good skill play is landing a headshot and we're punishing doing that.  
We love you for coding new races centran, but deadly decoy is definitely not a race fit for wcs1. (And that's okay! Can we move on and leave it behind/get onto newer races?)

This. I don't feel like these races should be on our server at all, it doesn't fit with our server's direction with the wcs mod.

This race is 100% grief, both to the player and to enemies attempting to kill it. It has no kill potential and it's only goal is to annoy the enemy team. I don't believe it's a + to our server's playerbase.

This. I don't feel like these races should be on our server at all, it doesn't fit with our server's direction with the wcs mod.

A lot of people are mentioning teamwork. Besides ghoul and his charismatic frenzies of "CALLING ALL ORCS, YEAH", when was the last time anyone's actually seen teams rushing as one? Or sending 1 player to A while the rest of the team goes B? Our server's a pub, there's literally 0 communication going on -- unless you're playing with a friend or struck a deal to stick with someone, you're probly going out on your own in an attempt to kill as many people as you can before you die on the server. Besides that, there's also the point of our server having all talk on. I wouldn't mind a few maps having all talk off: de_dust2 comes to mind when I see/hear people actually attempting to coordinate a tryhard attempt to win. (side note: is it possible to have a de_dust2_sG where we have all chat automatically set to off?)
 
tl;dr: Our server's a pub with all talk on, coordination and teamwork cannot be an argument for killing this race.

This. I don't feel like these races should be on our server at all, it doesn't fit with our server's direction with the wcs mod.

This. I don't feel like these races should be on our server at all, it doesn't fit with our server's direction with the wcs mod.

This race is 100% grief, both to the player and to enemies attempting to kill it. It has no kill potential and it's only goal is to annoy the enemy team. I don't believe it's a + to our server's playerbase.