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PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 09 4:22 pm
by Baleout
Yeah, when I first started playing the pyro was the only character I could really kill anyone with.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 09 4:40 pm
by Professor Layton
I was scout at start :$ I prefer speed over sandvich any day.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 09 10:29 pm
by clyzm
Clix wrote:I was scout at start :$ I prefer speed over sandvich any day.


same here

PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 09 11:08 pm
by Dex
I was pyro at start :oops:
i think den scoot :oops:

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 09 7:09 am
by Mr. Tastix
I like teh Scout.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 09 10:30 am
by Kaiden
Medics easy to play and everyone likes you cause you kept them alive, so seems smart choice for beginers!

I like Engineer too though, tried spy but I just die a lot :(

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 09 10:37 am
by James
Medics easy to play and everyone likes you cause you kept them alive, so seems smart choice for beginers!


Quoted for truth, you're the most credit to eam and you spectate how GOOD players play classes.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 09 10:39 am
by Kaiden
There's also something satisfying about becoming invulnerable with a heavy and killing like 10 people in a row :o

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 09 11:45 am
by Mr. Tastix
Kaiden wrote:Medics easy to play and everyone likes you cause you kept them alive, so seems smart choice for beginers!


I'll quote this for truth as well. I used to play Medic when I started because it was so easy but I hated it. Coming from an RPG/MMO background, I hate healing. Always have. So the medic didn't grow on me too well.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 09 12:30 pm
by Kaiden
Meh, it gets boring after a while so I just go engineer and build teleporters and stuff :O Always good to see your teleporters been used 150+ times in a match lol.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 09 1:00 pm
by Mr. Tastix
Kaiden wrote:Meh, it gets boring after a while so I just go engineer and build teleporters and stuff :O Always good to see your teleporters been used 150+ times in a match lol.


Lmao. Engie ftw.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 09 5:19 pm
by James
What if we owned our own public 9v9 TF2 server?, what do you think?

Upon the next content update I'll be aiming to strike at the opportunity to bring more of the DXMP community into the game. If this is successful I'll be initiating a plan that I'd never thought to see come to fruition: renting a server. For an entire year I've been in love with a play condition unique to Team Fortress-esqe games named "Highlander", in short this is basically 9v9 and you can only have 1 of each 9 classes on each team. It's a forced form of balance and encourages the team to use the strengths and weaknesses of each class without multiple anomalies popping up; e.g, a team with 3 engineers, 3 snipers and 3 spies.

I'll be renting for a month/2 months to test activity when we get the next major class update, I will be promoting it to all highlander fanatics and affiliate it with DXMP and a certain community a few of us attend who will hopefully use it as an active server even if an alternative or "waiting server". In short my goal is a server that can be filling and full for a majority of the week's afternoon and evenings that will be backed up by regulars, if this goes well I'll keep renewing the contract with whatever server provider I'll choose. I'll be planing on how to manage the server in the coming months.

Also, if I were to pick this up, I'd need a name for the server; eg:
    Deus Ex
    Deus Ex Network (with Dae's permission)
    DXMP
    Arx Genus

Using "Deus Ex" as an example shown in the following concept style formats when shown on the serverlists:
    Deus Ex: Highlander 24/7
    Deus Ex - Highlander 24/7
    Deus Ex | Highlander 24/7
    DeusEx:ArxGenus:UK//HIGHLANDER
    Deus Ex: Arx Genus | Highlander 24/7 | UK


And finally a small simple concept logo used for MOTD and promotion, similar to this: http://www.imagocentre.com/images/40/ti ... ept_72.png

I'd like feedback whenever this is a good idea or not. Oh, and we're playing TF2 in at 7pm GMT.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 09 5:40 pm
by Mr. Tastix
As I commented on the announcement on the community page (with minor editing).

I like the idea tbh. Don't know how often I'd use it, I barely use my own server as is (inactivity and unwillingness to spam forums to "advertise").

I personally like the Arx Genus name and would love to see its usage simply because it's unique and sounds cool lol.

As for your goals (on activity and the like) I think it's highly possible due to the amount of people who have converted from DXMP to TF2 (most from this forum). I'd also be willing to play an hour or two every so often even with no one on (since even one person tends to attract a least one other after a while, I've found this out from my own server).

EDIT: I will kill the GMT time zone with a rubber chicken.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 09 9:00 pm
by James

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 5:45 pm
by James
Thanks to Alex's proposition we have a server!

Cathedral Terra | Highlander | Europe
IP: 91.121.15.44:27015

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 8:23 pm
by Spiderbot01
Link me to buy it james.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:01 pm
by James

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:04 pm
by Tantalus
Team Fortress Complete looks the best deal if you ever feel in a nostalgic mood.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:05 pm
by James
I disagree, orange box is much more worthwhile for 3 more quid.

TFC = bad in a way, grenade spam etc

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:18 pm
by Tantalus
Actually, didn't see that.


£17?! Wow.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:21 pm
by James
it was 6 quid weeks ago.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:22 pm
by Tantalus
:( Shit.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:22 pm
by James

PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 09 9:26 pm
by Tantalus
Probably couldn't be bothered. Feel like an idiot now!

PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 09 8:15 am
by James
RTV and votescramble installed this morning.

Highlander.smx (a mod for highlander, not the actual gametype) doesn't work at all, crashes the server. Disabled indefinitely.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 09 9:14 pm
by Alex
Image

IP (Europe): eu.tf2.xoxoz.com:27015 OR 91.121.15.44:27015
IP (US): us.tf2.xoxoz.com:27015 OR 67.159.48.184:27015

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 09 10:07 pm
by James
Server had 9v9 today whoop whoop when next class update buy this game faggots.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 09 12:17 am
by Baleout
9v9 more like 9 with 40+ score v 9 with 10- score

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 09 10:25 pm
by James
to do list so i dont forget:

  • remove tc_hydro
  • readd arena_ravine and add arena_lumberjack to the server
  • update motd
  • <s>update scramble, AGAIN</s>
  • prevent auto scramble in arena or get it to scramble by points like gscramble
  • get alex to make gscramble scramble twice
  • find the mod that auto assigns and picks a class for the player on entry to the server to prevent team stacking and stop bad players taking up the slots
  • <s>install voice channel mod when it's complete</s>
  • automated text mod to advertise that we can rtv, scramble, etc to dumb players and remind them they can swap classes
  • get more deus ex vets to play
  • <s>firebomb baleout</s>

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 09 11:29 pm
by Siva
mod Ruben