alvin

Scrimming and Practice is very different from a CAL match. In a scrim you can goof off like what xT, gT, and N602 do. It's still fun and we still play at 110% of our abilities. If the other team is bad enough xT will even take turns trying to ace the other team. In vent we're always teasing or making fun of each other.. It's plain fun at a competitive level. In a match you won't see any of the jokes or messing around you see in a scrim. We play in a league to win and that's what we're going to do. Practice.. is practice. Do what you want.. Discom and I spend our practice times bunnyhopping around maps. We spent at least 5 hours trying to perfect the nuke jumps. It was fun and frustrating. So.. here's what I have to say. If you are not having fun playing at a competitive level with your team then leave it and join one that you can have fun with. I must've PMed Laz 100 times about Jackie annoying me and I would refuse to play with him. However, ever since he left the team I have been able to have a much more enjoyable experience. And honestly, if you're going to spend 98% of your CS time playing in scrims and matches.. why would you want to do it and not have fun? 99% of my CS time is scrims, practice, and matches. I do not pub anymore because I only play on GC pubs and West is dead. Retro gives me horrible registry and ping so i don't bother anymore. And.. for the record.. Scrim or Practice, even if I'm bunny hopping alone is funner than pubbing to me. In CAL-O I'm pretty sure it's 1 match a week. And if you're talking 3 scrims a week.. I do 5+ scrims a night. 10+ if i get home around six or have the day off work.

Norg - http://www.caleague.com/?page=user&userid=20564 Nuggz - http://www.caleague.com/?page=user&userid=11387 At this moment.. I don't think playing in CAL or competitive is much of an excuse.. Especially considering it's still preseason and the first match was last week.

I feel you're being too lenient but it's your call on this one.

I usually go for the handicap stall. I also noticed that it gets tagged up a lot more than the other ones.. I guess the handicap really appreciate tagging?

72.37.147.110:27015 We have a west server.

Whitey is my best friend! Sup Whitey

I'm going to get the 2900 because i'm an amd/ati fanboy! Well, i would but i'm currently broke. >=[

Nope, 2900 is the high end cards.. They used the 2900xt in the test and the only release that will be more powerful will be a 2900xtx. The 2600 series will be released sometime in June i believe along with the 2400 series.

There's a setting in Mani that forces players to auto join a team and stay on that team. However..That's a bit tyrannical if you ask me.

Midwest players can stick to Midwest. I brought West back because I needed a place to play with better ping and registration. That just wasn't happening for me when I jumped onto Midwest to play. I also wouldn't be happy to see Midwest's traffic suffer from the return of our West server.

Good players always stack the easy side! (I say it every time I play on Retro) I believe since the Franny and Vovik incident too many admins are afraid to get in trouble if they ban or kick for stacking. I am too, i'll admit it. That's why on West I've given admins full privilege to unstack teams as they see fit.

I'm using 15 seconds because it is the CAL standard buytime. It's long enough to buy and short enough so you cannot go out throw a grenade and run back for a new one. It can still be done but that varies on your spawn point and how fast you can move. If you are having trouble buying under 15 seconds then you can still use buy scripts. I buy everything i need within 4 without them. That's gun, 2 flashes, HE, armor, and kit.

Somebody in the steam CSS forums is asking for a join T or join CT script.. =_=

I'm not sure how much luck you guys got with getting the server populated but.. I jumped on when i got home from work.. No one came on for an hour.. Then my buddie jumped on.. At 1:30 or so we hit 7 people in the server.. One left soon after and we stayed steady at 6 people till 2:30 when i decided to jump off for the night.

15 seconds to buy seems fine to me. 4 seconds is a bit short but.. When there is no roundlimit and the mapcycle is time based.. You don't want to spent more than that frozen. The round times are also shorter than retro. It's basically aimed to be faster paced. Mani adverts are running on default settings right now. I'll change it when i get the time or when i see it necessary. I don't want to make a retro clone here.

Immutable is back! Although, it's running on a very different platform, game server provider, and very different server settings. 72.37.147.110:27015 Yes, that is the server IP to MY public server! However, after having a little chat with John, i decided to give it to GC to help rebuild Immutable's reputation. The server will stay active until July 22th. If the server is successful we will continue to renew the server policy and the server will stay around for good. The server settings so far: mp_maxrounds 0 mp_timelimit 25 mp_freezetime 4 mp_buytime .25 (equivalent of 15 seconds) mp_roundtime 2 mp_startmoney 800 (not 802! ) Mani Admin Settings: Victim Stats = On Most Destructive = Off TK Punishment Slay = On RTV = On @ 65% vote Votekick = On @ 50% vote Voteban = On @ 60% vote Mani Save Score/Money = On (if you reconnect to the server you will get your money and bad score back) AFK Kick = 3 Rounds Bounty = On Betting = On Dead All Talk = On Those are the settings I set up for my public server. If you are unsatisfied with any of the settings then politely(and I am dead serious on the politely part) request it be changed or revised by the community. There is also no team stacking limit so all the good players can stack the easy side like usual. However, I give west admins the authority to balance teams! I'm sure admins are allowed to on midwest but I have never seen team balance enforced on there. My main goal for Immutable is to create a fun and friendly server (like how Immutable was like when i joined GC). I do not care for the competitive aspect. I do not want to see newbs being slayed for running around lost while the timer counts down. I will kick any member that insults a newb (because i see it happen too often). If you are dead set on playing on a competitive server then i'm sorry. I will do what i have to even if i have to restrict P90, AWP, Flashes, anything. Whatever it takes to recreate the friendly environment from long ago. All GC admins should have admin privileges on Immutable. Reserves should work as well. I will talk to john about setting up PsychoStats v.3. The same GC rules apply as aways but the focus is on a fun and friendly server (I cannot stress this enough). We are still a competitive server but not so much as before. Right now I'm the only one with rcon password, ftp info, and server control panel access. I will talk to john and get it distributed to the lead admins sometime tomorrow at the earliest. I think I've said enough. Good luck, Have fun.

I was playing with glock only and winning with about a 1.5 ratio and then 2.0 ratio with USP =/

Map rotation.. Dust2! Maps are decided by vote.. Other than that the maps will default to D2 if no one votes. And.. the vote list looks like this: cs_italy de_cbble de_train cs_inferno de_cpl_mill de_cpl_fire de_contra de_nuke cs_office de_aztec de_season de_russka de_villa cs_assault And yes, the server is usually empty. Without a regular player base.. It should be empty. Making a popular pub takes time and effort. I've been trying but.. I usually get this response "(Cuss word here) (more cussing) hacker (Player disconnected from server)". So yeah, I guess along with being friendly I should let visitors pwn me as well?

I was going to make a CS map of my house..

Done.

The server was only set up 2-3 days ago so i wouldn't be surprised if it was empty. I'll be on once i get home from work though. (about 9PM PST)

gT (Yaoski) and xT (Poke) have started a shared clan pub out west! Come check it out, join us and support us! The IP is 72.37.147.110:27015 and we're hosted by our good old buddies Aim2Game!

Nobody was ever on it so really.. There was no aim lab to begin with.

Welcome back. The banning admin will be in here shortly if he remembers he banned you. Other than that.. I can't do anything.

Aimlab's getting ready to cover for west.. It won't be great like West was but it'll at least be a stock server for west players to play on.