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HARSH!! Ok, so in some ways you're right though. I'd say the idea of examining servers and trying to gain a competitive edge in the arena of CSS servers is a good notion though. It's all about the numbers! I don't want to play elsewhere, I want the gamers to come to gc

Hi So! This is all good stuff to keep talking about. The health of the css server is important. I hate seeing GC empty. Playing anywhere else just feels wrong... With all those the good points made in the original post, I'd like to agree with two of them real quickly: The objective to bolster the CSS numbers and the "sorta kinda competitive(ness)". In an effort to sound informed I'd like to refer you to the steam stats pages where you can see that CSS consistently pulls a peak of nearly 100 thousand players on a regular day. One might suggest that you could tap into those players to ramp up the numbers of players on GC. This does likely mean that peak times will have the server bursting at the seams but you do need a player pool to help fill up the server during all hours of the day. Ah, "Tap into those players, that's all very good but how?!" one might whine. Well this hands us off to the next part "sorta kinda competitive". As you might already know, competitive play in CSS has the noteworthy requirement of owning a copy of CSS. Participating in events in any way you can is a good way to reach players you know will respond. Sure not everyone, but you'll get a better reaction than at the supermarket. Hardfought drove a lot of it's activity on being a competitive atmosphere, having a competitive team, selling crappy tees or mugs and doubly so by hosting competitive lan events. GC already has a lot of those elements existing and could reorient them to attract new players with a great deal of success. As good a suggestion as any. So there it is Sandbox

Yeah sorry, the website is down at the moment. Hopefully we'll have it back up again soon. (all this fuss over $4.99) Regarding tryouts, thank you for those who contacted me, all positions have been filled!

No cal experiance required but is a plus, high competitive level of play is demanded. Must be talkative and a team player. Please idle #teamhf on gamesurge irc or visit www.teamhf.org. You can also pm me via this forum. We will be holding a brief tryout session saturday afternoon, roughly 4-5cst. GL HF and be nice and warmed up

if you guys need a ringer come find me in #teamhf

lol, i like the sweatbands, where can i get some

It's sort of a catch 22... or was it dust 2... but at any rate most players who play cs frequently want to see a nice full rotation of maps but those who are less used to seeing maps such as inferno/nuke/train/contra etc. will be more inclined to go to a d2 server in the hopes of doing well. it's no secret that if the server starts to get empty the best way to fill it back up is to go to D2... kinda sad but what does it tell you? edit: Oh, please smite down all dust 1 italy and aztec.

Gotta love it. Well thanks anyway, looks like we'll be rescheduling.

Friendly reminder, two commands bound to a single key other than for buy purposes isn't legal in competitive play. i guess for pubbing it goes down the toilet eh?

I guess everyone's noticed the trouble with steam today regarding connection issues and "not owning" the game under that steam account. Funny thing is the GC servers seem to be letting me in just fine rather than any other servers. If an admin could get in touch with me at #teamhf on gamesurge irc that would be great. I'd like to pick your brains as to what might be different. Being that we have a match tonight it'd be nice to get our private running smoothly or we'll have to reschedule.

Rome total war! 'nuff said right?

Having played through it a bit I can say I like the radar update. Provides anything the old one did but a little more. Things like spotting through smoke or even knowing via the radar who has the bomb is a little unfair but hopefully that will change as they tweak it. I think the important thing is that it looks clean and attractive to players who have seen better quality minimaps like in dod. A big worry for me was when the enemy dot dissapeared but it seems like you can't track through a wall or anything like that. The "last known position" system works well. Plus i bet this helps gamers with hearing problems and things like that

I feel like the radar might be a little too revealing but it looks clean. we'll see how it plays out. have you noticed you can straight up spot anyone through smoke using the radar now?? can tell who's the bomber and everything. yeah

Well I'll confirm that demo is of me today. It is 100% legitimate. If you'd like me to explain anything there i'll gladly go over the ticks with you.

No but it should be.

You must have missed the water if you took damage.

That's for getting back to me so quickly. Here's a snippet of my console: "mal-death killed xt Ich with awp. ATTACKER mal-death » 436 Dmg, 1 Hit Killer mal-death still has 87 hp left mal-death killed Hardfought | Sandbox with awp. Player: Hardfought | Sandbox - Damage Taken ------------------------- Damage Taken from "mal-death" - 436 in 1 hit Sir Ohsis of Liver killed mal-death with scout. pablo attacked a teammate *SPEC* xT.NuggZ : bye sand [LaW]Sgt. Slaughter™-TopBrass killed keke with mp5navy. *DEAD* Hardfought | Sandbox : gg [LaW]Sgt. Slaughter™-TopBrass killed [VI] Mr. C-BaSs ` X with mp5navy. *SPEC* xT.NuggZ : you even suck with hacks Disconnect: Kicked by Console. Disconnect: Kicked by Console." So I guess I don't know who actually banned me, but someone did and Nuggz knew about it? At any rate it certainly wasn't a violation of the clean server rule. If xT.Nuggz can't ban me then I wasn't informed at all of the reason. If that demo is of me then it's cheat free. Review at your pleasure.

Disconnect: STEAM UserID STEAM_0:1:600494 is banned. Disconnect: STEAM UserID STEAM_0:1:600494 is banned. xT.Nuggz Said something like "even with hacks you suck" and banned me. I don't cheat, I'd like to be unbanned. It seems to me that whoever judged my ban was perhaps unable to keep up with me? It's really not a big deal, mistakes happen and that's ok. Please get back to me, Hardfought | Sandbox