Bewildered

Good luck -- get plenty of sleep.

How about you tatoo my lastname: Früh It means early; as in: I die early in nearly every round.

Aww man I wish I did; but I wanted to offer you this - that you may get different answers. Apparently there are many regional dialects. West Germanic Languages My grandpa spoke Low German; but the german I could have taken in college I think was High German. Also there is dict.cc and babelfish, but I can see the need to get an actual person's opinion since its going to be a tattoo.

I must be remembering a different map. Maybe I'll have to install 1.6 and take a look around. http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/12958 The only Torn I've seen is the final of this one. IMO the map design is just overly large and complex. I found a picture of a map overview -- and you're right. It is the one I was thinking of, and it is quite complicated. Oh well, I'll keep my fond memories in my head CS 1.6 torn map overview

I must be remembering a different map. Maybe I'll have to install 1.6 and take a look around.

Is this the type of rediculous suggestion you're looking for? Stock maps we currently play are bolded. Custom maps we currently play are in regular text. Maps we do not currently play are in italics. prime 4pm-10pm de_dust2 cs_backalley_source de_losttemple_pro cs_office de_nightfever as_oilrig de_cbble de_rush cs_italy fy_iceworld de_piranesi cs_haste de_cpl_fire de_torn de_dust2 (repeat) de_3rdstreet de_season cs_kismayo de_cbble (repeat) cs_thunder de_cpl_mill cs_italy (repeat)

Just one point of clarification. Those 12 maps were not my suggestions, they are part of our current map cycle. When I think about how we might change our map cycle, I think about switching out custom maps. Getting rid of stock maps seems more risky considering that we think they bring in people. If we wanted to remove a stock map, I think train would not make much difference. I think I have yet to see the server stay @ full when it switches to train. Honestly, if I thought it would go anywhere, I'd suggest havana, backalley, or seige; but it won't go anywhere. Now, back in the 1.6 days, the map cycle for the server I played on changed every couple of weeks. Some of those were popular maps that were switched out for other popular maps to keep the cycle fresh. A few maps were up for vote in the forums; like, vote for your favorites and the top two will be in the next map cycle.

stock maps de_cbble: I like this map, when I don't have to play it over and over. de_dust2: indifferent, pulls in people cs_italy: love/hate, pulls in people cs_office: same as cbble de_piranesi: same as cbble de_train: like the map/kills the server custom maps de_contra: I like this map. de_cpl_fire: I love this map de_cpl_mill: It feels sensitive to team stacking on the CT side, I probably just suck though. de_losttemple_pro: fun map -- can lower server population a bit though de_russka: doesn't come up enough for me to really know ... the few times I have played, it killed the server -- but the server was only at about half anyway de_season: Makes me feel like a target -- starting to like One thing I really hate about certain maps is that when the defending team, e.g. Ts on CS maps and CTs on DE maps, can just sit with their crosshairs over one tiny little space and wait for heads to appear, as opposed to having to defend multiple points of attack. Maps like Piranesi are great because there are so many points of attack, that the map doesn't suffer from that as much. Ts have 7 routes in de_season, and if I could learn how to play them I'm sure I'd start liking it. cpl_mill has 3 main routes, and 2 tunnel routes. Most of the times I play the T team isn't coordinated enough to make effective use of flanking and so I feel like I'm just waiting for my head to appear over some CT's cursor so I can die.

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vote add: de_nightfever vote add: as_oilrig vote add: de_3rdstreet vote remove: de_cpl_mill vote add custom: cs_yemen <-- I loved this map in 1.6, can we try this for a custom map night?

Great selection of maps last night. That was a different version of oilrig than we played last week ... right? Anyway, I liked it better -- it seems truer to the original. Can we get nightfever added to the regular map cycle?

Can anyone recommend a crosshair setup? I tweaked my crosshair a weeks ago from some of the various CS rates and settings discussions in the forums here; but I still have problems on some maps. I have the color set to green and the size is nice, but it seems like no matter what color I use there are certain areas where it blends in with the background. Seems like what I really want is a crosshair that autoadjusts to contrast with the background its currently on. Anyone know how to get that?

Photoshop.

In college I hated beer. In college, beer means: MGD, Miller light, Michelob, etc if you're lucky; otherwise its whatever brand has a 24 pack of cans on sale for 5 bucks. There are many more styles of beer than our traditional Pilsner (yuck). I find that the style of beer I like are typically Amber or darker. Bass, Harp, James Page (both their Amber and Brown), New Castle Brown Ale, Guinness, or Black & Tan or Black & Brown. Oh -- and don't let me forget India Pale Ale -- yum! Yay. There are some bars where you can order little mini samplers of a few style of beer to see what you like.

Where is everybody?

Well, I opened it up last night to see if the fans were running. The fans on the video card, processor, and power supply were all running. The front 90 mm case fan was running, but the rear 120 mm that pulls heat out of the case was not. It was not connected to power. I blew everything out with some compressed air, plugged the fan back in and hopefully this is the fix. Thanks! COOLMAX CX-450 ATX 450W

Sometimes I'll be playing CS and my screen will go completely black and the machine will reboot. This just started happening about in the last month or so. The machine is about 3 years old -- motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-X processor: AMD Athalon XP Barton 2600 video card: MSI GF4 TI-TD8X 8900-060 RAM: 1G Kingston ValueRAM Windows XP Any ideas -- I have 2, although I'm not sure how to verify either. A. My video card is going bad B. My memory is going bad I like the memory idea better -- since CS is about the only memory intensive app I ever run on the machine -- and I think I bought really cheap RAM. Also, occasionally (less frequent) CS will die with a memory read error. Anyone know how to verify either of these -- or other ideas?

Reverse gun game -- don't have a favorite map.

It seems to me that playing on the server has been helping. I've found that if I log in and stick around, it doesn't take long to get a 1-on-1 or 1-on-2 game going; and it takes actual players to attract other players. Last couple of nights, I've seen a few repeat (non gc) players. Several of them even stuck around after the server switched away from Assault -- for 4 maps even!. I don't know, but I'd guess that those repeats aren't random and they have the server bookmarked. What doesn't help is playing on Retro and hoping someone else will do the work of getting a game going on Immut. That said, I logged in and played a few rounds on Retro last night -- because I craved a full game; Considering that I really believe in the custom maps or even the not so common stock maps -- I feel so ashamed

Played 1.4 - 1.6 on PDDS and then Hexapalooza when PDDS went down. Bought source as soon as it came out, but didn't play much because I couldn't find a server that I liked. Started playing regularly again when I found GC.

Ahh, not really a leading question. I really prefer to play on IMMUTABLE -- because of the custom maps. Lately when I log in and there are no other players -- there is nothing to do because no bots are playing. I'll sit there for about 30 minutes max running around shooting random map junk until I get fed up and go over to Retro. If there were bots to play against, I'd probably stay longer and with any luck, maybe a game would start

Is there any way to have the server reset to a map that does support bots, when there aren't any players logged in?

I'll be on during the week between 4p and 9p central. Any chance of getting it configured with Bots to play against? I hung around for a while yesterday waiting for a game, but shooting the walls gets boring after a while.

Not an indie developer ... I mostly write in Java -- for a computer-based testing company.

Well, I can't seem to find the "Welcome Mat" that was mentioned in the response to my joining. So I figure I will post something here instead. I just joined last night. I play as "Mostly Harmless" -- note the space. There is someone else with a similar name but without the space. I may just play as my old character name -- "Bewildered", but I really love the Douglas Adams reference. I've played here for about 4 months. Simply put, the reason I joined is that I've been searching for a community like this for a very long time -- since Purdue Doug's Death Shack went down for the last time. I like the community here and I don't want to see it disappear. In life, I'm a software developer from Minneapolis, Minnesota; and for the two or three days per year that it isn't winter, I'm an avid cyclist. Hope to see you in the game!