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In a secret laboratory far, far away, TreeFrog <treefrog@REMOVABLE.kenly
.demon.co.uk> said:

>Secondly - friendly fire. Now, I can see this adding an extra element of 
>strategy to clan matches, but it has absolutely no bloody place on pick-
>up servers. Every time someone signs on to your team for the first time, 
>a couple of their shots go wild and it's Goodnight Vienna. Well, isn't 
>that just an ass-load of fucking fun. Getting creamed because some poor 
>bastard didn't know that the server had some pointless switch turned on. 
>Alternatively, some lamer takes a dislike to the rest of his team, or 
>"forgets" that FF is on, and tries to shoot through you with his rifle. 
>Loads of fucking entertainment for the whole bloody family. Get a grip, 
>people - it's a nice idea, but in the big bad world it's just a royal 
>pain in the backside.
>
>Right, that's me for the moment. Thoughts, anyone?

I *like* friendly fire. 

What I don't like is people who show up on one of the few FF servers and
start whining about how they want it turned off. There are a
considerable number more non-FF servers than FF, so it shouldn't be too
hard for them to find one they're happy playing on. Learn how to use
Gamespy filters!

Secondly, yes, it's a pig when people get shot by mistake (or by
design), but after you've killed about 3 you automatically die when you
shoot a team-member. In addition to this, there's always the Votekick
command. It is your friend. :)

But enough on FF, on to the maps. One of the things I *don't* like about
the new code is the votemap facility. Why? Because it tends to
degenerate into Urban3/subway/bxtrain2 or similar and just cycle between
them, plus you'll get someone spamming away with "Vote for MAPX" in the
console.

A solution to this might be to not allow going back to a map until all
the others had been played through (kinda like CD shuffle). This would
mean you could still skip the ones you didn't like and play it whatever
order you wanted, but eliminate the "We only know 3 maps" scenario.

YMMV.


Hatchet >:)
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