Caffeine checking in...

[Caffeine-Rx]

--For those that know/remember me: :facewall:
I've been having some serious pc issues with running INS. Since a patch or two ago the game wouldn't even start up without a hl2.exe error. After several months of reinstals, reformats, pc upgrades, etc ... I was about to give up trying to get INS to run on this rig. Then oddly out of the blue, i tried running it today and it worked :w00t:, don't know what I did and I don't care, I'm just happy it's running.

--So the short story:
I will be returning to the community once again. Hope to see the familiar faces and meet some of the new ones.

--I was a little sadened: (read this if nothing else) :closedeyes:
So since I got it up and running I thought I would play a bit, see if I still had the skills, and I don't. But that will come in time .... I hope. :blushing:
I noticed something that really disturbed me, the servers are all a riot. Rules seem to have vanished, authority was all but lost, even eGOs didn't seem to care what was going on. A LOT of swearing, mic spamming, disrespect towards other players ... I mean what happened to the eGO that I once knew?!?!
Maybe I just came on a bad night, I don't know. Hope this is not the case.

Well, see ya all real soon.

 

[Jorzonator]

First off let me welcome you back!!
But I would have to say that nothing has happend to eGO. Or at least I haven't seen any changes. But you were right about the pubs' behaviore. It has taken turn to the worse. When I think there has been six or ten times where I didn't have to warn anybody at all, but those oster times, they mostly settle down with that one warning.
You mentioned that even O levels sometimes overlook some rule violations. Well without saying that is not accepatble. BUT. That might be because sometimes when somebody types something nasty to the chat box, you can easily miss it for it blends to the KIA messages. Just ask about it in admin chat (u+@ message, incase you've forgotten it ) if they noticed it. If one does not show any action even then, you want to let an advisor know about it.
(the leadership will give some clearification on this)
But yeah, I'm glad that you got your rig running smoothly again once more welcome back

 

[!EpIc fAiL!]

Welcome back!

 

[Baen]

Welcome back

 

[The Yeti]

I do remember you caffeine. You started having trouble soon after I joined. Glad to have you back buddy. You must of come on a bad night, because I have not seen any loopholes in the system.

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Well Caffeine great to have you back up and running (literally running for your life cause of my RPG's) I have an evil smile on by the way... I think I know what your talking about with the servers getting a bit rowdy. I see it all the time, but I always handle the matter unless I see it is just like a minor "Oops" and yes sometimes with the text the cursing might blend in, but you should check every now and then to see how the conversations are going on. Anyways good to have you back hope to see you around.

 

[a pet rock]

Glad to see you're back Caffeine! I'll see you around in the servers. As for the pubs getting rowdy I'll be sure to keep my eyes open, though I haven't seen anything.

 

[Viktum]

Hay Caffine, I have the same problem with my computer, I just got my computer This last christmas from IBUYPOWER.Com, and well, its Top Stuff, and when this error comes up, it annoys the hell out of me. but all i do is Quit out of INS and Reload the game again, and it starts right up. Every time. Most of the time it will let me play the second try i reconnect. Weird.

 

[GoldenPSP]

Good playing with you Caffeine. Seems like half of my playtime anymore is sm_msay watch the language please But overall the servers generally are pretty good.

I think we are suffering a bit for lack of admins. Especially now that we have 3 ins servers going. I find a number of times I am the only admin on the server, or we have 2-3 admins but we are all on the same team, so the other side has none.

 

[a pet rock]

I think we are suffering a bit for lack of admins. Especially now that we have 3 ins servers going. I find a number of times I am the only admin on the server, or we have 2-3 admins but we are all on the same team, so the other side has none.

You're always welcome to steam message people for help if you feel like you can't keep the server under control. Also, if you feel like the admins should be spread out across the teams.. just tell them. Kind of a no-brainer really. Either you can switch teams, or you can ask someone to switch teams. Figure something out, be mature, and fix the situation.

Also, if you want more admins you can always go recruiting some more .

 

[Leader Bean]

I don't mean to bash the admins, because I rely on them quite a bit to quell things down and I respect their perspective and the amount of effort that they put into the game. However, even though I have a number of them on my list, it's often times that I will have to run through 4-5 names with messages of "HELP" before I can get one to respond and come help out (circa 10-15min). By the time admins get there, the activity has stopped or the player has left, but a bunch of players are still PO'ed. I always have a condump and try to record a demo (thanks featherfoot!) but often times it's activity over the mics that doesn't show up in condumps or my demos that seems to infuriate players. I spent 2 hours on the BAR rtv server today and only saw one admin who popped in and out over 2 hours. One admin In 2 hours off and on?

As well, there are a number of times when I have seen poor activity in the pub servers, and an admin will warn them several times. What's with that? As far as I'm concerned (as a donor and regular member) one warning should be enough, then they get the boot. I think many of the players would be much happier seeing rowdy players get one warning and then they are booted, than some admins pussyfooting around the issue. Toughen up! We want you to toughen up, because many players don't have the power to kick people who are causing real problems! We'll appreciate it!

FYI, many players who are not in our clan always comment that the respect/language rules makes a lot of sense AND THAT'S WHY THEY COME TO OUR SERVERS! Clean up the servers by giving rowdy players the boot, and we'll increase our traffic and potential memberships.

 

[Caffeine-Rx]

Thanks for the warm greeting all.
Since I'm getting the hang of INS again I will be enforcing the rules to full effect (assuming it's causing a disruption).

See ya in game!

 

[gen-ig]

nice to see you back. And yep the Os are spread a bit thin.

 

[Drunkenfetus]

--For those that know/remember me: :facewall:
I've been having some serious pc issues with running INS. Since a patch or two ago the game wouldn't even start up without a hl2.exe error. After several months of reinstals, reformats, pc upgrades, etc ... I was about to give up trying to get INS to run on this rig. Then oddly out of the blue, i tried running it today and it worked :w00t:, don't know what I did and I don't care, I'm just happy it's running.

--So the short story:
I will be returning to the community once again. Hope to see the familiar faces and meet some of the new ones.

--I was a little sadened: (read this if nothing else) :closedeyes:
So since I got it up and running I thought I would play a bit, see if I still had the skills, and I don't. But that will come in time .... I hope. :blushing:
I noticed something that really disturbed me, the servers are all a riot. Rules seem to have vanished, authority was all but lost, even eGOs didn't seem to care what was going on. A LOT of swearing, mic spamming, disrespect towards other players ... I mean what happened to the eGO that I once knew?!?!
Maybe I just came on a bad night, I don't know. Hope this is not the case.

Well, see ya all real soon.

What server did you join and at what time?