I kinda hoped this thread was over, but apparently it's not. In that case let me chip in as well. I also kind of agree with Dan. It's all about the difference between the exact wording of the rules and their intention. Some people on here would do well to read up on that, so for your convenience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law
In this case I think it's clear that with the quickplay system Valve intended to give Team Fortress 2 players a predictable and constant game experience. So farming the quickplay system for traffic to your server and then changing that server to something that's not eligible for quickplay is wrong, no matter how the rules were written. I sincerely hope this practice will stop and that the servers in question will be banned (again). On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Game-Over <gameover.serv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have to say I'm with Dan on this one, and he often seems to stand alone, > so I felt I had to say something. > > Having monitored this group for nearly 2 years, I have come to the > conclusion that it is mostly populated > by youngsters, who have no life experience to speak of. The excuses used > here by some that "Valve never > said we couldn't do this" or "there's nothing in the rules that say we can't > do this", leads me to believe that > they rely on parents to tell them when they are doing wrong and they simply > can't work it out for themselves. > > This latest trend of using a plugin to switch on Quickplay up to 24 players, > and then when at 24/24 switch off Quickplay > and convert the server to 32 players, instaspawn, with the argument that > "tell us where we are breaking the Policy of > Truth rules", is quite frankly mind boggling. Lets just forget about those > players who thought they were joining a > stock TF2 server and who end up with 24/7 32 man 2fort spammage, because > it's fine as Valve never said that > using this particular plugin this was wrong. No Heroes (cough). > > I blame Pinion as it has opened the gates for children to run servers. Good > old fashioned honesty, decency and integrity, > not to mention thinking of the players and not your pockets. You learn these > things as adults. > > Why Valve backtracked on their latest purge of bans is beyond me. They have > lost their backbone and I'm extremely > disappointed. I hope they find their backbone again soon. > > > On 06/03/2013 20:11, dan wrote: >> >> On 06/03/2013 18:18, Gordon Reynolds wrote: >>> >>> I'm glad we decided to take the high road here and didn't resort to >>> calling >>> each other scumbags based on how they want to run their video game server >>> :) >> >> >> Yeah his was such an erudite and polite message. >> Sheesh. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
