Worst Gaming Organization of the Week: Lets Do This Community

I just finished playing on the "      [LDT] Trouble in Terrorist Town *CUSTOM* | www.ldt-clan.com" server. It is absolutely terrible. First of all they use =(eGO)=™ strategy of spaces in the server title to magnetize players. To summarize from here:

I cannot provide the Steam ID of Badgers (STEAM_0:1:19641182) because he disconnected soon after I went to post this report. Basically Broken Demon (STEAM_0:1:10768362) said that anyone could kill him one round. During that round I exploded an incendiary grenade killing him. After the round, with no warning, no inquiry, and no discussion Badgers slays me on my traitor round. He then went on to further claim that Broken was killed by himself with an M16.

http://www.xfire.com/profile/patpeter/screenshots/?view#120211617

Zylone (STEAM_0:1:33340263) slayed me after I killed Valiant Sparkle ? Tristy (STEAM_0:1:37295513) for shooting at Keww(cats) (STEAM_0:1:33568098). I was almost positive that Keww had taken damage from Valiant, and yet I was slayed on my traitor round anyway for making an honest mistake. Once again, no warning, no inquiry, and no discussion was given.

http://www.xfire.com/profile/patpeter/screenshots/?view#120211818

What I don't understand is why you all slay for even the most minor of RDM. There's a system called karma that takes care of that for you, otherwise why do you even have it? ttt_karma 0.

For a server with "8. Be forgiving. People make mistakes. ..." these two sure weren't forgiving.

In addition to some of their more hypocritical rules they also have, "2. Only detectives can give orders, disobeying allows the detectives to hurt (but not instakill) as a warning." So basically detectives are Civil Protection from DarkRP, role-playing in Trouble in Terrorist Town, how fail.

Though I agree with their allowing traitor baiting, they disallow killing based on, "he is stalking you / hugging you", as in even if you give a player the standard three warnings, "not responding to a live-check", and "his weapon matches the weapon used to kill someone" (which is valid but can also be used for admin abuse if you followed the path of a traitor after he or she killed someone).

Update:I forgot to check on the thread, and have since read the results. It started with a very friendly Christmas greeting, which almost had me turn around my opinion on this organization, only for the flaming to begin by administrators:

my_hat_stinks (STEAM_0:0:6596910)
Alright, this is how you solve threads like these:


This guy is an idiot. Case closed.

Any questions?

And:

FRAG (STEAM_0:0:9884005)
This guy has been proven to be an idiot.

LOCKING.

So instead of arguing my point (STEAM_0:1:7366484): that slaying on top of karma loss is double jeopardy and therefore wrong, they personally insult me, immediately losing the debate. A community with administrators who do not respect their playerbase does not deserve respect.

Worst Gaming Organization of the Week: Syndicate Gamers

Alright, I just finished playing ttt_stadium_v1 on Syndicate Gamers' "sG | Trouble in Terrorist Town"
(64.31.26.107:27015) and they've earned my WGOW ranking. Basically they have their TTT server set to limited microphone time to an extreme. A player can only talk for about 30 seconds straight with a very slow recharge.

When one of their members basically suicided as traitor by shooting in the middle of a crowd, me and another traitor buddy took the entire round because almost every single innocent stayed in one group. Half of their team later proceeded to troll and flame us, sG | PolloLoco [GFTF] (STEAM_0:1:13186616) in particular.

The main admin, sG | Sportsteen [SO] (STEAM_0:0:5893045), online also muted me (STEAM_0:1:7366484) for replying to all these trolls and flames, as well as respawning himself when he died as traitor.

Worst Gaming Organization of the Week: HeartkoreGaming

Surfer (STEAM_0:1:37961562) and =HKG= Rage (STEAM_0:0:41542511) displayed the worst qualities of this gaming organization tonight. I go up onto the valve on ttt_canyon_a4 to plant a C4 as traitor and Surfer calls me out as having sniped people and thrown away the sniper. I had never had a sniper that round, ipso facto could not throw one away. I had a MAC10 and had not planted my C4 yet. There weren't even weapons on the ground:

http://www.xfire.com/profile/patpeter/screenshots/?view#119164088

As surfer continued to call me out, Rage started shooting me with a scout, eventually killing me.

TTT:   Let's look at the round report for 15 seconds.
    *** Damage log:
    00:55.33 - DMG:      SmurftYours [detective] damaged Da Big Man [innocent] for 149 dmg
    00:55.33 - KILL:     SmurftYours [detective] killed Da Big Man [innocent]
    00:58.16 - KILL:      killed ♥=HKG=♥ CarlyBlue [innocent]
    01:21.13 - DMG:      SmurftYours [detective] damaged =HkG= Shryko [innocent] for 55 dmg
    01:49.06 - DMG:      =HKG= Rage [innocent] damaged =HkG= CryptKleaner [traitor] for 200 dmg
    01:49.06 - KILL:     =HKG= Rage [innocent] killed =HkG= CryptKleaner [traitor]
    02:38.43 - DMG:      =HKG= Rage [innocent] damaged |UGA|PatPeter [traitor] for 50 dmg
    02:46.60 - DMG:      =HKG= Rage [innocent] damaged |UGA|PatPeter [traitor] for 50 dmg
    02:46.60 - KILL:     =HKG= Rage [innocent] killed |UGA|PatPeter [traitor]
    *** Damage log end.

When I told him he RDMed, he responded with:

=HKG= Rage: "Hey PatPeter, I'm an admin. Therefore your argument is invalid."

I (STEAM_0:1:7366484) will not even bother to post an admin abuse report on their forums if they allow this sort of ideology.

Red vs. Blue Contradictions

I found a list of RvB contradictions while going through some of my documents back from the original run of the series, so I decided to post them.

• Eulogy
• Episode 17: Tucker says 'eulogize'.
• Episode 51: He says he does not know what the word means.
• Spanish
• Episode 16: Donut says, "Am I the only one not understanding any of this?" on Lopez speaking. 
• Episode 75: He says, "I took four years of high school Spanish."
• Sex
• Episode 21:"Sometimes at night when I think about my parents having sex I get really mad for some reason."
• Episode 76: He says, "Maybe we should have the doctor explain, uh, just how babies are made you know..."
• Armor
• Episode 21: Caboose is shot in the foot. Episode 89: Simmons says, "You are wearing state-of-the-art biomechanical  body armor. It's designed to deflect bullets and absorb explosions.
• Sniper Rifle
• Episode 26: Caboose uses the sniper rifle.
• Episode 82: He says he does not know how to use the sniper rifle.
• Episode 100: Yellow Church is pushed out of Caboose's body not as a ghost but as a physical body.

Also as an additional note Church from Episode 51 can be seen in Episode 23.

Worst Gaming Organization of the Week: Pub Gaming

Technically this is another WGOW (pronounced "w go w") from last week, but the slot was taken for a shorter post.

Alright, so on 2011 October 9 at 11:40pm, ttt_losttemple_v1, I went idle to go to the washroom before the next round started. The moment I return, I am killed in spawn as a traitor. When the round ends I accuse my killer, -[PuG]-Bounty (STEAM_0:0:7854799), of RDM. Not only was my claim dismissed, but I was also ridiculed by several members, most notably Monp whom I assume to be the leader of the organization (ranked Head Admin). They said that Bounty was allowed to kill me because my traitor buddy did not kill me.

I posted an admin complaint/ban request on their forums, my main argument being:

Are neither of these individuals aware that on the majority of TTT servers it is illegal to kill AFKs?

Why is it illegal to kill AFKs on most servers? Because most TTT servers have it set to default for players to be moved to spectator after 45-90 seconds of inactivity (default is 180). This way, you have people in spec instead of potential stalemates (i.e. the last innocent and the last traitor are both idle), or stagnated games.

To which they responded:

tacosx22 (STEAM_0:1:23922408): ive been killed for that reason tonnes of times.. dont be such a bitch

Monp (STEAM_0:0:14987480): Good job filing a complaint because your traitor buddy got you caught. Too bad it was a legit reason to kill.

If my traitor buddy was any sort of TTT regular it is entirely plausible that he did not kill me based on the reasoning that killing AFKs is illegal on most servers.

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It gets worse. We are playing dm_richland and I have my first traitor round. A little ways in -[PuG]- Charr Legion (STEAM_0:0:13399606) says, "It's PatPeter; it's PatPeter!" To which I responded, "What's your evidence? What's your evidence?" He never gave his evidence.

I (STEAM_0:1:7366484) can only conclude based on this night of gaming with this organization that Pub Gaming is a favoritism-centered, ghosting organization whose server should not be visited.

Worst Gaming Organization of the Week: HeLLsGamers

I was just now, not more than 10 minutes ago, banned from HeLLsGamers' Trouble in Terrorist Town server:

[HG] 24/7 Trouble in Terrorist Town | Custom | FastDL | HeLLsGa
75.126.83.194:27015

During the first round, I was RDMed by an innocent, HG |`john [L] #BF (STEAM_0:0:3118430), with a scout to the head. The detective killed him. All right, the detective killed him, it's fine right? Wrong. During that round as well, -hg- Green Ranger#TRR (STEAM_0:1:11466320) camped in a bush on the other side of the map as a Terrorist.

I asked Green Ranger if he knew it was a rule not to camp as a traitor, to which they responded it wasn't a rule. Fine. I told them it was the general consensus of the TTT community, but they blew me off with "yeah, whatever kid".

Next round, I'm a traitor. I (STEAM_0:1:7366484) walk around a little, buy a radar, do nothing traitorous, kill not a single person. What happens? HG |`john [L] #BF RDMs me again. When the next round began I posted this link:

http://hellsgamers.com/threads/43175-Trouble-in-Terrorist-Town-Rules

The first rule of which is: "- No Random Death-Matching (No RDMing)". The admin rocketed me up and killed me pre-round. In-between the transition between pre-round and the round itself I said, "So that's why only HeLLsGamers members are in the server."

Disconnect: BANNED: No reason specified.

Bugs, Glitches, Exploits, and Shortcuts

A negative opinion lurks over those deemed 'exploiters' in most games, but is this really just? Do such individuals who use said tactics really deserve to be looked at in such a poor fashion? Rather, there is a difference between bugs, glitches, exploits, and shortcuts that are strewn together under the umbrella of 'exploit'. Therefore, I will differentiate these so that such a misinterpretation no longer occurs:

• Bugs - Bugs are an unintentional, uncontrollable, serious problem that can either allow a player or team to automatically win or can kill a player or the entire team.
• Glitches - Glitches are also unintentional and uncontrollable, but much more minor compared to bugs. Glitches might stop a player from reloading or restart the respawn timer.
• Exploits - Exploits give a holistic advantage over the enemy team or player in a game. This means that the exploiter can have no risk of backfire otherwise it is a shortcut.
• Shortcuts - Shortcuts are the usage of map-specific mechanics that allow a player to skip a certain part of it (shortcuts are only applicable to games such as Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, whereas the other three can apply to any game). Shortcuts are differentiated from exploits in that they can kill a player or team. If a player has to jump from one platform to another and the possibility of falling off exists, then it is a shortcut. If no threat to the player exists, it is an exploit.