Dear CB,
I've been playing your leagues ever since I started gaming. I enjoyed your leagues for years now and its the only competition I still play since most of ET competition is dead. Recently however a lot of strange rules and decision have been made. CB still has a lot of influence in ET, but you're loosing ground fast. Here is a list of things that are on a lot of ETplayer' minds:
Most of the things i wrote seem obvious to most most ETplayers but sadly Clanbase thinks otherwise. I'm sorry for this rhand rant and i hope you have an awesome vacation
Done! Shoutout to the mysterious 
admin who added markup and made a nice mainpage jpeg!
yours truly,
Bart
I've been playing your leagues ever since I started gaming. I enjoyed your leagues for years now and its the only competition I still play since most of ET competition is dead. Recently however a lot of strange rules and decision have been made. CB still has a lot of influence in ET, but you're loosing ground fast. Here is a list of things that are on a lot of ETplayer' minds:
- PB Screenshots
Fix the ridiculous big size. Keep the Punkbuster screenshots like they always were. I know bigger screenshots increase the chances of busting cheaters but which known player ever got busted with pbss?
razz, but you'd still be able to see the rivatune, no matter how low the resolution of the screenshots is.
- PBKeys
The reasoning behind this rule is obvious: you cannot buy ETkeys so Clanbase wants to force players sticking to the same guid, so we can have a reliable way of tracking people.Dear donex, I know you wanted to put it at 4 weeks but the current rule is just screwing over clean players. I do not mind adding my PBkey to CB, but the first time you'd have to be able to add it without the 2 week delay. After you added your key for the first time, you could have a 2 week even a 4 week delay before somebody can start playing with a new etkey. The current rule is basically saying to retired ETplayers: don't bother coming back to ET, you cant play CB anyways.
- Slajdan
This was a big mistake. Both Killerboy and Chaplja said they weren't 100% sure whether he was cheating. When you watch the demo however it almost feels like a movie. Two of the most obvious polish hackers getting raged by an amused Slajdan. Seriously if gnajda calls hacks you don't need much more proof ... I suggest you go on a search for the one top player who thinks Slajdan is clean. I haven't been able to find a single one, whereas this wasn't the case with Gnajda.
- CDC + EC
I know EC is decided at the top level of Clanbase and headadmins don't have any saying to it. ET however could use some good competition at the moment. Why don't you guys prepare a cup. The moment CDC is announced CB should announced a cup with at least some prizes like
Steelseries products.
I also hope this EC season will start somewhere before or just after CDC. If its possible try to find a way to have CDC and EC work together to give ET one more active and skilled season. Either have EC end after CDC or in a perfect world you could even have the EC finals at CDC.
- New Maps
CB has the power to change ET. Adding special delivery was a good call and CB should keep on showing its balls of steel like it did in the Opencup of fall 2007. Although Karsiah turned out to be unsuitable for competition, at least the community gave it a try. This season Summercup didnt only feature 5on5, it also added Special Delivery and the map is here to stay.
Keep the ET evolution going. Remove frostbite, karsiah and b4 from competition. Theres a buck load of decent maps at the moment: Supplydepot, Goldrush, Radar, Bremen, Special Delivery and even Adlernest. There is no need to play maps which are either lotto, one big lean corridor or just got a fucked up 25 respawn time :)
Most of the things i wrote seem obvious to most most ETplayers but sadly Clanbase thinks otherwise. I'm sorry for this rhand rant and i hope you have an awesome vacation
Done! Shoutout to the mysterious admin who added markup and made a nice mainpage jpeg!yours truly,
Bart
if so, which are you?
I know I'm fairly skilled, but I can't play that much
Great investment in time i think though, it lets you really let your emotions out.
(im not a fag..?)
Do you know more instruments?
Unless you count organ as a separate instrument, I can play that as well!
AMEN!
and remove et_beach, et_ice and tc_base from the 3on3 mappool.
for maps, i propose secretweapon
e: tho I agree it somehow beeing shit as nowdays I doubt there is even one team who would put enough effort into it
This is true, but wasn't cathedral already played on the Danish LAN perfo went to? I'm sure that if it was a good or promising map it would have been taken into consideration for future cups.
edit: It's not really surprising that clans don't want to put effort into new maps, because it is hard enough to get a decent opponent as it is.
+1 btw, first map i played on pub when i started with ET!
Furthermore, frostbite ET's most teamplay-based map? Not really, there is absolutely no teamplay involved at all
to play frostbite u need to have great communication between your players so random paf or rifle wont wipe your team... this isnt supply where u can hold @ cranes with 2 guys... also to attack and get decent time u need to synchronize movements of your teammates...
i belive its called teamplay, maybe im wrong...
ps. On point 4 for example EC winners (1st and 2nd or even 3rd place) could be sponsored for CDC in a way. This way we can stimulate new teams and players to compete and we'll surely see who's "online only".
ps. remove Adlernest and maybe back the old maps? batery, railgun?
i would add reactor_final or another old-cool map.. it is what et need.. new maps.. not thousands ofc, just few per some time..
.. or probably caen :D i dunno why its not played in cw's.. :D
people probably just dont want to play maps where dont know that right "uberpro-camps"..
anyway I hope people will realize what to do now..
..et is best game i ever played, and i dont understand why should it die :<
hmm... okay :------(
About CB and the prizes. I'd rather have CF or anyone else hosting some cups with prizes, as I have really bad memories of CB giving out what they promised. :)
And I really like the idea of reintroducing some sort of LAN finals. (Already done that at SHG Open and I guess it worked out quite well (even had some prizes :-d))
For me to poop on.
phase one:
Let allies spawn at flag so it is hard to get there.
Phase 2:
Flag recap is still possible untill the side door is blown then the flag comes default spawn for axis.
but then imo best option is by teamplay gain acces to the backway witch has a nice big area you can control.
But it is discussable and/or testable.
now I feel ashamed X_X
sry for engrish, its 11 in the morning here and I had a ROUGH night :)-_-(:
1. adlernest
2. base12 b6
3. braundorf b4
4. bremen b2
5. crevasse b3
6. dubrovnik final 1104
7. et beach
8. et ice
9. frost comp b6
10. Frostbite
11. raw final
12. reactor final
13. rockeyes b1
14. snatch3
15. sos secret weapon
16. sp delivery te
17. supply
18. sw battery b2
19. sw cathedral b7
20. sw goldrush te
21. sw oasis b3
22. tc base
23. townsquare final
24. vengeance te final
25. Warbell
Cause why are ppl scared to play new maps?
I mean come on a new map is a new challange.
You need to be there as a team, playing, finding tax, and try to get the best out of this map.
And why always stick to shotrt map list why not giving a big maplist.
Cause this short list makes maps beeing overplayed like supply and braundorf and sometimes adler
But adler they basicaly choose to crash server or at least try to do it.
Greetz
Maps that we should give a try imo is "vengeance te final", "snatch3" and "base12 b6"
Never seen those tested or anything.
supply, sw_goldrush_te and delivery are already used anyway
maps like
braundorf, frostbite and even worse et_beach, et_ice, reactor, tc_base have been tried and failed aka they suck in et / 6on6.
other maps you suggested:
crevasse: was tried in some cup, i didn't really enjoy playing it (first stage too chaotic, "bug" possible: leave the first stage out, go to the cp instantly by spawning back and jumping up via the other's head and kill them all when they are jumping down the shaft to cp etc.)
dubrovnik: sux, never liked it, not to mention the fps drops.
frost: i remember it as an ugly map, can't remember the obj / gameplay of the map anymore though :p
raw_final: i only know raw_b3 and raw_te... beautiful map but not playable in competition imo.
cathedral: might be ok but too huge, for example the cathedral itself, too many random space noone needs for example.
warbell: nice map for public but not suitable for competition at all.
this doesn't mean though that some of the maps might work out like sos_secret_weapon or snatch3 (snatch3 seemed nice to me but i never tried it in any war) or one of those who i don't know.
and regarding sos_secretweapon, I am in contact with the author who still has the .map files, so a _te edition should be possible with fixes for the FPS drops and changes to remove any gameplay imbalances!
just like supply in 3o3 i really hate playing it in offi against equal oppo
-the end-
+ battery pls !
Imho a person that has such a mighty job, should be above any suspicion, should have the respect of the community, should have a mature behaviour and an absolutely professional approach.
A while ago I wrote in a column (http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=column&mode=item&id=346) that we need an "instance of several persons who have the trust of most of the players (except the hackers/cheaters of course) and even more important a direct connection to the leagues. They watch the games, check the "evidence" and if they decide to punish a player based on the evidence, then CB and the other leagues should follow their decision and do they same."
I mostly got flamed for this.
For example hentai:
"Not a good idea purely because it's so incredibly subjective - i do think we should be able to ban on avi's and/or demos should the consensus be that the pertaining player is/was certainly cheating."
or Spirea:
"even the most known cheatbusters tend to accuse randoms and feel sry after if they get to know itäs someone known, or they are biased if their friends are concerned etc..
The idea in itself isn't bad, but u would need like a jury that votes about the bans, and still I'm not sure if this would work. Plus that would be kinda time consuming for the jurymans..
Maybe this could work in a cup with limited player amount but as generally I don't think it would lead in any positive outcome.."
and now we got one single person .. you .. who can decide to ban someone or not just because of a subjective opinion. If I had written that people would have laughed about it, and still it's reality now.
Just my 2 cents ..
(and this has nothing to do with leoni .. that ban was correct)
so with which ban was i not reliable in ?
If there are bans because of avis/demos there has to be more professionalism and as a result there would be more reliability and respect.
Like I wrote in a comment about the jo0f case:
"[..]xfire shouldn't be the place where a ClanBase cheatbuster has to justify a ban."
+ to ice and townsquare final
Seriously, give the map some rest will you? It is overplayed, been there done that. Something fresh for a change.
Braundorf isn't that bad, it's pretty decent, so is Adlernest. Then there are few really bad maps that have failed: Cathredal sucked, the 1 desert map sucked and was poorly designed(not Karsiah). Karsiah should be redone, making it a bit bigger from the end.
Braundorf is too luck-based, there are too little ways to attack from and it's really hard to defend as well. Plus it has got a lot of corners and walls making the game more camp than skill.
Adlernest is an OK map imo, but the first part is quite hard to get control on as axis. The second part is even harder, making the map too allied-based (once you get the rifle down in the pit to shoot rifles to the objective room window, you're screwed as axis).
I thought Karsiah was a good map, then again the right side of the first axis spawn was poorly designed. It also didn't have too high fps (which for me is the case most of the time on sand maps). There were a few small bugs in the map as well, and the North (?) documents were too hard to attack, as there were too many chokepoints and allied forces had to go out in the open. Which made the map fail, imo.
Just my two cents!
Braundorf is a good base to refine for something better. It's not that bad, although it has walls, yeah, but it's not that easy to make such maps without walls now is it. RTCW had maps with alot walls too. People take advantage of what the map offers in terms of cover and so on.
Karsiah, the end should have been something similar to radar in open-endness, a little bit smaller. But more open than it is currently. There is plenty of spots axis to take cover, but the north is hard(er) to attack.
To the point, if people aren't willing to try new things we will end up playing Supply for the rest of ETs lifetime.
The SOS Secret Weapon was a good try, it too needs refining to get best out of it.
karsiah is crap
bremen is quite decent
ice is the best
beach is good
townsquare is good if there's no shitty spam everywhere
Do you see connection between those 2 requests?? IT WONT HAPPEN, BUDDY.
Couple of nice ideas. I prefer those constructive journals/columns over the usual "zOMgoat cB suX a$$" bullshit.
New or just more maps, that's what we need in my opinion. Special delivery is a good example, with a few adjustings you can make mosts maps playable.
I am still waiting for someone to adjust rail gun! Actually we only need the train to be only moved by axis....
railgun is the most RTCW map from ET - its fucking fast like no other ET map... U need a great amount of teamplay and good communication to win this map... i would remove landmines from ET they are fucking lame...
Thanks
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+warbell (remove the sacrifice thing :s)
and fix this fucking pb shitlags
make 2 cups, and compare results
cup 1 consist of the most common maps(b4,supply,adler,grush,delivery, frostbite)
cup 2 consist of the old maps (oasis,grush,fuel dump, railgun, battery)
this might be your only chance for solution with maps, you can whine and whine, you can add maps and maps but untill you compare and test, nothing will come out of your bullshit
why remove frostbite ? if your argument is "because is a lotto map" , so adlernest is the winner in lotto's maps.
otherwise, frostbite is a map with 7 years ( I guess) and it is a good map for 6on6, it's a map that is needed all teamplay as posible.
About the rest, I agree with all.
good work