Teknologic

I clicked the big download button?
I'm uploading to my dropbox now, I'll ad the link when it's done

http://dl.dropbox.co...48/control2.dem

Don't mean to be a dick but all I saw in this painfully long demo was cabrie knifeshooting...

So the consensus here so far was to make a vote for players to decide?
Best way to facilitate that would probably be ingame votes, since a very small fraction of our players actually visit the forum.

What I mean is set up this vote like every 2 hours or when you think there's enough people online who havn't voted yet.

What Do you think of the Disable skill (drop weapons), remove it?
1. DERP! Have no opinion
2. I like disable, keep it
3. Disable sucks, remove it

Then take a screenshot of the result and post it here... or I'll make a new topic just to be clear... probably do that.

Quick link to post for admins: http://forum.tweakga...ll-surf-admins/

WARNING: RANT
My opinion on disable (again)

I've always felt disable was a frustrating skill and poisonous to a good server atmosphere.
It's the very nature of the skill that is wrong. The server is still mainly about levelling in RPG, so shooting and killing, surf is a secondary element.
A high disable skill will cause you to almost instantly drop everything and be forced to start running. If not combined with a half decent frost pistol skill (a combination which is often used), in that case you're already dead.
The only solution to that problem is to kill high disable levels before they can hit you, which will lead to other methods considered as 'lame'.
But not everyone has that option, to kill disablers before they can hit you you will need quite some rpg skills -speed, mostly- and a good aim.
New players don't have those options, which brings me back to the nature of the disable skill; it works better on people who are unskilled in disable... which are new players, which are the people we need to want to come back to the server, not leave in frustration (seriously, I still recognize 70% of the people online now, only there used to be double the players at this hour)
Not to mention the bug where the shotguns will multiply your disable chance with at least 5, usually dropping both weapons in one shot. Fast-firing weapons like the machinegun, tmp, p90 always have an extremely high chance of disabling, I could go on...

Conclusion:
If the skill like ice stab was adapted to make you invincible to bullets, because otherwise you would be rendered "helpless", I don't see why disable shouldn't at least be modified. Getting ice stabbed and then shot is a lot easier to deal with, because you have guns. If a person ice stabs you and pulls out his gun you have a good second or 2 to shoot him first, which is all you need. Disable leaves you defenseless...
Seeing how overpowered the disable skill is, it could be transformed into a sort of 'ultimate' (you know what I mean if you have played some RPG servers besides this one), where you have to target who you want to disable and have to wait to use it again. This way it can stil exist but isn't always "on". People will use it for the more important targets and low levels aren't frustrated to death (to leave and never come back).

But that's just a suggestion, for now it would be cool if admins where to participate in this server poll, because I feel the negative side of disable is being felt by more and more people nowadays. And it would be nice to know what our players actually thought... we need happy players

I checked it too now with 10 players online:

[SM] Initiated a vote: What do you think of Disable skill (drop weapons), remove it
Demon died.
[SM] Vote successful. (Received 70% of 10 votes)
[SM] The answer to What do you think of Disable skill (drop weapons), remove it is: Disable sucks, remove it.

(I didn't get a screenshot because I forgot pressing F12 was bound to a connect command, NOT screenshot )

I think thanks for reading is appropriate... nobody likes reading.. ugh -.-
And I'm curious to see when/if anything will come out of this.