I think we should password protect the server, at least for a while. We could send the password to the forum membership or at least those there we want to play here. I think it would weed out a lot of assholes and force the canadian trio to find a new hobby besides ruining the good times at DOU. To be honest, I am wanting to play elsewhere myself to get away from those tards. Since we can't make any kind of ban stick I think some kind of stonger measure is called for. This has been going on for several months. Also we could set it up so people could apply to play on the server by joining the clan forum. That way we could check them out before giving them the password. If the Canadians got ahold of the password we could just change it.
I miss the old days at DOU where you could get a game with a bunch of people you liked playing with and not be pestered to the point of leaving your own server and Ventrilo.
What do you people think .... ?
mAmA
This would effectively end the clan and the server.
T
Tommy wrote: This would effectively end the clan and the server.
T
How so?
People will probably not wanna dick around trying to get a password and will go to a more readily available server.
Unfortunately I have to agree with Tommy.
A server must have very much people passing by for some of them keep coming back.
If you password a server, this has a repulsive effect for players that wanted to play and couldn't enter... they go on other servers and never try a come back on the one that rejected them.
I didn't cast a vote.
I would first like to see some mods put on to make it very difficult or impossible for rulebreakers to get away with what they're pulling.
Until a few months ago I never played on any sniper server other than DOU. Now I'm finding if I want a quality time without all the hassles I usually have to go elsewhere.
Something needs to be done. Sure, mods will slow down the traffic and the server won't be as popular. But why is that so damn important anyhow? I'd rather play on a less popular server than dealing with the crap.
Suggestions for mods:
-No revenge for the revengers
-Either a no-run like in the FN ladder or one where you lose health for the runners
-No close kills for the assaulters
One of my main issues is you have people like the 3 Canadian boneheads, =&, the Geof guys, etc. Who have been told they are not welcome here for dissrespecting our rules and the admins who graciously volunteer their time to administer those rules. Do they get a do-over ??? We can't keep them off the server and the list is getting longer all the time. Also there seems to be something irrisistable about not being allowed here that makes them want to come here even more. If we let people that play here do whatever they want, I suppose a lot of these issues would have no point to them but then what kind of a server would we have ?
Even if password protecting the server is not the way to deal with this, something needs to change. It's only fun to play here a small percentage of the time these days.
mAmA
I am going to do an ISP-wide ban of all of canaca (acanac) tomorrow if possible (need to make sure it is right before I do it. This will pretty much be the end of the canadian assholes.
T
SUF did this way back in the day for a couple of weeks due to the same sort of problems. It was successful and the server remained busy after the password was lifted without the morons - but they did soon return.
Do keep in mind that SUF is now defunct.
However - the mods that I personally am not so fond of - do reside on some other servers such as ZSZ and the clans are still going strong. Coincidence? Maybe...
Do we suppose it's time to use the mods that were created for their specific intentions? I haven't been playing on our server as much either recently because it's always a big cluster fuck. I really enjoyed playing here a year ago when I first discovered DOU. Coincidence? Maybe... I've also been playing F.E.A.R. a lot, which is a tough transition to UT + also still working on a map. But I do find myself hoping that when I do get on that there isn't a bunch of craziness going on. If there is I just leave and find something else to do.
It's really unfortunate that such a great game be wasted on a few fucktards. It's beyond absurd - it's almost become surreal.
Put up the mods, password the server - whatever it takes. Lets just get it back to being a great place to be.
Dunno, might be a reason the ZSZ guys are all playing here now.
___-SM-___
damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I used to play at a server that had a password. I stopped and went to this server called DOU.
The problem was, if they ever changed the password, you had to locate the new one. It has a, "private server" affect on any player trying to get in without a password. Since there are very few camping servers left,
we have inherrited a crowd. If more DOU members had the ability to kick, that might be an alternative to passwords.
Seems to be at least one member on all the time now.
It seems to me like we have traded the fun that was always had here (anytime you visited) for popularity. If that popularity was paying for our server costs by say selling advertising it would make sense. I think it's obvious what we've lost and the headaches that came with being popular. Aside from that, and to paraphrase Cygnus, what' so great about being popular ?
I think we have a great membership, but I could live without quite a few of our guests, especially the ones asked not to return.
mAmA
41 views to this post and only six votes? I don't really care what the outcome is but at least have an opinion.
Is it just me being an :ahole: or are there a lot of people wearing the DOU tag that aren't very involved with the clan and it's efforts?
Otis_Firefly wrote: 41 views to this post and only six votes? I don't really care what the outcome is but at least have an opinion.
Is it just me being an :ahole: or are there a lot of people wearing the DOU tag that aren't very involved with the clan and it's efforts?
The number of views isn't very accurate because it only counts the number of views and not the number of viewers. I've either posted or just viewed this thread 5 times myself. That accounts for a big part of the views by one person.
That being said there is still validity to your post. There are those who choose not to participate. But from my experience, you're going to have those who are inactive to some degree no matter what type of clan or club it is. And sadly it seems more often than not it is usually a quarter or less of a membership that actually do most of the work.
{DOU}_Cygnus_X_1 wrote: [quote=Otis_Firefly]41 views to this post and only six votes? I don't really care what the outcome is but at least have an opinion.
Is it just me being an :ahole: or are there a lot of people wearing the DOU tag that aren't very involved with the clan and it's efforts?
The number of views isn't very accurate because it only counts the number of views and not the number of viewers. I've either posted or just viewed this thread 5 times myself. That accounts for a big part of the views by one person.
That being said there is still validity to your post. There are those who choose not to participate. But from my experience, you're going to have those who are inactive to some degree no matter what type of clan or club it is. And sadly it seems more often than not it is usually a quarter or less of a membership that actually do most of the work.
I work at a tennis club that has over 1,000 members. There are some that continue to pay dues that I haven't seen in six months.
So Otis, you are not an asshole, we love you. Cygnus is right, you will have inactive members everywhere you go. The key is, how productive are the active ones?
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