Thread: After midnight it turns into a pumpkin

I think it has less to do with 64 and more to do with time of day. As I recall, this same thing used to happen before we went 64 late at night. Maybe its worse with 64, but this has always been an issue. Maybe since Teamplayers do not suck at life so much, they have to go to bed because work comes early? Maybe non-teamplayers show up in larger numbers then because thats when they get done with their 5-close shift?

You might have something there.

Originally Posted by Gumby

I think it has less to do with 64 and more to do with time of day. As I recall, this same thing used to happen before we went 64 late at night. Maybe its worse with 64, but this has always been an issue. Maybe since Teamplayers do not suck at life so much, they have to go to bed because work comes early? Maybe non-teamplayers show up in larger numbers then because thats when they get done with their 5-close shift?

I think it has a lot to do with the bulk of our teamplayers living in Texas as well. Us Californians are on later... and oftentimes WITH these asshats.

I think if the admins reservists and regulars keep up their strong teamplay values, a bit later into the night, it'll start rubbing off on some more of the west coast players. I know I usually am able to get a squad or two working pretty effectively around midnight pacific time (2:00 AM for you guys in Texas).

In fact... we had a good commander last night that mentioned he would check out the forums after I bugged him about it for a while.

Originally Posted by Gumby

I think it has less to do with 64 and more to do with time of day. As I recall, this same thing used to happen before we went 64 late at night. Maybe its worse with 64, but this has always been an issue. Maybe since Teamplayers do not suck at life so much, they have to go to bed because work comes early? Maybe non-teamplayers show up in larger numbers then because thats when they get done with their 5-close shift?

You're right that on 48 we did have a bit of this problem late at night. The deal is that it has since multiplied exponentially with 64 and I'm sure you've noticed more so during peak hours as well. If you haven't noticed then you must be one of the lucky few that end up on the "good" team most of the time. It is in fact a by-product of going to 64 as more people purposely look for those 64 man servers.

Like Tenrou, I was one of the few that wanted and voted to stay on 48, but the consensus was "more people to kill = more fun". The grass isn't always greener though. More and more people are complaining about the asshats coming around.

I will admit that there have been some truly awesome tooth and nail rounds with 64. We had that with 48 too if only slightly less awesome, but we had a lot less of the negative that comes with a larger server as well.

I know that the admins are working hard trying to maintain order and I wish them luck and will help any way I can. Hopefully with a combined effort we can beat some sense into these asshats, bring them into the fold, get them all reserved slots, and not have to deal with so much of this crap on a daily/nightly basis anymore.

Originally Posted by laggyNgroovy

My cast is off, I started with just 2 rounds last night, but I will be back in game more often seeing what I can do.

But as has already been mentioned, spread yourselves out a little. Either pester the non team players into leaving or you will make a new TTP worthy team mate. Keep asking for orders, keep talking their ears off. Keep calling out targets, asking for the next objective, who's defending the titan so on and so forth. It works.

Then, when the admins start playing whack-an-idiot, no one is really surprised since the standard and expectation has pretty much already been set. Erosion is a powerful force. Just keep chipping away at people, one grain at a time. Either they fall over and get carried away by the wind, or they dig deeper and become stronger. We want the strong ones.

Hell yes! I'll be getting these tags soon.

Originally Posted by Tenrou

Eh my squad was the shit. I had mike for a while which is good because he always kills me if he's not on my team. Then raven popped in later in the day, and a few 5Th buds came in to fill my squad void here and there. As always no night is complete without a few white-n-nerdy kills puts a smile on my face every night. Anyways I was probably one of like 8 people who wanted it to stay 48 because of the retards that come with having a 64 player server. Like it was always said it's been done, and all we can do is hope they have a short stay here at TTP.

PS: Mardigan GET NORTHERN STRIKE!

lmao, Tenrou. I joined White-n-nerdy on another server last night and then told him I was going to TTP because my ping sucked (was 120-130). So he followed me over and we ended up on opposite teams, you know the rest.

I keep telling him he has to come to the forums and how you were offering up extra points for anyone in the squad who killed white-n-nerdy. He's been getting a kick out of your animosity for him and he laughed when I showed him your post just now. I think he might actually make it to the forums. :10

Originally Posted by killzswizz

hello everyone! im having a graphical problem with my left 4 dead 2. it doesnt really affect gameplay or anything but it bugs me. ammo number doesnt show up! the boxes where they display the ammo are blank! cant find any similar problem anywhere so can u please help me? any help would be appreciated. thanks.

Do you have any custom maps in your addons folder? If so, try deleting them and try it again.