- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
What you smell Psyched is probably your own body odor, or to be more specific, bacteria that has grown foul from your lack of bathing combined with your poor cooling system (if you kept the room at a cool 60-65F, your foul bacteria wouldn't grow so fast).
Second, who gives a rats ass about being banned? Anyone can read the information, (which is about 1 part useful/ 9 parts other) so the only benefit is the ability to post, and if you can't post what you want to say, then getting banned really becomes irrelevant.
Finally, whoever is runing the servers is doing a lousy job and needs to know it, and Bungie, Microsoft, and Gearbox need to know they're doing a lousy job as well. If all they ever hear is how great they are from fanboy's like you, they're never going to improve what they have. This is the reason Microsoft does "skinner-box" type testing, and not goofy-fanboy polls, when making key decisions about a game. That's what Microsoft brought to the table when it redesigned Halo after taking it over from Bungie. Bungie would have had timed misssions and rescue-the-hostage scenarios had it not been for Microsoft and their "skinner-box" type tests.
So you see that is the genius of Microsoft, and the failing of Bungie...which is evidenced by Bungie's CONSTANT failure to give us what we want..."what we really, really want" ...GOOD DEDICATED SERVERS THAT HOST GAMES THAT WE ACTUALLY PLAY- AND NOT WHAT FANBOY'S LIKE YOU THINK WOULD BE A COOL GAME, BUT NEVER SEEM TO ACTUALLY PLAY.
You need proof, recall the former servers know as SHOOT_IT 1-3. Those servers were always filled 16/16 because the game remained constant:
ALWAYS Team Slayer
ALWAYS started with normal health and sheilds
ALWAYS started with pistol and secondary
ALWAYS had frendly fire OFF OFF OFF...MEANS NO TEAMKILLING ACCIDENTS
Maps Changed, vehicles changed, environment's weapons changed-BUT THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH ALL THAT CHANGED.
NO -blam!- snipers + noshields
NO stupid plasma pistol
NO stupid freindly fire ON (so you constanly have to worry about where your teams gonna respawn-means you can't have fun driving vehicles or throwing grenades).
NO stupid King of the hill, Oddball, or whatever other -blam!- games mixed into the rotation.
Some idiots probably think that it's all good, but no one seems willing to put their money where their mouth is because those servers (like Bungie's) are always empty. The funny thing is that when those servers do have a few people, it's only because people joined during team slayer <-- we know this because they quit as soon as those other -blam!- games pop-up.
Jezuz Christmas...Bungie was able to figure it out for CTF and gave CTF fanboys -like- a billion dedicated CONSISTENT CTF ONLY servers???? WTF????
Until Bungie can explain why they think only CTF deserves consistency, they are going to be labled lame, -blam!-, idiots and every other name known to man until they give us a proper response.
[Edited on 9/22/2004 10:58:04 AM]