LOL
Let the S.S. clan come out. But it isn't just the S.S. right?
Let us not deny the faust boys their say too.
*rolls up his sleeves....cracks his knuckles*
As I am unwilling to descend into lies, half-truths, name-calling, general inane comments and blind patriotism, I shall resort to clarity of facts as my defence.
First of all, regarding bans--I don't hand them out casually, and have clear statements about this in the Beach admin thread. Also, there is a guideline regarding a positive treatment and hospitable nature on the side of admins towards the people visiting the server. So refrain from trying to slander my name in that arena--I've done a lot of work to establish a fair admining practice at the Beach.
Molded the server with my own two hands? Hmm... I think you partly have me guilty on that score. I was granted the privelage of a higher admin status. With that comes a series of responsabilities. Guilty as charged. I do care. Sorry if you'd prefer some kind of rogue sporadic drunken pirate-ship captain approach, but it isn't me. Steady as she goes now.
Tool...only you and I know the nature of our conversation that night when I kicked you. It's unfortunate that you've skewed it the way you have. The truth is somewhat different, but never proveable so I'll let that one rest.
As for changes along the way to the settings on the Beach.... Apparently it suffers something called 'evolution'.
Ever ask yourself why ECGN uses the Shrub mod/s? Because it offers more than what the basic game delivered. People have sat back throughout human history and looked at simple things--things like rocks and thought...hmm...if this was round, it would roll better.... Now, others might think that a square rock rolled perfectly fine... but I'm kind of glad that the guy went ahead and chipped the rock round. Call me crazy and a control freak, but there ya go.
As for you Fireknight, I acted on something called democracy (look it up) when I approached Boc about the faust changes. It became clear to me over a period of time, from observing game dynamics, and by the amount of people--the majority--who approached me about getting it changed that something needed to be done. Do some research yourself--the faust polls go back MONTHS with MANY pages in a variety of threads about it.
Regarding the Beach being a breeding ground for skilled players.... this is possibly true, I don't know. But I think it's safe to say that these 'skilled' players who no longer play at the Beach do so because they seek out servers with far more stringent controls than what the Beach uses. Things like no fausts. Headshots only. Normal med charge-bars. Less lives. Weapons causing more damage. Friendly fire on. etc etc.
A lot of those implementations would not be appropriate for the Beach. What Boc does, I imagine, is sits back and tries to think of what a general paramater set would be appropriate for the Beach. Clearly the standard set doesn't work well there--look at the 63 slot potential for one thing. That extra 31 player slots creates a very different game dynamic potential than the original game was intended to play within. Naturally, things need to be tweaked.
If you don't like the Beach, enjoy whereever it is you play--if you have a family there, that's great. Please refrain from screaming at the top of your lungs about a different server and it's ogerish admining when you arn't even around to see what goes on.
Keek.