niiice, i'll play there whenever im streaming and pubbing

Thanks a bunch for setting this up!

why isnt this 24/7 badwater

Please, for the love of god, don't put the server down if it goes 2 days without being populated. A lot of good servers like this go up, get populated for a few days, then no one plays for 2 days and it gets shut down then everyone starts wondering where the good servers went.

Nah, starting this, the only reason going small is to get the momentum started. As it gets going more then expansion will go. Regardless the server will be up for the next 10-12 months minimum unless there is some weird hardware issue or a fault at the DC. Then as things get going, implementing new systems like donations,having variations of 24/7 or rotations will come up.

One note is that as of now i have the server to do a self update and refresh at like 6am every few days to ensure it doesn't go stale and start having weird abnormalities happen aka glitches.

where is this located

it's stuck on waiting for players and we can't intiate any kind of mapvote, halp

yes help

pls respond

I just want to play video games.

Oak towers central US also fixed.

A miscellaneous question.
Alltalk on or off?

best server evar

On, it's a pub.

please for the love of god don't make it a 24/7 server like someone was suggesting

This.

Please add map voting instead of an ordinary rotation.

What about making the server run SOAP when it's less than X (6? 8?) people?

I like this idea. I'd say at 7 or fewer people, run SOAP. 4v4 is really the first point where it's fun to actually play the objective. SOAP gives people the ability to just screw around while waiting to populate the server.

in my expierence that only attracts low- tryhards who then leave when the server switches back to a pub

If you set the settings to be more of a vanilla pub server you can get this server put into the matchmaking list. By putting it in the matchmaking list, random players will join this server and we can get more attention brought to tf.tv. I know that, us, as a competitive community don't like random crits but maybe it'd be better to use this as another tool to bring people to competitive TF2 or at least tf.tv?

I mean yeah, it's only a pub server but there will (always? usually?) be some competitive players in there to guide new pubbers to tf.tv and there is also motd and more server plugins that could be used to promote competitive TF2 (and tf.tv).

Imo it's really stupid that not having random crits or spread keeps it out of the quickplay list. Valve should allow those servers to be eligible for quickplay and then have a checkbox or something if a player wants to include servers with nocrits and/or nospread in their search.

klare has some plugin on turbine it for turning off crits without removing it from quickplay (since it just checks the server's tags)

Yeah my plugin is pretty wacky though... I use it to modify the respawn time and remove random crits. It kind of has a mind of its own though - items that should crit dont... the cap crits dont actually crit but you glow like you should be critting... etc.

But we are still in the quick join thing, which is absolutely amazing. 10 people on the server and it will instantly fill to 24. Too bad they hate servers that are different =(

Valve does NOT like when you do things like this. If you modify the sv_tags to get into quickplay, you run the risk of being delisted from the master server. That means that the only way to get traffic to your servers is via people connecting manually.

they're not talking about directly modifying sv_tags. they have the tf_weapon_criticals command set to 1 (enabled), but have a sourcemod plugin that detects and prevents crits from happening,

and this is due to client side prediction.

Server is awesome, but could you maybe put a few more maps in the rotation. Badwater, gpit, and blands are really good, but a few other maps wouldn't hurt either.

add these please

cp_freight (i like it in pubs personally)
koth_pro_viaduct (not the vanilla one because then every team is going to have 9 snipers lol)
cp_gullywash
pl_upward (2nd best pl map imo)

Gully and upward are amazing in pubs. I don't think custom maps would be good because they remove the server from quick play.

I caber'd Hero a couple times today. Was fun. :3

I just had a blast playing with some familiar names as well as a few not so familiar. It seemed like everyone was having fun, and I even got to teach some guy how to rocket jump. He said it was his first game of TF2 and seemed to be having a great time. That's an A+ in my book.

As much shit as it gets, I really enjoy foundry on pubs. I think that might be another good addition.