Specifically, matchmaking not permitting graphics configs is a huge one IMO.
edit: whoops I got ninja'd bt 15 minutes :-)

As the tomato tom fan club member, I will be watching!

speaking of threads sucking and dying, lets nuke alfa's thread too please <3

As a former jump main, wallbugs are have always been v funny and I wuold like to see them remain in the game. On the occassions I watch tf2 matches/clips, it makes me smile to see someone wallbug. Definitely a much more severe bug than ctaps/speedshots, but it seems unenforceable and there's little mapper support to fix them. I also request that people go for more edgebugs and jumpbugs. Don't see those enough.

Actually... I tried out for an esea team in 2015 and they literally chose griff instead of me because he was willing to rap but I wouldn't sing a Bob Marley song... I have never forgotten this slight. so if y'all can keep wallbugs in the game to make him unhappy, I would appreciate it. thank you.

oh https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Vs41167rS/?t=1200

yeah I feel like the space-filling and visual improvements are just straight up positives, but being able to shoot / grenade smokes to partially clear them seems like a nerf. (not that that's a bad thing, just huge considering how important smokes are.) Will definitely be interesting.

so tempted to reinstall tf2 to try this... Hadn't heard of pass time until literally yesterday, when I was watching arekk's "tf2 olympics" video yesterday and was thinking it could be used to setup a better version of bball :-I I'm actually flabergasted that such a cool gamemode existed and I had never heard of it 0.o

you better stay away from my little baby puppy Remy Croissant...

pencil jump == soldier legs uncrouched and not moving. He is straight as pencil. >:-(

an international ranking would be super cool, but I understand it may not be worth it because someone would have to rank hundreds, if not thousands, of NA players before it would be reasonable to include some europeans in the list

I'm sad lansky isn't top 10 because he seemed nice and was super good. 11 is close enough though :-)

lansky top 10 or we riot

Second soar and collab. Surprised no one's mentioned finite. It's a great map and easier than soar imo.
rebound and aviator may be on the easier side imo. Legion can be easy if you can ctap.

tbf if you can do 30 tier 4's, you can just pick some maps that seem cool or fun and grind them out. No reason to stick to the "easy" ones. Difficulty is very subjective anyway.

The American legal system has had hundreds of years to iron out kinks, and it still sucks. The rgl ruleset literally cannot be perfect and should be flexible and responsive to weird situations. :-/ (and imo should generally be less harsh with bans...)

No, I am actually not. I am offering one idea I had that tries to make the ban length better match the severity. Missing a random request and missing a direct request are definitely very different. ​Messiah already confirmed that the "random" requests aren't really used for anything. It's just a mechanism to get people to record their demos so they have them for when they actually are requested.
If someone is cheating, the random requests don't help directly. They would still be asked directly for demos no matter what. So the ruleset I spent three seconds typing on the toilet and obviously has flaws still does a better job of not harming very innocent players who no one accuses of cheating. Cheaters would still get punished.

I intentionally avoided trying to offer up a fully thought out solution, but there are definitely better ways to handle this :-/

I genuinely think just (long) bans should be very rare... Like basically only for confirmed hackers. I literally don't think anyone should be banned for a season for missing three random demos over the course of several years (specifically requested demos, probably yes). If this came up like six years ago when there was a more lively player base, I would probably have a different opinion...

This community is already in an insanely fragile state, removing players and potentially killing teams is not the way to go. Like I literally quit tf2 because I played a pub for five minutes during the pyro update :-/ Big bans for non-cheaters are even more devastating... (you can say "oOh We dOn'T knoW He wAS cHeaTing because he didn't submit a demo no one would look at because no one in their right mind would ever accuse him of cheating," but like literally who gives a shit. Again, if he had submitted this demo and he was cheating in it, he would probably still get to play :-/)
like I'm sorry but I literally cannot understand your take at all haha.

Nerd essay because I feel weird about this ban length >:-(
Mostly because I feel like if I were antlers, I would literally just quit after this lol. Never interacted with him before but I really don't want an amateur caster to quit or not be able to play with his friends :-(

I feel like this isn't true though lol? People have definitely been asking RGL admins to use discretion in their decisions...
People just want admins to not make totally arbitrary decisions (banning safrix for rhyming with the n-word in a private server before a scrim), but still apply intelligent discretion (maybe don't ban the guy who accidentally spec'd like 10 seconds before a match ended.) These are not opposed at all imo.

(clockwork's were the first posts I could think of and people always changes their opinions after the cool invite player posts.)

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This is kind of a disingenuous reading of the situation... It's more like "The lowest scoring roamer in his division who no one suspects of cheating and contributes to the community by casting amateur matches in his free time in such a way that his config sometimes gets screwed up should not be banned for a whole season for a violating a rule that only exists to enforce other rules against cheating."

Antlers ~should~ record his demos, but fundamentally it doesn't really matter... Did anyone actually think that he was cheating? He got caught up in a rule that only exists to make it easier to enforce other rules. (If this rule didn't exist, real cheaters would have a much easier time saying "oopsies I don't have my demos" when directly requested. Otherwise, this rule would literally not need to exist. I highly doubt that the "random checks" are thorough...)

and that leads to my biggest gripe with this... Even IF he was cheating, had recorded the demo, and it provided evidence that he was cheating, I have a feeling that the rgl admins wouldn't really look at the demo and he would still get to play next season -_- It's not a "does he need to record demos if he's not cheating?", it's a "would he be banned right now if he had submitted a demo of him cheating?"

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IMO, the "general" solution to this:
1. If you miss three demo requests, you get banned.
2. If all of the demo requests are "random," the ban is for a week or two. (Enough to scare people into recording demos, but not enough that people will just quit and hopefully not kill teams.)
3. If any of the requests are because you are legitimately suspected of cheating, you get banned for the three months. (Enough to stop cheaters from playing)
4. If rgl admin read this, please be applied intelligently so people don't quit this dying game.