http://mysteamgauge.com/account?username=turtlemcgurtle

doesn't show family shared games.

If you multitask a lot with memory intensive programs (adobe anything, visual studio, ect) I would go with 8gb myself.

hahahaha with the tone of this thread, i was not expecting this and laughed very hard out loud. thank you

anything in particular? i googled the site just now to check it out and I feel like it's okay, definitely better than ESEA... i was actually able to find what I wanted aha.

smite is hosting a 100k tournament for their games release, can we expect at least half of that for this first opening season of TF2 CEVO?

:P

i did not expect this and actually almost spit my drink out from laughing so hard! thank you, haha.

I did a little googling and arrived at a thread that I remember seeing earlier today, and it was a place that Papasmurf had linked to.

http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/14006-meatshot-8-vol-5/11#post-229503

seeing as how you sound more knowledgeable in the area than me... what's the difference between how ESEA and VAC work, besides VAC being seemingly more tame when it comes to searching for files, but how could we ever know for sure!?(hurbotnet:p) In my post I didn't mention anything about memory because it wasn't relevant to the point I was trying to make.

edit: i didn't mean for all of this to sound a tad sarcastic, the first part below the link was fully serious, as it was in my original post. i'm more than happy for somebody to explain to me why I was wrong so I don't look dumb in the future.

i haven't read much of anything relating to ESEA too closely, just glancing through these threads. has there been any actual evidence of what the anticheat is doing with your files?

When you goto your steam library and click the "Find Games on my PC" (or whatever it's called, where it lists non-steam games/applications on your PC) you could say the exact same thing. steam is accessing nearly every file on your PC because that's just how searches work (kind of how a anticheat would look for known hacks on your pc?). it's going to access all of your files getting information from it (name, checksum, ect) and comparing it to what they're looking for from their database. in the case of a antivirus or even anticheat, if it detects something malicious it will likely upload a copy of it to their system so they can further investigate.

unless there's evidence of esea doing anything malicious with the files, they aren't any worse than steam/literally any antivirus or program that looks for files on your PC in nearly any way as far as I am concerned. i'm not trying to say the bitmining was acceptable, it clearly isn't but it's been dealt with already.

this is basically a rerun of the whole Origin shenanigans from a while ago (which was proven to be completely harmless). if i'm wrong with any of this please tell me, i'd like to not spout false knowledge in the future :)

edit: a quick example of how the search could work
http://pastebin.com/Z0aycwGD (pastebin'd because these forums don't keep the formatting)

edit2: I also guarantee that CEVO's anticheat (do they have one?) will do exactly this. you can't say "Hey guys, I want a anticheat that doesn't search my files or processes! Thanks!"

pandora to find new songs
what.cd to download those songs
foobar to play my own files
and then my phone, of course

good thing I said 'could' and didn't even try to claim that it's a 'thing', right? :p just to play devils advocate though, perhaps the reason it's unheard of is the fact that only the person hosting the server would know. i did completely make this up though, friends and I joked about this almost two years ago talking about how easy and undetectable it would have been.

pls let this argument die here, it's already been taken too far through misunderstanding.

edit: forgot a few words.

i agree. seeing as how nearly every teams server runs sourcemod for DM/MGE a person could add code into those plugins (as they are open source, although that doesn't matter with the decompiler) to give advantages to him/his team. nobody would be able to figure out about it, either. edit: i also think the only way to check what plugins a server is running requires rcon access

also the CEVO guy just said that it costs nothing to use one of their servers for matches, so I just don't see why not.

the funniest thing I can think of a person could do would be adding a random chance (10%?) that when they're shot by an enemy scout/sniper, that the shot does no damage. as far as the other team knows, the server has shitty reg. you could slightly increase the rate uber charges to shave off 2-3 seconds (for all those times that you die at 99%!) edit: could have the plugin inform you when the other team offclasses, have it keep you updated on what the other medics uber is, ect. kind of fun thinking of all the possibilities, aha.

I agree with this. The next season should be donations only, while the following becomes $12 entry.

Somebody on the first or second page mentioned someone who claimed they would put up $6,000 for a new leagues prize pot? Take $3,000 of that and put it to the prize pot next season (including whatever other donations come in, of course). If the season works well and people are pleased, CEVO sets up the $12 entry fee for the following season. They will have plenty of money to keep people interested, while being able to look into LANs. Worst case is they have another $3,000 from the initial donation for another free-to-play season to continue trying to figure things out. whoever's talking about donating 6,000 is crazy though :p

hi a friend and I are going to be dipping into this game and were wondering what a good combo would be class wise, and what the farming map is right now. last I played it was some crypt one where you ran around with a snow-storm around your wizard breaking the vases and resetting after 30 seconds.

i like monk, is monk viable?

ima go watch hunger games instead

I think if you were to get all of the invite/main, the rest would follow. or they'd stay and collect the free money. :p does cevo have a prize pot? (i don't pay attention to anything tf2 related besides this forum)