Maturity on the Love Nest (Specifically)

[Pootis Potato]

I'm going to start off by saying this: One of the major reasons behind the major migration of a lot of the "old regular" players of the love nest is centered around immaturity ... not like mature innuendos, but little kids spamming the mic and not being warned. I left a while ago because of that ...

And real quick, what's the ACTUAL point of the love nest? When I joined almost a year ago, I remember the love nest was once all about friends hanging out, sandwich friendly heavies, and just all around fun. But now when I log on, it's just "tryhards" killing those who are regulars.

Food for thought, post your, uh, thoughts on this? Thanks.

[CR33D]

Having fun= being with people who enjoy the same things as you do. Rather you're killing or not. (imo)

[Knees of Justice]

The Love Nest has certainly... uh, changed. I can't say much though since I'm only starting to play TF2 again.

[taco man]

Yeah when around the time i apped for admin it was when we were all friendly and messed around. Now its all about strange farm killing and getting to the top 12 on HLXSTATS or something. HLXstats is what ruined the lovenest. I can name out the tryharders that come on everyday who tryhard. Like, love nest is nothing like it was a year ago. It has certainly changed and now no one is friendly anymore or we dont mess around.

[CR33D]

Yeah when around the time i apped for admin it was when we were all friendly and messed around. Now its all about strange farm killing and getting to the top 12 on HLXSTATS or something. HLXstats is what ruined the lovenest. I can name out the tryharders that come on everyday who tryhard. Like, love nest is nothing like it was a year ago. It has certainly changed and now no one is friendly anymore or we dont mess around.

Well, to be fair, I tryhard myself every now and then... But I am friendly at other times :3
Does this make me a bad Love uhhhh...Nestie?

[Knees of Justice]

I can name out the tryharders that come on everyday who tryhard. Like, love nest is nothing like it was a year ago. It has certainly changed and now no one is friendly anymore or we dont mess around.

The spambots... they're learning...

[taco man]

I can name out the tryharders that come on everyday who tryhard. Like, love nest is nothing like it was a year ago. It has certainly changed and now no one is friendly anymore or we dont mess around.

Wat. who r u

[cloud]

Yes. Its about the same as ye olde Benny's funbox now. Its annoying seeing all the new regulars but eh, what can you do.

[Maringue]

Now its all about strange farm killing and getting to the top 12 on HLXSTATS or something. HLXstats is what ruined the lovenest.

Funny, the HLstat points that you earn in the love nest do not count towards the contest. You should tell people they are wasting their time.

[cloud]

Not his point. People want to be the highest rank on a server where rank has no meaning. It introduced a competitive edge to a server that was otherwise peaceful. All it does is give people an incentive to be at the top of the scoreboard, and nothing else. Tacoman has a valid point

[Repoman]

Reminds me of the days of Halo when people wanted the best K/D

I thought it was about winning...

[Knees of Justice]

Reminds me of the days of Halo when people wanted the best K/D

I thought it was about winning...

Winning... and screen watching.

I wasn't even aware that HLstatsX was implemented. Should we hold a vote on its removal?

[taco man]

Not his point. People want to be the highest rank on a server where rank has no meaning. It introduced a competitive edge to a server that was otherwise peaceful. All it does is give people an incentive to be at the top of the scoreboard, and nothing else. Tacoman has a valid point

EXACTLY, fucking supa sonic or anthid compete for the top all the fucking time. Even when we do manage to get like 2 friendly spycrabs or two sandvich heavies, one of those to dumb shits have to come and just kill us. Love nest should be friendly fun stuff, slayboxes are for the tryharders. There really shouldnt be tryharding besides VSH, DB, and whatever else.

[taco man]

Reminds me of the days of Halo when people wanted the best K/D

I thought it was about winning...

Winning... and screen watching.

I wasn't even aware that HLstatsX was implemented. Should we hold a vote on its removal?

Yes. Its the thing that promote tryharding. *coughSUPASONIC&ANTHIDcough*

Anthid was banned for a week by repo and banana because they were tired of how much he tryharded and exploited. He came back and he still does all this shit. Like, he tryhards way more than supa sonic. He needs to top score, he needs to kill. I have NEVER EVER seen him friendly.

[CR33D]

What happened to the Buddha Mode thing? I think it would be cool if someone could make a mod off of that, in which you could choose to be normal, or deal no damage and receive no damage. It could be toggled every minute to prevent abuse bindings.

[taco man]

What happened to the Buddha Mode thing? I think it would be cool if someone could make a mod off of that, in which you could choose to be normal, or deal no damage and receive no damage. It could be toggled every minute to prevent abuse bindings.

Lime Flavored Dragon: in response to creed's last post
taco man: oh lemme see it
Lime Flavored Dragon: i have been saying we need a weapon remover for quite some time, back when we still appreciated friendlies on the lovenest
Lime Flavored Dragon: basically waht it is
Lime Flavored Dragon: admins can force a player to go civilian if they are being bothersome
taco man: YES
taco man: THATS WHAT WE NEED
taco man: this is what will make lovenest like it was
taco man: thats goddamn perfect

I have limes permission :p

But yeah, thats just perfect. We go back to old friendly love nest, and if maybe a newcomer just starts tryharding, a admin civs them, or something like this.

[Repoman]

Just to clarify I banned Anthid for a week because in jump maps he was spamming the game with his constant killing. It made the other team annoyed because no one wants to spawn on a jump map, only to be insta-killed and not be able to play.

[taco man]

Just to clarify I banned Anthid for a week because in jump maps he was spamming the game with his constant killing. It made the other team annoyed because no one wants to spawn on a jump map, only to be insta-killed and not be able to play.

Banana is liar then

[Johnydrisk]

Whats is this "Maturity" of which you speak?

[Arty_pn]

Whats is this "Maturity" of which you speak?

The degradation of entertainment value of the lovenest though combination of negative enforcement loops on non combatant players (easy kills), positive enforcement loops on combatant players (tryhards) via HLstats system, recent admin trends (no friendlies), 1 scout/sniper non donor class limits, and lackluster game modes like non juggleable vs saxton hale, death run, and freeze tag: defense class edition. Veteran players feel dissuaded to connect due to this "maturity" of the lovenest

[Guy]

Gone for a while and see this.

This is why I never venture near the 'fun' servers (or any fun server period).

This game is pretty much designed around killing other players while working as a TEAM to complete objectives.
I don't understand: "HAYE I AM UR FREND, LEAT US SPAM VOICE AND HIYGH FIVE FOR 6 HOURS!"

Just me though. I don't even know why I posted here. Hello to everyone btw. *dusts off lab coat*

[GoDM1N]

I'm not sure why you're saying people are immature for playing the game. This idea that people are only allowed to stand around and not kill anyone blows my mind. Why not start a chat room via steam, because that's basically all the server is if people cant play the custom maps/mods, the reason why most people go to the fun servers. The people who are there to actually play are forced to sit in spec because the 3 or 4 who don't want to play don't end the game. And then those people leave after a few rounds of sitting around doing nothing. You guys need to make a better distinction between tryharding and playing. If you're killing people as Saxton, you're playing not tryharding.

Why don't the people who only want to stand around go to the trade server?

[Rosey]

I'm not sure why you're saying people are immature for playing the game. This idea that people are only allowed to stand around and not kill anyone blows my mind. Why not start a chat room via steam, because that's basically all the server is if people cant play the custom maps/mods, the reason why most people go to the fun servers. The people who are there to actually play are forced to sit in spec because the 3 or 4 who don't want to play don't end the game. And then those people leave after a few rounds of sitting around doing nothing. You guys need to make a better distinction between tryharding and playing. If you're killing people as Saxton, you're playing not tryharding.

Why don't the people who only want to stand around go to the trade server?

that implies there's still a trade server

[GoDM1N]

I'm not sure why you're saying people are immature for playing the game. This idea that people are only allowed to stand around and not kill anyone blows my mind. Why not start a chat room via steam, because that's basically all the server is if people cant play the custom maps/mods, the reason why most people go to the fun servers. The people who are there to actually play are forced to sit in spec because the 3 or 4 who don't want to play don't end the game. And then those people leave after a few rounds of sitting around doing nothing. You guys need to make a better distinction between tryharding and playing. If you're killing people as Saxton, you're playing not tryharding.

Why don't the people who only want to stand around go to the trade server?

that implies there's still a trade server

Think it still exist. Haven't been there in like 6 months though.

[Arty_pn]

I'm not sure why you're saying people are immature for playing the game. This idea that people are only allowed to stand around and not kill anyone blows my mind. Why not start a chat room via steam, because that's basically all the server is if people cant play the custom maps/mods, the reason why most people go to the fun servers. The people who are there to actually play are forced to sit in spec because the 3 or 4 who don't want to play don't end the game. And then those people leave after a few rounds of sitting around doing nothing. You guys need to make a better distinction between tryharding and playing. If you're killing people as Saxton, you're playing not tryharding.

Why don't the people who only want to stand around go to the trade server?

Oh God, the hours wasted waiting for saxton hale D:
I think it had more to due with the late HLstats, where people would spawn camp and there would an overuse of FaN/phlog/Huntsman/minis/pomson. It was like day 1 March madness bad.

Also I think WB2 and the trade server were converted into MVM servers, then the mvm servers died off.