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As an objective observer and one that is not too familiar with the inner workings of the system, what I have noted is that the new system is superior. Teams more often than not tend to be much more balanced, easily better than Valve's in house scrambler which I call LORD SCRAMBLOR because hes a...

No they were shot at the time the new AFK system was put into place. What was edited out was me changing to a team and then back again.

The left and right mouse buttons and space though do not stop the 9 minute rule from kicking in. I was in a reasonably full upward server earlier and the chat system seemed to satisfy the AFK requirements there too.

Oh does chatting work? That's a lot easier than changing teams, I'll have to try that. If that works then it might be quite viable to stay.

Okay, further investigation has revealed other facets of the AFK system. It seems that it ignores most keyboard keys, but not the spacebar or either the left or right mouse buttons. WASD have no effect while freecamming, the timer still ticks down.

My name is TF2PublicFerret, I haunt some of the European Skial servers and I do commentaries in them. I have been doing so for the last year and a half now and its been good going. Most people I meet are happy with my commentaries and they like it when I do them. Recently there has been a new...

The guy is okay, good person to play with and well mannered.

Thing is I'm EU side, thankfully there hasn't been too many changes and some of the core maps are still vanilla. I saw this thread and it was relevant to me. I am just worried that Dustbowl, Goldrush, Badwater and Egypt might go the same way. I have faith in Bottiger, I just hope things don't...

What I was saying, was that I agree with the steps skial has taken. I am not saying that new maps are feasable for the time being. What I am making a point of is Skial's continued conversion of vanilla respawns into fast respawns. Also the removal of some maps completely. My point is that...

The administration aside, which I agree is somewhat troublesome, the point about other maps is true. What I think is much more worrying is that Skial is constantly consolidating on their existing maps and converting more servers to fast respawn. Agreed, quickplay is ruining the custom server...

The Australium and Stranges just don't appeal to me. They are mostly identical with some peripheral changes. I don't really find the effects impressive at all. Now reskins, thats a different matter. I went nuts when I finally got a Maul, it looks so badass compared to the Homewrecker.

Just asking, what is the rotation of maps on these servers? Also how long are they on each map for?

I was very worried that my intervention in servers would be taken negatively and i feared that introducing myself would get me banned. For the time being I was basically doing my thing under the radar and everything seemed fine with that. Jwso found me and that made me feel as if i could...

Yeah so for the last 8 months or so I've been haunting the EU skial servers doing commentaries with Alarmcopter. I believe that we have been a positive influence on the servers, making people go into tryhard mode and then finding that when everybody gets mad and pumped the games come out better...

So the 2Fort map is the most popular map seemingly. Okay, so that does seem fair that you would use that as a good source of income. A) Does quickplay really net that many people? (Just asking as i would like to know the mechanics of player auto-distribution) B) I assume that the initial surge...