unban request -- for 4 people! wow.

[`birdy]

alright, so. a group of friends & myself (we've all got the ` in our names) have been playing on the dustbowl/2fort servers for a few weeks, maybe a month. i ended up donating for 3 of us, we met a handful of interesting people, it was generally a good time. generally. we get called clanstackers a lot, even when there's only 2 of us on the server, leads to irritation.

so one of us logs in tonight to find out he's been banned for 6 months for griefing. whoa, hang on. so we check the rest -- yep, all banned for 6 months for griefing. even the ones that weren't playing there last night! i'm really curious as to how we were griefing, because this reeks of personal vendetta by the admin that banned us.

 

[Sharkey]

Do you have a steamid or ip address so we can look this up easily?

 

[Antamania]

Got a steamid or ip address so we can look this up easily?

http://www.skial.com/sourcebans/index.php?p=banlist

First page - middle down Oaky, all by Crimson.

 

[`birdy]

oh, thanks. i was about to post that.

 

[Perseus Dash Jackson]

I found one:

Looks like it was Crimsony/Lady Violet's ban.

Edit: Ninja'd

 

[RisenDemon]

Before anyone gets their panties in a knot, I'm the admin that told Crimsony to do the 6 month ban. Based on what other witnesses and admins told me about your clan, I asked Crimsony to issue the bans. So if you want to talk to anyone, you'll have to talk to me.

 

[`birdy]

there is no clan. i don't get it. it's just 4 people with similar names that know each other. hell, 2 of us just started to play tf2 fairly recently, too!
& witnesses to what? us playing tf2?

 

[RisenDemon]

There have been several reports that you and your friends were "pubstomping" on our Dusty server. One of them told me that there was a rival UGC team that frequented the server, so you and your friends decided to attempt to drive them out. As a result, the entire server tends to empty out because of your actions.

 

[Giildy]

are they griefing or?

 

[RisenDemon]

are they griefing or?

They came on with the sole intention of emptying the server.

 

[Giildy]

They came on with the sole intention of emptying the server.

by doing what? Like, i don't understand what's going on?

 

[`monkey]

we play with the sole intention of having fun

 

[`birdy]

my net went out! typing from my phone, whoops.

#1, our intent was never, ever to empty the servers. really? that was something that was assumed. we came on to play video games! if we just wanted to empty the servers, why would I donate to support them?
#2, rival ugc team? nope. not in the same division as either kgb or kcb, & even if we were, why would we follow the members to a pub? we aren't that mean. :/

 

[Crimmy]

Well, I can't really explain it without ranting, so I'll make a list.
1. They've been banned in the past for map exploits by rue.
2. They've been suspected of aimbot, crit hacking, being bots themselves.
3. They join the server when it's full and clanstack teams, forcing the other team to A. Face a spam of crits stickies, or B. Rage quit. Normally people choose B.
4. Their sole intention has been to empty the server, they leave when people rage, then rejoin when people come back.
5. They chose Texas Dustbowl because it was home of the UGC team KGB. They ended up driving the regs and team away by their constant bullshit.
6. They are all alt accounts, give me five minutes I can pull up their mains.
(There's more, but I feel like I'm ranting anyways.)

 

[Crimmy]

my net went out! typing from my phone, whoops.

#1, our intent was never, ever to empty the servers. really? that was something that was assumed. we came on to play video games! if we just wanted to empty the servers, why would I donate to support them?
#2, rival ugc team? nope. not in the same division as either kgb or kcb, & even if we were, why would we follow the members to a pub? we aren't that mean. :/

Nobody ever told you the name of the local UGC team.

 

[`birdy]

it isn't hard to guess when you see with people with kcb or kgb in their names. or when you know the highlander community.

 

[RisenDemon]

I'm posting the alts here for reference

`chinchilla
Account that was banned
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198068456285
Alt account
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197989166190

`hawk
Account that was banned
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198069269672
Alt account
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197996110907

`birdy
Account that was banned
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198043857875
Alt account
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197997308631

`monkey
Account that was banned
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198040353480
Alt account
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197982350273

 

[`monkey]

Well, I can't really explain it without ranting, so I'll make a list.
2. They've been suspected of aimbot, crit hacking, being bots themselves.
(There's more, but I feel like I'm ranting anyways.)

????
how exactly are we bots? and how is being SUSPECTED of hacking a bannable offense?

 

[Doctor Hoom]

Hey. I regular the Texas Dustbowl and would see them every couple days.

For the longest time I thought one of these guys who mained Demo and then rigged some computer program to have a continual pocket Medic. He'd follow him, heal solely him, and uber solely him without any inclination to the rest of the team. Sure, I guess it could be just a Medic who is devoted to whoever he's pocketing, I watched this go on for over an hour and essentially turning a 24 man server into their own personal co-op without helping their own team, except by scoring a victory if it happened. I honestly thought it was incredibly strange that a Medic would stick to one person for an hour or more. Even when I say I'm going to "pocket" other players or regulars, I still make an effort to heal other people.

Edit: Going over the account, it was Birdy pocketing Monkey for that time.

 

[`birdy]

also, yeah. we got banned for a day for using a door glitch on second stage. once. haven't done it since, no ex post facto please? & yeah, everyone complains that people hack. we don't.
& again, we never intended to get on & empty the server. we usually left before that, or jumped on the losing team. stop making things up.
also, yeah, I pocket. but I heal everyone when I med. & since when is pocketing a friend a bannable offense?