Counter-Strike Map Pack Soon

Steve, your ineptitude towards Linux gives me new hope =)

I thought I was the only one

Oh, fuck me up my DSL line! I just downloaded the full CounterStrike1.0 a few days ago, for the first time. I have never played CounterStrike, and I have owned halflife for what, over 2 years, I guess. I always wanted to pick it up and play it, but I knew it would be a big change from the Quake style gameplay that I know and love (yet it is growing stale).

That is the problem. I am not a teenager anymore. I have stuff to do besides have fun ;-) So I have trouble diving into new games because I don't have the time it takes to learn a new game. Its not that I am dumb, or that I think that CounterStrike is a complex game. It comes down to the following situation:

1.) Get back from class/work/whatever
2.) Do chores around the apartment
3.) Have an hour to play before I need to get to sleep

Now, do I:
a) Play a game I already know?
b) Spend the time to learn a new game like CounterStrike?

If I play a game that I already know, I will instantly start having fun, and because I have limited time for fun and because I am spent from a long days work, I want to maximize my fun.

If I choose to learn a new game like CounterStrike, that means that I most likely will spend my entire hour of free time doing yet more work: learning a new game!

So I procrastinate. I know that if I learned CounterStrike now, it would pay off in the long run, but like most humans, I want my cake NOW!

With the rapid development of these fan made games, its a complete moving target... one that I am having trouble hitting.

I don't have a problem with Halfstats. It's not too much of a stats whore type calculation.

I DO have a problem with CLQ. CLQ is completely FUCKED up.

People who want to stats whore can do it with CLQ, even if you don't run stats because CLQ always parses whether you like it or not. I suppose Steve could block TheCLQ's IP with a firewall, but... Adding Halfstats isn't going to change things, really. People who stats whore stats whore.

No offense, but Shugashack was <will be> full of newbies anyway. If you want a good team game, find a clan server like MercsHideout or MourningAfter.

I wish on the servers I play AQ2 teamplay they would takeout the stats about individual frag scores. The game sucks if everyone is freelancing to get their own score higher no matter what.

FACILITY! FACILITY! FACILITY!

Someone suggested shack stats on the web for the game servers, any chance of that for the CS server?

I hate looking at my own stats.

I play games for fun, not for the sake of competition or anything.
When I see that I'm loosing, I get the urge to do better.

I play different, act different, and overall it ruins the whole "fun" experience.

But thats just my opinion.

how many eople actually play cs (yea, i know they got the most servers, but that doesn't mean players, too).

i don't play it.
how many on the shack do?

don't even have my hl box out any more, it had to make space for sof

Yeah, hope the shack CS server is put back online...is the FPC still alive? I kinda jumped ship on FPC and formed ERTW (engineers rule the world, natch). The shack server is like 14 hops away, but it was cool to play with the "shack celebrities" every now and then.

Then again I haven't gotten a chance to play much cstrike since my roomies and I started our Q3 mod...

My Linux HLDS CS server runs over 105 MEG, it's just ridiculous

I'm not sure if there's anything to this, but I've heard from several CS admins that the linux hlds is much more of a resource hog than the x86 version. No blame on linux, it's just that Valve can't code the hlds for linux well. Throw you server up on a NT4 or Win2K box.

...just wanted to throw my .02 in!

Severe

welll like it or not i am baack shack bitches

All Linux boxes running any half life server are CURSED !!!.

When we get a client the curse will be lifted ;).

CC

We tried to run stats on our Q3 and CS servers, they are a real pain in the ass to parse and update. Then people start to become "stats obsessed". It just wasn't worth it in the end.

My lowest numbered post. cool.

HEH!!!!