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Messages - Harmonikater

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Lets see how your smart cat defends you better than a Rottweiler or a Pitbull , or how it will try to find food for you and help you hunt like a Beagle or Pointer. Cats are not even good friends most of the times. dogs are actually usefull.

Our Cat brings us mice, fish and so on as gifts quite often.

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Off-Topic / Re: Turkey needs your help!
« on: 17-06-2013, 16:06:09 »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22938860

I'm curious to what the situation is for the armed forces right now. Because even though Erdogan put a lot of the brass into jail on flimsy charges i think it's very hard for him to change the the army's opinion on secularism.

Anyone who knows what the mood in in the ranks is doing?

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Off-Topic / Re: Turkey needs your help!
« on: 04-06-2013, 18:06:00 »
I'd say that a military coup is a very probable possibility, after all they've stepped in quite a few times during recent times. After all they don't want a theocracy either, and are looking towards secularism to keep their power. And since Erdogan has been cutting into the military's share, they're probably also not unwilling to act.

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Off-Topic / Re: German bias
« on: 27-05-2013, 21:05:04 »
In that case I'm for speed limits on autobahns.

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Off-Topic / Re: Revolting Uniting
« on: 27-05-2013, 21:05:01 »
It's 9 degrees, bout half then what we had in December, and the radio is playing last christmas...
What the hell is going on?

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Off-Topic / Re: Revolting Uniting
« on: 22-05-2013, 19:05:22 »
I thought global climate was proven a lie when they discovered that humans and dinosaurs were created at the same time?






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General Discussion / Re: Bad admin
« on: 17-05-2013, 16:05:49 »
Once more, the majority of players knows how the rule works. We aren't ignoring anything, but evaluating it. I see like 5 people in this threat against the rule. Ok, fine. But this won't make us change the rules for a whole server.

Simple mathematics. If there would be a shitstorm in the 762 forum to change the rule, where like 30 people or more go on a riot, than things would certainly be different. But not with the current situation. Sorry.

And Odium allready described, why the rule is formulated as it is. And it works for 99% of the people.  ;)

Actually most of us are not in favor of abandoning the wait in line rule. We're just suggesting to clarify it. Please don't wrongly accuse us of opinions that are not our own. Also saying that the low number of forum members is proof of the rule being just fine, is irrelevant to this discussion, since the main focus of the rule and this discussion also, is new players. The greater part of new players likely does not register on the forum beforehand to ask questions or to debate server rules.
Also I'm wondering where you get the 99% from? I don't mind you contributing to the discussion, but please do not just make up random numbers.
I'm just wondering why you say that a rule that is intended mainly
to create an atmosphere where even newcomers get their chance
and thus is mainly concerned with new players who are not likely to visit 762 forums / this forum in the near future, if at all, should not be decided upon by a number of experienced players who frequent the forums. If anything they could contribute to the discussion, but this desicion should be voted on in a public forum. Out of what you posted, one could read that if 30+ forum user (and thus likely experienced players) cause a "shitstorm" because they're tired of new players using up precious tanks and planes, that you would take into consideration abandoning the rule. This is probably not what you meant, but as an admin, and representative of 762 to the FH2 community you have to be careful with what you say. Saying stuff like that is likely to deepen the mistrust between  certain sides. And our numbers are too low to be split into two warring factions.

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General Discussion / Re: Bad admin
« on: 16-05-2013, 17:05:51 »
Protip: if you can't figure out who is in the tank, you might be able to do the following. Let's say it's Luttich and you want the M8 Greyhound. The Greyhound and the Stuart both appear as Light Tank icons on the map, so hit caps lock and click on any Light Tank icons you see on your map. This turns the icon from blue to white. If that player is in a squad, then one of the names in the squad list to the left of your map will highlight white as well. Open that squad and see who's in it, and whoever's name is lighted up white is the guy in that tank. Now you can watch the kill messages for his death (or, don't forget, simply ask him in teamchat if you can have the tank next). If the player is not in a squad, this tactic will not work, but if they are it's a good thing to know.

Common misconception.
If the player is not in a squad, open your own squad and go to where you can invite other players. Now a list of ALL the players will appear with the player you're trying to find highlighted.

This is also useful for server admins if someone is sitting in a vehicle (not in a squad) afk, and cannot be currently/quickly reached to see the nametag. But 762 admins probably know this, as I showed this procedure to Odium quite some time ago.

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General Discussion / Re: Bad admin
« on: 15-05-2013, 19:05:25 »
I see the point. Our approach was to create an atmosphere where even newcomers get their chance.
If you don't add this rule or at least a notion like this (it should not be necessary, it should go without saying, but you know as well as I do that it does not) -  there will only be the pros getting into vehicles and that would frustrate new players.

Simply doesn't work that way...
Did you read Surfbird's post?
I'll restate that:

The current interpretation does not account for the fact that new players don't know the exact place down to the meter where the vehicle/kit they're waiting for spawns. Experienced players do however know this and while the new player has to run around the general spawn area hoping that a tank will spawn next to him  (in many places there are no camouflage nets or other markers that indicate where vehicles spawn), the experienced player will run straight to where he knows his preferred vehicle will spawn. Now the new player, who has been waiting in the general vicinity for a longer time might see the other player wait in a specific spot so he thinks to himself that maybe that other guy knows a tank will spawn there. So he runs to the same spot.
Now (from what i can gather) the precedent, as established by your server admin's desicions, is that the person standing in the specific position is first in line, because there are single lines for each vehicle. And unless you know where the vehicle spawns exactly, you less likely to be first in line, especially on the 128p server.
Result: Pros are much more likely to get vehicles. And as you said yourself, this frustrates new players, especially as they don't know the exact procedure for this rule, and might think that others are skipping the waiting line.

"Wait your turn" describes it pretty much. People who want to understand it, do so. Others...

You know that the window in that loading screen only allows for a certain amount of digits per line, right?
We tried to make it as clear as possible, frankly, I don't see where the problem is.

You are the first person who needs to have added  "there is only one line for each asset".

From my personal experience, I can definitely say that the last line is not the case. In many cases new players want to try out driving tanks or flying planes. Try telling a new player that to wait for the Sherman 76 he has to wait in line exactly where it spawns. He will NOT know where it spawns and likely also not know what exactly a Sherman 76 is. If you ask them what they're waiting for they can just tell you "a plane", or "a tank".

So your concept to create a "environment where new players get a chance", while in all intentions good and noble is fundamentally flawed.

Also, and now this time I relate to the argument between Smooth and Boo(Rus), if server policy is to create such an environment, I should think that all admins should work towards that goal also, and not exploit the fact that new players don't know spawn locations. In this instance Boo(Rus) walked towards the location where he, but not Smooth, knew where a specific tank was going to spawn. Now he did ask Smooth what specific vehicle he was waiting for, however that question will in most cases be unanswerable to new players.
I fully support a server policy that makes it more enjoyable for new players to join, but in that case all admin staff have to pull in the same direction.
As a responsible admin I would have expected Boo(Rus) to step back and let a new player take a vehicle (since he had technically been waiting longer for it. A desicion backed by rules/law doesn't always have to be a morally valid desicion.
I can understand that Boo(Rus) wants to play just like any regular player, but the priviliges he gets as an admin also carry duties with them. In this case using the rigidity of certain rules to his advantage does not display sensible admin behaviour, reflects badly on his fellow admins and, which I think is the most significant problem, undermines Odium's goal of creating a new player-friendly environment.

I fully support a waiting in line rule, however please adapt it to the reality ingame, and instruct all admins to follow in the same direction.

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Off-Topic / Re: Revolting Uniting
« on: 14-05-2013, 20:05:20 »
I wonder why the 3rd language is french? I can understand that its on there in turkish and greek but who does french come into it? (not that i mind cause its the only language out of the 3 that i understand)

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Afterwards I thought that you should have seen the last one coming. (Pun intended)

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General Discussion / Re: Bad admin
« on: 13-05-2013, 17:05:43 »
I can understand that admins aren't perfect, and that mistakes happen occasionally.
However how someone who cannot even speak English is qualified to be admin on a server where English is the principal language is beyond me. Even if you're fluent in English, it's often hard to keep track as most player only speak it as a 2nd language. So if he has to rely on Google Translate to communicate with players whom he had trouble with (I think the results above show how much that works...), I'm kinda doubtful whether he's the right person for the job. 762 probably thought it was good to have a Russian-speaking admin onboard, but I recommend that that person also have a working knowledge of English.

Just my 2 cents 

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There is a way to turn it off, but i think it's specific to each map.
I know because in Aussie we used to play on a modified version of the vBF42 Omaha map where you could leave the map as far as you liked, meaning that after you travelled on green plains for a while you were back on a ghost omaha beach (without any buildings), because the terrain just repeated forever.

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Off-Topic / Re: Long time no see
« on: 08-05-2013, 16:05:23 »
I'm doubtful whether we'll ever get the same experience we had on hslan on any of the 762 servers. And unless the release of 1.5 convinces a lot of old players to return playing, I think I'm done pubbing.

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