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I'm in, as long as BangBang takes on the administrative overhead of organizing. I would not take # of replies here as # of attendees -- there are likely those who will participate but are choosing not to comment.

Sweet, thx HRD. feel free to PM me, Trench, Tona, Rye, et al, for any further discussion or feedback.

-Jolly

Merry Christmas to all celebrating! Wish you and your families health and wellness in 2020.

-Jolly

Thanks for organizing, Hairy, and very much looking forward to it!

Any thoughts on which maps? And is 8PM-10PM which time zone?

Cyberdemon: As I said in the game, I appreciate your thoughtful and calm, cool, collected responses to the Christina situation. Just as it frustrates you as a player, the behavior of Christina is equally frustrating to us as admins. Every time Christina breaks the rules or is disruptive, we as admin...

Highway_Man: we are pleased to see your return to our server. posts like this are perhaps best made directly to admins via PM to ensure that the atmosphere stays positive on the forums and in the game. If you still feel the urge to post a public hackusation, this is the more suitable subforum: http:...

Could be an interesting thought experiment to do this in a formal poll. First ranked map = 10 pts, second ranked map = 9 pts, third map = 8 pts, etc. For each map, sum the points across all players, and rank. The result could guide a new map rotation.

I echo Trench's remarks and also just want to thank you, Cyberdemon, for such a calm, cool, collected, cogent and well-reasoned post. Cyberdemon's comment should be a model for future comments of this sort.

majpj: good to see you this evening. If you continue to have issues and Trench's fixes don't work, there is an alternative strategy for one-stop-shop installing BF1942 + DC: http://ea117dcfanfavorites.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=5857 Note that this comment does *not* indicate that the admins endors...

Great, Jim!

I think both orientations have merit. How about we start with Factory = Blue Flag, Park = Red flag for now? Does anyone have any strong feelings that the opposite orientation would be preferable?

Would someone like to volunteer to modify Coastal Hammer CTF such that the two capturable flags are located in the town? It would have to be a server-side mod, i.e. one that would *not* require a download of an RFA file. Perhaps one capturable flag at the motel, one in the town center? Or alternativ...

Important server updates, including map rotation announcements, will now be dually posted to our shiny new Twitter account: twitter.com/ea117_dc Feel free to follow @ea117_dc so the updates are conveyed to your Twitter feed so you don't have to manually go to ea117.com. If you don't participate in t...

Heart goes out to you, Sarge. I very much appreciate how you and Tona were willing to be so "real" here. For years, this server has served as a fleeting escape from life's ample supply of challenges; for me, they are mainly physical, whereas for others, they may be emotional or familial. R...

I second both Hairy's and Trench's kind and eloquent remarks. Sending a hug your way, Tona.

PSA to all readers: The admin team is trying to figure out the best way forward with respect to map rotation. Expect an update in the near future. Please appreciate that it is impossible to satisfy everyone but we are doing the best we can to maximize happiness of the players

Sevigon: Sea Rigs is actually amazing once you spend a little time to learn the layout of the rigs. There is a physical map inside each rig that helps a lot with navigation. When I first started playing on this server in ~2005, I remember DC Sea Rigs came right after DC Urban Siege. I used to quit i...

Amen, Trench. Tona: I'm terribly sorry to hear about all that has transpired for you and your family these past months. I have no words that can assuage your suffering, but what I can say is that we stand with you through it all. And I also, wholeheartedly, echo your sentiment that major events of a...

Do it a million-and-first and I promise to give it a careful review ;-) We all have either full time jobs or busy home lives or some combination thereof, so we appreciate your patience for non-urgent requests. As for now, I am all ears. Go ahead.

feedback is always welcome, mali. all that we ask is that, instead of saying, "Don't do [a,b,c]", you instead phrase it as, "I propose a change to [x,y,z]." That makes it more constructive and helpful to your own argument.

Now let's see you **beep beep** soup up a lada.

Jokes aside, awesome work, rave!

classic

I knew it.

HRD is staging a coup and enacting his mater plan: "EA 117 HRD Favorite: DC First Light CTF 24/7 server"

Trench, I agree with your causal reasoning. I guess I came to this conclusion from a more empirical perspective that it seems (perhaps we can find some data to back it up quantitatively?) that blue seems to win statistically significantly much more than 50% of the time. I think also that, in the fir...

Thanks for the constructive criticism, Hairy. Thoughtful feedback is always welcome as we are striving to be the best admin team possible. Selecting maps is akin to DJing for a party; it's more of an art than a science, it's virtually impossible to make everyone happy, but there is still some method...