SinisterPoem

I haven't seen him in like 5 years or something, but 'BUILT 4 KILL... Ahmed' resonated with me on the deepest level as soon as I saw it. If anybody's wondering who have I voted for. The starting sample of users was taken in no particular order or reason, just a few nicks that I thought would probably end up with at least 1 vote sooner or later. Well, except for ahmed.

http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=8ed3117cf2ee8d06a You download Renegade X, you heard it's a fun game. You wait until it finished updating, and then... Welcome Back, Commander! Choose your name:... So you start to ponder, and think, what alias to take on. Something cool, but not edgy. Could be funny. Should be short... Your wife starts asking if you're harrassed at work, because you're always in deep though. You almost got into a traffic accident because you got lost in thought when passing a crosswalk on red light. You even missed your bus stop, and the driver had to inform you he's already reached the end of the route. And then, Eureka, you found one nick that's perfect for you! You punch it in, and... weird. There's no fanfare, no one is congratulating you on that witty and cool nickname... Maybe they're too shy to talk to someone with such a nice nickname? Maybe YOU were to shy to tell someone you like their nick? It'd be awkward to mention this now, wouldn't it? All of us had this problem at one point, so I decided to create a poll in which every guest can give a single vote for a nick they think is good. It doesn't have to belong to a good player, and it most certainly shouldn't belong to you (let's be adults, please). Just place your vote on the one that caught your eye the most. If the poll is lacking your favorite nickname, you can add it, too! Just be careful to spell it correctly, because I won't be correcting it, the best I can do is remove it. Place your vote today, on something that actually matters! http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=8ed3117cf2ee8d06a

It wouldn't water down anything if it was a replacement for c4 crate that just isn't as dangerous as it was pre-veterancy and armor patch. To be fair, even before those this crate was flawed due to how c4 on characters is treated in the game when it's inside a vehicle. Pacifist crate would also just heavily limit the potential of what you could do with your character, but it wouldn't be a simple death sentence crate. Imho it's hundred times more interesting to give the player a choice whether to struggle with their crippled character or just give up and suicide on their own, rather than having a "YOU'S DEAD FAM" crate. I'm alright with anything replacing c4 crates though, as long as it becomes a proper danger for the player.

Oh yes, the nuke crates are the problem on their own. I think that crates potentially having detrimental effects is a fun gimmick, as it makes people think if they are currently is a good situation to take the risk. But nuke crates don't just kill the risk-taker, they kill everyone around, and while the nuke crate killing the whole vehicle flank on walls because someone wanted to take a crate is pretty hillarious (if it wasn't your team), I wouldn't call it a fun game mechanic. Only the crate taker should be taking a risk. Same thing with super-money crates, those shouldn't exist either imho, although I realize that not many people would agree with this statement. It feels like artificially making crate-whoring sbh and 'freelancers' useful to the team without trying to encourage more productive play-style. And I still want a crate that when you search through it, you find inner peace. It doesn't seem that hard to make since all the necessary states/components already exist in game. Also, I think it's funny. Sue me.

You're scouring tunnels in the heat of the battle, and there you see it: a pandora's box, giving misfortune and blessing alike, the crate. What could be inside, a spy that could tilt the balance of the game in favour of your team? or maybe a super money crate which all will apprecieate? You pick it up, and OH NO, a plastic explosive is now stuck you your head! You only have 30 seconds to live..! except you don't. Because you have flak armor on your 400 credits character, and your menacingly ticking hat that used to fill you with dread and make you chase the nearest vehicle in vain hopes to avoid doom is just a minor annoyance now. So, I though. Why not just cut it out? It's pointless as it is now. Coincidentally, some time ago I was experiencing a weird game with connectivity issues, that caused me to respawn as the lately deceased character, but with NO WEAPONS AT ALL, not even pistol, every time I died. And I thought "man, it sure would suck major ass if there was some kind of <Pacifist Crate> that when you look inside, makes you find your inner peace and abandon all your weapons, and the only way to rearm yourself would be to rebuy you character or die". I mean, this state obviously is already in game, since I experienced it first-hand. So why not replace C4 crates with something like that?

Passenger priority sounds good, though it sounds complicated so harder to implement and prone to bugs. A hotkey purging all passengers is simple and would do the job. And it's bullshit new people are trying to help by shooting gatlings and you know it, if you just wanted to tell me to fuck myself make a separate topic and we can all insult each other there. They just think that shooting a gun from a flying veh they didn't have to buy is cool so they do it. And it'd be cool with me too, if they at least were responding to any form of communication at all. Any even half-baked player knows that tranny gatlings are garbage and if someone dies from them it means that that someone was being attacked by something else, and would die anyway gatlings or no. They could be removed entirely and no one would complain. Also, wdym 'treat it as an opportunity that enables a decent experience instead of a hostile spammy one'? Me not being able to utilize my chopper as I see fit is decent experience in your opinion? For whom, exactly? And what does hstile spammy experience even mean?

So you want every warmup on every game start with a nuke enabling vote? Or do you want people to have to proclaim "HEY EVERYBODY I'LL BE IN YOUR BASE WITH A NUKE IN WHAT, 3 MINUTES, CAN YOU GUYS LET ME BUY IT? btw don't start camping please, thank you"? Anyway, nukes and commander powers are a cancer to low pop servers. MARIUSZ is a serial offender with it when he's tryharding (read: playing renx). Taking commander, 1000 nooby shooty and a beacon and laying the alarm clock of doom by bar/hon, then cruising and smoking it forces you to be a sydney to shoot down the sucker cruise (if you can see it beyond the smoke), 1000 nooby shooty to smoke the smug bastard, and a hottie to have enough time to find the beacon in smoke and disarm it, usually all 3 at the same time because low pop games somehow tend to have very few people in base at any given time. He IS an asshole for doing stuff like this, but at the same time perfectly showcases the problem with superweapons and commander powers on low pop. Besides, low pop games are usually 80% new people checking the game out, and I honestly doubt that disabling them would detract from their enjoyment of the game (quite contrary, imho). Because enjoyment is what games are all about, right?

Renegade X is a game. People like games. New People (and, as I like to call them, Forever New People) sometimes don't listen to you saying that you're trying to drive some hottie behind enemy base to sneak, that chinook rush is Gunners/ RS/ Hotwire or Tech only or that you're a plateau taxi on a 32v32 walls game and you'd rather have 2 seats more for reinforcing plat instead of their shitty attempts at shooting air with tranny gatlings. And the best you can do is beg them to get out and pray they even speak english. I don't think that a button that kicks all passenger out of the vehicle would be that much work to implement, but it would actually allow for reliable using of vehicles for rushing on public games. You literally can't abuse it either, since the passenger acknowledges (well, at least he should) that the owner of the vehicle has higher authority and rights to managing the veh and its seats. A penny for your thoughts.

I had the exact same problem with Forest_Night, which I downloaded previously for that test map pug. Seems the files just got corrupt or something, because after downloading the files from the post above and overwriting in game folders map loaded alright.

actually, nvm. it just fixed itself after a time.

I can see all servers in launcher, but when I run the game, it won't enter the said server, and the whole multiplayer tab in in-game menu is empty. All was working fine yesterday, already verified files, reset the game, disabled any related rules in firewall, I honestly have no idea what else to do. Any help apprecieated.

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I know it's possible, since EKT servers enforced that. I'd like to ask to bring it over to CT servers, because this tactic is as unfair as they could ever get. It also promotes planting nukes and ions without proper cover, and one SALMAN asking for 2000 credits on full sever game so that he can solo nuke is plenty enough.

i know i'm necromancing the topic, but if someone is looking for an answer: after entering skrimish open up console with ~ or f5 key, and then type givecredits command, that will give you 10000 credits