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Frag Vids In The Making!

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:31:31 +0000

Starting a frag video project for editing practice. I frequent the lotus stock servers, might get a little 2 fort in as well. Just posting this as a heads up. I figured I'd follow around some other players than just myself, as I'm not that great a fragger. If you have any experience making frag videos or even just some general editing experience, I'd love some advice. If I manage to make some decent videos, I could see posting them to the youtube. If you do not want to be shown pwning the noobs, let me know. I really don't expect to be showing these videos to anyone outside of my editing class, but I'm of that 'better to ask' school of thought.

P.S.
Any help or advice at all on the project is appreciated.

Tigers Application

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:48:16 +0000

hello Lotus members..my name is Jeremy,in game -MCG-TiGeR T

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Jeremy28462

i have AIM-Jeremy28462

i am 16 years of age

TF2-526.
DOD-5.5
CSS-239.9

i am curently in a Clan called -MCG- multi-gaming-clan http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mcgcommunity

I am located in a town called murrieta,southern California

my main class would have to be the SPY

I have played on your Gold Rush server before i got into -MCG- but have known about you guys for along time now,not to mention you guys have most of the top servers on the list.

I mainly play TF2 after school off and on during the day but am active alot..i spend some times riding BMX bikes and helping my dad working on some of our off road race cars.
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Bryan, Teleports Speed Hack Aimbot

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:13:27 +0000

"Bryan" STEAM_0:0:25690071

Teleporting, speed hacking(no evidence), aimbot(Arguable).

http://www.sendspace.com/file/r0t7be

What Is This

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:18:50 +0000

So, feral cats, a big problem. Anyway I go outside yesterday and find bones. So I'm thinking perhaps some nice bigger animal started eating the damn cats? I see them fight with the local wildlife from time to time.
Some of the bones were scattered about and most have no meat. So something must have eaten this. Can anyone tell me if this was a cat?

Cat skull?

If this was a feral cat, it be nice if they could start dying somewhere other than my yard.

More pictures with a pencil for size reference:
http://www.lotusclan.com/bones/pencil/

Aimbotter

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:15:52 +0000

Uploaded video to my site, I can upload it to a more trusted website if you want me too. It's a .avi

SteamID is included in the video

http://solitude.nextgen-hosting.co.uk/hacker.rar

Video is still uploading so if you look at it straight after I post it the video wont be up

edit: Gah, video is going to take too long to upload

Steam: STEAM_0:1:24241139

Gameplay Changes To The Stock Maps 4 Server

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:39:05 +0000

Mana,

First off, I'd like to thank you for fixing the frequent crashes on the Stock Maps 4 server. The server hasn't crashed while I've been playing for more than a week.

However, a new slate of changes have been introduced, and I'd like to add my two cents if it makes a difference.

No more soundboards
Personally, I don't care much either way about this. Sometimes, they were funny, and sometimes they were severely abused.

Horse on the payload maps
It looks really out of place, but it doesn't alter gameplay substantially. I don't like it, but I can live with it.

Medics starting with partial ubercharges
Please remove this. This changes the balance of the game. The primary reason that I chose this server in the first place is because it was plain, unadulterated TF2 that used no mods affecting gameplay. I asked others what they thought about the ubercharge change, and the responses were universally negative. Please change this back to normal.

Brutus The Afk Bot

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:12:37 +0000

k this guy takes up space. Basically stands in spawn if and when someone dies and respawn he takes out medigun to heal them. At the end of each round he glows like he is a donor and doesnt have a hat or anything. we tried kicking or banning but it says we can not select that player.

"Brutus the Medic" STEAM_0:1:32258918
demo: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F5PC403A

Buying Hats, Coming Soon?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:46:14 +0000

The Steam client already has mentions towards micro transactions, but now we have further proof Valve:
http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/SteamworksBrochure2010.pdf

If Valve decides to sell hats and weapons in TF2 via micro transactions... we can kiss trading goodbye.

What do you people think?

Ban Veni, Vidi, Vici

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:00:07 +0000

time today 2:00 pm pacific time
stock map 1 usa
steam id Veni, vidi, vici" STEAM_0:0:18934653 33:57 53 0 active

demo http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CI63YVAH

He was constantly hacking as scout on CTF sawmill and now on hoodoo. When he double jumps there is no pause, he only aims straight, and he skips whenever someone shoots at him. I already ask him to turn it off in all chat text, but he still didn't listen. His ping is 40, so there's no excuse for the crime.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KQI12OE1

here is another demo of him hacking on koth sawmill, after I said "you scouts better not be hacking" he immediately switched to pyro and so did other as well.

Arena Server Problem

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:43:29 +0000

Hello everyone,

Is there a problem with the arena server?

It shows as full (34/34) but nobody is in there. Because it's 34/34, TF won't let me join the game.

Thanks.

N|Gger Now That's Just Not Cool...

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:38:34 +0000

I would like to request a ban of a player on the TF2 2-Fort server. There is a player that has been on the past couple nights making racist remarks. Tonight he changed his screen name to N|GGER. I am sure that is something you will not tolerate on your servers. Here is a screen shot. The time he was on the server was 6:30pm Pacific time 3/12/2010.

edit: added image

Now his name is Pw0n3d. He is continuing with the blatant abusive and racist talk.

Server Unicode Question

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:22:04 +0000

Sometimes my name displays right sometimes it doesn't. I was wondering if we are able to use Unicode character U+262D. It's the ☭.

So, Tf2 Ported To The Osx.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:04:13 +0000

http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3578&p=1
Uh. Okay. I guess.

*doesn't care*

Anyone know anybody who uses macs that would actually be into gaming?

Apeal

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:47:18 +0000

So i love lotus clan, great servers, decent players, everything. Top notch. However i build a teleporter in tf2 and a guy got killed when he came out because a spy was there. He said i was griefing but i wasnt. Now i am banned please let me back in.

Steam And Source Coming To Mac

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:06:54 +0000

http://kotaku.com/5488375/left-4-dead-2-team-fortress-2-portal-and-steam-coming-to-mac-in-april

As some of you may have heard by now, Valve is porting Steam and their Source games to Mac.

This will probably mean lots of fun new bugs as they try to use a new (different) rendering engine while also trying to maintain cross platform compatibility.

On the bright side if they are truly bringing games like Counter-Strike: Source to Mac then I would assume these games will run on the same source engine. That engine will be Orangebox (LFD/2 excluded).
Perhaps this is the push that will force Valve's lazy asses to get their games on a single engine. Surely it wouldn't make sense to maintain and make 3+ forks of the same engine cross platform compatible?

But best of all, since MacOS is Unix based (a FreeBSD rip off) and usually runs on considerably shittier hardware, then perhaps the server software for their games will gain some improvement too. Especially if they try and make a MacOS X SRCDS. Perhaps we'll even get SSE2 (Introduced by Pentium 4) support on Linux and not just Windows or maybe even some other optimizations.

It's hard to say what it will be at this point, Valve is known to be extra lazy... But we'll see.

What do you guys think of this?

Black Death's Application

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:31:21 +0000

�Name (In Game And/Or Real)
Game: Black Death (STEAMID, Steam_0:1:15774783), Real: Douglas

�Steam Friends Handle And Link to your Steam Profile
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197991815295/home

�MSN (Live Messenger), Yahoo Messenger or Steam Friends Handle
None of the above, I use Ventrillo for other MMO's though.

�Age 29

�Approximate Total Time Played TF2, DODS and or CSS,
TF2 2+ years, played origional TF, and CS back in the day (Which was a Wednesday)

�Previous Clan Activity (If any)
Was in eGO for about 6 months before I moved to Hawaii.

�Location
Honolulu, Hawaii

�What Is Your Main Class?
I like Engy, but I play almost any class, don't care too much for scout/spy (just not any good with them)

�How Have You Become Aware Of Us?
Played on your servers/Donated

�Some Info About Yourself
I am a military musician stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I play just about any time of the day and enjoy blowing S*** up from time to time.

Stewie's Application

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:22:00 +0000

Name: Steven (aka stewie)

Steam Friends Handle And Link to your Steam Profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197996147092/home

MSN (Live Messenger), Yahoo Messenger or Steam Friends Handle: I don't use any of these...

Age: 16

Approximate Total Time Played TF2, DODS and or CSS: In the past 2 weeks, I played 3.9 Hrs.

Previous Clan Activity: Admin of StrikeGroup

Location: Athens, Georgia

What Is Your Main Class?: Rifleman, Assault or Support

How Have You Become Aware Of Us?: I was looking for an Avalanche game, and came across Lotus

Some Info About Yourself: I'm 16, and I wanted to join a well known clan, and stumbled across Lotus, and became interested in the clan. I usually play on weekends, so I get on pretty often.

[Lfth] Clan

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:44:14 +0000

The [LFTH] clan has been frequenting the Goldrush #2 server lately in groups of 3 to 4 players until they get votebanned or the server clears out. They build teletraps, micspam, chatspam, and in general they are dicks to all players with a goal of making people leave. There are two demos below of Wes Mantooth and Drilldo . These two changed their names so they don't have the [LFTH] tag because the regulars start votebanning them as soon as they hit the server. The demos didn't capture some of the worst harassment but you can get the idea of what happens every time they join Lotus servers.

http://rapidshare.com/files/359548899/wes.dem.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/359549379/drilldo.dem.html

Wes Mantooth STEAM_0:1:19399498
Drilldo STEAM_0:0:30085931

Here's another demo I took after my first post in this thread. The server is down to 12 players during a normal peak time. The Drilldo guy changed his name to Bob Loblaw because the real Bob Loblaw was trying to votekick/voteban them earlier. Same steam ID for Drilldo STEAM_0:0:30085931.

http://rapidshare.com/files/359554615/drilldo2.dem.html

Thanks.

Been Distracted By Swgemu

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:04:27 +0000

Hey folks. I've been completely distracted by the SWGemu project. For those who don't know the whole sad story with Star Wars Galaxies and their eventual fuck ups, I won't get into it. For those that do know, you probably enjoyed the game before the combat upgrade and quit once that whole mess occurred. I found this emulator project at www.swgemu.com a few months ago. They are into open testing right now, and it's about 80% there. So if you wanted to recapture some of the old SWG fun, you could register for a free account and likely be playing within a few hours.

Unfortunate Means

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:45:25 +0000

Hey guys. I just wanted to write this to express how I was feeling about something in the servers. Firstly, I love Lotus and it's fanbase, but I just can't ignore how some of the server's mechanics are hurting gameplay. I write this purely as informative, I do not intend to flame the members of Lotus or Mana, but it needs to come out.

What I am talking about is the autobalance system in the Team Fortress servers. Firstly, I understand why it exists. It HAS to exist for teams to be balanced. The fact that it exists is not the issue here. The issue is how (probably intentionally) broken it is. Let me explain. Today I was playing with a friend on the blue team, we were getting our asses handed to us, but hey, at least we were having fun playing together. Then, of course, I get autobalanced. While mildly annoying (and though, I swear to god, it seems to happen to me more than anyone else... I know it doesn't) I shrug it off and wait for a spot on blue to open back up. Here's the kicker: eventually two spots on Blue open up, and I try to switch back, but the server WILL NOT LET ME. It kills me, then shoves me back to red with the insulting message "You have been autobalanced. Be a good little boy and stay there." So now, the game is intentionally keeping the game unbalanced, even while the players are trying to balance it. What?!

Here's what annoys me:

1. I am assuming it is kicking me to red because I was recently autobalanced. I understand why you would implement this, lotus, but when you think about this, it is counterintuitive to "fun", which is the entire point of this game. If I am trying to get to the other team, it is probably because I want to play with a friend. Think about it. If you are trying to keep one team from getting more powerful than the other, then you need to realize that you are stepping in where you shouldn't be stepping in. At the risk of sounding like a Team Fortress 2 libertarian, you need to butt out.

2. This is the only other reason I can come up with why you would prevent game balance: cash money. Donators receive (among other things obviously) immunity to autobalance. By harassing players with unnecessary autobalance, many players may get either fed up and pay $10 to not be heckled by a server mechanic, give up and play on the team you don't want to play on, or do as I did and leave the server after being unable to join the desired team after ten minutes of trying. If this really is a marketing decision, then it is a cheap, low-blow to your fanbase, and an overall abysmal business decision.

I used to donate to the servers monthly to receive protection from autobalance, and more importantly, support my favorite servers. I ended up stopping payment because I got short on money, and I have to say, I think I'm glad I did. Instead of making me want to pay money to alleviate this problem, I want to stop using these servers completely.

Either way, this is something that needs to be remedied, and I hope some of you may feel the same way. I would appreciate keeping any responses to this civil and constructive, as this is something that means a lot to me and many of you as well, I'm sure. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and have a good day.

-Sovereign