Tf2 Petition

[DeJaDeW 83]

Valve: Please rethink the policy on player attachments.

In the 1.0.8.6 TF2 update, Valve put in a new policy that prevents server modifications from attaching entities to players and having the attached entity be visible.

This greatly limits creativity with server-side mods, a list of what this new policy breaks:

1. Custom, unofficial hats. One example of this is my servers "AWESOME!" hat which is a giant yellow ball with the famous awesome smiley. Valve can't possibly add every single hat to TF2 and some servers have special unique hats. Essentially, all servers are barred from using anything as a hat.

2. Custom, unofficial and on-the-fly generated weapons that server modifications may issue to players. An example of this is my dodgeball flamethrower for my servers. Custom weapons simply are not going to be drawn to other players (and possibly the owner itself)

3. Any future game play modification that may want to attach an entity to a player for a variety of reasons. PropHunt used this feature, valve explicitly added two new inputs to prevent PropHunt from being quite difficult to fix. My question to Valve is, would PropHunt ever came into existence if this policy on no attached entities been in effect the whole time?

Valve games have always been very mod friendly and this is one of the reasons for the longevity of their games, Valve has been one of the few game companies that are quite open with their games that allows these kinds of things to thrive. This new policy is an arbitrary limit on mod creativity.

By signing this petition, we are all asking Valve to please rethink this policy on banned player attachments.

I encourage server administrators to sign this petition, and for server administrators to encourage their community members to sign this petition. Current plug-ins that are essentially broken because of this:

TF2Items

TF2 Equipment Manager

A bunch of my own plug-ins for my voogru.com servers (pretty much do the same as the two listed above), Dodgeball, AttributableItem class, etc.

If you are a plug-in author experiencing problems with the new restrictions, contact "voogru" on steam and I will add your plug-in to this list.

This petition uses valves new OpenID API in order to authenticate signatures (and prevent people from adding fake signatures). Your profile MUST be public and you can not sign this petition with a "limited" steam account.

Please sign the petition

https://secure.voogru.com/petition/index.php

[Spartan_0214 18]

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[kuttlewug 28]

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