Destruction League's opening

[Dade]

I apologise, it seems like the rifle sprint is now ALLOWED. Kudos.

But if you removed that penalty, why had a even more nonsense one?
"Oh gee, you can't use 2 weapons in a row, because that is..YOU JUST CAN'T".

Just a quick question. How long have you been playing AC?

Thanks you for the apologizes. About Sniper-Pistol combo, I have already told both technical (this means, why it has been forbidden on the league) and personal (which, of course, is just a personal tough) reasons. Thats why I don't understand why people is focusing only on the personal one.

I hope you realise, teams like O3, =MyS=, |eR|, |BC| and many other skilled teams use tactics in game. You can't play this game at a high level without tactics.

Was kidding mate. I'm with you, almost no game can be played without tactics and strats at higher levels. Btw, tactics or strategies? :P

No offense, but the "penalization" of the sniper-pistol combo is just making this league less popular to most. I feel like you are actually doing this because you hate it, cause there really isn't a real excuse to why it would/should be "penalized". Don't tell us sniper was intended for support, and not for rushing cause that is the most ridiculous thing I've heard. Sure, that idea may aply in other games like CoD, but this isn't CoD.

Besides that, good luck.

Thanks for the good luck thing. Please, don't focus on the personal reasons as it has nothing to do with the final decision for the League.

Regarding popularity, I am not doing this for it. Really. I have created, and actually managing, a Community called STALKERHispano about the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Universe. It's leading all the hispanic public and is world wide known on the STALKER ambient. We organize events, competitions and much more projects, being recognized by the developers as the 'Main Spanish Community'. STALKERHispano sponsor is, in fact, ED sponsor. As for ED, our Clan history tells it all.

Hence, nope, popularity is not my/our concern regarding this project.


Sorry FunkyHamster if I don't quote all your post, but it would make this larger than needed :)

Before any explanation, remark that we are talking about my personal toughs, which have nothing to do with the real technical reasons by which it has been forbidden. Following your question, I consider damage deterministic because frags are often (if not always) deciding the final result. If you compare a Shotty-Pistol Combo (as you pointed above) with Sniper-Pistol Combo, you will see that while with Sniper Rifle you are almost 100% sure the amount of damage you have done (it can vary with armors, but I think you are getting the idea), it can't be the same with a Shotgun. Add to this, the fact that Sniper Rifle allows the sniper to shot from far away and then just sum 2+2 :). With other weapons I think it's even not worth the risk.

Regarding 'cheaters hunt' I will say I have been contacting the dev of UAC2 (now UAC3), wich I worked with for Ghost Recon anticheat. However, due to the fact that AC can be played also on Linux and Mac, it can't be done on this moment. Although I am with you about the impossibility of erradicate cheating, I think is always positive to try our best ideas in order to prevent it. Anyway, I consider mostly the Sniper-Pistol combo prohibition a way to void any infinite discussion when a replay is shown to explain a ban rather than an cheat prevention. Before anything is said about this, I love replay tools in games. It's probably one of the most effective way to catch cheaters, but most times there are discussions with them (specially if the banned guy if a known player). I think we can sacrifice a minor gameplay practice, to save from lot of explanations and/or problems.

About your fellas... too bad they don't want to enjoy this league! I really hope you will find a team and if not, please consider collaborating in the project ;) I don't see any inflexibility, I just see stability; we can't change rules whenever the wind change it's course. I've never saw ESL or ClanBase changing their rules whenever someone has something to argue about them :)

Rules are public and easy to access, and I don't see why teams and their members should not have read them.

GGz!