Let me balance this game

[ExodusS]

...The result was that about half of competitive AC players decided to call it quits, and half of the competitive players that remained (myself included) went inactive or migrated to other games.

You said you were there or you were aware of the 1.0's situation, it looks like you are ignoring the fact, bright-skins and modified scopes were existing, but for sure were not tolerated at all and in any form in all clans as long as clans were trying to be stronger than their opponents through their skills and not through something else. It was the 1.0 logic YourSister described perfectly here:

Many try to minimize the AC changed mentality, but for me is is so clear. I perfectly remembered how the matches were in 1.04, and most of all, i remember the spirit of the game as very different from now. Also, i agree with you about blaming jason and larry. Me and Panda were among the first to face epic, and we were since the first days extremely disappointed by their attitude.

I never said you were using script, but you were tolerating it and it contributed to AC's competition spirit self-destruction.

And please don't try and make out as though scripts are the reason why nobody plays AssaultCube anymore. You know the reason.

If you were speaking about the 'whole' community, well I already said something about it:

...AC is going downhill because almost all his positive facts are now worthless...

But if you try still to close your eyes on the real end of the competition, well I won't explain it one more time, of course the script/exploit issue is not the only relevant argument but AC 1.2 provides perfectly a good competition system because weapons are way more balanced than they were in the 1.1. You can't insta-win with the AR anymore, here is what I see you all complaining about. Learn to think for others for once.

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EDIT:

The majority (not all) of competitive players want Larry to balance the game because...

Hosta, Xemi... should we accept their votes? Plus most of regular forum users said no, others are just sheeps who had to request a new password because they didn't log-in since the last similar poll. The amount of public player who want to stop the changes would just outbalance the poll and impose their 'no'.