People on the forums say to me you been here since Jan 08 and you only XX number of forum posts, and I should be on the forums more, I usually say I'll comment on things that are really important to me or at lease might help someone else. So I feel have something important to say and apologize for the length of my reply I just want to make sure I've expressed myself as well as possible in this matter. !!!

I remember the evening of the 26 July 08 very well. I have to say it was the worst Tactical Gamer game experience I ever had since joining. I don't how many times I have started writing about this trying to not make it out as I was a sore loser or I was whining about my lack of skills when it comes to playing this game, but every time I did I get angry think about what happened that night. I wasn't going to say anything until I started reading this thread. From my point of view, this has nothing to do with in-house squads whether it’s the 3RD, 8Th, 11th, 21st, E1st, ...., or the 55th. Its how we as members make a choice on which side we are going to play on.

Every time before I start playing and that evening was no different, I check Xfire to see how full the server is and who's playing then I log on to team speak 2142 channel, and finally I scroll down to see if anyone is their IHS squad channels. That evening in the 11th IHS channel there where 6 members in there from 3 different IHS and a regular TG member (Zhohar's squad). I thought "Hey good for them for teaming up, I know who is going to be in at lease one Squad all evening." I checked Xfire again and counted TG player on each side and Seeing those 6 player where on the same side, that is when I made my choice that I was going over to the team with the lease amount of TG players, which was on the other side of Zhohar Squad.

After 2-3 rounds of losing horribly (just like Sleepers commented above) we asked in Team Speak to have some of the member to switch sides to even things out a bit. Well I was shocked at what I heard and I took offence to the comment that was implied towards me. It was basically something along these lines. "What are you guys talking about you have a lot of TG players", which then someone started listing names, until that person finished off with my name, which I remember clearly what was said next, " and Besides you guys got Stark..." and then there was a chorus of Laugher right after that. Hey I'm a big Boy, been in the military for 23 years I know how to take a good ribbing from my peers but in this content it reminded me of school yard bullies pointing out someone deficiencies with little regard to that individual just so every one can have a good laugh. That being said, Zhohar and your squad had little knowledge of what was happening in team speak, and with you guys being in the 11th IHS channel made it clear you guys have teamed up to have some fun period.
I like to add wearing the TG tags doesn't make you this super star FPS player. I really consider taking them off after that comment, because thats not what is stated in the rules of conduct... RIGHT. What those members said and did not do was in fact gloating and with them not willing to consider changing side from my point of view, was like them saying, “watch we are going to do it again”

At that time I was very pissed off, told Sleeper I'm taking a break in which Cerebere was the next map to be played, after I calmed down and ready to play again I asked Sleeper if the round was over and how did his side do, he said they won, only because the other side started using their knives. I see this action was like them saying "OK guys let give them this round, we'll be a knive squad" in fact its just as bad as gloating. Being a poor sport is one thing but there is nothing worst than a bad winner in my books!!!

You know I could have logged back on to the server and went onto the side that was winning all evening, No, not how I saw it, I was going to help out as much as I can, hell I'm not the best shot, and with near 6000 revives under my belt at lease I keep up those player who are.

Well that night didn't get any better us, round after round we started losing TG players, with them logging off saying well I had enough of getting raped for the night... I'm thinking this isn't what I paid $80.00 for. Our TG number got down to 3 to their 11 and did any one of them come over and even things up? Not once. (I have a screen shot of the players if anyone wants to see them.)

At that point I was wishing I was an admin, and this is what I would have done right then and there. I would have stopped the map, then randomized the teams and set the server on Auto balance. You log on to the server and get put of a team, those are the player you are playing with PERIOD, if you don't like it leave, and if the sever sits empty for a day so be it.

I ask you guys what is the challenge in playing round after round when you win buy 180-0 or total cap out in less then 10 minutes into the round? I would like to know.

Another thing is being done at the end of the round and you hear in team speak people saying “Good Game”, What’s so good about a game when one team beats the other by over 180 tickets, NOTHING. What I think is a good game is when the ticket count is right now to the wire anything under 30 tickets is a good game, or if it’s a cap out and the team that caps the other had less then 20 tickets, and I’ve seen that and it was a great game. Hearing "Good game" from the other team in situtation like that is the last thing I want to hear and I would consider that gloating.

How I see this is, there are outstanding player here in TG, and when they play they will draw players to them, regardless if they like it or not its true. These outstanding players can influence the flow of the game, their squad members play better, and 90% of the time they are on the winning team. Now when you get 2 or 3 squads on one side and each squad had 1 or 2 of these outstanding players well then the outcome of that map is clear who is going to win.

The problem isn't the outstanding player really, one can't fault people for playing really great. It’s the rest of us that are at fault. We tend to flock to these players with the hopes we are going to be INVITED into their squads, well there is only 5 slot people, (4 really we should invite a visiting player to make them feel welcome to our server). And when one of these outstanding player switch sides to even things up.... Do you know what happens... we; their groupies follow them over to the other side just to make it uneven again. Ask Zhohar about this it happen last night 1 Aug 08, and I said over team speak that this was a bunch crap, and at that time I was on Zhohar side but not in his squad, We won that round by a huge margin and Zhohar was going over to the other team to help out. What happen was Zhohar complete squad joined him, so what happens to the team they just left we were down 5 really good TG players, 6 counting Zhohar. How I see this act is like "what are we not good enough to play on the same side with out X player leading you" That kind of actions don't go unnoticed, pubbies thinking about join up, or what about new members that just paid there membership, what do you think they are thinking or feeling, "Oh I quess I'm not part of the in crowd" it might not be your intent but your action can reflect something totally different ie. as being elite.

I really wanted to swear my head off as anybody in the military could do that night I was so angry by this sheep like behavour. But that’s our problem. I've stopped asking for invites from outstanding players, if they want me to be in their squad they’ll invite me. I check Xfire and avoid playing on a side with more than 2 outstanding player, always go to the side with less TG player on it and try my hardest to switch side when its the other way around, all knowing this side I'm going to is going to get their ass whip this round, and push the subject of getting on to Team Speak. In Team Speak we can request members to swap up, we have no control on those players that visit our server and we have a lot of very good, to outstanding pubbie that play here, and they know who our Outstanding players are and they too switch sides to be with them or at lease be on the same side as them. I've seen it happen after rounds.

Like it or not to all you outstanding players you are in fact leaders of this community and its obvious at the end of each round who is on top and if we want to keep having new people join this community, what happen on the 26 July 08 should never happen again.

I would like to clarify when we say even the team up, we should make it clear, its not the number of TG player its really the number of outstanding players are on each side.

When we play on these servers and wearing the TG tags we are representing this community, and when new players join up and get on to team speak witness questionable behaviour, do you think they would want to spend $80.00 to become a supporting member… if that happen when I was thinking about my membership, I don’t think I would have become one.

So lets prove to ourselves what we say we are, being mature players, always up for a challenge and fix this unbecoming behaviour, and return to having a good time at something we all enjoy.


Concern,
Stark

PS,

As I finishing this up it made me remember those first few members I meet as a pubbie that made me feel welcome and part of the team as well as really the only server I want to played this game. Once again Thank you BB Gun, Sc1ence, DaddyofThree, Lorax, and Eorak.