Gentlemen, Ladies, and Catman,

Unkind rumours have surfaced with regard to our fair In-House Squad: we've been labeled by certain parties as teamstackers and griefers. Personally, I was saddened when I came across these accusations, but I realized that my point of view is biased and probably not completely fair.

Hence, I honestly ask you, the TG community, have we wronged? Has the 3rd soured? Have we become team stackers, griefers? Have we behaved un-TG-like? Have we become elitist? Have we honestly behaved in a way that you did not expect mature adults to behave?

My father used to slap me when I didn't wash my face in the morning. My mother used to scold me in the morning when I didn't wash my ears. When I was a bit older, she started saying: “If your family doesn't tell you, think how it'd be if someone at school told you?”
And it now occurs to me that she was right: if my family hadn't yelled at me, I'd be the laughing stock of my school: I'd be dirty, unkempt, and probably with a small circle of friends.

You are our family. If you don't tell us that we're behaving in a manner that is not TG-like, think how it'd be if the BF2142 community in general accused us of being hypocrites?

So I ask you: what is your honest opinion of the 3rd? Have we wronged, and how can we improve?

It has never been the intent of the 3rd to be elitist, to team-stack, to cause grief (especially to a losing team). All of our members are held to a high standard and if we've fallen lax as of late, we want to know. Our egos be damned: TG is so much more important than the pride of some of its members.

While I want your honest opinion, I do want to set some guidelines for this discussion.
Firstly, in the hallmark of TG, let's please keep this mature. The thread Crux made previously degenerated into personal insults and immature posting. There is to be no such behaviour here. Whether you wear the TG tags or not, posting on these forums and in this thread is to be kept professional, polite, and mature.

Secondly, please be as specific as you can. Teamstacking is deliberate and consistent team-switching behaviour that causes an overt team imbalance that leads to a ticket difference of more than 100. Griefing is gloating, immature TS comments, or most any conduct unfitting a mature adult or a TGer. Our members will keep their peace and will not keep a grudge with you for calling them out by name: be as specific as possible but do not be personal: do not insult and do not be emotional. The purpose of this thread is to acknowledge the mistakes the Third has made and to work on a solution.

Lastly, I would like your opinion on how we can improve on whatever we're doing wrong. Overtly dwelling on what is wrong will fix nothing: clear action from us will fix things.

As a final note: the Third is mostly concerned with Age of Conan nowadays: we have about half of dozen active members in BF2142 since about two months ago.