Hi folks. I originally started PureTremulous, completely unbeknownst to anyone in MG. It survived and thrived for a good few months without anyones help. (edit: I shouldn't say this, it was with the help of many, but unaffiliated with MG
) I passed it into MG because you are going to be hard pressed to find a more cohesive and technically capable group, and because I know that folks from MG make great admins. Say what you will about MG, but I've seen the communications between members about how to make things more fair for players, and how to run a server thats friendly to new players. You may not like us MG folks, but I can honestly say that they actually give a shit.
The point of PureTremulous was to run tremulous as close to the default 1.1 experience as possible, minus the bugs and with any beneficial admin commands that have been added since the original release.
I started PT because I was frustrated. Frustrated that I'd join one server and be bounced all over the place cause gravity was really low. Go to another server where games end in super ultra extra sudden death that everyone tells me is way cool but always ends up with both teams camping it out to conserve their precious health. Go to another server and speed is set way up. Go to another server and blasters are one shot kills. Go to another server and admins are busy !slapping people around or building beyond SD. Go to another server and one person killwhores and shares to their whole team, who proceed to annihilate the opposition that has an overall more evenly qualified team that works together.
Where could I go to play a plain old game of tremulous which has always been fun as hell for me? Where can I go where the game doesn't hinge on what team
that player joins? Where can I go where admins aren't acting like 10 year old admins? (ok, everyone has there days, but as a general rule
)
Why the name PureTremulous? Cause thats what it is. No silly mods(some of which are quite fun). No heavily modified server pretending not to be a mod. No admins with access to admin commands that are extremely useful the one time out of twenty that they're used for their intended purposes. Thats right, even MG admins had access limited to some commands. Hell, I limited myself to some commands to remove temptation. If its not needed or explicitly useful, its not there. If I don't see a need for a bazooka, I don't need to keep one under the bed.
I have no problems with mods, modifications, etc and some are quite fun. But I never know where to go to just play a game that hasn't changed so radically as to be unrecognizable to me and frankly, completely unfair. Sometimes I just want to play plain old Tremulous cause its fun as hell.
