Hello, I am an admin and developer on XserverX servers and I would like to weigh on this discussion.
X got much of it's popularity from abusing the way the default client sorts the server list to get itself at/near the top.
It is not "abuse" but rather use of the sorting system to boost our placement above others. However, every other server has the ability to take advantage of the same method. In you server.cfg simply make your server name have a lot of 0s (zero) in front of it. I.e. add "set sv_hostname 0000000000^1SomeServer".
Because it's not tremulous, and it's lying to players saying it is.
Au contraire. It IS Tremulous, just a radically different gameplay style. It seems you and your compatriots believe we ensnare players and make them think that our server is representative of Tremulous as a whole. However, we have never made such a claim, as it would be erroneous to do so. We have only instituted a method of gameplay that we enjoy and gone forward with it.
Players coming off from the X server also often find it hard to kill anyone on a normal server, so they are forced to return to the X server. A black hole effect if you will...
Let us look at this from another light. Players coming to other servers from never having played will find it near impossible to kill someone at first. The same issue occurs with X. So your argument that we make players worse is invalid. X just requires a different set of skills / strategies than do vanilla servers and while playing on X players gain experience for X, not normal servers.
On the other hand, people from regular servers don't have much trouble going to X
No, they do not. I personally played vanilla first and often times play vanilla to keep sharp. Normal servers are great for boosting your ability to aim better and evade, strategies which X does not necessarily teach a player. However, that is not a "fault", but rather a difference.
It further alienates the rest of the community by pretending to be something its not. All of its mod files are placed in the base folder, something which should be reserved for, you guessed it, the game's base files. This is both untidy and not particularly honest.
By mod files I assume you are referring to the 3 custom maps we have and the X server graphics mod. Because other than that, X utilizes no custom mods. And it is our decision to use that space. That does not make it untidy or dishonest. Rather, it makes it a bit more tidy. Because if you are looking for files from X, you know where to look. The base folder
X has nothing in common with trem gameplay wise, but it acts like it's vanilla trem, that's the main reason people hate it.
False. We do not act like vanilla trem. If you ask any of our admins, we will be the first to say we are NOT vanilla trem.
That is true, but it means you cannot have a separate set of binds for vanilla tremulous and X server, this is a problem for people who build their binds based on tactical combinations, or want "itemtoggle blaster" set to the right mouse button instead of "itemact medkit". I like autoexec.cfg thank you very much.
Sure you can. Just make a .cfg file such as "x.cfg", add your binds, and place it in your base folder, then when in game do "/exec x.cfg" and you will have custom binds to use on X.
That they mod is fine, its that they mod *improperly*
No. We mod *differently*.
most people will sort by ping so i dont really believe that adding box chars to get on top of list is valid
Thank you proving that you are unaware of what they are actually doing. They are not adding "box chars". Those sir are zeros. Anybody can use them. If you do not know where the 0 key is, it is to the right of the "9" key and left of the "-" key on the number line.
Yes, newbies like clicking on the first server in list before resorting it. And then they are stuck on your server because they can't get a single kill on other servers. You may be different because you started out on other servers. But some only know X gameplay.
And we keep them bound to X with a ball and chain? They have as much difficulty getting kills on other servers as they would if they were new to trem in the first place. So we do not make them worse, but provide a server they enjoy. Is that not the point of a game? To provide entertainment to the masses.
I challenge X to survive long term after removing the boxes from it's name
Again with the ignorance. They are not boxes, but zeros.
Why people here generally don't like X:
Users such as yourself. NO OFFENSE, THOUGH.
You aren't helping your cause there buddy. Just coming in and not contributing to the discussion at hand, but rather tossing an insult at another user certainly makes you seem like the image of a great user yourself.
