I didn't vote, for the same reason I never fill out customer "how we doin'?" surveys. It changes from day-to-day. SST is a server I play at, when I want to find everybody, or play in a huge game, and get crazy screenshots. I get better ping there now, you're introducing some map rotation variety, even the admins have stopped the really rampant abuses most of the time. I learned a lot of bad stuff there, but I already know about misbehavin', so it hasn't changed me (this ain't my first rodeo). When admins painsaw tk me for standing next to them at an armoury, I very politely and respectfully shoot them in the face with a shotgun while they are standing on the medistation, take my slap and mute, and play on. "OOps sry... I wuz cleaning it & it went off... MY bad." (cough*Para*cough) Yes, you are powerful and feared. The real question is, Do I have a server capable of handling so many players? If I did, could I admin it fulltime? Would I be able to keep it from d/evolving into the Wild West? Is it fun to play with 45 people on, even when most of the action is a massive clusterfarg or campfest? Is there rampant admin abuse and n00b mistreatment at smaller and also clan-oriented servers? (Highrise 18, anyone? "Humans sux! Someone is in jail! Mwahahahahaha!") I consider SST a fun place to play if you don't mind these sorts of things, and I think many players know who the cool people are, who the regulars are, who the abusers, deconners and TKers are, and manage to try and play the game otherwise. Sure it sucks when people don't. But sometimes, when there are only a few dozen people on, and players actually settle into the game, SST can actually be worth a few hours time well spent.
PlayerOne doesn't have his own server
and is thankful that other people do
even when they act like jerks
and hopes honesty won't earn him a lifeban
Oh, and the answers to the above questions are:
No, No, Probably Not, Sometimes, and You Betcha!
I don't decon, except as a team effort, while communicating with teamchat
I'll help build, and if my efforts are not needed, I'll defend or attack
I don't intentionally TK, but you may catch a round or a slash and so might I
I settled on a playername, and play honourably, if suckily, at a small group of a dozen or so servers
When I'm on a smaller server, I try to follow the lead of the players already there
If people are weirdly abusive, I'll play on, or leave, as the mood takes me (on any server, not just the big pubservers)
