Some of that is going on right now, as small as the community is there is a group pushing for team damage to be on in the huge EWO public server. The majority of the community doesn't want it, they are sick of tkers in other servers. So why push for it in EWO... IMHO I think its for scores and recognition!

Team damage will cause a shift in how the gens and especially the flag are attacked and defended! There are plenty of empty servers for seasonned comp players to "duke it out" but they all want the biggest audience to witness their "l33tn3ss" in the huge EWO server!

You can look at the threads on the forum and see the same people start up the same ole threads about what they don't like, and that certain features of the game should be "adjusted". Don't mis-read me; this isn't about EWO, its about a group of players that want to push their will on the rest of a player base to conform to their mindset of what is the accepted and should be promoted and Cyn is right... you can and will find the same mentality in most servers and associated forums!

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"Down with democracy... we need more dictatorships"! Galamoth
"Derms, celebrate your independance"! Babz

V2, Elitist Community. They all helped kill T2. Indeed, "CG NOOB!!" "OMG SNIPERHACKER!!" "WOWSTOPSHRIKINGNOOB", is always how it is. All those started opening the wound, but as much as I hate to say it, it all started falling apart once T:V opened. At least there WERE people before it came out.

And actually, from when I played, there wasnt too much of an elitist IPWNYOU community. At least compared to some of the games I play nowadays.

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And I'll probably try to sneak in for one of the T2 practices sometime

EDIT: And I was in the Aerial Dogfight community at one point. The Owl thing wasn't too bad usually, the main aerial dogfight clans usually had enough respect not to attack anyone for not owling. And V2 is fun sometimes .

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Well, at least I understand now that an "elitist community" is an arrogant, self-gloating, cocky community, that drives away decent, average playing folk, and I couldn't agree more. And man does it stand out in the Rebels server. That is the MAIN reason I opted to play T2 with the Rebel Dawgs soo many years ago. I admired their respect for other players and their acceptance of all players regardless of skill. I was very much opposed to the Tribes that recruited based solely on talent. I nearly quit T2 all together about 6 years ago before I hooked up with RD. I remember the first question they asked me before I joined. I think it was Mach. He said, "So, is that all you do is cap Pharoah?". Heh. That was an ok question by me. I love to cap. The name of the game is capture the flag. Someone's got to do it . . .

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I'll cover you!

( I'll fallow him in just in case he misses or the flag is satcheled)

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Cyn made a good point about egos, they definatly play a huge role in this.

Yesterday I was playing, and after shooting down a havoc (and then crashing) I came across a heavy armour from the crash, I won't mention any names, other then that they are apperently part of a respectable tribe, and it was no one from this tribe (cause this tribe kicks ass). I proceded to kill them, which I succeded, I was then met with some sort of comment, which I can't remember, but I remember the second, which was "Don't make me get my scout armor".

There are severla things wrong with this.

1) If I kill you, you ought not take it as some sort of insult, or wound to your ego.

2) You ought not do #1 especially when your health is already low, any another and their father could have killed you. Even if you do take dying as an insult to your pride, you should be able to reconize that you were killed because you were in a bad situation (crashed, damaged), and that is not the usual order of things.

btw, yes I spell is armour

Ragnarok has the right idea too, people go nuts if they get killed by particular weapons, to me dead is dead, and dying isn't a big deal as far as I'm conserned. T:V probably did do a lot of damage to the t2 community, but rightfully so! it was the new game, and frankly we should be lucky that we can actually still play a game 5 years after it was released.

Health, the thing is I don't know if you have been in comp be4. But I have and that really goes on if your not liked is " F U noob" U suck" I actually posted something on EWo. Thread is called Feel the Love?

It's things like that that killed the game.

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I totally agree with everything said its ashame though Tribes 1, and 2 deserved to be up there competing with Half Life, Call of Duty, and the Battlefield series

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Feel the love contained a thread directly related to this discussion, a "elitest mindset", a minority trying to make a comfortable player base conform!

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"Down with democracy... we need more dictatorships"! Galamoth
"Derms, celebrate your independance"! Babz

Yeah I saw the tread a while ago, I think it started around when I was trying to drum up support for Le Resistance. They claim that everyone sucks, and that they would clean up if it was more like a competitive server. The thing is that it isn't, and it s up for them to adapt to the situation, not for the situation to change for them. I'm sure they are very good at what they do, but I'd be more impressed if the whine celler was closed.

That's generally how I came to be a part of the group. I was guilty of being one of the elitists when I played and competed in arena. When I decided to stop playing arena, I came to CTF with a few friends and met some cool people. Then I stopped playing for awhile because my old machine died and I had a new one on the way. The day I got my new machine, I ran into METALHEAD and a group of RD playing deathmatch in some server. When it came down to it, I had to make the switch from arena to ctf simply because I hated the mentality that was required to compete in arena.

I don't have any idea why people act like that. It's a game people, albeit a great one - don't take it too seriously.

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"Competition is natural to the ignorant; and cooperation is natural to the wise." - Manly Hall

hehe, good thing i have a very very small ego

http://www.elitewarriorsonline.com/e107 ... .php?18236

That is the link for anyone who missed the feel the love? thread.

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so guess what, since i started this great thread, i'm not gonna let it die, it represents everything great in this world, namely me, Floks

I prefer Flocks. Reminds me of a sheep. A follower. Or maybe a Llama . . .

j/k

Floks knows I have nothing but respect for him . . . err, whenever his spinfusor is pointed in my general direction that is.

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Floks has officialy died in the T2 world. Floks Me and U.. Lak game. Dunna 2 Dunna's my partner in crim!

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