Then your best bet is to go in to the vpk and change it so that it doesn't remove the botkiller heads. For more info on editing the vpk see Page 5 post #141.

It looks pretty nice but have you moved the health cross away from a random spot in the middle of the screen? Other than that being sort of in the way I'd say it looks great.

"Buff"
	{
		"ControlName"	"CExLabel"
		"fieldName"		"Buff"
		"xpos"			"c-85"
		"ypos"			"c62" //c60
		"zpos"			"2"
		"wide"			"100"
		"tall"			"48"
		"visible"		"1"
		"enabled"		"1"
		"fgcolor"		"233 233 233 255"
		"labelText"		"+"
		"font"			"HudHealthAmmo48"
		"textAllignment"	"center"
		"alpha"			"255"
	}

You've positioned the thing to be 100 wide, but -85 away from the middle of the entity. Meaning that the + is showing up 35 outside of the boundaries of the entity.

If you go straight into an sv_pure 2 server and play then the botkillers will stay, from my experience at least.

What about CombatEX, Deezer and everyone else that was in RatZ? They left the community a while ago now though.

HudAnimations.txt in scripts, find BonusHealth or similar, there'll be an entry that's bonushealthimage and the alpha will be animated. If you want if off just type "//" at the start of the lines the image is featured, if you want it on more put the alpha as "255".

I would say comparing Kingkiller to Harry Potter isn't a great comparison. There's a lot more thought put into the writing imo and a lot of emphasis put on things that aren't just the university. Music is a massive part of the series and is unbelievably well done, acting is also emphasised quite a bit too over sympathy. That said I couldn't really say what I'd properly compare it to, but I feel that Harry Potter is all about the magic and not really anything else. I've not read them in years though so if I read them again I could be wrong. I'm starting the second Stormlight book atm and thoroughly enjoyed the first, though it was a little dry at times, though it's mostly needed to further the plot.

Anyway on to my actual post. The Shannara series' by Terry Brooks are good choices for fantasy novels, as well as The Elenium series by David Eddings. Both don't focus a lot on magic and shit and a good amount on the people themselves, particularly the Eddings books.
On the side of sci-fi I'd highly highly recommend Neal Stephenson, Anathem was a bit heavy but a good read. The Diamond Age is also a great book by him and also has a bit of a philosophical focus.

Overall though I can't recommend the Kingkiller Chronicles enough, they are the best written books I've ever read.

I've not done menu stuff in a while but it looks like all you're doing is changing the fgcolor of the word SCOUT, not the actual button itself.

Also just finished a potential scoreboard.

http://i.imgur.com/XsMJg8s.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ch38axb.jpg

http://imgur.com/a/Z9Rch

Couple of screenshots from a WIP HUD for the huds.tf competition.
Big shoutout to Jarkin for giving pointers for working out the refracts.

What if you made the G in danger and G in dogs red? Dunno, I'm shite at this type of thing.

Could you rent a cheap server of your own and set up your own mumble server on it?

Did you install all the vpks too? Also I'm pretty sure flat textures don't work any more on either sv_pure 1 and sv_pure 2.

I can see myself going on a Disney binge this weekend now.

For playing I like a high viewmodel fov but I feel like it was a bit too much in this.