Solution to #1 = There's not really a solution to this. The most that can be done is reintroducing the games played requirement in order to captain, and having it higher than 40 (something like 75?). I would probably prefer something higher than 75 but I'm not sure how many people actually have that many games who still frequent the channel and play.

Solution to #2 = The only real ways to stop this are either disallowing people who should be in pugna from playing or to make sure there's an admin on during all active pug times and give some sort of punishment to the person doing this.

Solution to #3 = Remove the scramble feature. I'm not saying this just because you brought it up as a problem. It's been a problem since it's ever been a thing. Let's say the entire team of one side is 2 times better than the entire other team. A game that would end in ~10 minutes or less. 3 people scramble and then the teams scramble. What would you say the odds are of there being teams that are fair? Likely but not too likely.

Solution to #4 = Simple. Stricter punishments. I see like 1wk bans that usually last half a day. If you're going to ban for a week, make sure they stay banned and let the other admins know.

Solution to #5 = Can't really enforce this and make it happen. All we can do is just explain that we can't stress it enough.

Solution to #6 = Easy solution, not sure why a change in admins/mods hasn't happened yet.

Solution to #7 = Alt accounts in IRC? You mean like experienced players doing it? I would assume that would be hard to consistently deal with. There would need to be an admin on at all times that people can report to for probability of being an alt and having the admin check IPs (or whatever they can do) and make decisions accordingly.

Solution to #8 = What are "joke weapons"? If you mean something like the Huntsman, then I say to not worry about it and take action on the players themselves if it ends up being bad enough. Beggar's Bazooka and LL aren't even allowed in TF2mix, but I see where you're coming from.

Nice HUD. Personal preference says the health cross needs to go though.

edit: I see you explained how to do it earlier. Thanks!

You usually just need a lot of HDD space (1TB or higher is good for high quality videos), enough RAM, a quad core or higher (highly recommended for less render times) and whatever parts to complement those parts.

"there is no need for a second channel"

cinq do you even remember why tf2pug/tf2mix is a thing? come on man. go back to the times when it WAS just pugna. people always complaining about how they could never play. at this time it was just pugna, gathers were barely alive but still happening and there were very rarely any steam groups for pugging.

then tf2pug came around, assuring lower leveled players had the opportunity to play the game competitively outside of scrims and matches. today we have tons of steam groups for pugging and we also have tf2mix. tf2mix is the most popular of all of them. most of the others are either pretty much dead or don't really set themselves to attract lower leveled players (power pugs for example). to say there shouldn't be a second channel is the wrong way to go about this.

if i somehow misunderstood what you said or if you worded what you said incorrectly, then i apologize.

edit: just for clarity, i'm in no way trying to disrespect your intent or your dedication to bettering the channel, and i'm in no way trying to down you. i really hope i misunderstood what you wrote as you have done a lot for this community.

that cat's been living with a cone on for a YEAR? jesus christ, get that cat some anti-flea medicine and get that cone off. the cat won't like it, but give it a bath once and awhile too with anti-flea shampoo.

considering good frag videos take months to come out as it is, i don't see why people should spend any less, let alone the same amount of time on a more "precious", for the lack of a better term, piece of work.

i'm looking forward to it and can wait as long as needed so long as the video's quality is great.

why is this thread still a thing? it's not getting anywhere and it's not going to. if your friend needs a new computer so bad, tell him to sell off any good parts and to get a job. saying that is about as much as we can do when we're not wanting to spend our money on everyone.

did you tell her the D was on sale?

"Hi, may I change my name to 'footballfrank27'?"

doesn't need to get any more complicated than that

I opened the PSU and cleaned it as much as I could without canned air. It didn't help.

I said I wouldn't further partake in this conversation about me apparently never playing the class I added up as, but this is getting ridiculous. My original intent was to further explain why tf2mix is going downhill and that there need to be some serious changes. I didn't post here to receive replies about me that are seriously over exaggerated in order to make me look like a hypocrite when I'm not.

Either we can drop this and continue on with what this thread is about or this thread should be locked as it's currently not going anywhere. And if you think I never play as the class I add as, then report it to Eulogy and he'll be the one to decide since, as I said, he's the only admin who actually does anything.

If you say so, dude. Seeing as I played the class I was added as completely more than pyro and sniper, I don't see why you insist on thinking otherwise but apparently you're going to keep believing otherwise. This is pointless so I'll stop responding.

edit: Watched the demo. I was right. Only thing was that I forgot I took not one but two opportunities to spawn trap someone. That's whatever though, won't happen again. Fact of the matter is, I'm getting a whole lot of shit for nothing.

What I said was far from being brash. If he's going to call someone a hypocrite for "offclassing the entire game", then he should be correct in his statement.

So exactly what are the rules to running utilities then? Also what's the difference between me having done that with pyro and instead me doing it as soldier or scout? I have no reason to argue with you about it and I agree with what you said for the most part, on the exception of that. Would this even be an issue in this thread had I been a core class instead? If it's because the pyro has a seriously easy opportunity to one shot most classes in that situation, then okay I understand where you're coming from.

I understand newer players use tf2mix to help themselves learn the game better, but seeing as utilities are a part of the core game itself, it should really be clear what the rules are exactly with that. There's the obvious "don't run sniper all game" rule (which applies with all utilities) and there's some other common sense rules, but that's really all we have. If there are any other actual rules about it, it would be nice for everyone to know.

edit: I don't know where the minus frags are coming from on my post above this. It would be nice to know how I'm wrong with what I stated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGd_4obCMA8#t=30s wish i had the demo to this still :(

great video, and i definitely would like seeing more