Timmah!

To me, the point of XI..... is having fun and gaming with friends - not getting angry that someone "less skilled" than you, gets a kill or two on you. Yes, fun. People play against each other with guns & both generally have fun in the interaction, win or lose. When a person uses a tube, there's no fun interaction on both parts. The person with the tube ploops their tube in the general vicinity & the other person(s) immediately die. There was no chance for fun for the other person. One or two people doing this changes the whole flow of a server. And it isn't just one or two kills because there are those who will suicide & refill on tubes to do it again... all map. If you had a server with nothing but tubers, there would be no action, because they would all be sitting waiting for someone else to come by to ploop on. The people who want to have tubes in EVERY server are saying 'don't take my fun away from me which consists of taking the fun away from other people.' People get in fights with guns in a server, & from time to time think 'that was a good fight'.. 'that was fun', win or lose..I do. People get tubed don't think, man that was a good fight, man that was fun. The only person had fun was the person spamming the tube. A sniper takes me down on the run, I usually think 'good shot', because he actually had to hit me with that bullet... a tube in my general vicinity takes me down on the run...I'm not thinking good shot. It doesn't require making a server without any explosives or kill streaks It doesn't require taking tubes away from everyone in every or any other server. Just make ONE server without tubes, or tubes toned down. It's a relatively simple, quick & easy fix. Don't know why all the controversy. It will just provide a fair opportunity for a sizeable portion of people that would like to play in a server like that. Don't know why people who like to tube complain about that request.

Like I suggested earlier, just have ONE server as a respite from the tubes & everyone is happy. 4 or however many servers for the tubes 1 for people who wanna play primarily with bullets problem solved

Surely >XI< has room in their dedicated boxes to make ONE server with the tubes eliminated or nerfed. Do that & let people have a choice, that still leaves the other servers the way they are. What, if any, is the problem with this solution?

How about making just ONE server where the tubes are toned down or eliminated. A clay or satchel can be easily countered with bomb squad, if one chooses. The tube is over powered: just lob it in someone's general direction & get an immediate kill. Use overkill & get 4 or 6 or whaterver of 'em... & when you run out, just nade yourself & get a refill. It's out of balance with the rest of the game. You guys are always trying different things, so try a server without tubes or with them toned down, & let people have a choice.

Wow, hope all turns out well for you!

lol, pinglo's tubes have made my pinghigh.

Seems, as of late, that the pings in the freezetag servers jump around wildly for some people. It happens at random times, even at night? I thought it might have been my service provider, but I noticed that several people would concurrently have the same issue of their pings going high & settle down. Dunno if it's the server, or possibly a node somewhere in the interwebz... just thought I'd throw that out there & see if anyone had an idea of it's origin... Timmah!

More maps? Schweet! Thanks for the effort maintaining the map rotations; & everything else.

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