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[ubersaurus]

[VMVash]

The are using a new system for the ranking so you wont get those lvl 24/25(maybe diff for you) that are just crazy when they are with their team. I CAN"T WAIT TILL MONDAY!!!! I got stand byed today, Every time the guy saw red on his radar or he saw you, the clock stopped. And when you unlagged you were eather dead or you were the last one alive. I killed him while i was "lagging" and i was across the map when he died by the butt off my gun. He was sooo bad/banned.

My favorit thing to do is to kill people while they are in the middle of cheatting. I sniped a guy when he super bounced up to the top of the base in zanzabar. All his team saw was him go up and his dead body come down. I was at the camo when I sniped him. All i could do was laugh.

[water10]

Although I can see why they're resetting the ranks, I don't think it's the best solution. Just think about it. Starting Monday, cheaters with fake high-ranks, will either stop playing to maintain their levels or they will get their asses kicked really hard! Either way, they'll get frustrated, some will quit and who stays will adjust. This solution affects only cheaters (which I believe it's still minority) and it's better than resetting for EVERYBODY, which will ensure at least a couple of weeks of people really looking forward for the changes, but getting frustrated due to mis-matches on matchmaking ...

[vector]

I dont rember who mentioned it one of the games, but all of this could be fix by just getting rid of the rank next to your name. if as they say it means nothing other than a way to match people up, why show it? haveing a dang number seems to drive people nuts to the point of cheating to gain a different number. just hide the dang thing.

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[water10]

[krystyn]

The way I see it, I have the opportunity to learn some sneaky/cool moves from the higher-ranked players who came by it honestly.

Also, they won't have the ability to underestimate me truly, because we're all gonna be on the same level for a bit.

I kinda look forward to it. The frustration of re-shuffling is at least ripe with opportunity, as opposed to the frustration of constantly getting beat by cheaters.

[Clayfoot]

I'm with Krystyn: Resetting the ranks allows me to get schooled by people who might actually teach me something. In the beginning, I'll probably be more jumpy at the beginning of the match, since I won't know whether I'm facing a former level-50 team or a former level-1 team. I expect the former cheaters to become discouraged and to move on to some other game.

[Clayfoot]

BTW, a few more BTB wins like last night, and you folks really will drag me to level 11.

[krystyn]

There were some good games last night! Granted, peeps from the other team kept dropping and stuff, and I guess there were some lag issues? But still. I think the teamwork and agreement and communication we have as beekeepers is improving somewhat!

I think the only time I noticed lag was when I was on the top platform near the rocket launcher spawn on Headlong, and I should've perforated this one dude's helmet, but suddenly he jumped three feet to the right, and well, crap!

Also, zorplex and I traded off sniping on Coagulation, which worked out really, really well.

If you check the game viewer on this game, you'll see the nice run I had on offense. I may have been just as annoying as Twizzler tends to be!

I felt bad for what was, essentially, spawn killing, but I was there, I had the ammo, and, well, they kept appearing at the teleporter. What was cool was seeing them learn how to jump and shimmy as soon as they spawned. Heh. Still, I bet they hated me kinda a little bit.

[ubersaurus]

[Clayfoot]

[fugitivesoldier]

Lesson on Standby 101:

Primary/Host standby: When the host presses the Standby button on the modem causing all others to BSoD.

Secondary standby: When a NON-host player disconnects a cable between the router and modem, i think it is, and they must reconnect it within 30 seconds or they time out. This allows them to move invisibly, invincible, for 30 seconds. When they reconnect, they "revert" to their first locale like Dummying does. However, if they picked up a object/weapon during the 30 seconds, they get to keep it in their reverted location. Bad news as well.

BOTH OF THESE will be fixed Monday. YAY

[ROBOGriff]

If you havne't read this already, there is a great article about the etiquette rules of Halo 2. I know most of this dosn't apply to us, but I'm posting it here as a reminder