Hey Slick. Love the site and all that. But, I was just wondering if YOU know why a lot of the players are so retarded. I admin the Lucifer's Flowers - TK3 server, and I have to kick at least 3 people in one map. I have been playing TFC for about 2 months. Yes, you can call me a newbie, but at least I learned the concept of the game the first day. I mean, what provokes some of you people to go in your own respawn and set down a detpak. That's just retarded. Then, they complain because it is a Teak Kill server and they get in trouble for killing your team. People, team kill doesn't mean to intentionally kill your teammates. No, it just adds a little more realistic environment to the game. Then, when you kick em out, they come back and do it all over again. Kick em again, then they still come back. Then, ya ban em. Somehow, they come back a lot later and apologize for what they did, and then start over again. People, are your lives that boring that you have to find some way into a place you are banned from? It must suck to be you. Thank you Slick for letting me relay my message through you. Hopefully, it will slap some sense into some of these retards' dense skulls.

Slick: Doing stuff like that is what they think is funny. I'll admit at one point in time I thought it was hilarious to see a team-mate go flying from my detpack. But I quickly learned that while it may be funny to you, it's annoying as hell for the other person.

TFC has the way it should be played (and most people do play it right) but there's no structure/penalty for doing it wrong. -- That's why server admins have a kick function, I'm glad you use it. -- As I was saying, people do it wrong because they haven't had the rewards of doing it right. TF2 has many goal systems and rewards for playing as a team and playing the game correctly, I think we'll see a vast improvement in players and how they play with each other. Valve has watched this closely, and does care, so I'm interested in how well it will work.

In a recent flame mail (hee hee) from [AtX]Timber_Wolf, he mentioned a claymation "movie" called The Red Flag. I assume that this is something that can be downloaded. My question is... WHERE can I download this?

Slick: The Red Flag is a sweet claymation video done up by tigerbean productions. -- There currently is a sequal in the works (Red Flag "Havoc") I don't know when that will be out. But it's sure to kick ass! (after looking around a bit, there are some promo shots, be sure to check those out!)

Hello:

I had read somewhere (perhaps on your site) that you can edit the configuration of halflife--like turning off the animations, etc.

There was a web page that let you select if you wanted animations, to see the weapons, etc. and then generated a cfg file or something. Have any idea as to the identity of that site?

Slick: This can all be edited in Half-Life by going to the custimize and settings menus (depending on what you wanted to change).

I personally don't know of the site that you describe, but if someone does.. Hit the mailbag with it and we'll get it posted next week.

Hi, first of all, great site! Second, i was in a TFC server last night and one of the admins of the server was spraying his clans logo, but this was new to me, the logo was multicolored!!!! I asked him how he did it but he would not tell me. I was wondering if you could tell me how he did this and how i can acomplish this?

Slick: Link!~~@#~!

Just like the guy in the mailbag,I wanted to get that song from the TF Intro. Unable to locate what it was,I sent Robin Walker an email,and five minutes later he replied that it was from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

Slick: Well, there you have it folks. Now go put in it (and get it off) napster!

Also on the same topic, Shaun said that the file name is called ORFF.wav

Slick,

You wouldn't happen to know of any way to disable the "windows key" other that prying it off with a screwdriver? Or possible re-establishing sound if you accidently boot out of the game?

Slick: I don't know personally of a way to disable that key, but I wouldn't mind it myself. -- One thing I would suggest trying to bind it in the in game config (though that may just boot you out anyway) My nice keyboard doesn't even have a windows key so I don't worry about it too much.. But it still wouldn't be bad for people to know. So if you've got a way, hit the mailbag with the 'how-to'

I have been trying to use this program called vote manager. in the game when you join you start out in a big room and theres doors that leads to different maps..the idea is to shoot at the doors breaking them down and the more players shooting on one door wins and then that map loads..

well i made it all the way to using the vote map compile program and it says it makes a vote.bsp in your tfc/maps directory but instead i get a VOTE.ENT with lots of map data on it??? what is it?? an entity? does it need to be compiled with worldcraft?? i didnt see that option?? the site where i got this program>>>>> http://www.planetfortress.com/hellface/

Slick: Vote is a sweet map, make sure you have both the map manager and the vote map (get them both here. There is a .html readme that kicks ass and explains how to use the mapmanager properly (and will answer your question). Just look in the dir for it.