Restructuring Nam mod (archived by Veli)

[Butcher]

In the recent weeks I received complaints or rather comments from TWC members concerning the use of smoke, tripmines, thumper. We may be implement changes for the said weapons and I will start polls about which changes you would support. Until polls are performed and changes in weapons or rules implemented I would ask all Nam members and TWC members playing frequently on Nam server to consider the following points.

1. Smoke=poison gas on Nam: please use poisoned smoke only if it is heavily needed to break enemy resistance, e.g. when enemy laid lots of tripmines, enemy is in majority, strong cover is needed (against snipers on Fuel Dump or covering dynamite operations on Streets of Italy) and avoid poisoned smoke gas to just make your job easier.

2. Tripmines: avoid laying too many tripmines around a key location such as gun rooms. Do not lay tripmines to tricky places where the attackers cannot defuse them (typically corridors to guns on Oasis map).

3. Thumper/panzer: basically avoid using panzer against people, use it against vehicles. Only use thumper/panzer against people when enemy is in majority, there are at least 4 men in the enemy team or there are more experienced players in the enemy team and/or very strong resistance has to be broken though.

Please point the attention of guest players to the above in a polite way.

I ask the Nam members and other TWC members to vote in the polls regarding the above weapons and make your comments here if you have any. Please consider that all of the mentioned weapons and tools are special features of Nam mod, so if we would fully remove any of them the Nam mod may become less interesting...

[Stef4n]

done uhu

[Fabius]

Done

[Bread]

3. Thumper/panzer: basically avoid using panzer against people, use it against vehicles. Only use thumper/panzer against people when enemy is in majority, there are at least 4 men in the enemy team or there are more experienced players in the enemy team and/or very strong resistance has to be broken though.

I disagree with this. If you do this, using panzer or thumper isn't as fun, imo. I'll quote MayheM here:

If a weapon is available, they are allowed to use it.

[Andre]

3. Thumper/panzer: basically avoid using panzer against people, use it against vehicles. Only use thumper/panzer against people when enemy is in majority, there are at least 4 men in the enemy team or there are more experienced players in the enemy team and/or very strong resistance has to be broken though.

I disagree with this. If you do this, using panzer or thumper isn't as fun, imo. I'll quote MayheM here:

If a weapon is available, they are allowed to use it.

[Uzero]

Sounds like a great idea for Nam

[Butcher]

Hey Mates,
I suppose tehre may be a little misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the guidelines I summarised for thumper/panzer.
Its not the question whether these weapons are allowed to use any time currently, of course the are free to use once they are available.
As I set out we have had many complaints from members and from guests mostly about thumper use, many of them left the server that time. We would members and guest to have fun instead of annoyment, so we would like to have e.g. thumper available but would like to see it used with sense. providing both seems to be only possible if thumper is kept in weapon selection but we ask our people to use it by considering the said guidelines.
Constructive contributions to the the structure of Nam server are welcome, however the opinions of those players/members will have more weight whoe have been really frequent players on Nam server. And visiting it once a year is not considered as frequent visitor, but once a week also seems to be very short.

[a TEAMMATE]

3. Thumper/panzer: basically avoid using panzer against people, use it against vehicles. Only use thumper/panzer against people when enemy is in majority, there are at least 4 men in the enemy team or there are more experienced players in the enemy team and/or very strong resistance has to be broken though.

I disagree with this. If you do this, using panzer or thumper isn't as fun, imo. I'll quote MayheM here:

If a weapon is available, they are allowed to use it.

panza will always make ppl mad, but it's part of the game