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My point is that you shouldn't be having a normal conversation during the game.  Keep it related to the current game for the most part.  Admins don't !bspam for one off-topic remark, but if it gets too much it disrupts the game for other players who are trying to see relevant messages or the battlefield, without a bunch of unwanted text blocking the view.

The list can't be perfect, and it does miss some things, but I will warn people if they are using racist language or other things the server doesn't catch.  The only word on your list that I think would ever fit the context of the game is "bushwhack" maybe, so I don't believe that this is as big a problem as you're making it out to be.  There also can be false positives.  Again, pay attention to the yellow server messages and messages from admins.  If you see a warning, think about what you said that might have triggered it and try not to use that word.  You should get two automated warnings before the server kicks you for language, so it isn't that difficult to avoid a kick, let alone a ban.

The direction I never anticipate here is staying on topic.

I turn off map vote after the second or third failed vote (usually for the same map, which is usually Stalingrad) within the same game.  As I've said before, if the vote fails the first three times, it's probably going to fail the fourth time.  By that point it's just a disruption that blocks a significant portion of peoples' screens.

I agree it can be frustrating when the map gets switched from something I like or to something I don't like.  That said, I also agree with what Whoopz said.  I will turn off map voting on the USA server for that reason after a couple of unsuccessful votes.  I figure if the vote for Stalingrad has failed three times already during the current game, odds are it's going to fail the fourth and fifth times as well.

I usually play on USA, so I wasn't familiar with the special situation on this map.  I recently learned that it was an uncap when I was approaching the flag to try to capture it and started taking death bubble damage.  I thought that was learning it the hard way, but apparently it wasn't.

Can you PLEASE take this discussion to the Off-Topic section?  This section is for reporting abuse on the game server, not politics and religion.

Best to ignore him now; it's obvious he doesn't want help as much as he wants to insult.

Probably should check into who gave him a ban etc., though, in case it's related to our recent server issue.

I also saw him get kicked for minus score on Bocage on FRA server an hour or two ago, but didn't see what he was doing.

How about this one:

HAPPY BIG BANANA DAY!

Which server was it, i.e. USA, FRA, etc?

Was the ban, by any chance, for chat spam?

This one's for you, SurrenderMonkey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sfnQDr1-o

I don't remember exactly when I started playing, but it was probably 2004 or 2005.  The game had already been out for a while, because I got Battlefield 1942 The Complete Collection (with Road to Rome, Secrets Weapons, and BF Vietnam) at Software Etc for $10.

I also downloaded a lot of mods, including BG42, but always played single-player.  Later I got a similar deal for BF2 + expansion packs, but I still preferred BF1942.

Some years later my daughters started playing BF2 so one day I decided to set up a network game so we could play together on two computers.  That kind of opened my eyes to how much fun multiplayer BF1942 could be.  A couple of years ago I started playing Internet games of BF1942, and I now usually play on-line.

I have BF3, but don't like the scripted single-player mode, and multiplayer doesn't seem to be very flexible in what maps it will let you play either.  BF2 is maybe technically better, but I much prefer the WWII era.  So BF1942 is my main game.  The mods I play are Forgotten Hope and Battlegroup42, but it's not as easy to find games on-line with those mods, especially BG42.  I'd love to see SiMPLE run these mods every now and then.

The only other on-line game I've played much of was back in the Windows 95 days with LucasArts' Outlaws.  It was a FPS with an Old West theme and was great, single- or multi-player, with a soundtrack reminiscent of Ennio Morriconi, and lots of user-created maps.  I remember there was an ActiveX control in Internet Explorer that would give a list of servers, with a live chat room, which meant you could talk to people about what server everyone wanted to go to next, or just hang out.  Then you could click on what you wanted to play and it would launch the game.  There were also lots of web sites dedicated to the game; I just looked through some old files lying around on my server, and I found 192 bookmarks to Outlaws web sites I collected.

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