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"Lars Uffmann" <aral@nurfuerspam.de> wrote in message 
news:7f0bdeF2heo2sU1@mid.dfncis.de...
> Hey everyone!
>
> I have recently installed Linux and since UT99 runs just fine natively on 
> my box, I decided to play some again.
>
> Now I have 2 major problems:
>
> a) I used to be a mid-level skilled player, at least good enough to be 
> able to judge whether someone was playing fair or using an aimbot at most 
> times
>
> Now I am kind of frustrated at how fast I eat a headshot or direct killing 
> hit, and since I have been so out of touch with the game I rather quit the 
> server than suspect anyone of aimbotting. So my question related to this 
> is: How far spread is the use of aimbots on UT99 servers nowadays and if 
> it is a bad problem, is there any server list out there of servers that 
> have the better anti-aimbot mods active?
>
> b) I have seen some interesting and challenging "new" mods, such as Dr. 
> Strangelove (though that's sort of driving me crazy after 5 minutes of 
> screaming), Bunnytrack (though many maps are insanely hard, there seems to 
> be hardly anything for "beginners" to train on with less frustration) and 
> mainly Jailbreak(!). I really enjoyed Jailbreak when I saw it, but sadly 
> it seems to be the least wide spread. So does anyone know some good 
> jailbreak servers? And would you share them?
>
> Then apart from these two problems I have some minor ones, such as:
>
> - what do people enjoy in stuff like Monsterhunt? I mean - In UT2003 and 
> higher it was kinda fun, but then the waves were sort of... well - you 
> could count the mobs in your field of view most of the time, you only had 
> one live (and could save the round and get everyone back to live) and the 
> waves were doable with a normal life. But the UT99 version seems to be 
> nearly infinite health & ammo and about as many monsters, where it's just 
> lame spamming of ammo into them... Zero skills at all...
>
> - why did someone try to "improve" such a perfect game mod as instagib? 
> that combo-shot addition to instagib is about the lamest stuff ever. 
> Either I want precision gibs, then I play instagib, or I want blast 
> radius, then I play rocket arena. Labeling that other mod with "Instagib" 
> just sucks
>
> - what gayness rode some asses to NOT label their servers as passworded 
> for the server selection, and then demand a password *AFTER* you have 
> downloaded all the mods and maps they are currently using and then 
> connected to the server only to be kicked again? That is not only sheer 
> gayness, it is also dumb as shit, since the downloads of people that can't 
> join will slow the server down or at least waste bandwidth somewhere. Plus 
> it pisses people off...
>
> Some changes for the better, some for the worse, as is normal over time... 
> Comments welcome! Oh - and I don't really mind people playing monsterhunt, 
> it just seems so... boring...
>
> Yo!
>
>    Lars

So everyone is better than you now and you hate the popular mods? Welcome 
back!!...(this ought to be quick)