Professional Counter-Strike - A New Year's Resolution......

TeaLeaf · January 01, 2003, 03:46:22 PM

The below has today been posted to the "alt.games.half-life.counterstrike" newsgroup, under the heading "Professional Counter-Strike - A New Year's Resolution......."

May I ask everyone who reads this post to go to support the newsgroup post and to help spread the word about PCS. The more posts up there the merrier - but keep it respectful please! Imagine a block of 40-50 posts starting with the title "Professional Counter-Strike - A New Year's Resolution.......". It will make people stop and read it. It will make more people join the PCS community!

So for your first new year's resolution, go post some supportive comments under this posting in the newsgroups eh? But remember we are trying to encourage people to try PCS, not frighten them off :lol:

I should also give credit to OldBloke whose earlier writings allowed me to paraphrase and re-write as appropriate

Don't honk your horn to show your support, go post in the NG's - and then post here that you have done it!

Many thanks.

TL.

QuoteProfessional Counter-Strike - A New Year's Resolution......

Tired of frag-monkeys and cheaters ruining your game?
Tired of losing rounds because your side plays as schizophrenic individuals rather than as a team?
Do you wish you could play CS with people you know and trust?
Would you appreciate the ability to talk to your team mates in-game to assist each other in achieving the map objective?
Well that's exactly what PCS (Professional Counter-Strike) is all about. In short it's an objective based and team orientated style of play used by the people in the PCS community.

Interested?

Then register for the MeatHook PCS server by clicking here: http://mailman.crosswired.org.uk/listinfo/mh-pcs It's free, so why not give it a try?

-=[dMw]=- (Dead Men Walking) have dedicated a server to Professional Counter-Strike - the way we think the game should really be played! We have an active and growing PCS community and welcome people who want to try PCS out for the first time. The many regulars on the server are always happy to help new players 'convert' to the PCS style of play - and PCS is something that most players pick up real quickly! The majority of people who try PCS never go back to 'deathmatch CS'.

Because our PCS is on a password-protected server it stops unknown players (and cheats) visiting the server and ruining everyone's game. We have a strong and omnipresent set of Admins on the server, along with a strong cast of regulars who together make sure that the highest level of gameplay is maintained. For example, we will always try to balance the teams so that the maximum playability and enjoyment is extracted from a map.

We aren't saying that PCS is the only way to play CS, it's just that we find PCS a far more rewarding experience. Our growing number of registered players agree!

You'll find that on our PCS server you'll talk to your team mates a lot for a start. It's a bit like being in a clan match where like-minded people are trying to complete the objective using on-the-fly tactics relayed over voice comms. We also utilise map boundaries (no-go areas) to make the scenario as realistic as possible, to prevent idiotic & blind rushing and to aid gameplay. Team balance is paramount to having an enjoyable game (just ask anyone who has been on a losing and under-manned side only to watch new players enter the server and join the already stronger team) so we also ask people to swap teams if necessary. The PCS style of play attracts a diverse audience - the beauty of this is that you then have a chance to get to know the regular players - you work better as a team, win more often and get to know some great people along the way. Just check out our PCS Forums //www.deadmen.co.uk/forum it will give you an idea of the comerarderie that exists within our PCS community.

So that's my New Year's resolution - to let people know that PCS is out there, just waiting for you to find it. I hope this post helped that objective. So to paraphrase a television show, "This year I will mostly be playing PCS". What will you be doing?

-=[dMw]=-TeaLeaf

Register for and visit the PCS Forums: //www.deadmen.co.uk/forum
Register for the European & UK PCS Server: http://mailman.crosswired.org.uk/listinfo/mh-pcs
Professional Counter-Strike - the way the game should be played....Objective based and Team-orientated

Squonk · January 01, 2003, 04:26:54 PM

Done :thumbsup:

TeaLeaf · January 01, 2003, 05:55:06 PM

Just to be clear, I would just ask you to post a REPLY to the message with an apporpriate personal messageof support, confirmation of quality etc. Please don;t repost the entire posting of mine as your own........the ng will treat it as spamming and then we lose the goodwill generated by the posts.

TL.

Dr Sadako · January 01, 2003, 05:56:56 PM

Posted the text on a Swedish site.

Dr Sadako · January 01, 2003, 06:10:11 PM

QuoteJust to be clear, I would just ask you to post a REPLY to the message with an apporpriate personal messageof support, confirmation of quality etc. Please don;t repost the entire posting of mine as your own........the ng will treat it as spamming and then we lose the goodwill generated by the posts.

TL.

I will post it at some Swedish CS forums and see what response we get.

smite · January 01, 2003, 06:21:56 PM

erm url plz not sure where it is...

Squonk · January 01, 2003, 06:22:38 PM

QuoteJust to be clear, I would just ask you to post a REPLY to the message with an apporpriate personal messageof support, confirmation of quality etc. Please don;t repost the entire posting of mine as your own........the ng will treat it as spamming and then we lose the goodwill generated by the posts.

TL.

:oops: so sry :-(
i was gonna post on another news group but sorta got mixed up what with the drink en all and posted in the same
i did not intened to steal your message and post as my own... iam sry.. plz forgive :angel:

albert · January 01, 2003, 06:34:37 PM

I am so crap with news readers. I have Agent newsreader but my server news.eclipse.co.uk does not have alt.games.half-life.counterstrike.

Anyone know of a free to use news server in the UK?

Oh and did you notice that there is a pcs news group? Same as the above group but with .pcs at the end.

smilodon · January 01, 2003, 06:39:12 PM

http://news.cis.dfn.de/

Cannot post binaries so no pron, but carries everything else and is very reliable. Highly recommended.

albert · January 01, 2003, 06:48:17 PM

Thanks Neutron, they seem like a good bunch but registration is manual so I can't check TeaLeafs post straight away.

Any other servers out there?

I have tried about 20 so far but most are not available to people not using their ISP.

CiM · January 01, 2003, 07:02:16 PM

Quote
QuoteJust to be clear, I would just ask you to post a REPLY to the message with an apporpriate personal messageof support, confirmation of quality etc. Please don;t repost the entire posting of mine as your own........the ng will treat it as spamming and then we lose the goodwill generated by the posts.

TL.

:oops: so sry :-(
i was gonna post on another news group but sorta got mixed up what with the drink en all and posted in the same
i did not intened to steal your message and post as my own... iam sry.. plz forgive :angel:[/b]

It'd be good netiquette to post a follow-up to your post telling everyone that you accidentally posted it to the same newsgroup

- CiM

TeaLeaf · January 01, 2003, 08:50:21 PM

QuoteOh and did you notice that there is a pcs news group? Same as the above group but with .pcs at the end.

Except the my ISP doesn'tprvide it - so no, I didn't know. Can someone post the 'article' there for me please?

Thanks.

TL.

JB · January 01, 2003, 10:31:34 PM

I got some good bews providers, but they wont allow posting. So you can read all the messages but just cant reply to them.

news://newscache2.freenet.de/alt.games.hal...e.counterstrike
news://newscache4.freenet.de/alt.games.hal...e.counterstrike
news://newscache6.freenet.de/alt.games.hal...e.counterstrike

They're all german servers i think and sometimes go down for a short time, but have always come back up fairly rapidly.

TeaLeaf · January 01, 2003, 11:16:13 PM

Come on folks - get your supportive comments in quickly, before your ISP's server wipes the original post

We want a block of posts not a trickle - people do not notice trickles (as they say)

TL.

albert · January 02, 2003, 08:13:07 AM

QuoteCome on folks - get your supportive comments in quickly, before your ISP's server wipes the original post We want a block of posts not a trickle - people do not notice trickles (as they say)

TL.

Sorry TL, still trying to find a nttp server that will allow me to post :cry: