Perhaps Valve is getting ready to sell hats themselves, and as such they do not want people to get their hats free from servers with a hat plugin.
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Joeri van der Velden < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Why was the functionality removed anyway? > > - Clavus > > 2010/5/2 Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald <[email protected]> > > > "Are there any other mods/plugins that are effected by this other than > the > > 2 > > listed on the petition." > > > > It breaks anything that wants to attach a model to a player. Not just > hats > > or weapons. > > > > There is a variety of ways this can be used for creativity and this > > essentially breaks it, purposely. I usually don't ever complain when they > > make changes to the game and break plug-ins, usually those are > side-effects > > of them making other changes, this changed was targeted and intentional. > > > > The petition was just an alternative use of my time, either I was going > to > > spend time circumventing the existing restriction (which would probably > get > > fixed if they kept this policy), or I could spend the time asking them > > nicely to reverse this policy and get the community involved. > > > > Also, this doesn't prevent server ops from issuing overpowered weapons or > > other things that drastically affect game play. All that happens is the > > client doesn't render the model. > > > > I wasn't going to post this petition to the list (prefer to do so on > other > > community sites), but since it's here I figured I'd explain it a little. > > > > In the end, I hope valve reconsiders. > > > > - voogru. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander > Baade > > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 4:54 PM > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Available > > > > Are there any other mods/plugins that are effected by this other than the > 2 > > listed on the petition. I personally don't care about these because a > lot > > of server admins will use the hat mod and charge players for them. It > > angers me to no end that I have to download a boat load of custom content > > and then I cant use it unless I donate to the server. These servers > > typically go on my blacklist. I could over look this fact but I'm not > > going > > to because there are a lot of servers out there who have stolen custom > > maps/content from my clan and heavily rely on these plugins. > > > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Justin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > https://secure.voogru.com/petition/index.php > > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Justin Fortin <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Any word on a fix for this yet? > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPod > > > > > > > > On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Msilbys12 <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Sounds like a client problem > > > > > > > > > > Sent from the best phone ever > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Matt Hoffman > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Yep, crashing on every server I connect to. (As a client > obviously) > > > > >> > > > > >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Justin Fortin > > > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>> So you got everything serverwide working, but it seems like > anyone > > > > >>> Jo > > > > >>> has updated the client will crash when they try to connect. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Sent from my iPod > > > > >>> > > > > >>> On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Noel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>> > > > > >>>> My Windows servers are both up and running and joinable now. > > > > >>>> Updates seemed > > > > >>>> to take a minute or so longer than usual, but no problems with > MM/ > > > > >>>> SM > > > > >>>> running. > > > > >>>> _______________________________________________ > > > > >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > > > >>>> archives, please visit: > > > > >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > >>> > > > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > > > >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > > > >>> archives, please visit: > > > > >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > >>> > > > > >> > > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > > > >> archives, please visit: > > > > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > > > > archives, please visit: > > > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > > > please visit: > > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
