Coming from a Quake background I have never understood this.
You're comparing to *totally* different games. One is a game of full-on deathmatch mayhem with aliens and laser guns and magical teleportation devices and lava... CS is a tactical, squad-based shooter that, while obviously not 100% realistic, at least has it's *base* in reality.
Maps are designed with player running speeds in mind. When someone finds a way to exploit the game engine to give them an incredible--and highly unrealistic--speed advantage, it drastically changes the dynamics of the game in an entirely selfish, unsporting manner. In the case of strafe-jumping in CS, it had a significant negative impact on gameplay. In the case of Quake, on the other hand, there wasn't nearly the same sort of change, and it fit in with the overall theme and structure of the game.
I just wish Valve would actually *fix* the problem in the engine instead of adding code to make any jump screw up your ability to move at a normal rate, which also changes the dynamics of the game. Remember the mid apartments in cs_italy? As a CT, you could usually make it past that first big room with the table before running head-long into a T. Now, however, since you have to jump up a series of boxes to get into the window, it's completely different. This is just an example, but you get the idea.
> If all sides are equal, aren't things like this just part of the skill > people develop that makes them, overall, a better player then the > next guy?
This is an old argument that's been rehashed over and over. In the end, it's up to the community in general--and the individual server admin specifically. Deliberately exploiting bugs in a game to give yourself an advantage that disrupts and degrades gameplay is not OK in my not-so-humble opinion. I'd be curious to know where you draw the line yourself. *ANYBODY* can download and install a wallhack, for instance. Isn't that just another tool available to you to make you a better player than the next guy?
The bottom line is that it's entirely unethical. Play on a level playing field--which includes such config "tweaks" as ex_interp--with the next guy, and you'll actually get to see who's a better a player.
> it's never been called a cheat in quake.
I believe I adequately addressed that in the first couple of paragraphs, so I won't go into it again here.
-- Eric (the Deacon remix)
"But I don't want to be a pie; I hate gravy!" -Babs (Chicken Run)
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