I didn't want to put in the ban reason in the title because I feel like people would react strongly without reading the self text. We've added a 'Mod Sass' ban. I want to be very clear, this isn't something to be scared of for any average users. You will not be banned for disagreeing with a mod, or simply being rude to them.

This ban reason is for people who disagree with a mod's decision and begin insulting and belittling them outside of TagPro. We have a general rule that we don't ban people in TagPro for behavior outside of TagPro; if you're a shitheel in IRC, you'll be banned from IRC but not TagPro.

However, we felt that given that mods are volunteers and don't deserve to be harassed repeatedly simply because they're tring to make TagPro a more welcoming and fun place.

So, you will only be banned under this new ban reason if the following two criteria are met:

1. You are insulting a mod outside of TagPro for reasons related to moderation.

2. When asked to stop, you do not.

Feel free to ask any questions you might have, but I feel that if you've actually read the self text I've posted here, there's not much controversial going on.

It started with some your mom jokes. I get that, it's the internet. A smurfing some ball was leading the charge, and I asked him multiple times to stop making those jokes, my mom is dead. The jokes continue, directed at me, and he reports me for offensive chat.

Now I'm angry and hurt. Nobody else cares, they just want to play tagpro, right? After all, it's the internet. I express my outrage, using some choice words, but the gist of it is NO, MY MOM IS DEAD. LEAVE ME THE F*** ALONE. Then the flood of reports come in: working against own team, offensive chat, afk.

A mod shows up and tells us all to stop, as if my cursing is just as disruptive as taunting someone's dead relative. I get kicked from the game, neither one of the two people who made jokes directly at me apologizes, and to add insult to injury, how about a one-hour ban? One of the offenders is a level 70-something frequenter of Centra. Now I'm sitting here with the metaphorical knife twisted deeper into my chest, and you all are laughing your way to the next game about what a jerk Scumbag Steve is.

I don't permit anyone to treat me that way, and I'm not going to be part of a community that responds as ineffectively as this one did. Neither the players nor the mod cared about me, they just wanted to make the situation go away as quickly as possible.

EDIT: Yeah, yeah, keep downvoting my posts where I sympathize with people's losses. Otherwise I might be tempted to come back someday.

Started playing a couple months ago. Everyone would be flaming me (saying I sucked or I was useless), saying "waot" (which I only later learned the meaning of), etc.

Fast forward now, I know sort of how the game works enough to actually waot if I want to. And I often do because of the toxicity of the community.

If you guys weren't so insufferable, maybe we would all have more fun. But alas.

Okay, so like this guy cheated in TagPro, right? He played in leagues and shit, but that doesn't concern me, I'm just a pub player. I don't take this game seriously.

What does concern me is that this player used cheats in pubs. He knew what he was doing was wrong, and he still found it fun.

The only reason this player apologized was because he was caught, banned from competitive play, and now is hoping he can squirm his way back into competitive play with a public apology.

So, I'm sorry I told this person, "fuck you".

I know TagPro has a great community, etc., we have the mentality that everyone is chill, etc. BUT this is one thing I can not let slide.

Mark my words, this guy will try to get back into competitive. It's the first thing he mentioned in his post.

Downvote me all you want. I'm only telling the truth.

So we recieved a lot of submissions in thread 35, and the focus seemed to be mainly on CTF this time with a lot of maps exploring unconventional concepts for the traditional gamemode. We would like to thank the authors for making it hard for us to make a choice this week, espeically since we got a lot of submissions where maps have been tweaked for the better from past submissions, which is always encouraging to the committee.

After initial voting based on personal scores from each committee member, the following maps made it to the main maptesting session:

• RocketBalls (Alternative preview)

• IRON

• One Way Ticked 0.5

• Backdoor

• T-rekt V2b

• Pinwheel

• Monarch 0.3

• Snatch

• Monarch (0.2)

• Masquerade

• Freshquipadillion

Of these maps, the committee decided to add RocketBalls (by DaEvil1) and Backdoor (by Bad) into rotation.

If you want feedback on your map(s) and why they didn't make it to rotation/testing session, you can request that in the comment section.

In terms of removing maps from the rotation, the committee decided to vote on if any of the following maps should be taken out of rotation:

• Velocity

• 45

• Command Center

• Grail of Speed

• Colors

With the end result being that Command Center by Bad was voted out of rotation.

This means that the current map rotation will grow by one map for now. This is partly due to the feedback from the community last time that growing the rotation would not be seen as a problem, however, we really appreciate feedback from the community on how the map rotation should look, so please do leave feedback on what you think about the size of the rotation, and what you think of the additions/removals and the current rotation. Because we do listen to it, and try to take it into account when we make the decisions we make.

Bye guys! I've been playing tagpro for three years now, but I think it's about time I hop off here and feed the kids. Fonfarewell buhbye.

I just got reported 4 times in the past two games for because one player keeps telling everyone I am "hacking."

http://i.imgur.com/eVPo3cS.png

I don't know if he was actually born with three copies of chromosome 21* or he is just a troll, but I have a feeling it's because I reported him the game before for calling everyone "nigger."

Now I basically have to smurf the rest of the day if I want to play because this could happen again and then I get a ban.

If you're reading this, have a great day and life a long and healthy life*

*edited for those who don't understand hyperbole

EDIT2: names have been changed to protect the -cough- innocent

Hello fellow Tagproers. This update is going to apply only to U.S.A. servers. See the picture

• Ball is 20% fatter bigger

• Ball is 20% slower

• Ball is soft and has some better deacceleration properties

• 20% louder sample for chanting and clapping when delivering the flag

• Extra cheers when user picks a powerup

• New anti-powerups instead of spikes (see picture) now featuring trendy self-diagnosed problems across redditor population in North America- 1) ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) - the ball handles much more worse and randomly spams chat with your nickname. 2) :(: Bipolar disorder anti-powerup - your ball color changes randomly from red to blue in interval of 20 seconds.

I think this could promote more cultural awareness as well as enhance gameplay. What do you think of this?

Additions

There are no maps being added to the map rotation at this time.

However, to compensate for this, TheEpicGhost has been added to the MTC.

Removals

Ultradrive - by Aniball

Renegade - by ThisIsNigel

Congratulations to all the mapmakers who have influenced the rotation! Keep mapmaking!

I got a really bizarre one about growing babies. I didn't say it. I don't find them funny. I don't want to be associated with it.

The Americans have bottled it since they can't handle a little bit extra ping and they need to rest their vaginas before the start of MLTP on Sunday!

So it's between the EU teams and the OCE team to see who is the best. Details will come later with when matches will be so be ready to see the Battle of the Ping this Saturday.

After plaing with stats on after playing with them off for past 3 months, i ralize how much i dont wanna a new push, or pushes ever again. New pleyers jeust make me angry, and i know that makes me sound like asshole douche , but i realy would like is the game ever sees another player, and dies in thre years., because at least it would be fun 3 years instead of not as fun 10-? years. Sure, get that people want a push new players brings new ideas, new styles, new friends. more league play, and overall, more success. But i would trade all of that for constant good games when there isnt 5 or 6 good players and 2 3 players who are learning, bringing dont the fun of the game as \a whole,

Again, i know im a douche. and maybe its my fault for playing bunch of games on orgin. Im just saying that if there was never any more pushes, I would be hapy. I've spent over a almost 2 years, probably close to an month just playing the game, and the comunity is amazing (except for me, i knowimsorry0 but i woudl trade it all for a coupe of good games.

And Smirk is a noobkin map, and jardim is an rh156 map.

I was just banned for 2016 hours (lol?) because of some assholes who didn't like my playing style (Mods, check vids if you want) I wasn't doing anything wrong but not playing my best, sorry that I'm new.

I'm just surprised that this game is what, over 4 years old now? And only 1 server has, at the most, 150 players at any given time? I really believe because the Admins are hell-bent on flexing their mod powers, but as a result you turn off so, so.... SO many people from coming back after a ban. 2016 hours? give me a fucking break, that's 3 months. You think i'll be back then? Don't count on it.

I'm just saying, for this game to be many years old and with such an EXTREMELY low participation rate, you really gotta start asking yourselves, "What are we doing wrong?" I'll help you answer: You're running this game like fascist tyrants. So what I said "Fuck you" to someone that stole a powerup while I was flag carrier. We're grown adults, and if I get a report for saying "Fuck you" to someone, well then fuck this game. You want profanity censorship, here's an idea, BLOCK OUT PROFANITY. Or simply, don't allow people to type the word "Fuck" and be able to send it.

A super fun game run by morons. This game could have been huge, but you have to be riding the back of a golden unicorn and rub eachothers dicks with "Kindness" on this game to fit in. How dare you not say "GG" after a game you inconsiderate prick? Have a report.

Fix your voting bullshit. Or don't, I couldn't care less, much like the people that run this, what could have been, a great game.

Peace the FUCK (That's right, I said Fuck) out!

Edit: Interesting that this is only 60% downvoted, 40% would seem to agree. Take note of this admin.

Smurfs are playing a psychological game to gain a tactical advantage while hindering people who would like to get their PUB stats up. It's arguably disrespectful to those of us who care about PUB stats, but generally seen as a neutral action. Anyone care to elaborate, or explain why you smurf?

EDIT: I don't understand why everyone's downvoting a question. If you disagree with me, then fine, but downvoting questions just stifles discussion.

I'm going out on a limb here and saying I can speak for Pi(masterrace) but all of our prayers, thoughts, and support go out to you Chordians. GL HF

Hi MLTP,

I believe i am a good enough player to participate in competitive tagpro. Draft me. We will win every game we play. Several players have told me i;m gud, including drunkyy, sloppy, and freakball.

Sign me up boyz!

Smirk is a Noobkin map. GeoKoala is a LuckySpammer map.

enjoy your day :)

Never thought I'd make this post but I guess the time has come. This is just a game for me after all so I'm not going to make this super dramatic or pretend to be really sad but it's truly been a wonderful 20 months. Thank you devs for making this great game and good luck in the future. Love to all my Centra homies, I'll be sure to come on mumble and say hi once in a while. I've made some great friendships through this game and met some super smart people. Going to the Norcal meetup really changed my perspective on how online relationships can actually turn into real friendships. It's been a crazy ride starting off as an askreddit noob and slowly getting better and better. TagPro has helped me find more interest in my comp sci major and has inspired me to make my own iOS game which I'll be doing this summer. Thanks for drafting me to MLTP season 5 JGibbs, never did I one day think I'd get to where I am.

Anyways I'm going to focus on learning other things now. It's been an honor playing with you guys, this game and it's community are definitely something special. Hope to see some of you around once in a while.

Peace + <3,

Capernicus

Hello Tagproians,

I'm sure I've seen a lot of you around in the competitive scene or in public games, but I'd like to address an ongoing concern that myself and other members of the community have brought up recently.

When players break the rules in TagPro, they get punished, as they should. With each ban, the time of the ban increases with repeated offenses. However, some of the punishments do not fit the crime.

One of the primary offenders: 3rd cap showboats. While this has no strategic value, many players do so anyways and ever so often don't land the cap. In this case, it's working against your team, even if it was done accidentally. In most cases however, the players score the capture. It is not uncommon for a player who takes this celebratory delay to receive a ban if a moderator is watching the game. One of the players I've been working and developing with was caught showboating a third cap with a 1 second delay. Whether this was lag, typing, or a legitimate showboat, he was slapped with a whopping TWENTY ONE (21) day ban. This, to me, is unacceptable in a game where we want to promote players having fun and continue playing the game.

Third cap showboats don't hurt the player's team if it's scored. If anything, punish players who botch the showboat, but not with a 21 day ban. 21 days for a showboat, which could be accidental, is vastly unjustified.

Thoughts?

-- A$AP Caplord

There is way too much circlejerking on this subreddit. I'm definitely guilty of a lot of it, but seriously. We're going way too far. [This post] (https://www.reddit.com/r/TagPro/comments/3jtkqo/a_d0pey_d0pe_montage/cus7xm0) by time sums things up pretty good.

Literally more then ten months after it happened, we are STILL making coys button jokes, that are getting upvoted. [Proof] (https://www.reddit.com/r/TagPro/comments/3jv3s4/we_now_have_spoiler_tags/cusitf6)

Completely anonymized, [here] (http://pastebin.com/09dYXP7C) is another example of how circlejerky people can be. Read lines 20 and 22. This is the kind of behavior this community is encouraging through upvoting posts mocking other people.

Yes, coys didn't get on a button. Yes, it cost his team a cap. But if you can't stop someone from grabbing with a tagpro when your flag carrier is out past 3, does that mean you should be ridiculed for TEN MONTHS? And this is a community we're proud of for NOT being toxic!

If you want to circlejerk and make not serious jokes, we literally have a subreddit just for that purpose. /r/Tagprocirclejerk. If you wanna circlejerk people, go there. This subreddit is not supposed to be for you to mock people for eternity about one public mistake that happened a while ago.

Edit: Grammar