Hello...
I have a couple of questions concerning membership duties....
1. I noticed that in your statement where you discussed weeding out the inactive members, could you give a general idea of how often members should be active on the mafia ventrilo channels, active on servers, etc...what is the miminum amount of time one should spend? 1 day a week, 3, 7 days a week? It might be entirely possible I may not be able to devote a large amount of time to playing during a week, depending on my workload....
2. How does one get banned from Mafia servers? I had an issue with a mafia member that would spend the entire gameplay time spamming the chat function with the word "ownage"...I don't mind playing with someone that may know the map better than I do, or mind playing with someone that has more skill than I do (I don't get mad, I just force myself to play better) but for someone to sit there and spew the same word over and over, for hours at a time does get a bit irritating.... I find the best way to "pwn" someone is to score a gigantic body count, and not sit there and engage in a verbal diarrhea..in other words, shut up and play.....lol.. .I responded, he gets to stay, and I get banned. I was suprised that the individual who banned me didn't ask the guy to be quiet...the funny part is that I actually enjoyed playing on mafia servers up until that time, as I am a little too old to play with people that take themselves way too seriously (like most clans do), the mafia server was an incredible change of pace for a game that I had tired of playing right before I found the mafia servers. It is weird thinking of getting excited to play games again, I actually went out and bought an improved video card to better enjoy the game, and then I ran across the one mafia member that ruined it. I apologize for my behavior on your server, but maybe I misunderstood what the whole point of your server is about. I started playing the servers, and did not try even one modification, I was under the impression that testing my normal game-playing skill against others was how the mafia server was to be played...when in fact it is a completely different mode of thought; it appears to be about having some fun again with video games, to be able to go beyond the original game parameters.
Anyway, I would like to join up, but understand if that is not a possibility.
