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Shaguar's Show Me The Money

Posted by NoToRiOuS at 17:57 24/12/2003.

Over at GotFrag, Shaguar has written a very interesting article. It discusses the way CS is heading as a spectator sport and his views on the good and the bad. He talks about the money system in CS, and suggests some fixes including a possible introduction of a CS-pro mod. The article is very well written and definitely worth a read. Here's a short teaser:

The most notorious “alternative” (alright, I’ll stop beating around the bush; exploit) first introduced by these teams was money control. One of the first instances that money control became so significant was at the CPL Winter 2002 event. Team 3D, using a new, bland, rather mundane tactic managed to take home 1st place in a slow game against GoL on de_dust2. After a strong CT half, and a T pistol round loss, 3D camped the B halls with deagles in hopes of taking out as many pushing GoL members as possible, while camping out the round time, essentially drastically depleting GoL’s finances. Whether or not the tactic was really first introduced by 3D is irrelevant, but the tactic was smart, and my hat goes off to Moto and the gang for using it as effectively as they did. But frankly, it was uneventful, boring, and most importantly, slow.

Pro Mode Counter-Strike:

Valve doesn’t want to change the entire money system? They are content with the system and how it is used on cs_maps? Create a Professional Mode of Counter-Strike, as ID Software did for Quake 3, with all the necessary changes to fix the money system and other aspects of the game that need changed for competitive play (The dreadful Riot Shield for example).

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