I agree that the drop system has many flaws, and I as well would prefer that hats are more skill based rather then randomly dropped. However I dont blame Valve for what they did (easy to say cause I have a halo but still). Personally I hate scripts, achievement servers, idle servers, the idle program, and all these other things that try to beat the system. If you wan to use it, fine go ahead, but I feel like having a script for rocket jumping gives you an unfair advantage over others that dont have it, and I rather learn how to do it then having a script. I'm not saying people who use scripts are cheaters, but I just think they have a lousy standard. And I believe I have the right to feel that way. And to not help players with halos is also very, very lame and childish, so if you do that please go sit in a corner and cry your lungs out and drown in your own misery, but keep the game the game.
only thing i realy don't get is the people who call the idlers cheaters... they just removed all the items they got from it and that's good. people who keep using them lose all items that's good to. and yes they could at least let us know they didn't like it (i used it because i couldn't play and still wanted a chance to get a hat) so yeah the ones with halo's good job's but please stop calling everyone cheaters cause that's just plain wrong. and i don't realy like the halo it's to bright :lol:
haha yeah i could have idle'd on the LZ server but my cpu was running kinda hot so i used the program in the hope i got a hat hehe but hey it's all behind us now i only hope those halo wearing players will stop the flamewar
Offtopic: I think idlers are idling for different reasons than it was back in the first days of the update. During that time the New weapons were rare and not achievable through achievements, this caused people to idle in hope to get new weapons like the huntsman. Luckily Valve linked the weapons to milestones again. Now these days, idlers are idling for rare items which are only cosmetic(hats). They're not that important as the New unlockables in my eyes. And Valve wants that we get them through just playing the game, by just have fun and if you're lucky you might get a hat.. So hats are actually like mini lotteries, you have chance to get them..or not. Though I have to agree the system is a bit flipped... Someone who doesn't play much can get a lot and the ones who are playing quite a while get nothing :? But let's hope they keep improving the system. With the trade system and perhaps even the crafting system we might get them more easily. Just my 2 cents. Ontopic: Though there are already SOOOO many parodies on that scene..But this one was quite fun to watch
I could also just sit around on a lethal server, being idle.. would be *EXACTLY* the same thing.. but hey .. i dont care.. i didn't loose anything, and it at least clears out all the crap in my backpack.
It was just a matter of time before someone made this Another [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r04GgmJd5UI[/youtube]