This is because I consider augmentations to be nothing but a legal form of cheating. All they do is make the game more complex than it should be and they just make it less fun. Pah to augs!
Skills = All Mastered.
This is because I perfer only having to wait a couple of seconds to pick a lock, rather than a minute. It's just plain common sense. Besides, While you are trying to figure out what skill to buy next, you'll probably be shot in the head. Pah to low Skills!
GEPS are allowed.
I personally enjoy using the GEPs only in the nice big levels. It's in the small levels that they can cause trouble. I will remove GEPs in the Smuggler map if there is a manjority who want it removed. Also, I have recently discovered that the GEP does not cause lag. If, indeed, we needed to get rid of a weapon to reduce the lag, we would then go to smuggler's and fight with swords only.
About Geps: I have been noticing that lately, When I fire locked on gep rockets, they rarely hit the target like they once did. This is because of a server/computer coordinate mismatch. You can see it if you fire a locked-on gep at someone and it hits them and explodes, but they are still alive and the rocket is circling them.
This has forced me to retract my previous statements of using lockons only... now I use it as a HE whenever needed. I wish I could fix this glitch of the lock on gep, but I cannot.
Just so you know, I, personally, enjoy using the Gep and the sniper rifle. Most of the time, I use a gep for close combat and both for long distance. I hate using the assault stuff unless I have to. :P
It's like I always say.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION!
I can't count the many number of times I walk into a room or go next a building and suddenly die or escape mortally wounded. Damned turrets... What a nuisance! I got rid of them just to make the game flow smoother. And what is the point of having Cameras if you have no Turrets? All they do is point at you and make an annoying sound!! Get rid of them!!
The following Mods are used: SMG and Anticheat.
I like the SMG mod mainly for the Music Bot. I don't know about you people, but I can not stand that damned Area 51 music!! Nor can I tolerate the silence of CMD! I must have quality music!! (Or I MiGhT gO iNsAnE aNd KiLL sOmEOnE! LoL!)
For those of you who don't know, a Music Bot enables you to pick from any music in Deus Ex. Same menu from the "legend" cheat, but this music lasts until the level changes or you pick another tune! If you want a music bot, just ask an admin for one!
The anticheat mod is made to keep the no augmentations rule nice and solid. Before, anyone, admin or not, could do a code to get all the augmentations, thus giving them an advantage over others. I have since gotten rid of this ability using this nice little mod. (mod made once again by Jim Bowen, the master modder of DX!)
About the Bowen mod, I have had my doubts about this mod because I think it may block people from entering my server because of some damned "Version Mismatch" of which we've all encountered at some point. IT uses the Evil TNAG/altfire mod, which screws up the server and makes it so some people cannot join. It will end up like the TNAG catastrophe... that could have destroyed my server!
But! I might decide to re-host the mod one day, and if I do... and you can't join because of the version mismatch... E-mail me and I'll fix it.
(Mariognome@hotmail.com)