#dbpickup, new ops were recently picked - k thats fine, they're active etc.
A 3 minute rule has been introduced to the pickup... Join the server the pickup just started on, within 3 minutes or get a ban. Sure fine, people turning up 20 minutes late is annoying, and should be punished... but 3 pointless minutes? ..
somethings wrongBefore I continue I will remind the readers that the very impatient players will reply to this in objection :p
Ok so a pickup starts, every one joins the server apart from one guy. One guy who's got a PC that struggles to match the minimum requirements for UT2k4 / DB. So hes loading up the game. He opens the server list, enters the ip, loads the server/map what ever it loads. He may have started opening the game with full intention of trying to meet the 3 minute rule thing, but if his computer quite simply cant do it, should he deserve a ban?
I recently got myself a new computer after my last heap of junk packed in on me, that computer took 5 minutes at least to load the game and load the server. So im saying id be getting a ban for every pickup I add too 
which makes no sense what so ever, being as I turn up and play.Ill use riCo as an example, 2.3, he'd turn up to our 5v5's sometimes 10 minutes late - One time, 20 minutes late, and I remember because some one said something like we must be idiots to wait here for 20 minutes. If I remember riCo'd also get some comment like 'always last' or some one would ask 'whos missing?' and 'who do you think' would be the answer - obviously riCo (at that time) This is the sort of player you punish for being late. 3 Minutes is a joke full stop :p
So what happened recently, a 3v3 pickup began, all players but one joined within the 3 minutes, I know I was quite lucky to get there myself because DB had crashed the first time I had loaded it (thats also another reason this rule is pathetic! unexpected crashes of either the game or their computer, maybe even their ISP) any way, this player turns up something like 5 minutes after the pickup had started, why? Because he was closing a game he had already been playing (Why close a game to add a pickup, especially with the recent success rate of a pickup filling at all)
He was banned. Some one will reply saying he was banned for another reason, fine maybe so, but the people banned for turning up more than 3 minutes late previously BUT joining in a respectable amount of time? ....
Any way Im posting despite leaving the community and almost DB itself in a kind of protest, but to tell the truth im just sick of DB's euro community. The 3 minute rule enforced, took the bloody biscuit.
So sort this out ! Decide a RESPECTABLE time allowance, not some impatient player's 3 minute decision.
(Also a big thumbs up to the American community for putting the Euro one to shame, thats based on attitude towards most players)
P.S: The above comment does not include mael :p
edit: theres a point in the post some where
...Sometimes doing nothing is the right thing. Community aint big enough to ban so much 
