Our Rules

Foreword

Even though people I trust credibly assure me that it is clear to see that our previous rules were largely recognizable as a sarcastic exaggeration of the rules of overambitious clans from the 90s and early 2000s, that were blessed with an abundance of testosterone, I am very dissatisfied with them today and can no longer identify with them.

Things that might have been considered funny 15 years ago are definitely no longer funny today. Times have changed, our planet and climate has changed, our societies have changed, we have changed and I have changed too. Also, things are happening again which, after the Second World War, I truly believed could never happen again. I have therefore decided to revise the rules of our community.

The following rules will apply from June 2024.

First Things First

First and foremost, our members are expected to be committed to democracy, to respect the International Bill of Human Rights and to stand by the democratic constitutions of their respective home countries. People who oppose democracy, sympathize with or even belong to groups of the political right, and specifically the far right, cannot be members of =[SFS]=. This also applies to racists, anti-feminists, anti-LGBTQ as well as climate change and covid deniers.

Now To The Fun Part

I have been part of the -TPF- community since the late 1990s and have always stood by its values. I also want to represent these values with So Fuckin’ Skilled!.

Team Play First started out by Webzter, Teatime and some other PF Forum regulars wanting a way to find each other using Kali and GS when playing TFC. They used the tag as a means of finding other players who played the game. The ideals of TPF thus were born, the tag quickly not becoming just an acronymn for convenience sake but a symbol of the ideals which those players wearing it lived by.

TPF means that you, as a player, work for the benefit of your team over all else. It means you help your teammates, you play with honor, you respect your team as well as the enemy.

TPF promotes helping newbies, so that the “(1)Player” that is running around clueless today does not become the TK’ing llama you hate tomorrow.

There are many more statements that could be attributed to what TPF stands for, but the above is the founding principles and is agreed upon by all that are truly TPF. With well over 1,000 members current or past members, TPF has taken on many different meanings to many different people. Some are correct and some are far off the mark.

What can be said is that TPF strives to play the game the way it was intended to be played, and to be a good teammate in the process. TPF, in it’s purest and most idealistic form, is a player who plays with honor, good sportsmanship, fairness, a helpful attitude towards the newer players and a high priority on working with their team. No one player will ever succeed completely in acheiving this goal, but the point is that by wearing the TPF tag you are saying “I will try!”.

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This was the mission statement of the original Teamplay First group, which evolved from the Half-Life and Team Fortess Classic community. Some of the terms used seem a little out of date, but the ideals described in the text still apply. I want me and us “to try” and “keep trying”!

What I want to carry over from our previous rules:

• play fair
• give your best
• have fun
• be excellent to each other