So after talking with some of my community members, they've convinced me to finally try and get some help on the matter.
Personally I think there's nothing that can be done about this, which is why I haven't asked about this in the past.
So basically.. About 2.5 years ago, I decided to create an official map for my TF2 community. This map features minigames, spycrabbing, boxing rooms, and countless other games and things. I'm actually still working on this map to this date. "I'm currently getting it ready for a Holiday update"
It was great for a while, I felt like I had something really special going on that no other server had at the time.
Until another community whose name I won't disclose for now. Decided to start using it without my permission. A community member of mine saw this and showed me.
A few days later I ended up getting in contact with the Owner of this community. Long story short, he believed I had "stolen" things from this map, and he deemed I wasn't worthy of being the only one using it, or something like that.
He also said he was going to decide to stop using it or not, depending on what he thought when he decompiled it.
I tried telling him it wasn't his decision to stop using it. But after 1.5+ years now, him and his community are still using it, even as much as putting various decals on the spawn's walls to bash my community. Although I haven't checked in a while, so I'm not sure if they're still there.
And about a month or two ago, during a period of time that my community's server had it's Sourcemod installation messed up. Him and a bunch of his people joined and "raided" the server, spamming countless racist remarks and just saying generic insults and what not. It was pretty pathetic and laughable, but it was still a completely terrible thing to do.
Anyways, before I get off track too much. I just was wondering if anything could be done to stop these people from using my map, that I spent hundreds, and hundreds of hours on. All while bashing myself, and my community?
Personally I think there's nothing that can be done about this, which is why I haven't asked about this in the past.
So basically.. About 2.5 years ago, I decided to create an official map for my TF2 community. This map features minigames, spycrabbing, boxing rooms, and countless other games and things. I'm actually still working on this map to this date. "I'm currently getting it ready for a Holiday update"
It was great for a while, I felt like I had something really special going on that no other server had at the time.
Until another community whose name I won't disclose for now. Decided to start using it without my permission. A community member of mine saw this and showed me.
A few days later I ended up getting in contact with the Owner of this community. Long story short, he believed I had "stolen" things from this map, and he deemed I wasn't worthy of being the only one using it, or something like that.
He also said he was going to decide to stop using it or not, depending on what he thought when he decompiled it.
I tried telling him it wasn't his decision to stop using it. But after 1.5+ years now, him and his community are still using it, even as much as putting various decals on the spawn's walls to bash my community. Although I haven't checked in a while, so I'm not sure if they're still there.
And about a month or two ago, during a period of time that my community's server had it's Sourcemod installation messed up. Him and a bunch of his people joined and "raided" the server, spamming countless racist remarks and just saying generic insults and what not. It was pretty pathetic and laughable, but it was still a completely terrible thing to do.
Anyways, before I get off track too much. I just was wondering if anything could be done to stop these people from using my map, that I spent hundreds, and hundreds of hours on. All while bashing myself, and my community?