Well as you can see from 3 pages of players posting...no one can agree and the awp is very contraversal. Occassionally I get duped into adding an awp for a map and immediately it gets GAY. There is always a l33t fuck or two that can go 50-3 with an AWP and just create ownage. It's also makes it more difficult to spot a hacker since the weapon kills on just about every hit. The awp is a cannon and I can't see it as a realistic weapon in a real situation. I think this is really Valves fault for making it so terrible. The awp should really slow a player down greatly. You should NOT be able to scope and move. And no scope shots should be much harder to get. This gun is a god damn cannon!
If I added even 1 per team per map it would change the server greatly. We would lose players, maps would get uneven, and the game would become frustrating to some of us very fast. I go to servers where AWP is allowed sometimes and when I do I realize how much this single weapon effects the the game. It's too powerful and creates instant unbalance. It also SLOWS the pace of the game. If there is an AWPer on a map then of course you can't rush anymore.
Aztec- fucked by awp
Italy -fucked by awp
Dust2 -fucked by awp
Office - fucked by awp
Corruption -fucked by awp
You know these maps would become fucked up by AWP snipers. As it is...you have to aim, be sneaky, and have some luck to kick ass on PuNx. If you add the awp you just need a bullet.
Another peeve I have with the weapon is the sound it makes. BOOM echo echo echo BOOM echo echo echo BOOM. It's fucking sickening to listen to over and over again some fucktard who just shoots and shoots. This also leads into my other peeve about the AWP. That quick reload shit. You know it....AWP, FIRE, DEAGLE, AWP ....it's fucking gay to watch and I think it's an exploit. I seen some fuckers let loose with the awp twice as fast as normal. I never understood why this weapon is allowed.
Now I am realistic and of course we need to use it for scrims and matches. Of course on our scrim/practice server it would be enabled. Now personally I think our team does rather well without the AWP and when it does come into play we seem to have guys who are quite good with it. I would consider adding AWP to server ONLY if we seriously needed the practice on it to win matches. I don't think this is the case though and as someone pointed out, we can scout and it's pretty close to the awp without the BOOM and quick reload.
As you can see from the vote...over 50% say NO AWP. 40 votes I think is the most votes we have ever seen here. PuNx is branded as a no AWP server and that's how we got so big (part of it anyways). So PuNx will stay a NO AWP server.
BAH...