I've been playing ET for some while now.. Actually a few years already, I guess. I've been in a couple of clans, I've been on dozens of different servers, played a LOT of different maps and always encountered different kinds of players..
And I hate to say this since this is becoming a cliché to say these days but things just aren't what they used to be. Heck, every other server I enter nowadays has BOTS. Now stupid is that anyway? If I want a single player game I'll go and find one and play it on my computer. Pfft. When I start ET I want to play multiplayer battle, interact with teammates, maybe at a few enemy players and just have fun together. Seriously, no offense or anything, and I'm sure many have other views than this to the subject but the idea of filling servers with BOTS just agitates me to the point of head-explosion...
And one other thing. The increased use of Aimbots. Aimbot being a small script/piece of program to use with which it doesn't matter how bad your aiming is since you always do headshots at the dude in your screen.. This can really ruin the gaming experience, especially these days that its happening too much. Even on formerly respectable clan servers its sometimes impossible to have fun since out of 10 players there are like 6 players cheating. And no, I'm not the kind of player who calls someone who's just better a cheater.
Seriously, once I was playing on the regular server I usually play on nowadays, and when a clan member with admin rights came online, and I gave him three names to spectate, and after a while he kickbanned all of them, stating that they were indeed using aimbots. How stupid is that anyway? If you can't play well enough to have fun, and you feel the urge to take away the challenge and fun from other players, I really don't think you should play multiplayer games like that at all.. It's just sad that PunkBuster doesn't work against aimbots..
All in all I've had some greats time on ET. Few times we've formed fireteams with a few friends ( we all met eachother online ), played on the same team and had loads of fun working as a unit. It's also quite fun to play on random servers, meet new people, try out new maps and mods and so on.. It's just that cheating seems to snap the spine of the whole idea. Please people, don't cheat. Don't kill something wonderful.