Massive CTF updates

may someone explain to me what that shield thingi means or how it works? Is it based on ELO? (if your ELO is far below the average ELO you can't pick a flag up?) Or how does it work?

Indeed. The way it's presented makes it look like a terrible idea.

Disabled by default, it's a feature which punished people who grabbed the enemy flag and did poorly with it (i.e. lost it and the enemy returned it)--- I merely fixed the code so that it works (I think) from Morphed's original design, I didn't design anything about it nor do I really support it.