*UNSTF* (Europe & North America)

[Col.Zulu_1]

Server Name:
*UNSTF* PRv0.957e (EU)

Server Size:
64

Server Location:
London, United Kingdom.

Map Rotation:

Siege at Ochamchira-Skirmish
Yamalia-Skirmish
Asad Khal-Assult & Secure-Standard
Beruit-Assult & Secure-Standard
Muttrah City-Assult & Secure-Standard
Albasarah-Insurgency-Standard
Qwai River-Assult & Secure-Standard
Silent Eagle-Assult & Secure-Standard
Dragonfly-Assult & Secure-Standard
Ramiel-Insurgency-Standard
Wanda Shan-Assult & Secure-Standard
Yamalia-Assult & Secure-Alternative
Operation Archer-Insurgency-Standard





Server Admin(s):
Col.Zulu (EU),
Chris631992 (EU),
Drummond_81 (EU),
Ubernuka (EU),
Wardruged (EU),
DAVE (EU),
Enzo (EU),
=1=ActualSilver= (EU),
P5YC40 (EU),
Sgt.Noggoy (EU),
Phoenix 716 (US),
Austucker (US),
MajorMikel (US),
DC KILLA (US)

Smart Balance:[/U}
Enabled.

Battlerecorder:
Enabled

BF2 VOIP:
Enabled

Ban list:
Constantly streaming to PBBans and GGC.

Log streaming:
PPBans & GGC.

Team Kill Auto Kick/Ban:
Disabled, but will kick/ban those who TK on purpose or force a TK in friendlies main or on the field.

Squadless Kick:
Enabled.

Reserved Slots:
None, but will kick those who are idle, have a high negative score, for community members.

High Ping Kick:
Disabled, due to members being from overseas.

Ban Appeals Forum Link:
Register Here First, to gain access to our forums.

TeamSpeak3 & Mumble:
IP:217.146.90.111 PORT:9987 Private TS server.
Official PR mumble Channel: Public

Admin Xfire:
colzulu,
chris631992,
austucker,
paddedcell666,
wardruged,
ubernuka.

Server Website:
Server

Server Rules:

COMMANDER:

We do not discourage those wishing to be a commander in game, but would ask those who try, to please be patient and tollerant and be able to keep their eye on what is going on realistically.
If you are found to be hostile towards other gamers, you will be kicked from the server.

ASSET RULING:

First correctly named squad for that said asset will get priority. Do not create a second named squad for that role. If you wish to fly, join that named squad.
Rule breakers will be given a warning once, then resigned from the offending squad.
If they try to recreate that squad, they will be removed from the server.

Absoluteley no solo crewed vehicles such as tanks or APCs'.
If your crewman is killed, go back to the safest designated area to pick him up when he has re-spawned.

Assets are not to be used as personal taxis', offenders will be asked to take them back to where they picked them up, failure will result in a kick from the server.

OTHER RULES:

Firing Weapons such as the mini gun in main will also get you kicked from the server, as this usually annoys people and is unwarranted!

People who comma rose spam, will automatically be kicked from the server, due to it being annoying, childish and unwanted!

Base rape or attack in main bases:

Small arms only. Those who fail to uphold these rules receive a temp ban.

As a general ruling, we do our very best to try and police our servers in a way which gives people the maximum enjoyment in game as they can.
If you do have a problem, please feel free to contact a member of admin or report a rule breaker and await a responce.
Please be patient as all of our administrators that are on the server at that time do infact game as well and will help you out when the nearest oppourtnity arises.
Do not contact admins wishing maps to be changed because you do not like the current one, as these requests will be ignored.
Find a server that has that specific map you wish to play on.

Further Rules can be found here.

[Mellanbror]

Played at your server once. We were a squad and a half playing I believe. The half was doing mortars and firing on an nme position. Another squad with atleast one UNSTF player in it advanced into mortared area despite several warnings. 3 friendly players died while chasing own mortars and all punished, resulting in ban of my clanmate. Even your clanmate punished.

Never ever do you have the right of way when mortarrounds are in the air. You move in after barrage has stopped. But if you take the chance and you die, don't punish.

Now had it just been 2 unknowns punishing for this, it would be a nonissue, but your clanmember (admin?) putting the third punish resulting in a ban, and without anyone comenting on occured event lead to us all
disconnecting and ensuring us to not play again on your server.

[Col.Zulu_1]

I am shocked to hear that.
Of which all I can do is apologise for your incident and would have prefered it if you were to have contacted me direct as my xfire is listed in the xfire administrators listings, or either through a PM here or on my communities forums "which is usually the normal avenue those with grievances would have done" in regards to your issue/s when it apparently happened. I am sure I would have been most accommodating to say the least and bought a quick resolution to your indipendant matter.
It would have been much better that way, rather than stewing on it and waiting until an add for our server to suddenly pop up on the PR forums.

Please feel free to PM me with the details such as When, Where and who it was that banned you and I will assure you I will do my best to investigate the said incident.
I personally do not take kind to any of my administrators on our communities server, abusing their rights and acting in what I would call an inapropriate manner, and if found in your favour, I will personally remove their administrators privaledges from them!

On the other hand, I have also been at the hands of those who are too quick to punish, but I guess that is the name of the game, especially when there are unsightly people on the servers. These things happen from time to time and you can also see on an every day occourance Team killing still going on in peoples main bases, so you have to put it behind you and carry on as normal, upsetting though it may be!

We try very hard to try and police our servers to allow a smooth and playable game at the UNSTF, although you should take into account that we can not police the server the way you specifically want when you want as the server is not dedicated to just one individual, but has to facilitate upto 64 people from all different back grounds, countries and aspirations!
Many admins we have also game as well, and enjoy a good fire fight, so therefore it maybe very unrealistic to deal with rants/smaktards and problems straight away.
I would therefore ask for peoples patients, also do not allow yourself to get drawn into tit for tat childish behaviour and create more drama where it is not warranted. If a problem arises, let an administrator know and be patient, failing that, then please feel free to contact me personally, and I will only be happy to help you out in future.

[Mellanbror]

Thanks for a fast respons. Also appreciate the time you took in our PM conversation after this.
Answers, actions taken, and explanations given was most satisfying.

No doubt, we will do battle on your server again.

See you on the field UNSTF

[Col.Zulu_1]

Not a problem, Thank you for your honesty, now you have given us a platform of which the community can work from and I will definately be looking out for bad apples within my community, as everyone knows it only takes one to make the rest bad.

I have to also admit our server again seems to be a getting direct attacks from some one or some people via dos.
I do apologise to those who are gaming and ask those who do game on it, to be patient as I am sure these type of children will get bored of doing it soon!

Zulu.

[Col.Zulu_1]

I have to apologise to those who are finding that we are having lag issues and connection problems.

The server has been under a d dos attack. Please be patient, we are trying to find out who they are.

[Col.Zulu_1]

As of late, our server has fallen victim to childish attacks. I have now been talking with alpha networks to try and prevent this, They have added tracing software to the server that ignores those who are using proxy servers to do this.

Last night was the final straw when connection problems were coming thick and fast on Silent Eagle and then a whole side got kicked from the server.

Once found, I will place the I.P in the forums for all to see, with proof of the trace.

For all those who enjoy gaming on our server. Again, I must apologise for your game being spoilt last night and would hopefully like to see you still come back to game on it and show these childish repubates that you along with the UNSTF, we will not be put off by their anticks!

[BigHope]

No need to apologize. It was not your fault. But thank you for setting things up.

[Col.Zulu_1]

Sice we have started to impliment a tracing facility on our server, the attacks on the ports and I.P have now stopped.
The down side is that we are being attacked from people who are in game. I am not sure who is doing it, but we are now implimenting a i.p CD hash, ping data base.

We should hopefully in the next 2 weeks come up with some really interesting results.
Will keep you informed.
h, BIg hope, thanks for your kind words.

[Rico]

Right I've just come off from a game on this server and was so far impressed by the teamwork and leadership with commander etc. However, I was just kicked for "spamming the comma rose", for requesting a pick-up once when the APC got near so they knew it was for us. Our SL had requested a pick up via radio some time before this. I'm assuming there was some sort of confusion so rejoined the server and my squad. Upon rejoining I was banned by our teams commander just after spawning in.

Now I'm pretty sure using the comma rose once for its intended purpose isn't spamming (to gain the attention of the apc) so I can only assume there has been a mistake and hope this can be resolved.

[Tegyr]

I was in Rico's squad and I can guarantee he did not spam. It may have been a misunderstanding with a lot of communication coming in and they mistakenly thought it all came from him. If UNSTF stores replays from games I'll be willing to sit trough a replay and record some minutes before the initial kick and to the ban to prove his innocence.

edit: My bad, just read that battlerecorder is off in the OP.

[Welshboy]

I was on the server at the time and in his squad (also on teamspeak with him) and he didn't spam at all. The ban was completely unnecessary. He only used his com rose once and was banned for it. That is not spamming the com rose. When we asked about why it happened we were given the reply that he was spamming the com rose and it's wasn't allowed.

Afterwards, when i asked weather or not he is going to be unbanned, one of the UNSTF members told me to "stop sucking up to the commo rose abuser" or something along those lines. There was no need for this reply as i was asking in a friendly way.


It's a great server but if people are going to be banned for pointless reasons there no point in playing on it.

[WNxSarge]

Right I've just come off from a game on this server and was so far impressed by the teamwork and leadership with commander etc. However, I was just kicked for "spamming the comma rose", for requesting a pick-up once when the APC got near so they knew it was for us. Our SL had requested a pick up via radio some time before this. I'm assuming there was some sort of confusion so rejoined the server and my squad. Upon rejoining I was banned by our teams commander just after spawning in.

Now I'm pretty sure using the comma rose once for its intended purpose isn't spamming (to gain the attention of the apc) so I can only assume there has been a mistake and hope this can be resolved.

I was Rico's squad leader and I stand by what he has just said. We where waiting for APC pickup and I was on comms with the commander.

I asked for 2 pick ups by APC via the SL radio, as the first one was off by quite far. So i requested another one, hence I had by this point 2 requests. The commander then asked me to confirm I wanted the transport. I said yes, and Rico, THEN requested a pick up to directly confirm it with the APC.

I fully understand that your server rules are set by you, and of course I'm not questioning the reason behind having a "No comm Rose spam rule" but I'm want to make sure that this doesn't happen again due to misunderstanding.

I therefore request from your admins the EXACT rule regarding the Comm Rose spam for a person or squad members. Cause I'm confused if I was the one who should have been banned instead, or the entire squad because our total requests was 3.

If this is the cause then I'm sorry and completely withdraw from this. However if Rico was banned by admins being "over overzealous" then I would like an apology.

Regards Sarge

[Col.Zulu_1]

You are more than wlecome to join the communities forums and discuss it there. Here in the PR forums is not where you should discuss grievances as stipulated when replying to the server feed back threads.

I will be more than happy to discuss it with you there.

[Col.Zulu_1]

O.k. I have apologised to Rico for what had happened.

What people have to take into account, since we restarted we have had our server ddossed, and it seems that people are trying their very hardest to exploit glitches in game to lag the server out, cause connection issues and even crash the server.
It is because of this, the admins are now jumping on people who they think are or might be responsible.
Maybe they might need to chill out a little, but as I am sure, if the same was happening to you, you would also take these things personally.
I am sure the admin concerned who issued the ban was acting in the servers and commnities best interest, but I will look into it further and try and explain exactly what comma rose spamming is.
I have also lifted the ban, but would ask those infuture, if they do have any grievances, to please take it to our forums and not on the PR ones. As stated in the guidlines.