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[Gen.Aladeen002]

MotherfuckingYES! Last exam tomorrow then PR up in this *****!

[h8forevah]

So we're playing Xiangshan on the french side and the chinese have capped two flags which is fine. My team is attempting to push on the first when this guys, [AIC] OneFurryFox, decides to set up an MG in the window over looking our spawn. The result is a predictable and absolutely unfair spawn camp. Now I don't usually cry about shit, but that is ridiculous. Half of our already small team of 10 people had quit by the end of the game and he decided to have a laugh at our expense. Unfortunately, there were no admins on at the time 10:06 EST which seems kinda strange. Other than that, its a great server! 10/10 would kappa again.

[Bluedrake42]

uh... wait are you talking about the skirmish starting map?

I mean we don't really like... admin the skirmish map.

If anything we kindof encourage spawn camping on seeding maps, because that way it ends faster and we can move on to an actual map (because running next usually crashes the server)

so idk about that

[Blackwater83]

Had a good laff on FCV yesterday, 2v2 for the most part, it was quiet in most places really. Myself (eng) and a Scotsman v Blazeshock and another. Game of cat and mouse in fallujah

[chrisweb89]

uh... wait are you talking about the skirmish starting map?

I mean we don't really like... admin the skirmish map.

If anything we kindof encourage spawn camping on seeding maps, because that way it ends faster and we can move on to an actual map (because running next usually crashes the server)

so idk about that

Lol wtf kind of logic is that. I personally enjoy skirmish maps a lot and would hate to have them ruined by a lack of fucks given by admins. If you guys don't like skirmish so much why don't you just remove it from your maplist and only play maps that you feel encourage good game lay and that you will actually enforce.

[Gen.Aladeen002]

So I heard Fallujah is a nice reboot map. Just my 2 cents, if you indeed don't like skirmish maps.

[Bluedrake42]

Lol wtf kind of logic is that. I personally enjoy skirmish maps a lot and would hate to have them ruined by a lack of fucks given by admins. If you guys don't like skirmish so much why don't you just remove it from your maplist and only play maps that you feel encourage good game lay and that you will actually enforce.

No you don't get it. Usually the only time we play the skirmish maps is for the first map after the server turns on. This usually means a whole server (80+ players) rejoins, and there's just like... a billion people in a skirmish match. Which obviously the skirmish map isn't built for, and we'd normally change it to something larger, but that crashes the server.

So yeah, seeding maps aren't really admined. I mean unless you're hacking or some shit, or mass teamkilling, but spawn camping isn't really a thing for seeding maps. If anything it just ends the map faster. Which is good. For a seeder map.

[chrisweb89]

I do get it, and I still disagree. The maps even with full servers can be very fun and don't even last very long. Allowing people to break rules and get away with shit just creates a slippery slope that ends in the current state of your playerbase...

[Bluedrake42]

I do get it, and I still disagree. The maps even with full servers can be very fun and don't even last very long. Allowing people to break rules and get away with shit just creates a slippery slope that ends in the current state of your playerbase...

Okay? Well we like the current state of our player base... so I guess we'll just keep doing that then. Thanks.

[matty1053]

Matty the server wasn't even public yesterday.

The new Mumble server hasn't even been linked yet, we're still waiting on PiePie.

The server is locked on purpose to keep people out of it.

I don't know how you even got in, unless you're just straight up lying, but if you did you weren't supposed to be there.

Wrong server, My fault about it XD The server was in a different country. Guess Alcohol really messes you up that much

[TheKrazyCanuck]

Guess Alcohol really messes you up that much

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[Bluedrake42]

Sorry about the downtime today. We originally thought it was some kindof billing error or (thank goodness not) an attack.

However we're now thinking it was some kindof of routine maintenance check done by the provider that we didn't get a notification for.

Server should be back up again soon, and hopefully we won't have any repeated issues with shutdowns.

[Bluedrake42]

Sorry for the lag issues today, we didn't realize Battlerecorder took up so much space and it filled up the harddrive... which killed server performance. Should be fixed now however, thanks for the ones who helped report it

[Bluedrake42]

Having more issue with HDD space interfering with performance. I'm going to shut the server down until we get the situation under control. Hopefully won't be more than a day or two.

[Gen.Aladeen002]

So um, you may wanna go easy on banning people ffs, or at least warn before temp banning, this is retarded.

Named my squad BMP (on us side), thought we were MEC, didnt check. Anyway, anyone with half a brain could figure out its a mistake and obviously I wanted the APCs, but instead some hobo whined enough to get me BANNED for this shit.

If your admins are that stupid, dont give them ban rights, kick is enough for kids. Ruining a group of people's night for THAT kind of mistake (who was not disruptive at ALL' we had ONE LAV and one humvee, capping the flag. The other APC squad was jacking off at main complaining and being too retarded to MAYBE come to the realization that was wanted the APCs).

Banning someone while counting solely on !reports is not good admining. Jesus fucking christ guys

[Gen.Aladeen002]

Duplicated post, ?!

[Bluedrake42]

So um, you may wanna go easy on banning people ffs, or at least warn before temp banning, this is retarded.

Named my squad BMP (on us side), thought we were MEC, didnt check. Anyway, anyone with half a brain could figure out its a mistake and obviously I wanted the APCs, but instead some hobo whined enough to get me BANNED for this shit.

If your admins are that stupid, dont give them ban rights, kick is enough for kids. Ruining a group of people's night for THAT kind of mistake (who was not disruptive at ALL' we had ONE LAV and one humvee, capping the flag. The other APC squad was jacking off at main complaining and being too retarded to MAYBE come to the realization that was wanted the APCs).

Banning someone while counting solely on !reports is not good admining. Jesus fucking christ guys

Alright well seriously chill a bit.

I actually came here to make another post, but it kinda ties into this so its not entirely unrelated.

So we've decided Simple ress isn't going to cut it for our forum software, and we're moving back to Xenforo. This is going to take a bunch of work to migrate back over, but not like... an impossible amount.

With this said, we haven't really had an effective system for managing, recruiting, or processing bans/reports/applications with our current system, and I'm hoping this will be exponentially smoother and more efficient with the move back into Xenforo.

So, we've unfortunately been low on admins without being able to process applications as quickly, and some of our new admins aren't 100% shored up on standard procedures as our staff forums have been somewhat wonky. They're primarily there to make sure people aren't straight up griefing, and admin map votes.

We might have a bad ban here or there, when they don't have the manpower or experience to respond in the absolutely fairest way. If this happens, don't freak out, just post a report here and we'll take care of it. There are other US servers to play on, so its not like omfg my whole night has been ruined if you just happen to be kicked off a server for an evening. If its a minor infraction, or an accident, you can be sure if you have a little patience and work with us we'll get it resolved rather quickly.

In the mean time it's not like our admins are full time salaried employees, so mistakes and bad calls will happen here and there. Just don't take it personally and we'll make sure you're taken care of relatively quickly.

Cheers.

Also keep an eye out for the Xenforo migration, applications will be much smoother then, and hopefully we can get some more administrators to help fill in the gaps that we have currently.

[Gen.Aladeen002]

Thank you for the answer mate! That being said, may I ask that you dont TB for this kind of stuff? FCV is the only server worth playing PR on, and getting banned for 3 hours pretty much means we have to play an other game for the rest of the night. Even warning us would have been ok, we'd have went back to base or tried to deal with this. In my opinion (and you may disagree, but thats cool), a TB for this kind of misunderstanding is frustrating and may be a little too ''strong''.

You know me (or my reputation, at least), I'm an ******* and a troll, but I never steal assets. I even spoke to S3 and told em to join my squad since I messed up the name, my squad was unlocked with 4 guys (for 4 apcs), so we had space, they just never answered.

So please, just go easy on the TB function.

Y'all have a good evening.

[LiamBai]

So um, you may wanna go easy on banning people ffs, or at least warn before temp banning, this is retarded.

Named my squad BMP (on us side), thought we were MEC, didnt check. Anyway, anyone with half a brain could figure out its a mistake and obviously I wanted the APCs, but instead some hobo whined enough to get me BANNED for this shit.

If your admins are that stupid, dont give them ban rights, kick is enough for kids. Ruining a group of people's night for THAT kind of mistake (who was not disruptive at ALL' we had ONE LAV and one humvee, capping the flag. The other APC squad was jacking off at main complaining and being too retarded to MAYBE come to the realization that was wanted the APCs).

Banning someone while counting solely on !reports is not good admining. Jesus fucking christ guys

As somebody who was not there but has been admin here and elsewhere for a long time:
To me it seems like you made an incorrect squadname, stole the vehicle, refused to return it, and were justifiably temp banned accordingly.
Perhaps that's not what happened, but that's how your post reads to me.

If you make a "BMP" squad on a map/faction with no BMPs, that does not claim things that are not BMPs. It's not the admins' job to try to interpret what the SL was thinking when he made the squad; it's the SL's responsibility to name squads in a sensible and unambiguous way. As an example, If I accidentally name my squad "CS", I don't expect to get any jets even if I did make it first, even though it'd be pretty obvious what I was trying to do.

[Gen.Aladeen002]

Yeah mate, been an admin on many games for 10-12 years now and it is called admining with logic. There is nothing to interpret, the BMP is the personnel carrier of the MEC and Russia, if the US have a stryker or LAV-25 and no other APCs, it's perfectly logical to infer the SL meant LAV but fucked up. If it's obvious they want an asset and call it but mess up the name, I won't be a **** and take it away from them just because I can, I'll just tell the 2 to merge, since 4+4=8. Either way, Drake answered my concern and all is well. But since you replied 1 minute after my last post, you didnt have the time to see it, which is all cool brah.

Have a wonderful evening.