Project Reality plan Fall 2016
Hello all!
I would just like to inform everyone of my plan for the Project Reality division of this community for the immediate future.
As you know we have 5 servers for Project Reality.
Free Candy Van 1 [New Server]
Free Candy Van 2 [Tactical Raid]
Free Candy Van 3 [WW2]
Free Candy Van 4 [Events]
Free Candy Van 5 [Training]
Free Candy Van 1 [New Server]
Free Candy Van 2 [Tactical Raid]
My plan for the 2 first is to get admin teams sorted, and organize them to focus on enhancing gameplay experience and behaviour for the server.
Behaviour?
As you all probably have heard, a lot of people call our server cancer and such, that is something we need to turn around. Regardless I am not going to let what I feel are void arguments sway me, if someone just generically tells me the server is bad, without giving specific feedback I will ignore it and probably ban the player.
This is also something you might not know, but player behaviour will be considered, although vocal behaviour won't be as scrutinized since it is rather backwards not allow banter or prove "X was said". We will be checking chat comments and players writing things in a certain manner to others. This includes offensive statments to both players, general squads or the admin team.
We do appreciate direct suggestions to how something could be done better, which perhaps we didn't know about. This includes suggestions to strategy ingame, admin policies, commands that might affect player behaviour or suggestions on server stability.
Gameplay
We feel that the one thing we know can improve gameplay easily on our servers is a squad leader who can squad lead well. We will cater for infantry squad leaders mainly and hopefully they will report and deal with any players that do not use microphones or is unable to follow orders or break rules.
This effort will take time since it requires a lot of building of getting clans and individuals interested in squad leading on our server. Further than that we are also hoping the player skill will increase although the measures we will take to gain that is still work in progress. I have yet to decide if I want to organize training sessions, events or just enforce some sort of training scheme.
Events
I am thinking about getting a competitive small scale skirmish tournament in the works for the community. This could potentially improve the playerbase, and bring a lot of activity to our community. I also see the official Project Reality Tournament is in the works so if you havent already check out this forum;
Project Reality Tournament
I have not been working on scenario sundays, I have simply delegated that to someone else, we will see what that person comes up with.
I am working on certain days in the week having a specific maplist with an atmosphere related to it, be it a certain player, clan or idea that we use for that maplist on that day.
Free Candy Van [WW2]
We are planning an event for this server, it is almost ready, I just need to sort some images and such to get it rolling. Hopefully we can get some fun in france!
Free Candy Van 4 [Events]
The DRK community has custom map tools, I have yet to be able to sort that out so until further notice this service is inactive until the time I can put time and effort to start it up again. I will inform you all of that, but do not expect custom maps until the winter.
Free Candy Van 5 [Training]
If you are interested, we are running a training server the password is
training1
We are running this map:
https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f354-c ... eased.html
We are looking into the air map, but really we have enough CAS whores as it is! I am considering it though. The server has been edited to allow for alot of custom kits per team; IE you can request a HAT kit even if you are the only player in the team or squad. But the limit is 10, so I might up that to 20.
Ending notes
A lot of my ideas and plans are being put into an endless postponement due to repeating technical issues relating to our servers. The technical issues are obviously related to making my job easier, since we want to automate certain aspects of our services so I do not have to remove bans and fetch chat logs on a daily basis, I don't want to spend time doing that. But the implementation of all the systems, Battle Recorders, chatlogs, hashkeys, banlists, admin permissions and addition and player name searching is causing our server to have some issues at times.
I wish I could just have a perfect system from the get go, but really I am appreciating of the time our system admin team is putting into the server. Hopefully we will have a more permanent system in place soon.
All in all I feel the server is moving ahead nicely, and I have a good idea of what needs to be done to have momentum. Here is hoping you guys are all here for the long haul
See you in the field!