I've been hesitant to post my criticism regarding the server because I thought it'd be only fair to give you guys some time to bring your admins up to standard. Apparently reaching an appropriate standard is not pursued by the server administration.
Maybe some positives first. The server is very stable, at the top of my head I cannot recall a single crash during the last few weeks(could be wrong though). Even on maps that are known to lag quite a bit in the beginning(Wanda, Shijia) it feels more bearable than on other servers. If only everything else was this way.
On to the negatives. Sometimes a severe lack in variety happens. After playing Bijar and then Khamisiyah, two maps that are very asset heavy and offer little for those players who are stuck playing as infantry, it would be only fair to play a 2 km forest or city map next.
Next up is Team balancing, I know that it is very tricky, but if a team leads with like 70:14 and it will go stronger from there(Tank/CAS spawns, eg.), you should at least make an effort to intervene at the start of the next map if you don't want to intervene during a round. Nobody can foresee what's about to happen, but to stand by idle will not fix that problem either.
Now the administration: I cannot speak from personal experience regarding the incidents that happened with Rana, but, in my opinion, allowing someone to continue serving as an admin after he abused his admin powers to gain control over the CAS Squad(page 11) is a questionable move, and he should've been kept on an even tighter leash after that. You didn't so that, "ok, let's treat it as simple misstep that will not happen in the future", right? Except that it did happen again
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, page 18 and
yet again exel82 wrote:-snip-
, page 20. I know that it's hard to find active admins, but continuing to allow him adminning without him having to fear any repercussions of losing his admin status is unheard of. In fact, when I kicked you, MrJoe, from my asset squad a few days ago, I was actually wondering whether you'd kick me from the server as well. That's where it has come to. Since Rana can apparently do it without the FH administration taking it as the
repeated serious misconduct it was.
Another concern is the time it takes your admin team to respond to issues at times. For example two days ago I was notified by Liam that a known ghoster was active on your server and immediately started reporting his name and offense to the 4(!) active(!) admins that were present. It took them around 10 minutes to respond to me, despite multiple attempts and approaches(reaching out to them via "!r"-command as well as through the SL chat via Niko as well as teamchat). I can understand that admins want to play too, but it takes no more than a few seconds to write "!b offendername reason" and it only requires
one of them to shortly pay attention; hadn't I been so presistent he would likely still be ghosting on your server.
Last but not least the instance with Flashie yesterday. To my knowledge there is no rule in this thread, nor on your forums which a) prohibits Asset SLs from taking a certain kit(in this case(IIRC) Niko had a HAT kit, which is a reasonable kit to take as APC SL) and b) forces APC players to stay inactive if their APCs are down. If these rules indeed exist, or you want to introduce these rules, you NEED to inform us that they do, how else are we supposed to know about them?
Kicking Niko for an accidental TK and kicking me for reminding him that he has to follow admin conduct like we have to follow player conduct also adds to this.
I hope you finally start improving.
