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the rotation maps are also a part of aa4pg, that's correct. and as you can see, players do leave when changing maps. so it is.

you can see some statistics about monoculture - map playing like mine. 10 different maps in 4 days isn't monoculture right? and I did not really played with myself

so we are on the good way to have more maps playable, this is for sure. and I am glad to see this.

I didn't even have inspiration to read all these 7 pages until i saw some good ideas from zoxee.

There are people who agree and disagree. People with big picture and people that just don't understand the real situation

I had a grin on my face, because i know that the discussions never succeed, its never done and it always comes up as a pointless approach. We all know that this won't happen not until eliz and most of admins agree with this.

The reason why this game is dying because of the maps played, the behaviour of the admins, the unlimited servers that never being played. I agree and thankful to admins giving me another chance to play but I also agree that hacking and cheating isn't a major problem, it never was. The new client, the new major updates never brought a lot of players, it did but not permanently. Me and spanky used to see player base grow to almost 200 players when the new client came out, over even but as a days went and the players went down.

There are only 2 options i see available.

1. Force people to play different maps. Delete and remove servers and leave 20 official servers.
2. Lets it stay as it is, lets try to ''encourage'' them as we always try to do and see the game die.

''It's so pff, not here to hurt anyone but when we talk about encourage others to play other maps its just not working, have you guys not noticed that yet? we tried to encourage them for years and all we get is lose a lose situation.''

Its true, when you banned on popular server where the most players play its so sad. For a player it leaves one option as to leave the game.

When i was on TS, guys spoke to me as a good ideas i made in the first post, they wondered where the mods gone, there is no more fun left, the situation is critical here, its always been here.

Situation is clear, you approach and succeed or you leave all this as it is and see the game die. Its sad that people dont want changes, they just dont see a bigger picture, they dont understand all the situation. Its so pff, thats why my inspiration and battle to makes changes flies away.

Don't be naive guys, no matter what admins change the amont of players won't increase. As someone said previously you can't impose maps that players don't want to play, so if you ask me i would say to leave things as they are, let the few players left have fun playing maps they like.

As for Pit, it's actually funny he talking about server admins abuse when he deliberately abused his status of Assist admin to ban players without proof just because he though/guessed/belived they were hacking.

The number and significance of those i went after this way, far more outweighs the innocents that got hit by that.

You really don't have any clue about the damage you caused, do you? Doing one thing right don't compensate the shit you pulled to make it.

the rotation maps are also a part of aa4pg, that's correct. and as you can see, players do leave when changing maps. so it is.

you can see some statistics about monoculture - map playing like mine. 10 different maps in 4 days isn't monoculture right? and I did not really played with myself

Not sure which AAPG servers you play on Merlin, but i don't see so many players leaving when the server switches to another map. Also because the default setting is for a map rotation, and until a few months ago the default match set was made of 9 rounds, so people were used to play different maps in a row because it was obvious to do so, most matches used to last not more than 15-20 mins by average, so it's not like it makes a huge difference (now the default match set is made of 15 but the idea is still valid). There are a few clan servers running with no map rotation, not so many overall tho.

I will just note, that the playerbase did not drop at all during my "damage time"...

True.

I actually agree with this. It's the reason why I can't play BF2 and BFBC2 anymore. Too much trollololol =\

AA is even worse since the playerbase is smaller. There should be a section of forum where admins of servers are allowed to provide reasonable proof for a ban and if there really is cause for it, it should be a global ban anyway.

That's a bad idea. What about kicks and bans for violating certain rules that are not universal on all servers? Like Hospital 203 spam? A global ban would be a bit ridiculous.
Bad server admins may be a problem, but taking all of the power away from them and giving it to us is not a good solution.

I actually agree with this. It's the reason why I can't play BF2 and BFBC2 anymore. Too much trollololol =\

AA is even worse since the playerbase is smaller. There should be a section of forum where admins of servers are allowed to provide reasonable proof for a ban and if there really is cause for it, it should be a global ban anyway.

Then you find a way to play, solving the issue or just move on.

After an additional minute of thinking, here is the solution I propose. It is simple and solves the most important aspect (server admins having too much power):

Allow server admins only to give temporary bans (e.g. max. 2-weeks). Permanent bans may be given only by assist admins (after appropriate proof is given, etc., using standard complain path).

Of course it's not perfect, but I think it would be quite good first step.

Not a bad idea, but the problem I see arising is how exactly will we know how long a server admin has banned a player for? We can't actually prevent them from permanently banning players(at least not that I know of)  so we'd have to trust server admins to follow the rules, and not everybody visits AAO25 either.