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Battletracker seems to be having some difficulties so I can't do anything right now.

If you are not willing to spend your private time on administrating, then give up your role to someone more eager and appropriate. It's that simple.

I'm not saying I don't want to put in the time here, I do, I want to help as much as I can. What I'm saying is, since the admin team is voluntary, the best case would be not to have too much work for them, because believe it or not, the majority of people don't want to put their time in for anything voluntarily.

As for abusive admins, as of now there's little we can do, but who knows what the future might hold.

This. actually you can run 'custom' mods, but without tracking stats/honor.

That's what he said, it would get untracked.

I've refrained from writing in this thread again for a while now, but oh well.

I certainly understand people's frustration about the maps being played (which is not many different ones most of the time). I can also appreciate all the wonderful input and suggestions that have been brought up in this thread.

However, most (if not all) of the suggestions require more work for us administrators. And while we're not here just to 'idle', giving volunteers more work doesn't seem like a good idea, everyone here has a life outside the game as well.

And I'm not talking about work needed to make some of the suggestions happen (coding), but rather the day-to-day operations that are bound to come from those things.


I am also of the opinion that forcing people to play a certain way (i.e play more maps/maps they don't like) is not a good way to go. I would guess most (not all!) map whores who come online and don't see their map played would rather not play than play a map they don't know/like.

And that's why it seems to me, that like Ganja said, we're doing a decent job in advertising different maps to be played. Those who want to do it, can; others will still probably have a server on the mainstream maps. There's nothing that can be done about that.

Like has been said, implementing the same rules for all servers is next to impossible. Not to mention, different maps would require different rules. In some maps 203 spam is an issue, in others it would be dumb not to be able to shoot 203s before 30 seconds (i.e you would be able to see enemies before that time is up). Plus, like I said it would mean the Assist admins would have to 'admin' that stuff as well (make sure they're obeying the rules, punish those who don't and so on).


As for forcing people on things whether they wanted it or not, you're right in a sense. There has almost always been a vote before a change to the game/gameplay. And I'm pretty sure not one of them has come up unanimous, so there are obviously some people who didn't get what they wanted. Not to mention the fact that some of the changes were implemented before the Assist poll was introduced, thus it's possible the voters may have been biased.


I know our player base is low and it has been higher at times. But that doesn't mean radical changes would increase our player base. People just don't like change. At all. An example I always love to bring is when the devs tried to 'fix' the 'roof bug' on SF Hospital. People just came complaining and it had to be changed back. It wasn't because it was a particularly bad change (it might have been, I don't know, but that's not why people disputed it), it was that something changed and people don't like that.

Now lets all do whatever we can do bring back old or bring forth new players and let's start from ourselves when talking about map diversity. There's plenty of people talking here, but how many can really say they play as many maps as they can every day? I know I can't.