Official UWE Servers Massively Trolled
reasa
Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8010Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8010Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Get some admins.</div>This is the third time groups of people 2-4 have taken over and emptied a UWE server I've been on.
They join, one of them rushes the com chair and spams armories or does something stupid on aliens and his buddies fill in for him if he gets ejected. They do this over and over until they empty the server.
This has been going on for several days and players have no recourse.
Currently a group of them just ruined a UWE East Coast server, and one of the people trying to play properly said he just left a Central server because the same thing was happening there.
I've never once seen an admin and your only choice is to leave the server. They ether don't respond or do the usual foul mouthed rolling eyes troll nonsense. The losers obviously plan this out because they always show up in groups.
As if this game doesn’t have enough problems with new players, the last thing they want to see is the official UWE servers overrun with trolls.
It makes the whole game look poorly.
Get some admins and watch your servers now and again. Hell I play on UWE servers a lot, I'll gladly do the job if you can't find anyone.
They join, one of them rushes the com chair and spams armories or does something stupid on aliens and his buddies fill in for him if he gets ejected. They do this over and over until they empty the server.
This has been going on for several days and players have no recourse.
Currently a group of them just ruined a UWE East Coast server, and one of the people trying to play properly said he just left a Central server because the same thing was happening there.
I've never once seen an admin and your only choice is to leave the server. They ether don't respond or do the usual foul mouthed rolling eyes troll nonsense. The losers obviously plan this out because they always show up in groups.
As if this game doesn’t have enough problems with new players, the last thing they want to see is the official UWE servers overrun with trolls.
It makes the whole game look poorly.
Get some admins and watch your servers now and again. Hell I play on UWE servers a lot, I'll gladly do the job if you can't find anyone.
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They served their purpose during release, they are ready to be retired now (at least most of them are)
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QFT.
I would say 90% are ready to be retired.
We had similar trolls on lunixmonster tonight. Two guys joined (when it was 6v6, basically) and proceeded to eject anybody who tried to comm alien. Aliens F4'd, thinking the game was bugged, and we started a new game, these two guys joined marines and proceeded to do the same thing, ejecting anybody who tried to comm.
At that point we also got reports that the same guys had just been doing the same thing on a different server. So we kickbanned them, and had an enjoyable rest of the evening.
The votekick percentage of 30% is silly, it only takes two people to eject the comm on a 12-player match...
We had similar trolls on lunixmonster tonight. Two guys joined (when it was 6v6, basically) and proceeded to eject anybody who tried to comm alien. Aliens F4'd, thinking the game was bugged, and we started a new game, these two guys joined marines and proceeded to do the same thing, ejecting anybody who tried to comm.
At that point we also got reports that the same guys had just been doing the same thing on a different server. So we kickbanned them, and had an enjoyable rest of the evening.
The votekick percentage of 30% is silly, it only takes two people to eject the comm on a 12-player match...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think I like that percentage actually... a 12 player match is intimate enough it shouldn't require some large percentage to figure out the comm is pants.
Do the majority of unofficial servers run mods? I have those filtered right now.
[edit] ultimately I feel that maintaining servers well is more work than UWE wants to do right now. They should just scuttle the vast majority of the "company owned" environment right now. It's not adding much.
Need votekick user on servers like that :|
Just need admins/mods. Would look really well, honestly, devs and players working to promote better games.
-Daniel
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Having admins for all servers is not possible.
Vote kick wouldn't end up bad. If you end up being troll kicked because half the server voted yes, well, you were playing with a server half full of trolls. No big loss.
For the time being, go play on those private servers. They've got admins and pretty neat mods too.
It's very possible...
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Yeah I agree. With the playtester Admins and the servers
I mean if UWE trust them enough to playtest, they should be trusted enough to admin right?
yeah, no. I actually like playing on the UWE servers, a lot of the private ones are 20+ and it just turns into a zergfest. No thanks
but it's not like we have players anymore...
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Speak for your own country. I often play on UWE servers. In fact I prefer it as they have the correct player count.
same here, also they got good performance and are mostly lagfree, you never know it with the community servers.
Ive been to some were skulks just warped around despite my ping being good. Also community servers often have clans playing on them, preferably every1 in the same team and i dont know about you but pubstomping isnt that much fun for either side.
Well in a way I got to thank them. I left and found an awesome server that I wouldnt of joined if it wasnt for their childness.
Where ever these guys appear people will leave and find admined servers that will ban people like that. Then they will not be able to play on any of the good servers :)
I use to join populated low servers. If these guys kill off thr non-admin servers, then those servers will be taken down for lack of use.
Solarity
All part of being in the video game business, unfortunately. :(
As to how to judge if a player is worthy of being an admin...well it's a crapshoot. I became an admin on some servers just by playing on the server and generally displaying a mature attitude (most of the time). Since that's not possible here, I suppose UWE can start with their own playtesters. It's pretty easy to start abusing what little power you have over other players so hopefully those given administrator privileges won't abuse it...much.
Either way UWE servers need admins with the power to kick and forcibly randomized teams. Stacked teams clear out servers just as fast as idiots doing dumb things.
If your commander is truly horrible and refuses to listen to the team, it shouldn't be hard to get 4 teammates to eject him, even on a 6 person team.
1.) Fix Commander-Eject-Votes! You need to show clearly <b>who has voted and that a vote is pending!</b> To inform the team about the vote! The percentage may be ok. (3 people on a 12 player server would be 50% of the team. That is to high for 18 or 20 player servers.)
2.) When you got the voting-system right, it is simple to add kick-votes to it. A successful kick-vote should <b>ban a player temporary for 1 hour</b> from the server. It should only need the amount of players of one team to succeed. (Sure, the one who should be kicked will vote "No". But if you really have a troll or two, it should be no problem to get at least 1 or 2 people from the other team to vote "Yes" too.)
Problem solved.
It is def a prob that needs to be addressed.