Good Morning Gentlemen,
let me try and answer in separate replies to the many different questions I read here. I thank you guys for constructive criticism, as said before, I am not a fan of the crossed rule either.
But since I have many players on our server and I alone could never administrate that AND have a life, I have to rely on
volunteers like Christie.Front.Drive, Roughbeak, Sandre and all the others that put in hours of their good effort and spare time. They voted for this rule they have to enforce - and, yes take the blame for. It may be changed, but only
if these very volunteers vote for it.
If the server rule about crossed flags is unclear to you, you may take a look here, I keep explaining this rule to players and admins who also may go wrong and have a bad day.
http://www.762-ranking.de/forum/showthread.php?1161-Crossed-flags-HOW-TO-and-WHERE-TO-GO&p=11069#post11069I try, now that we have it, to make it as easy to understand as possible. The same goes for all other server rules on [762]. If you think our rules are hard to understand, check the server rules for tournaments like Forgotten Honor, World at War or some Project Reality servers.
Our rules are in place not because admins suffer from megalomania or want to create "their" game and annoy players. We have them because we see players asking for them. Not today, not last year, but since 2009 now. That is when we started.
We are humans, the dealing (admins) and receiving (player) side. As said before, you are free to complain and will be answered. But you know, there is a [762] forum and that is the right place to do that. Reasonable complaints will receive reasonable replies. Guess what, we also remove MANY unjustified and even some justified bans. Why? Many things can be solved when admins and players talk about it a day later, apologize and
make an effort to get along. But with an attitude like this:
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This is a sandbox game, don't ever tell me how to play...
There is no point in talking.
About Damaso - think about if you would want a player that disruptive on your servers. His bans were justified, what he does not show in his screenshots is of course that I bent over backwards to defend him against the other admin's concerns. That is what the first screenshot he ever "leaked" here was about, you will see that if you read it. I said in it that we can and should
only ban him for breaks of server rules, we owe that fairness to any player.
About Kirky12 - Seeing these new screenshots I am reassured that blocking him from all our admin forums and removing his rights was the right choice. I like his reply to my goodbye PM sent to Kirky12: "I did not know it was an internal area, let's not be smart here". No, Kirky12, that is why you have to log in this Serveradmin forum with your nickname, that is why you don't see it as a public player. Thank you Kirky12, but now please leave and find some other place to stay.
Before Damaso starts anything more about why there should not be internal areas to discuss - read a book about politics, if you please. Try Macchiavelli, maybe also contemporary books like Niklas Luhmann's books about system theory and you will see why you need non-public areas to discuss. If you wish any practical examples, take a look at what happened to the German party "Die Piraten", they are a prime example for actors in the public who think discussing everything in public would be a good idea.
Last and final note. There are people putting in hours and effort (and yes, surprise, money, lots of it) into our project [762]. Giving them criticism is a good thing. Flaming them, like you, ajappat and sheikyerbouti and even testing their good will and patience like Damaso does (I won't even try to figure out his reasons, that is up to every reader of his forum posts here) - does but one thing: demotivate them.
It demotivates our admins and sponsors like your constant complaining, ranting and negativity in this forum has done with many players and developers of FH2. Think about that all you get here: a mod for a very very old game, that is free, that offers game servers costing money and have no advertising and no strings attached. All this is
fueled by volunteer time, moneyand work are something that one should support and not flame at like a 12 year old child (or 17 year old child...).
Dear Ajappat, dear Sheikyerbouti and dear everyone who feels there is no reasoning with [762] admins, please, by all means, get together, start something new, revive HSLAN, WOLFgaming, suport MarkussX with his russian server, support Forgotten Honor as donors for their public server or as mappers - just DO something to get FH2 going and give us a competing public server for our [762] project. Competition is always good for business, it makes all contenders develop and improve.
I would be very surprised if you did - because that requires serious effort, work and enthusiasm. I have seen that in many of my admins (thank you Christie.Front.Drive) and OTHER player's posts. I don't see it in any of yours.
Good day.