Siderant:
This isn't entirely to do with topic but it felt right posting it here, since it was mentioned indirectly in some of the responses
It's a game, it's not meant to be fair or even. It's a war game. It was intended that players fight for the right to win the game, it was never intended to be a casual meetup and laugh things off type of game.
Mains are supposed to be defended, you are supposed to use every tool at your disposal in-game to defend your flags. If you don't, the enemy will take advantage. Does it suck? Yes. Is it poor sportsmanship? Yes. Is it a crime? No.
If we wanted to create the ultimate "fair" game server, we'd have the following additions to the rules:
- No taking of main flags. Period.
- Friendly fire on 100%. Therefore no noobtuber comment, no "no skill" comments.
- No map voting, so every player can play the map they want (which some end up waiting just to play that map and then leave promptly.
- Finally, immediate and irrevocable ban for anyone that seems to have "hack" like abilities.
That would solve all our problems.
It would also put us six feet under, where the rest of the large Battlefield Vietnam servers lay. Battlefield games are supposed to be challenging, not easy and certainly not fair.
It all comes down to how people play the game. Are they playing to win? Are they playing to just be disruptive? Or are they just playing for the fun of it and enjoying the ride irrespective of the shortfalls?
Siderant over,
In case it is not entirely clear, I'm against this current amendment to the main raping rules. I personally feel that it is not a predominant problem. Just like with the "problem" of swearing - it was not a predominant problem - but we had a vote and the community said it was. I did in a way agree somewhat with that change though, because we did indeed have younger players online.
So with this, if the community says it's a problem, then it is. That being said again though, I don't want to see a tie in the votes for this change, I don't want to see a lead by one vote.
I want to see proper conviction to the change. A proper and decisive vote, either against or for the change. So if that does not happen by the time I prescribed (Friday 9th April), then we will have another vote on it within a month or so.
I will drag my heels slightly with this, mainly because our OG players know and understand this rule very well, even if some of them choose to ignore the rule - hence they get kicked immediately (providing the Admin is not being lenient
). They will need to readjust.
I await the weekend to see what the votes look like. I will count whatever votes are shown on the Discord topic towards these votes.
Regards,
Ice