Couple questions, if I may, before I pursue joining your ranks...

[StrulisOfXev]

Ok, first and foremost, I try not to beat around the bush, there's no time for it in life.

First question, at what time (including timezone please) is the peak for activity? Mainly I just want to know if I have compatible hours with the bulk of the community.

Second, what does it take for me to get an sR tag? I play frequently on your servers and much more often than not, when I'm leading a squad anyway, am in at the least the top ten personally and my squad is usually first and just short if not. If you need to give me a few test rounds I'll show you I can pop heads with the best of em.

Third, and no slight intended, not more so than deserved anyway, but... Whats with the admins? I have been trash talked by one, whose name I regrettably forget, on your ventrillo server for asking him to kick a complete idiot. He didn't realize I was still on the channel I suppose and went ahead to call me the tard for believing that an Assault kit carrying moron that stood in front of me for several seconds and then shotguned me probably did it on accident. The key thing to look at is he was there for several seconds staring at me, it was no accident. But thats not really the disturbing thing, yeah, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth when someone, especially an admin, trash talks you.

This one's name I do remember... There is one admin in particular, in my opinion, has absolutely no business being an admin. I was kicked from your titan server earlier tonight for talking to the team in caps. I was kicked officially for spamming, which he did warn me of, but not before straight out telling me not to talk in the caps because it was annoying, I pointed out that I wasn't filling up text chat, merely talking caps to make it easier to pick my message out from the battle chatter, "frag out," "your ok, now make them pay," blah blah blah. Anyway, in all my days of online gaming, I've never heard of all caps counting as spam and think it far more likely that I was kicked because I was "annoying", aside from this I do not see it listed as an example in the server rules of what constitutes spam, as I said I was not filling the text chat with what I was saying, I typed, at most four or five messages over several minutes. Everyone of course interprets things differently and if talking in all capitals is something you interpret as spam then my apologies.

At any rate, it seemed more than anything that the admin kicked me because he was simply annoyed more than any other reason and trash talking a guest player on ventrillo is the next best thing to asking people not to show interest in your community, the same admin was the person that told me to join the channel in the first place, not a good recruitment tool.

My third question, to summarize is, I've noticed a recent decline in quality of admining, however small. What is the cause of this?

Aside from these two negative experiences, I've played on sR servers since BFV and it has always seemed to be a great community of players overall. I am very interested in becoming a part of the community in both the FPS and MMO ranks, as soon as I get my new computer for the latter.

As I mentioned I try not to beat around the bush, sometimes though I do get carried away and apologize for the length of all this.

[SonicSpeed]

1.) The Majority of People are on the East Coast... with a few dedicated players on the West Coast (myself included)

2.) Take a look Here

3.) I haven't noticed any change in adminning the server but if you have a problem with a specific one, then talk to joe (plageclohard) or Craig. The admins are good people, but the stresses of life can get to people.

[Teck]

I kicked you from the server tonight for spamming with caps in the server (It wasnt even team chat, you were talking to the entire server)... Additionally, and this is the big one, You were being disrespectful towards a strafeRight admin (Guntizzle) after you were warned to stop.

I would also like to point out that sR has never had a BFV server. If we had, being the Lead BF Admin I most likely would have known about it.

Now if you ever have a problem with another player you can join our ventrilo server and find an admin.

[NeverKnow]

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Originally Posted by StrulisOfXev

Ok, first and foremost, I try not to beat around the bush, there's no time for it in life.

First question, at what time (including timezone please) is the peak for activity? Mainly I just want to know if I have compatible hours with the bulk of the community.

Second, what does it take for me to get an sR tag? I play frequently on your servers and much more often than not, when I'm leading a squad anyway, am in at the least the top ten personally and my squad is usually first and just short if not. If you need to give me a few test rounds I'll show you I can pop heads with the best of em.

Third, and no slight intended, not more so than deserved anyway, but... Whats with the admins? I have been trash talked by one, whose name I regrettably forget, on your ventrillo server for asking him to kick a complete idiot. He didn't realize I was still on the channel I suppose and went ahead to call me the tard for believing that an Assault kit carrying moron that stood in front of me for several seconds and then shotguned me probably did it on accident. The key thing to look at is he was there for several seconds staring at me, it was no accident. But thats not really the disturbing thing, yeah, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth when someone, especially an admin, trash talks you.

This one's name I do remember... There is one admin in particular, in my opinion, has absolutely no business being an admin. I was kicked from your titan server earlier tonight for talking to the team in caps. I was kicked officially for spamming, which he did warn me of, but not before straight out telling me not to talk in the caps because it was annoying, I pointed out that I wasn't filling up text chat, merely talking caps to make it easier to pick my message out from the battle chatter, "frag out," "your ok, now make them pay," blah blah blah. Anyway, in all my days of online gaming, I've never heard of all caps counting as spam and think it far more likely that I was kicked because I was "annoying", aside from this I do not see it listed as an example in the server rules of what constitutes spam, as I said I was not filling the text chat with what I was saying, I typed, at most four or five messages over several minutes. Everyone of course interprets things differently and if talking in all capitals is something you interpret as spam then my apologies.

At any rate, it seemed more than anything that the admin kicked me because he was simply annoyed more than any other reason and trash talking a guest player on ventrillo is the next best thing to asking people not to show interest in your community, the same admin was the person that told me to join the channel in the first place, not a good recruitment tool.

My third question, to summarize is, I've noticed a recent decline in quality of admining, however small. What is the cause of this?

Aside from these two negative experiences, I've played on sR servers since BFV and it has always seemed to be a great community of players overall. I am very interested in becoming a part of the community in both the FPS and MMO ranks, as soon as I get my new computer for the latter.

As I mentioned I try not to beat around the bush, sometimes though I do get carried away and apologize for the length of all this.

First welcome to the strafeRight forums StrulisOfXev
Since we are not beating around the bush, you have a problems with one of our admins. And chances are you have no interest in joining sR. And I understand. But do not start with false pretenses and publicly try to frag an admin.

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This one's name I do remember... There is one admin in particular, in my opinion, has absolutely no business being an admin.

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My third question, to summarize is, I've noticed a recent decline in quality of admining, however small. What is the cause of this?

Our admins are hand pick from our community. And have EVERY BUSINESS being admins. They are the best BF 2142. I stand behind every single one of them. A 100%.

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was kicked officially for spamming, which he did warn me of, but not before straight out telling me not to talk in the caps because it was annoying, I pointed out that I wasn't filling up text chat, merely talking caps to make it easier to pick my message out from the battle chatter, "frag out," "your ok, now make them pay," blah blah blah.

Please keep of orders to your soldiers using squad chat only.

For future reference, disrespect of an admin with be deal with quickly to prevent an domino effect in the server.

[DanFortH]

I'm happy with the comments here. Teck and Never are our front-line admin for all things BF2 and BF2142, so I'm gonna leave it just like that.

Teck, if you want to open this up for further comment, PM me. Otherwise, it's a done deal.