The community is great. Select few are ruining it for majority at times. Furthermore, I think more problems are becoming more noticeable because as we all know, the mod is about to change, and everyone is on edge.
As for problems with administration. Things arn't all as straight an narrow as it may seem from your point of view.
Once upon a time, selection for administrators was made by Igiss. It still is along with all the other server administrators, but I think lack of community input is what is making others a little upset.
I think Vero is a good example here. Many many did not know Vero, but his vote still came out positively (in the hundreds I believe) because others voted yes for the sake of voting yes. Maybe next election should actually be an application/election/vote deal like it was before. I'm not sure how much you relied on the comments made in the threads of the admin polls, but the "Yes" answer always seemed to out-weigh the "No" answer.
I'm trying to put what I'm thinking into words, but its 4am and its hard to explain.:unsure:
Sanctions. A very important part of keeping the order on the server agreed. But, guys...You have really blown it off the scale. Especially with no-braininess. I mean, I saw a sanction once where a player had his head lopped off basically because he was 3 levels above what the Civilian ID allowed. Unacceptable in my opinion. Sometimes I get the feeling, the sanction is based off mood.
Which brings me to my next thing. It is still possible to be polite in a sanction thread. Please exercise that more often. Although I know the responses aren't always polite back, but your job is to move past that.
Also, when someone goes so far as to acknowledging his wrong, stating what he is going to do about it and taking responsibility, please at least give them merit for that. There has been a few cases like that recently, and certain admins have still come off like down-right pricks towards said new member.
In-game activity needs to be raised also. Granted I'm not always on, and not in the most ideal time-zone either. But there are still a good amount of people on at my time of the day, and I see maybe 3 admins in-game out of the total count. Im sure that will change as three new ones have been recruited, so I'm not so concerned about that as I was before.
Don't get me wrong, the team do a great job at protecting the server and all. There are still imperfections and room for improvement though.
My thoughts in a nutshell. I hope you take them to heart.:cool:
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