ThePsychopath

7 hours ago, PastyHoneybuns said:

@Complexity They can always go through the valley through nagara's  valley. It might take a little bit it's a lot more covert. 

Yes, making Indies drive vehicles out of the map into a literal valley is a great idea  It's hard to do with a car, let alone any vehicle the Indies might want to take over. A further issue with closing the borders is that it is completely unrealistic. No Military, let alone NATO, would close a border and walk off. Now say, even if they DID, then someone else would still be able to open the border, there's no super secret "NATO Identifier" System, that I know of at least, that can recognise NATO officers from a Civilian.

@Sheev Palpatine Please give a reason when you are giving a suggestion a -1 or a +1, thanks.

@Kane Independents aren't as big of a threat as you're making them out to be, and thankfully OPFOR closing CPB isn't a problem as Indies can already open CPB Opfor gate. The problem is BLUFOR closing all of the gates, including CPA, which makes it impossible for Indies to go anywhere, which completely sucks the fun out of it. Anyone going through CPB is going towards BLUFOR anyway, and I can't say I've ever seen Indies go through BLUFOR land to get to CPA. Checkpoint Stalin is always open, so Indies can always get through to OPFOR territory, so again this is really an issue between BLUFOR and INDIE, rather than OPFOR at all (Minus the cheesy "Let's put an AI on a ZSU and shoot down all Indie helicopters ever."

Okay, first off, we simply don't need these roadblocks in the game.

All Checkpoints should be manned if they are to be closed, and if they are manned all they need is the Bargate to be closed, not the roadblock. This doesn't create new ways to get over the border, it simply takes the fun out of being Independent. You expect them to get an MI-8 to cross the border? Then OPFOR will do what they already do and put a ZSU AA Gun on the hill and shoot every single Helicopter out of the sky without any danger. At the moment, if the roadblocks are closed, then Independent simply can't get vehicles across the border anymore, completely sucking the fun out of Independent because forcing them to run 6000m+ is just unrealistic. 

+1 +1 +1

If all of the Checkpoints are closed like this, Indeps physically CANNOT get vehicles through to Northern Takistan. That doesn't make the game difficult, it makes the game impossible for any terrorist or criminal civilian trying to get across the border.

"Oh, use an MI-8 to get vehicles across!"
Except half the time OPFOR have AI in ZSU AA Guns that swat any form of helicopter from the sky.

Closing the borders like this simply isn't needed, and takes all the fun away from playing Independent

5 hours ago, Captain said:

Air Battles,
Tank Battles,
Rasman Death Match,
Manhunt,
Racing,
Flower arranging?

Treasure Hunt,
Aerobatics,
Three Legged Race?

Oh! Oh! Oh! That one with the potato on the spoon!

-1

The AS50 as a whole should be replaced by the KSVK for the Independent faction, it doesn't make sense that the Independent forces have such a weapon, and the TWS variant should be removed from all factions. I disagree that just throwing more vehicles and keeping the AS50 will balance things out. This change has been something that was necessary for an awful long time, and I am very glad to see the change coming.

CASE SUMMARY

[Accused Party] : ABU JASEM

[Accusing Party] :  

- ThePsychopath
- TheCaptain
- Jumpywizard (Post-Incident)
- Slingshot (Post-Incident)
- Defaultfunt (Post-Incident)

[Issue Summary] : 

Abu Jasem had the flag of the Al Qaeda for Iraq flag as his Teamspeak Avatar, and was asked politely to remove it. When he asked why, I notified him of the reason and he denied that the flag was said flag. He was pulled into a Helproom with Captain and Myself and the Avatar was deleted, and he continuously called us "Kids" and "Powerhungry". Captain then left the room to aid another member, and I began explaining to him that it was my duty to inform him of rule breakings, at which point he accused me of bias. I was half way through telling him that I would do the same to anyone else if they broke the rules, when he left to move into a NATO channel. I dragged him back up and informed him that I was halfway through talking and finished what I had said. I then, for the sake of non-bias, went to Four separate staff members (Captain, Default, Jumpy and Slingshot) and asked if they agreed that a strike should be given. They did.

[Witnesses/Testimony] :  

- ThePsychopath
- TheCaptain

[Additional Evidence] : 




 

[Additional Notes] : (State any additional notes on the issue if there are any.)

ACTION

[Player Name] : Abu Jasem

[BattlEye GUID] : N/a

[IP Address] : N/a

[Action Taken] : Strike I

CASE SUMMARY

[Accused Party] : Private Ryan / Lachlan

[Accusing Party] :  Complexity

[Issue Summary] : 

The User VDM'd a friendly BLUFOR and RDM'd two civilians (Including Complexity). He had been on the server for sixteen minutes in total, and had disconnected by the time I had managed to load up Teamspeak. With this in mind, I have a two day ban, hoping he would later connect to Teamspeak, however, he did not.

[Witnesses/Testimony] :  

- Complexity
- ThePsychopath (Rcon)

[Additional Evidence] : 

Unfortunately as it was late at the time of the ban, I did not have the foresight to capture screenshots of the evidence, however, it can all be found on Battlemetrics if it is required.

[Additional Notes] : (State any additional notes on the issue if there are any.)

ACTION

[Player Name] : Lachlan

[BattlEye GUID] : c189262990164be042602ef81d63366c

[IP Address] : 115.64.245.202

[Action Taken] : Two-day ban until he connects to Teamspeak and speaks with Staff

Going to have to give this a -1 for the time being. Due to some of the negative feedback of the other members of the community, and the lack of time spent on the server, I am reluctant to give a member of the community a staff rank after a single week. I do, however, wish you all the luck in this application and any future applications you make.

CASE SUMMARY

[Accused Party] : Danete

[Accusing Party] :  

- Mentlegen
- ThePsychopath

[Issue Summary] : 

After already receiving two strikes, the user stole a bike from Civ Spawn (Safezone) and drove over to Rasman. He then told Staff (Myself) that he bought the vehicle himself and that it was not stolen. I caught up with him and let him know I'd check the info, and he should come clean. He did not. After viewing the Vehicle Information, I confirmed it was not his vehicle, and thus informed him that he had been found lying to Staff, and punished him accordingly.

[Witnesses/Testimony] :  

- Mentlegen
- Captain
- Psychopath
- Pasty

[Evidence] : Unfortunately no recording of the incident is available

[Notes] : (State any additional notes on the issue if there are any.)

ACTION

[Player Name] : (UN-NA)Cpl. DANETE

[BattlEye GUID] : 14c3967c7da0ba09cfc255b817706e1a

[IP Address] : 179.232.202.32

[Action Taken] : Seven Day Ban

CASE SUMMARY

[Accused Party] : Baby Face Nelson

[Accusing Party] :  John Ryan / Stephen

[Issue Summary] : FailRP Strike II in the same day

[Witnesses/Testimony] :  

- Stephen
- John Ryan

[Evidence] : 

https://www.battlemetrics.com/rcon/players/485417205

Engagement was given over VOIP, and the user disconnected from the server.

[Additional Notes] : (State any additional notes on the issue if there are any.)

ACTION

[Player Name] : Baby Face Nelson

[BattlEye GUID] : bb51edcb0c7c6641dbab17ff3244281b

[IP Address] : 24.113.28.197

[Action Taken] : Two day ban

CASE SUMMARY

[Accused Party] : Currently goes by the name "Jesus"

[Accusing Party] :  ThePsychopath

[Issue Summary] : 

The member was warned through Rcon to not use offensive terms such as "Faggot" at which point, he said ok. Less than two minutes later he repeated the term and received a two day ban. He then came into Teamspeak under the name Maconheiro and used the term once more, and admitted that it was him, thus the ban was elevated to 7 Days.

[Witnesses/Testimony] : 

- TheCaptain
- ThePsychopath
- Slingshot

[Evidence] : 

https://www.battlemetrics.com/rcon/players/526495

[Notes] : (State any additional notes on the issue if there are any.)

ACTION

[Player Name] : Jesus 

[BattlEye GUID] : d1b7e24c8c5af1d4961e45beaf4d0c57

[IP Address] : 200.141.103.18

[Action Taken] : Two day ban extended to seven days

19 hours ago, Han Solo said:

STRYKER MK19 (BLUFOR)

Seeing as I was the one who raised the point posted by Domo, I should probably explain. The Stryker is NOT overpowered. Sure, at first it can be daunting, but if you know how to take it down, a single mag of an FN-FAL can destroy the Stryker (I can show you exactly where to hit if you'd like at some point.)

Overall, I'll give a -1 personally, I don't see any of the vehicles as particularly overpowered (With the exception of the L39), I think it's more of a problem that, right now, people have too much money.

CASE SUMMARY

[Accused Party] : Stromboli

[Accusing Party] :  Shark / Terminator / S19pajua

[Issue Summary] : 

- VDM
- Ramming and Destroying vehicles that just left Safezone
- Disrespectful language
- Ignoring Staff
 

[Witnesses/Testimony] :  

- ThePsychopath
- Defaultfun
- TheCaptain
- Terminator
- Shark
- S19pajua

[Evidence] : 

Logs can be found on Battlemetrics of the VDM, and there is a video in possession of another Staff Member (TheCaptain). I do not currently have this.

ACTION

[Player Name] : Stromboli

[BattlEye GUID] : f4a181bfff98cfcbc796b8f4727811e8

[IP Address] : 66.58.242.249

[Action Taken] : Banned from Teamspeak and Server for 7 Days

1 hour ago, ComradeCorbyn{Socialist} said:

It's why I spend most of my time in my friends channel.

When playing BLUFOR or OPFOR you already need to be in the correct channel.

As for this suggestion, I will give a +1, as we do need people to be more cooperative in Teamspeak and not use Side Channel

2 hours ago, CamMan said:

Captain you have no room to talk when you purchases   you rank from the owners

Show some respect. Such comments are staff disrespect and are a part of the reason you were banned in the first place. No ranks have been bought from Owners, despite what you may believe. If you do, seriously, have a problem with a staff member, make a staff report about it instead of openly disrespecting the staff member with such a blatant comment.

2 hours ago, CamMan said:

FOR ALL WHO HAVE LOGS ACCESS, CHECK THE LOGS AS SOON AS HE JOINED I GET BANNED 

You played for much more than two hours, I had seen you on server for multiple days at the least before the ban had been put into place. You had also been warned for disrespect and racism previously to that occasion, and I know this as I have personally warned you in the past about such actions. If you mean at the time of the ban you had been logged on for two hours (And Captain had only just logged on) before the ban, that is due to the fact that the original ban should have originally been a permanent one, but did not go through DART correctly (We have since swapped to Battlemetrics and the second ban was the correct ban.)

As for why you were banned, it was not just staff disrespect or blatant racism, but also the fact that you made the attempt to reconnect to the server under a different account, bragging about doing so within the Teamspeak while Staff Members (Myself and Captain) were sitting inside listening.

Case Summary

User, Fred, has failed to join Teamspeak on multiple occasions in the past, despite being kicked for it. After having received five kicks, the punishment was escalated. The User has been blacklisted from Teamspeak-Required Factions, and has been banned from the server for two days awaiting acknowledgement of error.

Case Information

[Defendant] ; Fred

[Claimant] ; N/a

[Issue] ; Failure to Connect to Teamspeak as a faction which required so on numerous occasions

[Other Parties] ; 

Defaultfun ; Junior Moderator ; Issued previous warnings and kicks
PastyHoneybuns ; Junior Moderator ; Issued Teamspeak Warnings and Multiple Kicks
Jay ; Moderator ; Issued previous warnings and kicks
TheCaptain ; Senior Moderator ; Witness to failure to connect to Teamspeak
Kane ; Member ; Aided in the Teamspeak check

[Evidence] ;

Evidence can be found through the Battlemetrics system, which shows a minimum of five accounts of being kicked for failure to join Teamspeak as a faction that required it. Further evidence can be found through the Battlemetrics log, which shows further warnings to join Teamspeak.

Results

Absolved | Kicked | Striked | Blacklisted | Banned | Permanently Banned
(Bold represents the action taken)

[Banned Player] ; Fred

[Ban Duration] ; Two Days

[Blacklist Faction] ; All which require Teamspeak

[GUID] ; 17b01a806789d637b44ea6b9ada9f947

[IP] ; 24.48.50.218

Personally, I will +1 this application. He's a friendly guy from my experience with a great taste in gaming (Kane's Wrath is still one of my favourite games ). I fear that perhaps your staff experience is vague and, as such, lacking, but we all have to start somewhere, right?

@DOMOCOP14 In this area, the General Rule 13 applies, which explicitly states that all instructions to a player must be typed. A robbery requires a specific order to the person, as does tasing an unarmed civilian. Unless I have misunderstood your suggestion, I don't see an issue?

+1

This seems like a good idea, and I fully support adding more Roleplay through making weaponry much more difficult to get, not only through a lower amount of income but perhaps an increased expense of purchasing certain weaponry.

Personally, I would like to see more varied skins from multiple factions within NATO, including the British Armed Forces, rather than just the United States, for example.

1 minute ago, ABU JASEM said:

ONCE AGAIN ALL THIS WAS ALL ADDRESSED BY THE ADMINS AN THEY ALL AGRREED TO UNBAN ME. THERE JUST MAKING THIS PUBLIC TO SHOW THE REST THAT IM GOING THROUGH THE RIGHT PATH OF USING THE BAN APPEAL SYSTEM. I AM NOT A HACKER THERE IS ZERO EVIDENCE OF ME HACKING

For any members of the community, I would like to debunk this statement. No such agreement has been made, and furthermore not all Staff members have agreed to unban the user, hence a ban appeal is being made. Once again; It has not been proven to be desync, and no decision based upon the appeal has been made yet.

I am going to give a -1 to this appeal

The evidence has been reviewed and suggested to be Desync, it has not been proven as such as of yet. I, personally, have interpreted that there is a high probability of an unfair third party program from the evidence I have viewed. For this reason, I am going to voice my opinion that this appeal should be denied. If I am mistaken in this conviction, then I apologise, but that is the interpretation I have.

3 hours ago, Mujeeb said:

PMCs are in it for the money. Moral compass does not apply. 

Half true. Moral guides may not concern them all that much, however as stated previously, the countries which give them the licenses to practice as PMC's have moral compasses, and as such, PMC's very rarely work with terrorist organisations.

I agree that Forum Moderation is an important aspect of any community, but I disagree that it requires a specific role. Currently, the in-game staff browse the forum regularly, and can maintain it, and as such the Forum does not require a specific team to do such.

For that reason, I will -1 this suggestion until a time it is deemed necessary