A sad state of affairs

[neswrossi 0]

I was a server last night playing a sniper, and quite enjoying myself. It was running a Berzerk Airfield map.

I was there for about an hour when someone came on an started spawning random AI and killing people at random too.

I think his name was Duck, or Rommel. But, is the way things are going to be? I remember the old days of Counter-Strike where you couldnt find a server without cheats on it.

[Shadow_Spyder 0]

Private servers are your friend. Or find a clan that has their own server and play on that one. If you insist on public servers, find one that has an admin so as soon as anything weird is noticed, banned!

[Hevron 0]

Yeah, and remember gentlemen "#vote admin (player name)" is our best friend.

lets keep griefers outta our games

[Maddmatt 1]

Yeah, and remember gentlemen "#vote admin (player name)" is our best friend.

lets keep griefers outta our games

Just be careful who you vote in. Otherwise you could have your game screwed up pretty badly.

[telejunky 0]

with #userlist you can see the player id, huh? Tell it to an admin and then you will enjoy future games

[maddogx 13]

Yeah, and remember gentlemen "#vote admin (player name)" is our best friend.

lets keep griefers outta our games  

Vote Admin can also be your worst enemy. If you've ever been on a server with a group of griefers voting themselves as admin you'll know what I mean.

My BF2142 public server was actually "hijacked" once, by a clan. Whenever someone (including myself) joined the server, they would immediately vote kick him off. Luckily in BF2/2142 we have external admin tools, so I banned the lot of them.

In ArmA we don't have these tools, so it can be virtually impossible to stop griefers, unless you restart the server and ban them on sight.