After reading this thread through in order to help curb some miscreants on my own servers, I get this feeling that some of you _want_ to effectively kill the multiplayer aspect of the game off.
Its already hard enough for people to get into the game with alot of servers enforcing an almost un-fun number of rules/regulations either previously established or made up on the spot (by penalty of kick/ban).
Sure, there are people who grief, but global permanent bans will only serve to push the multiplayer community to a small niche community of elitist players who would alienate newbies. I saw this behaviour in previous servers of the series I hosted and I would rather avoid the same cycle. There were other contributing factors I found with such a downward spiral, but perhaps if people are not enjoying the current game enough to continuously grief other players; perhaps a different game map/style should be tried. Alot of the suggestions i've seen so far only reinforce such an insular and stale endgame.
ArmA 2 - Server Ban List - ?
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After reading this thread through in order to help curb some miscreants on my own servers, I get this feeling that some of you _want_ to effectively kill the multiplayer aspect of the game off.
Its already hard enough for people to get into the game with alot of servers enforcing an almost un-fun number of rules/regulations either previously established or made up on the spot (by penalty of kick/ban).
Sure, there are people who grief, but global permanent bans will only serve to push the multiplayer community to a small niche community of elitist players who would alienate newbies. I saw this behaviour in previous servers of the series I hosted and I would rather avoid the same cycle. There were other contributing factors I found with such a downward spiral, but perhaps if people are not enjoying the current game enough to continuously grief other players; perhaps a different game map/style should be tried. Alot of the suggestions i've seen so far only reinforce such an insular and stale endgame.