i don't wanna get this a drama but as i played much on the last days i feel like giving my opinion.
yep, SG can be cocky and sometimes act borderline, we already had an argue with Machine, gaz was flaming some pubber once, kib in general stay back and doesn't comment, but, well, we dealt with this. It is for sure necessary that you guys respect the admin's word, no matter what happenned in the past.
Ghosting? well its hard to spot and even if ur sure of it, u have to proove it.
U can't ask to a team to join the same side, for many reasons :
1) we are so used to press autoassign that even when we WM try to be in the same team we press autoassign like bot and forget what we said 2 sec earlier
2) there are many names for the teams (spec ops, sas, marines, enemy, etc) and u never know what map comes after so its hard to be agree on what team joining
3) if someone mistook and pressed autoassign for example, he wouldn't be able to switch if the opposite team has more players...what to do then?
4) like alex said u duno all SG members and they can join undercover. I don't believe that u ll stay out of gaming and compare the 17 SG guids with the server players.
Well UFO ur a young admin, no offense. Whatever ur age, ur game experiment is not as expended as u claim it to be and u are not used to be facing people ingame.
When u face a group ingame, things can pretty fast go out of control. So the first solution is to try to peace things out. U can tell them "come on guys i really don't wanna kick, be chilled and play in peace". If u feel like u loose control, you fix a limit, and if they cross the limit you /ban. That's the worse solution. Everyone flame in public, u gotta accept that. I may be calling everyone shitter, but when someone tell me "Ryu fucking son of a bitch" well i answer "rofl". I used to ban 2 flamers few days back, but i banned them cause they thought i wasn't admin and they thought whatever they do there won't be a limit, so they crossed it.
i point that out only to say that the 0 min kick is useless vs groups, because they re-join and make things worse...ALWAYS and no matter who started. So u rather ban and keep continue the argue on forums like it finally has been done.
About the spam thingy, well i didn't see spam i saw only 1 sentence...and tbh in HC the spam rule is bullshit. U can press a sentence only every 2 seconds, so unless the guy is spamming non stop binds the whole round, there is imo no point asking it to stop...1 bind / round even 4 is alright. If i kill 4 guys with deagle and bind "deagle bro" to each of them you would kick me? pointless.
in promod its usefull since u can spam much more.
well overall i wanted to point something else out of topic : when someone uses 3X frag or nade launcher, etc -> direct kick him so u can write in the reason : change ur class, 3 x frag grenade is not allowed!
the guy is outside, so he can directly change his classes and /reconnect.
if you warn them 3 times its a total loss of time, because half time he doesn't understand what ur saying, or he's playing and doesn't take care, or he just doesn't wanna change, etc. When he's kicked he knows what's the cost of keep using these perks and trust me its much more effective, particularly on shitters.
one more things to HC admins : the casual players that know the rules for a long time and chose to ignore it (6apjleu a.k.a TOMAC using GL for example) -> direct ban. They know the rules and try to break them...that's called troublemaking, and if its a mistake...well everyone know that u can apologie on the forums, so they ll come beg uncle C for an unban which they will ofc get if it was a mistake.
this huge post was the moment to say that i think we admin focus on non-important things and lose alot of time for matters that shouldn't need to, and we are not involved enough in the cheating matters, that are imo much more important.
cheers & no offense UFO
ps : this comes after Ceee statement, its just my opinion.
pps: UFO ddz was right to tell his opinion, and being in the same clan means being able to disagree and still stay together, not following what a member says whatever it is. we are free men, not fanatics.