EA is too busy making money to get into the business of trying to police every single incident that happens on a server. If you check out http://battlefieldhosting.ea.com/www/faq/ and go down to CONDUCT, you will see the following:Sud wrote:
I had assumed that acts of stat padding violated the EULA. I know for a fact that a lot of the "knife only" servers got their ranked status canned. I will need to do more research to see what it allows and what it does not.There are very few ways to abuse the agreement sufficiently to have your right to a Ranked Server revoked, and with how this whole issue has been portrayed, I am pretty confident that EA wouldn't revoke in this case.
I consider many administrator functions, used wrongfully, are worthy of being called stat padding. If you kick someone who's good in chopper, for example, you are stat padding - you're preventing many deaths from the enemy team, as well as denying that player kills and adding a kick onto their permanent record (kicks and bans are public info that can be used against you). As far as I know they also have the ability to interrupt rounds such that the server does not transmit data - something they may do if they themselves are having a poor round for example.
>> Q. Are there rules of conduct to be observed?
A. We are not here to police this community. However, no cheating or abusive behavior by the gamers who have purchased this service or the members of their clan, team, squad, guild, etc. will be tolerated. We expect gamers from the BattlefieldHosting.EA.com to be honorable in conduct and in sportsmanship.
All customers are expected to abide by EA's Terms of Service at all times. <<
If you go check out the Terms of Service, it is the standard blahblahblah rules of just about every ToS in existance. In otherwords, no specifics on server or game management since the term "abusive" can be left up to a lot of open interpretation. I definitely would not call booting Captain Pad-tastic for spawn raping a form of cheating.
The crackdown on "knife only" servers is nothing more than EA/DICE taking the easy way out due to their crappy programming and weakly thought-out statistic system. There are puhleeeeenty of ways that they can prevent people from boosting stats through more extensive programming and rules, but instead...they would rather take a more nebulous and draconian route. Personally, if people want to create a server where only pistols are used, then damn it...why freakin' NOT?!?! Wanna set rules for just sniper rifles? Freakin' go for it. It ain't like EA is giving away a free Ferarri for the no-life with the best stats.
On the flip side, having only one option of gameplay like 'capture the flag' is so so lazy. How about some REAL objectives, like having one side have to take back some stolen explosives while the other side defends? One side has to destroy a top secret plane or a radio tower or a nuclear plant while the other side must defend. If they don't want people to be "creative" then give them something else to do but hoisting flags up and down.
- Beatdown
Last edited by Beatdown Patrol (2005-12-04 20:54:17)
