It's really not as big of a deal as a lot of you guys make it out to be-it's all about the mindset. 32p Kark isn't all that hard if you know what you're doing-try 64p Wake where you have people c4ing, ftking, ramming friendly assets, blowing up friendly assets at the start of the rounds, sweeping their own teams carrier, hackers in vehicles (much harder to prove a lot of the time), hackers dropping cars (try figuring out which of the 64 people in your server is dropping cars when none of them have pbbans or are being obvious), etc. This type of thing requires admins to spend their own playing time sitting there and trying to maintain order within the chaos.allfive6 wrote:
steelie34 wrote:
whilst i understand your position as an admin, since i have been on the receiving end of these types of bans, it is a bit unfair to drop the hammer without enough evidence.allfive6 wrote:
you where banned for having black screens and having other members in your clan with a shit lost of pbbans against them
the poster is right about black PB screens being caused by hardware issues. when i first got my 8800gtx, i had to turn off anti-aliasing, or my pb screens were black. this combined with the fact that a few people ruined bf2s good name with their antics, caused several unfair bans against me. only after an admin told me my screens were black, was i able to fix the issue. i also had to drop the tags, but that's another story.
you should try harder to actually prove cheating instead of being so quick to lay down bans with only circumstantial evidence. its really not fair.
Now all you have to do is make sure you ban the obvious hackers (support/L8 100-0 types) and get rid of the people that have multiple pbbans/get infinite headshots by spec'ing them or looking at demos once in a while.
I've admined both types of servers and I'd much rather be a kark admin 99% of the time, especially with a 32p server...
You mention turning AA off like its not gonna be missed-those of us that don't buy from Dell and play on shitty comps would like to be able to run nice settings with AA and actually have some benefits from our purchases, ie being able to enjoy AA. It's not that hard for a server admin to recognize that although someone is returning black screens, they're legit since either a.) their kdr is so bad there's no way they hack or b.) the demos are clean.