Middleton

There may be the Metagaming rule set, but they are easily sidestepped. As soon as they've seen a high bounty name in the city they could just follow the person around for a few minutes and just find a reason to initiate roleplay, which would in all cases end in someone getting sent to prison or ticketed.

Won't this now open up a whole new issue of police bounty hunting any high value targets within city limits immediately upon seeing their name? It doesn't exactly fit within roleplay constraints that a wanted criminal would enter the city undisguised with such a high risk of encountering police. What was the reason for adding this rule?

Strong accuracy.

Impressively effective.

There are ways to make considerable amounts of money without breaking the law. Gem mining is the most profitable gathering method on the server, at the highest grade providing 6mil per run in around 30 minutes. Additionally salt mining is also easy to do and makes a large amount of money without breaking any laws. There are lots of methods for civilian players to get into the economy and be able to compete with rebels but they just aren't adopted by a lot of them, if they ventured out of Sydney they'd notice that most big gangs don't target civilians due to the fact that they don't have anything worth taking and it isn't worth the reputation damage to frag players off the server just starting out.

If you are looking to make the server balanced after the reset while still maintaining all police ranks, you could potentially put a lock on all non-standard police gear for 2-4 weeks until the civilian side has had a chance to rebuild the same grade of equipment. This would allow the police to not lose their ranks which they've worked on for months to attain, while still allowing civilians to have a fair chance at getting to a level where they can match the polices level of force when it comes to tougher situations. The primary issue of having a reset while still allowing one faction to have instant access to high level gear is if a group of rebels or criminals plan to have a big gathering operation to gather resources or money illegally, the police can pull out a unmatched arsenal of gear and immediately wipe them back to 0 gear with little consequence, whereas if the police have the same level of gear then if offers a chance for both sides to have a fair fight.

If they leave the server because they've just lost their items and gear, then they probably weren't that invested in the server anyway and would have left regardless.

A server wipe would be great.

How we saw it:

That was our rough gauge of what happened in the situation thinking it was a rushed dec, do you think a ban for rdm should have been awarded for the people who killed them?

Recently we were taken to Help Desk by a certain group and received bans for the situation, I just want to know what other players think. Would you have reacted the same way and shot first? Or would you have waited to see what happens?

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I appreciate the response beef, Even with that though, I play with 2 of those staff members every day, I heard most of what was going on behind the scenes and I still truly believe that the whole situation was completely unfair. I understand that kit use may have occurred in the past, but it was allowed by the server manager, and within the past 2 months I have not seen him use a kit with me me, and I play fairly often. Regardless of that I think you can appreciate that a server administrators job shouldn't be pulled into question by the use of some kits in-game, and years of his hard work questioned by leadership staff that came into the server well after he had taken on his role. I think that he should have at least had a chance to try and fix the issues with Wasteland in a co-operative environment instead of being put up on display as a person who abuses his powers, because that is not true at all. That fact that a poll was started to fire him from his position while discussions were still being had about how to help the wasteland server population and fix any issues with staff is completely wrong. I know this post probably won't fix or change anything but I really hope that the new team that has to come to try and help the wasteland server doesn't get such a harsh go, because at the end of the day they are giving up their free time to help your server, they should not be the ones being put on trial.

In response to this thread: I didn't really want to make a thread about this, i'm normally a fairly quiet player on the server and since retiring 2 years ago when J17 was around I tried to avoid getting involved in the politics of a gaming community, but this thread really did push me over the edge. It sickens me to see such rubbish being spouted out by a supposed "Leader" of this community, a person who was brought in and catapulted straight to the top due to internal friends, all of which is completely fabricated and insulting. The primary issue with this all is not only is he insulting peoples work that they have put into this server for years and given up their own free time instead of playing the game, he has done it to people who have done it for no reward, and clearly no personal gain now that this thread has come out dragging their names through the mud. This entire fiasco started due to some leadership staff increasingly putting pressure onto the Wasteland staff to "Boost the numbers" and "Provide better support for players", yet they had taken no notice of why the players were leaving the server, nor that it had nothing to do with the people who put in their own time to maintaining what little player base there was. You cannot moderate a server to popularity, and the sole responsibility of increasing population for a server lies in the hands of the developers and the owners, no one else. I understand complaints were made for some staff, as is expected with any moderation role as you need to make decisions which obviously the opposing party are not going to like (e.g. abusive players getting banned for being abusive, they are going to complain to get unbanned and pull any dirt up on the staff member they can). But that is not grounds to make people feel like they are worthless and that all the work they have put into this server was for nothing, they are what kept this server from falling into dismay and the fact that you would go as far to say that LOADOUTS, an arbitrary at best function given to admins was the reason they were somehow abusing the playerbase is absolutely pathetic. Loadouts were allowed at all times by the operating staff of wasteland as it not only doesn't affect other players unfairly, it is a minor perk as mentioned for people who have to spend their playing time moderating the server and not accumulating money. This new group of server leadership staff seems to have a persistent trend of pointing fingers instead of assisting their staff or resolving issues, and it really does put a poor light on what this community once was, a mere shadow of what it used to be, with poisonous people using their appointed ranks to do whatever they want to try and save face. It really makes me sad.

Best of luck to your new team.