Hello all, I have a rant!!!
It seems that no matter what game you play (FEAR, Half-Life2, CS:Source, BF2) at least half of the servers out there have somebody running it that has fascist server rules in place; I will explain.
Now there are many rules that are out there for BF2 servers, and several of them are stupid as all get-up, many of which go against the EA regs for "valid server rules"; however some just rub me the wrong way. I understand the ones that are intended on making the game a team-play event; like, "don't stat pad". I can also digest the "no glitching" rules. Don't glitch to the top of the hotel, or use C4 to blow yourself up onto a building. I even understand the "don't attack the uncap base (as in the ones with the red circle and a line through it) unless you have all other flags." That makes since, give people a fighting chance. But all the following are ones that I have seen out and about make me just scratch my head.
=Karkand Factory is an uncap base (no it is not, there is no little ghost busters sigh on the flag)
=Don't Tank Whore (what dose that mean, really. If I get shot by a guy in a tank I spawn AT, or somewhere else)
=Don't abuse admins (I think this means don't shoot them)
=Can't drive to plane / helicopter (am I to float through the air to get to the plane, If I could do that....)
=Admins get first dibs on vehicles (OOH I am an admin, I get the armored personal carrier and you don't)
=No Profanity (I wish to cover this in more detail)
It seems that when I go out there to get some gamin' time in I will about half the time end up on some server that has a language filter on it. Now I understand that the admin of the server wants it to be clean for his kids to play on and he doesn't want me to teach Jr. to say hell, ass or fuck or any of that shit but lets take a step back for a second, and think about this logically, (it is what I do at work so stick with me here)
Now lets say that there is a server called "Boise Special Forces Killers (BSFK) Ranked BF2" and the people in charge of the server are a little to into the "stats" aspect of the game.
I was on a game similar to this and stared up a squad. I was using the VOIP headset and I got to talking with my squad mates. I was being a good squad leader and chillin' next to any flag owned by the other team allowing my guys to use me a spawn, so we could cap it. The round ended and the admin with the highest score was not on top, they were in a clump starting around sixth place, but all above me. They kicked all players that were above them at the end of the round, 5 in total. The next round we were the same squad and I VIOP them, "why did you kick them?" They say "they were not following server rules" I say, "what rule(s) did they break?" to which they replied, "They were using unclean language." With that answer I felt compelled to say "They didn't cuss as far as I could tell. They just had a higher score than you guys at the end of the round" They argued really hard saying that that I was wrong and that nothing could be further from the truth That reply was "Yes!!!" So I say, just before I leave, because by now I am pissed off "So it's OK to shoot somebody with a huge gun, and blow their lifeless body across the map but you can't say shit or ass or anything like that, and why did you wait till the round was over?" I was warned and told to refrain, but also that "we are trying to change the trend of society and cleanse it by ending intolerance."
Now by this time I was so pissed I could barley see, but I kept my cool. I asked: "Why do you feel that it is your right to police society in this way? What give you the right and why are you inconsistent? I have already said Shit and Ass and you didn't boot me, you only just booted 5 guys who beat you on your server." I also added "What in the fuck are you doing saying that it is your right to judge people?"
I was so pissed I left the server immediately sent EA games a nasty hate mail about the server and withing two days it was shut down.( I guess I was not the only one who was treated so well by the BSFK.)
Now the point of this story is that if you are to have a language filter on it then please use it as such. If someone uses naughty words and it is a server rule, then yes warn and then kick. But I was truly insulted as a person when the server Administrators chose to hide behind it as a mask of self-righteous, hypocritical puritanical propaganda. You know it's people like that which make the world hate Americans. That is the worst example of a server rule I have ever seen, it was not even a server rule.
"Horrible deplorable violence is OK as long as there is no naughty language" Sheila Broflovski
Thanks for hearing me out, I feel better now.
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Mr.Warner
Last edited by Mr.Warner (2007-06-26 13:25:01)
