Let me just preface this all by saying I'm seriously not looking to ruin anyones day or anything and the opinion I've formed could just be due to a bad day on a few peoples ends.
I've been playing cRPG for about a week now, rarely getting on during common hours. I think it's a great fun mod with an awesome, helpful community. Last week I started hearing the opinions of a few players on the server regarding some of the admins (i'd never really seen one before, except some guy who occasionally kicked afkers and did tests) so I just dismissed their opinions as whining.
Earlier today my friends and I played with what appeared to be a relatively full admin staff, at least 4 that I could tell for certain. I've got to say, the things I previously disregarded as butthurt whining were proven to be pretty much true in every way. I was warned of power-hungry staff who spend more of their time oppressing people to affirm their authority than they do playing the game or supporting a positive playing environment; a statement which was proven to be not far from exaggeration. Yeah yeah, whatever. So what actually happened?
I was bored of working and joined the server for some shenanigans. While playing, I began to notice people getting kicked for increasingly sillier reasons, someone by the name of 'Lilith' seemingly trying their best to pry for any reason at all to kick or assert their authority over anyone. First it was anyone who more than one person claimed was AFK or leeching, next it was not using a weapon, next it was not wearing a sufficient amount of armor... they were quickly joined by another admin, who doubled the efforts of banning/booting people. While I agree most of these reasons are grounds for punishment or warnings; I was watching the chat log of the kicks/bans, while standing behind this Lilith admin, who was wearing absolutely no armor and using a polearm to bumrush 3 shielders.
Nearing the end of a round of which I had died rather quickly in, I was spectating an archer fool around on a rooftop. He was on an easily accessible roof(required no ladder) and was shooting at someone at least once every 4 seconds, being shot at much more frequently. It was to my surprise that when the lone archer was the last left on his team, an admin with the 'Merc_'(maybe 3 letters?) tag ordered, "get down." 5 seconds later, archer guy got kicked.
From the rampant lack of humor which the admin staff openly boast, to the general buzzkill all the powertripping provides, I just wanted to bring up these issues here: Sorry if anyone else has before me - it did seem the general feeling of the players who were on at the time were relative to my own, but seriously dudes, chillax. It's a game. The server's just as full at night when few to no admin are around and runs just as smoothly(if not better) without the rampant dbaggery. And if the admins on that server are also admins here, I just hope they have the courtesy to leave this complaint open or reply to it, cRPG is fun but my friends and I don't feel like playing it if thats the sort of environment we're guaranteed.
tl;dr yo eu_crpg_1 admins, chillax
