There are multiple reasons you are not allowed to suicide or leech. Players get upset that others are getting the same xp as them without playing. Even if this is a game that is all about grinding, it is unfair that others fight while your only goal is "get killed as fast as I can each round then ignore CRPG." If leeching/suicide was not against the rules, there could be enough leech/suicide players on the server that the team balance would be really fucked up. Players who actually want to play the game would have their experience ruined. With such a small population on NA 1, allowing people to do that would be a bad thing to do.
I think that even with his extensive ban history, even allers should not have been permabanned for this. He should have gotten a lengthly ban, much more than a first time offender. He knew what he was doing, but like others in this thread he probably thought that it was doing no harm and there wasn't any reason not to. I have explained above why this is not the case. I don't want leechers to ruin what is left of crpg, and I don't want to permaban anyone either. I would sooner give up adminship than permanently ban a player. You can quote this to canary I don't give a fuck.
Now downvote me and tell me that I am a rules-lawyer sperg who is obsessed with holding my vast admin powers over regular players. Take a shit down my throat because I enforce rules that make sense and prevent the game from turning into a festering hole of non-players grinding for xp by jumping off a bridge or running into a meatgrinder instead of fighting the enemy. Boo hoo admins touch each other's buttholes and laugh like hyenas as they punish innocent players who don't know any better and didn't break any rules. sperg admin crybaby witchcraft butthurt, unban allers. the days-long logs of him leeching are not enough evidence! give live video feed i am not a troll!!!!
My alt is has 4 PS / 76 WPF and only uses the stick as a backup weapon. I do better than that, and I am several tiers below allers in terms of skill.
You don't get it, do you, Witchcraft? Even in the highly unlikely event that a single player may make any difference in the outcome of a match, punishing him for not trying in his FREE TIME is like punishing him for having fun. Yes, his past may speak for itself for some of you but is this really the proper punishment? Take this scenario, for example: I'm playing with a char in peasant gear, a rondel dagger and a shield. I have little ag so I can't hit-n-run as many do and I die within the first minute of the match due to any form of ranged or cav. I get 5 or 6 deaths for every kill by the end of the match. I contribute very little too. Now imagine an admin can choose to ban me because I'm not contributing to the team. Now take Allers' scenario. The result is the same as mine but he wasn't actually trying. One variant in the whole grand scheme of things is enough to get him permanently banned. The only ones that have an issue with this are those tryhard nerds that can't get enjoyment out of playing and need to win every single round, otherwise they will leave.
I'm not gonna talk shit about you admins. You've been in your own little bubble for quite some time so any complain about your adminship will go unnoticed, specially by a "nobody" like me. I'm not american, so I shouldn't be the one complaining either. It's not your fault, specifically. It's the fault of such an elitist part of the community that would rather play with all the tryhards friends rather than with those who never pay attention to their xp counters. A part of community that will mostly ignore any newcomer because they are not within the top 5 players of the board. But you are right, we'd rather reward those members of the community; with the personality of a goldfish and their inability to get enjoyment if not followed by a set of rules, they'll turn out to be great admins for rp servers in games like Arma.
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