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[SupermanTM]

Ah well thanks for all this feedback.

So whats the difference between a clan member? and an admin? Who are the clan members how did they generally get to be clan members? Just been around a long time?

I said that i've been playing the past few weeks, but on this Steam account i started in 2010 according to the server. It's a new steam account because my old one i lost the password to, think it was hacked. So i likely started on IBIS before that, but unsure of the exact dates, maybe 2008 makes sense. So i hope there is no offense taken as in: this guy started yesterday and has opinions. lol

As for talking back, Omega it's fine i agree with you.

Why would you say ZM is superior? Most people run to the same spot, in which the cade is so strong you could just AFK there and win. Of course you wont get any kills. It's either a crushed crate in which you can put a vending machine (or a vending machine spawns). Someone should remove the 2 vending machines that spawn inside the crushed red container from zm lila panic beach..that container is way overpowered. i don't know it just seems that every map has 1 or 2 cade spots which are impregnable by zombies, unless the humans inside don't know how to cade it, or destroy it with a grenade. (many are actually grenade proof.. )

All these maps could be edited to make them slightly more challenging for humans. Otherwise on ZM most of the challenge is for zombies, or noob players. ZM might have been the best 5 years ago. But now when you have players who know the maps, and played for so long it's better to make the maps slightly harder for humans. (there are some hard ZM maps) but they are rarely played on. I usually run to the hardest to cade spots, while one guy will run to same room/vent every round and get 20 kills.. then he brags he has more skill than me. LOL i dunno..

Ze is way more random, everyone has a chance to die, noobs make things unpredictable, you need more teamwork on a grander scale. When the zombies are good, you really need to defend as there is no unstoppable cade to prevent you from dying. You can't AFK during a whole round. Etc. For me skill is equal to the amount of risk you take, and if you survive while doing it. If you take no risks you basically have no skills.

I'm not saying ZE is better, just that ZM could be improved. I chose IBIS for so many years because you have both ZE and ZM. Otherwise id just play a ZE server.

Was there at anytime RTV votes being cancelled?

Cancelled? Like a map was already chosen? And the admin just changes map without warning? Yes, happened once. We were at the end of voodoo, making votes for next map. It was 14 for Parking, and 13 for another escape map. We won the parking vote. Corpsman changed the map to ZM Desert fortress. Not saying this to get him in trouble, just if you guys decide its dumb maybe you could talk to the admins and let them know not to cancel votes? You guys already said admins can change map to whatever they want, so i am confused.

By changing maps, the admins usually just change the map, wait for the maps full time to end. Then they choose the next map. So it's not rapid map changing. It's just 3 hours while admins are on no one really has a say in what map to play.

[Omegxkid]

So a clan member is no longer just an admin they are uperlevel admin and part of the IBIS family they can make the call to permaban someone on the forums, tell uper/lower lvl admins what they need to stop doing and or can do to be better admins, Uper lvl admin are basicly ClanMembers in traning they have permanban right on the forums after reviewing videos just like Clan and can again ask other admins to stop doing things they should not, then there is normal admin we only have the right to help people in times of need and or take a matter into our hands if there is someone getting out of hand on the server or hacking/scriping we are more like the haul monitors for the big boysNgirls just to help them because they are not as many as we. I hope this helps bro also u have been with us for a good some of time so if you could plz go back to how u were and just stop trolling/harassing people man i know u are better then this.

[maynard]

On the main page of the forums at the bottom next 2 the "mark forums read" button, there is another that says "view site leaders" click that, scroll down 2 the section titled "IBIS" everyone in that list is clan.

admins are community regulars who just end up purchasing admin rights.... anyone can purchase it.

2 become part of the clan, you must first make an app in the clan app section.... and after on average of 2-4 years... you might get in... but probably wont as we only take a couple people once every year or two. The clan have full power over the community basically... we're people who've been around a very long time, and help run this place and enforce the rules and make sure everything is running smoothly between the servers and forums. Clan can do whatever they want and only answer 2 zero, as where admins, community regulars, ULA's etc. all answer 2 the clan.

crying about admins changing maps is pointless... it's how we do things in this community and always have... and always will.

if an admin is changing maps for hours on end and hijacking the map rotation.... fine that's something worth complaining about... but when maps are changed here and there, it's fine.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Cancelled? Like a map was already chosen? And the admin just changes map without warning? Yes, happened once. We were at the end of voodoo, making votes for next map. It was 14 for Parking, and 13 for another escape map. We won the parking vote. Corpsman changed the map to ZM Desert fortress. Not saying this to get him in trouble, just if you guys decide its dumb maybe you could talk to the admins and let them know not to cancel votes? You guys already said admins can change map to whatever they want, so i am confused.

By changing maps, the admins usually just change the map, wait for the maps full time to end. Then they choose the next map. So it's not rapid map changing. It's just 3 hours while admins are on no one really has a say in what map to play.

this is very different than cancelling an RTV. the admin can decide which map to go to next, and if towards the end of the map, the normal vote comes up and the admin doesn't like the choices, they can cancel it and either put their own vote up, or simply set the next map.

[Bane of Soldiers]

this is very different than cancelling an RTV. the admin can decide which map to go to next, and if towards the end of the map, the normal vote comes up and the admin doesn't like the choices, they can cancel it and either put their own vote up, or simply set the next map.

^This

If the map vote was brought up by a successful rtv, then we have issues; granted, if no one likes the maps on the rtv list because people forget to nominate, I guess it would be alright.

[SupermanTM]

Okay i am slightly confused..

But there are two separate situations, WHICH happened at least once.

Situation One: (happened only once to my knowledge)
RTV and Nominate no longer worked. People typed, them, and said wtf why isn't it working? Then maybe 5 minutes later we were at a new map. (yes likely could have been a bug, like someone already mentioned)

Situation Two:
We were on voodoo islands, Map vote came up, majority chose parking, admin map changed and we arrived at Desert. And a bunch of us were wtf were is parking? But then we just played desert. So yeah since the vote was 14 for parking and 13 for something else, you can argue 50% of the server didn't like parking so it was alright for admin to change to desert. But i think people who voted parking wanted to play it. I know that i did. (again it only happened once or twice). So it's not like raging abuse or anything. Just annoying when it does happen.

Otherwise, like i said it's not rapid map changing. When corpsman is online he will go through a series of the same maps. Desertfort, Roy, Beachstrike, Lila 420 maybe, and then Ze_Saw. So The maps are played in their entirety. Not bitching!!! Just re-iterating what happens usually.

Omega, i know i can be annoying, i've toned it down since you asked me to in game.

ONE more question, if i am dead or in spec, and i tell a player how to flip a vending machine or break a cade, is that ghosting? The player knows where the human is, is already there trying to break in etc. Similarly if i give advice on an escape map after dying on how to escape where to defend etc? Not allowed?

And on train escape, i escaped on the train, instead of going to the water tower. And all the humans at water tower died. I was last human alive. Train stopped, so there is no where i could continue escaping to. There was like 20 zombies alive, and only me as the human. Do i have to kill myself? or go and hunt the zombies? It's an escape map.. we aren't allowed to hunt zombies so it would be a contradiction in rules? Does that mean everyone has to wait 2 minutes until the clock runs out? Like i don't see why i need to kill myself for escaping.. Maybe fix the map? Is there a map editor? can i make or edit maps and submit them to zero or something with a list of changes?

[Cry_Wolf]

We do what we want!! Shut ur face and die in a fire! oh no the maps are changing!!!

[Omegxkid]

I can has fire burning all on me as i change the map Plox

[What]

It seems like ZM is the grade school wild west of the counterstrike world.

[SupermanTM]

Yeah yeah guys, i can troll too, likely better than you can. The problem is i don't want to get banned for my pixels and text. So i'll suggest things, you agree great, you don't agree i don't care. Not here to convince anyone to change their own server. Just here to throw out ideas. Doesn't mean i have to 'like' EVERY policy you guys have.

So some more suggestions.

I was thinking it would be nice if maps automatically go to VOTE after you win three rounds on them. This way if we are on a Super easy to win escape map like. Deathstar, Raccoon train, Rooftop escape, (to name a few shitty escape maps). Then after three wins, the map vote automatically comes up and we choose a new map. Similar there are many ZM maps which are ez, and therefore i consider shitty. Like the lila 420, where once you are behind that wall zombies can't get you. (This is not to say deathstar doesn't have cool graphics or sound effects - it's just one of those easy escape maps).

Also i was thinking, some maps like Voodoo Islands, yesterday were played 5 times or more. Zero could probably easily code something where if a map was played 2 to 3 times that day it stops showing up in the RTV map list, unless Nominated. (Just for that day).

Likewise, i find it annoying that i enter a game and the screen is black. So i enter and the map explodes and i die. Zero explained black screen is so there is no Ghosting. But can we get a time limit displayed on that black screen? So i at least know if i enter the game the map is about to explode and i'll die? This way i can wait until the round is over and then enter. Either that or prevent zombie spawns when there is 30 seconds left on round.

Also i'm wondering if someone can make it so All talk automatically comes on during ZE maps, and goes off during ZM maps. Because it's getting annoying when Admins aren't online that nothing can be done. Likewise we were doing some escape maps, and the time limit needed to be extended. The admin knew this, and left anyway. So we had to RTV and change maps. Either that or the admin isn't on to extend the time in the first place. OR, admins only stay to play the maps they want, and leave otherwise, so maps that require time limit extension are neglected. So i'm not sure what can be done to fix this. Of course you guys will say ?BUY admin and then you can extend maps. Because your here to make money. But how about i pay you 100$ to give all the different maps proper time limits so admins aren't needed? I'd prefer doing that, i don't want to be an admin.