Disconnecting to keep score.. (Read zm players)

[anex]

There's a lot of bull shit of people disconnecting before they get tagged by a zombie to keep their rank up.

I have found solution.

IV. Teleport

1) When used to escape from zombies as a human

I would say that rejoining the server to keep yourself from getting tagged is the equivalent of fucking !zteleing away from zombies. Its not fair to other players who want to get their ranks up as well.

I assure you if people start continuously rejoining the server to keep their bullshit score up, then lets see how your rank fairs against a ban.

Zero, I think this should be added to the rules.

IV. Teleport

1) When used to escape from zombies as a human

A) Commands such as but not limited to

a) !stuck
b) !ztele
c) !teleport

B) Unsportsmanlike conduct

a) Rejoining the server
b) Switching teams

[Jeimuzu]

I second what Anex has suggested. I've done it when random people came and broke my barricades for no reason, but koolayed (Even though he always uses !ztele to get away from me ) and a few others have been noticeably doing it quite often.

That or remove ZM rankings. It tends to discourage some players and causes other decent players to do things they normally wouldn't.

[inthebutt]

oh don't worry about koolayed he is getting a 7 day ban from me. as far as other people doing, anyone I catch will get a 7 day ban as well, no matter who they are.

[XxMastagunzxX]

oh don't worry about koolayed he is getting a 7 day ban from me. as far as other people doing, anyone I catch will get a 7 day ban as well, no matter who they are.

7 days is a long time. I think we should keep the ranking system but modify it so that when somebody else types rank you can not see their rank. You can only see your rank.

[inthebutt]

oh a 7 day ban for koolayed isn't enough, he'll just touch himself for 7 days to pass the time. plus I'm thinking about just torturing him ingame. as far as the rank idea goes, I'm sticking with mine. make the rank harder to earn while your human but slightly easier to earn when your a zombie. oh and another note, the server is called ZOMBIE-MOD people, not LETS SEE HOW HIGH MY RANK CAN BE, if your playing on this server than you should expect to be a zombie. that's why there are like 6 different classes of zombies all with different abilitiys to fit any need. just type in !zombie to change your class for the next round cause we all know humans like to go the same spot and cade up the same place. if you know the map is gonna be changed to an escape map, change your class from the deformed to the XP or speed. this isn't rocket science people.

as for my stand on the 7 day ban, I'm sticking to it. its my WMD, used as a last resort.

[TheLittlestHobo]

If the rankings are going to stay, which I highly believe so at this point, I need a clear explanation how the whole scoring works. This is because my skill score would skyrocket up or down during a map I spectate on or join for a brief moment despite not playing the map in its entirety. In other words, my skill changes when I don't physically play on some maps. Also, there are other times where I did fairly well on a particular map (e.g. 55/3) and my skill would go down.

I don't understand how the whole skill score works prior to the weapon weighting.

[THE HOLY SH**T!]

I second what Anex has suggested. I've done it when random people came and broke my barricades for no reason, but koolayed (Even though he always uses !ztele to get away from me ) and a few others have been noticeably doing it quite often.

That or remove ZM rankings. It tends to discourage some players and causes other decent players to do things they normally wouldn't.

Your still part of the problem, don't cade with morons or people you can't trust.

i like the idea. 30 min ban, 1 day ban, week ban, so fourth...


As for koolayed, ive ban him easily 6-7 times alone.. he's only got his feet left, before i demo and make an extensive ban.

[Jeimuzu]

Holy, I don't have a choice in the matter. I'll go somewhere and someone will follow me despite asking them to go away, others will break it to get in, resulting in me basically gaining a huge disadvantage.

And before you say something along the lines of demoing, I'd also like to add that even if you were to ban every single person that broke one of my barricades, there would still be more to come. I was just saying that I've only reconnected to the game when I've been given an unfair disadvantage because of another player.

[ZERO]

How about I just have the server ban players for a few min after they disconnect so they can not get back in....

[TheLittlestHobo]

After thinking about this topic for at least half of my day and thinking on where to stand in this, I have finally concluded that the best thing to prevent this problem is to remove the ranking system. In my experience, I have first thought the ranking system was such a cool idea. Once it was introduced to me, the thrill to reach for the top was exponentially increasing and the motivation to be a better player was something I looked forward to.

How wrong can I be.

I reminised the times when I actually had fun prior to my discovery of the ranking system. To be honest, I appreciated playing on every single map and I loved meeting friends in IBIS and making god-awful barricades with them. Now, I have a strong drive for obtaining tons of kills while minimizing the deaths through the dirtiest ways possible. I am not going to lie to you folks. I used to ztele away whenever a zombie broke into my cade with a group of other humans with me. Sometimes I would be chased around and I would run around the corner so it wouldn't see me and I would ztele. I would even ztele away first infront of their face and reconnect to prevent a death. This was around the peak of my motivation to reach the top, after I have been introduced to the ranking system.

The reason why I am telling you this because not only do I see myself as a dirty player, I am already seeing it happening to other people. I am talking about regulars who would ztele away, reconnect, then type rank shortly after. Those people I have witnessed were quite good players but should not have used dirty tricks.

Something that I regret doing now is to exclude myself from the rest of the population so I can build a good barricade for myself and myself only just to be selfish and take as many kills as possible. The worst part is when friends ask me where I'm going to which I don't respond because I know they will drag me down. And this is not how the game should be played. I don't like shafting my friends for personal gains, but with the ranking system, I choose to.

Lastly, my favourite map of all time used to be boat escape, simply because getting into the pods were well worth it. Now looking back, I really want to make it my favourite map, but getting zombie kills is hard to come by on escape maps, which is why I barely play them now; for the fear of my ranks being dropped.

I know doing something like removing the ranking system is going to be hard to do, but I strongly implore you remove it. In a wider perspective, you may get some pissed off players for removing it but it will settle eventually, but as a friend of the community and to preserve the existing friendship (perhaps more) of what we have now, I ask you to do what you think would be best, after reading our opinions on the topic.

To summarize my point once more: Remove the ranking system to preserve the good conduct of well deserved good players.

P.S. I thank anyone who have read my excessively long message in its entirety. I just have to let it out before my interest in this server begins to fade.

P.S.S. I just want to inform everyone that I have stopped with the ztele and reconnecting now, which was why I posted this.