Zm Rules v3.1

[anex]

updated to prohibit the !block command on all ze maps. Players that use the !block command must be slayed immediately by an admin.

[Meltdown]

Just freeze the players who shoot the cages, u don't really have to go to spec to find out who shooting em because u can just check it when people pass trough the next tele porter while still have enough time to get out there alive yourself. Slaying would work but freezing them on voodoo works much better for me because they get tagged and die at the end of the round sounds fitting punishment for me.

[Bane of Soldiers]

updated to prohibit the !block command on all ze maps. Players that use the !block command must be slayed immediately by an admin.

Finally, a concrete rule against poor teammates. It certainly wouldn't be at the top of ZERO's to-do list, but why not ask to have the command removed all together if it's an all-player inclusive rule? It's not like !block does anything on zm

[Meltdown]

The only use of !block in ze is to help some people when they cannot climb a box because there just newbs, I do use block sometimes so people can get over them when we just rly lack the amount of people otherwise to hold the zombies off. But although I don't mind it being removed.

[anex]

Updated to 2.6 to include the map specific rule with ZE_SAW: Humans may not use any vent as a holding/camp point

[Pootie Too Good]

I have a question regarding rank manipulation. It is clearly not allowed that a player may join as a zombie by skipping the tagging process with the intentions of racking up free kills, but i must ask, is it legal for you to sit in spawn, wait for a zombie to tag you as soon as they all turn, and then attack the humans to rack up kills with a +1 death added to it? I would like to point out that this should be considered rank manipulation, because there are certain maps that i see players doing it all the time on, such as ze_Jurassic_Park_Story_v0_9, ze_jurassicpark_v2_7_OB, ze_PotC_v3_4fix, and any escape map in general that the terrorists have a higher win percentage due to the ability of a strong zombie player to catch them.

Recently I've seen players with scores such as 35-6, 34-7, 34-8 and plenty more in that region, because the player was getting tagged as soon as the zombie spawned and then bunny hopped their way to the front of the pack to obtain cheap kills. Very rarely on some of these more challenging escapes can we beat a strong bhopper, but when they intentionally become zombies to go for it, it ruins everyone elses experience. I'd like clearity of this, and if it is considered rank manipulation and or breaking any rules.

[B1ackOut]

I have a question regarding rank manipulation. It is clearly not allowed that a player may join as a zombie by skipping the tagging process with the intentions of racking up free kills, but i must ask, is it legal for you to sit in spawn, wait for a zombie to tag you as soon as they all turn, and then attack the humans to rack up kills with a +1 death added to it? I would like to point out that this should be considered rank manipulation, because there are certain maps that i see players doing it all the time on, such as ze_Jurassic_Park_Story_v0_9, ze_jurassicpark_v2_7_OB, ze_PotC_v3_4fix, and any escape map in general that the terrorists have a higher win percentage due to the ability of a strong zombie player to catch them.

Recently I've seen players with scores such as 35-6, 34-7, 34-8 and plenty more in that region, because the player was getting tagged as soon as the zombie spawned and then bunny hopped their way to the front of the pack to obtain cheap kills. Very rarely on some of these more challenging escapes can we beat a strong bhopper, but when they intentionally become zombies to go for it, it ruins everyone elses experience. I'd like clearity of this, and if it is considered rank manipulation and or breaking any rules.

Its easy remove all escape maps

But seriously for us to ban for this, what should the critera for this be, its easy to go afk stay in spawn and come back as a zombie. Should we handle cases like this by simply collecting evidence over an extended period of time, cause unlike with other servers this really takes more than one map to add up for rank manipulation, cause that is a very serious offence to tag on to simple retardation or afk.

[Bane of Soldiers]

I have a question regarding rank manipulation. It is clearly not allowed that a player may join as a zombie by skipping the tagging process with the intentions of racking up free kills, but i must ask, is it legal for you to sit in spawn, wait for a zombie to tag you as soon as they all turn, and then attack the humans to rack up kills with a +1 death added to it? I would like to point out that this should be considered rank manipulation, because there are certain maps that i see players doing it all the time on, such as ze_Jurassic_Park_Story_v0_9, ze_jurassicpark_v2_7_OB, ze_PotC_v3_4fix, and any escape map in general that the terrorists have a higher win percentage due to the ability of a strong zombie player to catch them.

Recently I've seen players with scores such as 35-6, 34-7, 34-8 and plenty more in that region, because the player was getting tagged as soon as the zombie spawned and then bunny hopped their way to the front of the pack to obtain cheap kills. Very rarely on some of these more challenging escapes can we beat a strong bhopper, but when they intentionally become zombies to go for it, it ruins everyone elses experience. I'd like clearity of this, and if it is considered rank manipulation and or breaking any rules.

Its easy remove all escape maps

But seriously for us to ban for this, what should the critera for this be, its easy to go afk stay in spawn and come back as a zombie. Should we handle cases like this by simply collecting evidence over an extended period of time, cause unlike with other servers this really takes more than one map to add up for rank manipulation, cause that is a very serious offence to tag on to simple retardation or afk.

Yeah, ever since the first case there has been a lot of people throwing around "rank manipulation" accusations... but in all honesty, the first case was settled because it was proven that the defendant was knowingly using a loophole in the system to farm a large amount of kills and/or farm a lot of skill points without dying.


I'm gonna say this for future prosecutors: look at a potential defendant over a period of time to see if it's an exploit that's truly intended... or a player that was just afk