Zero i'm requesting an option to be looked into and possibly changed

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Well i have been playing for awhile and 3 months ago i'm starting to see problems with ranks manipulations...

Ok, hold the phone, right there is your issue: you actually care about rank. Why? If you're hanging around because rank is important to you, you're missing out on the real fun. But to each their own, so moving right along..

there are a couple of regulars i knwo who were convicted in this rank manipulation: from what i know it means a player spawns after the zombie spawn time, in order to become a zombie and tag all humans to benefit his or her rank.

There's a big assumption at play here: that tagging humans is always an easy give-away for the offending player. Why make this assumption? We're both veterans of the server, have both been admins, are long-time players, and we both know that assumption is absolutely not true.

Also, it used to be that you could only join a round as a zombie if-and-only-if you joined the game late, and only joined late during the first minute or so. And that if you were playing, left and returned, you were slayed for playing the same round twice. Is this not still the case? This should be enough to deter anyone that would try to "abuse" rank.. although this scenario is really not an example of rank abuse at all. At most it could be ghosting abuse, which deserves its own discussion altogether.

however, i didn't know u can improve ur rank as a zombie.

You can't be serious.

in conclusion i see the simplest solution to fix this problem and that is to make those zombie tags not count at all. for example:
-if a human kills a zombie (3 points) those points will count for his or her rank.
-if a zombie kills a human, that zombie will get a point BUT it will not count for his of her rank. its should be the same as getting 1,000 points in that Atix trick using a poison zombie. though it will show that that player got 1,000 points in the Tab-scoreboard, but will not count for his or her rank.

In conclusion, you need to back that ass up, alex. Playing as zombie isn't always a walk-in-the-park free rank boost giveaway. With ZERO's casual tweaks of zombie knockback, zombie health, jump height and whatnot over time, it can take just as much work and skill as a zombie to beat humans as it takes for humans to defend against zombies. It all depends on the map and the players on the server.

Why not reward that skill the same as the human players, who more often than not have an incredible advantage on all maps in the server, and certainly many of the ones that players vote and admins pick?

• A generous amount of time to set up and coordinate at the start of every round,
• long-range weapons with reasonable damage levels,
• fire grenades that can last up to 40-50 seconds,
• zombies that give an audible moan to give away location, and
• barricades that can't always be pulled apart with zombie push/pull..

..humans tend to have the odds stacked in their favor, and it just keeps getting harder and harder for zombies as ZERO continues to tweak the zombie settings. The zombie side of things seems fine as it is, in my opinion, at least.

Why not reward the underdog, the player who, as zombie, comes from nothing and undoes everything?

i feel that if we cannot change this, we may lose some good regulars and/or maybe even some admins

Name some names, then. Who cares about rank so much that they would rather leave the server than play at all? They may not be players we would want to stick around anyway.