There are servers that are run by immature people with fragile egos who kick and ban people because they’re good. But my
experience has been that the majority of rented servers out there aren’t toxic environments. In most cases, the players who get messed with are doing something wrong, which doesn’t include being good. Usually they are filling the chat with garbage.
I’m not sure what this “boosting bullies” thing is? Are you referring to players who get on a server and boost for weapons/perks etc? Who really cares? Just as long as you earn your stuff legitimately, thats all that really matters.
If you plan on playing BF1 in 6-12 months, I’d get use to the idea that you’ll most likely have to play on rented servers. EA will most certainly start shutting down their official servers after BF5 launches. It will be gradual but you’ll see their numbers dwindling. Players will migrate to rented servers because those servers are on favorites and have the most chance of drawing other players.
i dont play on rented servers anymore, thats my point. I am just pointing out how broken and prone to cheat/abuse rented servers are.
You propose something, I am opposing it. Thats what forums are for.
As a player, I’ve rarely had problems with “badmins”, although when we used to run servers, we did have some players yell badmin due to the ProCon plug-ins kicking/killing players. Those players were unaware of what ProCon does, so I understand why some players became resentful of community servers, especially since ProCon does things so quickly and so impersonally.
There were cases of players joining our servers and not being aware that admins were there to enforce rules. Although there were ample signage and messages, I believe that DICE could have done a better job in the server browser to differentiate an official server vs community servers.
I do not know what are you talking about or where are your experiences coming, but mostly I have seen players boosting before (during BF3-BF4). And Community run servers has better atmosphere and mostly cheater free. At least the ones that are popular. Community servers belong to Battlefield and it’s not taken from you if we have them, as I have commented before that people who wants to play in official servers can play there even there is admin controlled community servers. Or maybe you are one of the guys who are toxic etc and have been kicked out for that. So keep on playing in officials and let us have our RSP with admin control, thank you.
Although I don’t doubt there are a few servers with “badmins”, most servers I’ve played in had reasonable and accommodating admins. I’ve played in some servers where I unintentionally broken the rules, but the admins let me off with a verbal warning.
Most admins I’ve run across are not abusive at all, as it is in their interest to keep their servers populated and to make a good reputation for themselves.
And when I started my own server, the vast majority of player complaints was why we weren’t kicking or banning racists and aimbotters.
Well I decided not to buy it, I have been following the threads here while listening to the guys in platoon/clan and no one is interested in this one at all. Like with BF1 it will be a few of the members buying the game on their own because we dont want to spend money on a server we can’t fully control.
While reading through the forum I havent been able to figure out why DICE wants to kill a big community like BF (was) is, by making the same mistakes twice in a row regarding the server rentals, it really doesnt makes sense to me.
The lack of interest for anything but a modern shooter is purely my own, personal preference when I post about it, but I can hear from players - platoonmates that its all they want, not WW1, nor WW2 absolutely nothing before that at all !
DICE decided against better jugdement to mess around with a working concept, now they will have a hard time selling anything at all to any one but the casual gamer which is IMO counterproductive towards keeping servers up and running, I hereby mean if all servers is official there is no reason to be “loyal” towards visiting the same server with those settings/maps and rules we who rented it like to play by. This will result in empty servers most of the time and if they also make a matchmaking system as bad as they managed last time I will be playing against japanese players with a ping of 49152 !
I sent a tweet to @dan_mitre on October 9th…no reply.. I then sent another tweet October 11th (no reply) ..was peaved off with the whole situation, so I decided to cut communication …I dought we will get some sought of a reply regarding the RSP..To claim that no one knows what’s going on with this issue at this point in time will be a outright lie…so I guess they would rather say nothing as appose to fibing …
I have over 3k hours played in bf4. Mostly lone wolfing.
I’ve seen a badmin maybe twice.
Even though I’m a total admins are never an issue. If they are for you, than I’m pretty sure it’s more than justified and you should stop whining and blaming everyone else and maybe think about what you’re doing wrong to make everyone hate you.
Also there’s no one stopping you from renting a server of your own and imposing your own set “fair” rules
For those who scream, “badmin”, and for those who don’t like to be kicked or banned, just stay out of community servers.
How hard is this?
Why insist on going into community servers, where you know an admin will be there to enforce rules.
Just stay out.
