Seeing as we are undoubtedly going to have to endure the terrible feature of rent a server can we please have the following.
Filters so we can remove all the servers with dumb weapon rules etc.
Rate a server. I guess people will say this is open to abuse but some system needs to be in place to discourage badmins.
Then this last one isn’t a tool but I’d like to see stats split. We can have overall stats and then stats for official no rules servers and stats for dumb rules to help you pad your stats servers. I would also like to see stats broken down to how you do on each map. Could be used for team balancing.
First of all, DICE hasn’t said if servers will be rentable. Secondly, they haven’t said if admins will have any control if they are rentable. This is a major issue and this information needs to be released sooner than later.
Now, rating a server is a DUMB idea because people will hardly ever upvote a server but it is easy to get people to downvote a server. So for this main reason, DICE won’t implement this. They even removed the ability for people to report servers from BF4 because they probably got too many reports from trolls or troublemakers who were legitimately kicked or banned from servers.
So don’t expect the ability to rate servers. It is not likely to happen.
What’s dumb about wanting to avoid bad servers? If someone runs a server fairly I really don’t think it will get many down votes. As for people not up voting. Well no vote could be considered an up vote.
Even with the potential for abuse which I already mentioned it should still be easy to tell which servers are recommended.
In fact I seem to remember there being a thread on the forums ages ago with recommended servers as well.
If you find a good server you fav it and go back more and more etc etc, I think people would upvote a server and yes you will get but hurt badmins players that will down vote.
But if you only let each player hit like/dislike once for a server (they can change it after if wanted) and not have the ability to spam likes or dislikes, you would effectivly get every ones votes across lots of servers and you would see if that server was in general good or bad. Im pretty sure if you play on a server with fair admins you would click your like button.
The amount of people that always try to find a good server would strenthen this mechanic and for the people who just want to dislike for no reason could if they wanted but there votes would easily be diluted by all the real votes.
lets face it how hard is it going to be to rally around and try to get 500 players to just dislike a server because you were banned you couldnt, but if that server is a generally good server and you have to give a vote you would like it and go back to it thats what people do already without the like they constantly go back to fav servers. it would work