# Warning about the NTCC Noob servers and community **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 14, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/warning-about-the-ntcc-noob-servers-and-community/111822 "2014-08-14T16:34:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lord\_Berkeley](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Lord\_Berkeley](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Lord_Berkeley)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/warning-about-the-ntcc-noob-servers-and-community/111822/1 "2014-08-14T16:34:42Z")
I just want to warn everyone about these servers. They act like they are a very inclusive, mature server, however their admins will ban you without warning or chance of appeal if you express any opinions contrary to their own. The tag line of their website is “the only dominating force should be fun, not other players” Yet, if the other player is an admin they will not hesitate to ruin your fun. I’ll relate the whole story and let you decide how welcoming their community is. As a relative noob to this game, the NTCC server seemed like just the place for me. I played a couple matches and enjoyed myself. Then while trying out a new weapon I found myself dying repeatedly. Pretty normal occurrence, right? Well, like most people in that situation, I became frustrated. Realizing I have only myself to blame for my poor performance, I didn’t want to criticize any of the players who were killing me. So in the chat, I typed “penis” mentally choosing to refrain from cursing, using offensive language, or generally doing anything I thought could be construed as offensive to the other players on the server. I did this because I consider myself to be a polite and courteous gamer. I chose to moderate myself despite seeing more harsh language on display by others. I even will admit that it was unnecessary for me to say anything expressing my frustration. However, I had the false sense that this server was the kind of place where carefree fun could be had as long as it didn’t infringe on other’s fun. Sadly I was about to be proven wrong. Without warning, I received an admin message saying something along the lines of: penis has nothing to do with this game, come back when you grow up. Then I was immediately kicked from the game. So in addition to booting me and costing me the progress of the current game, the admin () felt the need to try to belittle me, a new player and guest on his server. I accepted this as rather mean spirited, but not the worst thing in the world, and attempted to rejoin the server. I waited through the que patiently, only to discover at the end of this wait that I was banned from the server. It seems very unfortunate to me that this kind of deprecating treatment of players occurs on a server advertised to noobs. In all likelihood this server was the very first server some new Battlefield players stumbled into. This kind of unfair treatment very likely occurred against them as well. NTCC Noob servers, with a name and a creed like they claim, should strive to be ambassadors of this game we share a passion for. Instead, they seem more likely to discourage new players, kicking and banning rather than explaining the unspoken rules of the community. This issue was compounded for me by the fact that they were one of the only populated servers when I was playing. If I were a brand new player and found myself insulted, kicked and banned from one of the few servers full of players, I would leave the game behind with a sour taste in my mouth. I realize this mod was fully within his rights to do this. I realize that this server may have a culture where anatomical names said out of frustration may not be acceptable. And finally I realize I was at least partially culpable for neither making it clear what the target of my frustration, nor the meaning of my near-expletive, was. But I also hope this admin, and all the other admins for this server realize they are harming the battlefield community as well as their own server’s community when they arbitrarily and vindictively choose to punish players. In the future, I would hope they at least state their expectations. That way when these expectations might be breached, they will be justified in removing a player from the community they are attempting to cultivate. I hope in the future the admin that treated me in this manner considers that he isn’t just representing himself when he moderates a newbie server, he is creating the first impressions of the game for many many others. I would like to remind him that he is in a leadership position, which comes not only with powers, but responsibilities. In this case responsibility for potentially thousands of brand new players first experiences with the Battlefield game. Let’s try to make it a better one in the future! Edit- Removed the admin’s username in case that is personal information ---
**Author:** ![DoctorWhoovez](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@DoctorWhoovez](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/DoctorWhoovez)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/warning-about-the-ntcc-noob-servers-and-community/111822/2 "2014-08-19T04:51:12Z")
I’ve been playing on NTCC’s servers since I started playing BF3 on PC, and to this day have not had any issues with the admins. I can however, say that if you are an average but have even a really good running killstreak they will kick and temp-ban you. My friend has been banned by them multiple times for having good runs. Another thing, they seem to not moderate the chat at all, other than the auto-bot thing they have. They don’t pay attention to people clogging chat with whining, especially while people are having conversations. Another thing, a couple people were saying that talking about PC’s gets you banned? I can’t confirm this, but this seems pretty redundant, seeing as we’re on PC and all… ---
**Author:** ![Dalemaunder](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dalemaunder](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Dalemaunder)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/warning-about-the-ntcc-noob-servers-and-community/111822/3 "2014-08-25T06:33:52Z")
While I agree with the admin that saying “penis” was unnecessary and without the context of this post seems like just a random bit of spam, I have to say that the insta-ban was a bit overkill, a warning first would not have gone astray. Also, your ban has nothing to do with you being a noob or not, if they kicked you for being 1-10 or something then I can agree but not in this case. ---
**Author:** ![imtheshane](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/59ef9b/32.png) [@imtheshane](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/imtheshane)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/warning-about-the-ntcc-noob-servers-and-community/111822/4 "2014-09-05T20:08:17Z")
"So in the chat, I typed “penis” mentally choosing to refrain from cursing, using offensive language, or generally doing anything I thought could be construed as offensive to the other players on the server. " The first part of that sentence doesn’t jive with the second part of that sentence. While it personally doesn’t offend me, it’s a completely pointless thing to post in the chat. The server says that it’s welcoming to noobs. Noob != immaturity. Being new to the game doesn’t have a single thing to do with typing “penis” into chat. Did you read the server rules? It’s quite possible you didn’t and then violated the rules.