TOPIC: Have YOUR say in the BIG ISSUE matter!

Well hacking, because it can just ruin experience of rp'ing and taking the fun out of ssrp then taking all the rewards. I don't think we can do shit to mass RDM and RDA stuff, it happens 24/7 everywhere across servers, some people just tend to join the servers and tend to rule break because they actually find it fun for themselves or just record and upload to youtube "getting banned in 1minute challenge!!!!!", and the staff hmm, won't even argue about it and cause a whole pile of drama here, due to the many f1's when you join it's because there's some staff members just idling afk or asleep and newbie users think that they are actually rp'ing doing 0 fucks which will cause a huge misunderstanding or pointless argument, and sometimes noticing new mods or admins rarely doing mistakes or doesn't know how to handle some of the situation, blaming the trainers.

Mytic wrote: You do understand that that cannot change? Proof will still be needed, and admins will never get the ability to anticheat. You can however record the user hacking and report it to the Lead Team member, something which is already part of the hacking policy.

Raeker wrote: the only way this would work (allowing admins to ban for hacking/banning without anticheat evidence) is if zarp had some sort of automatic evidence recording so that if needed a user could dispute the punishment.

example being perpheads, automatically records demos and it proves very useful in staff situations. while it may prolong situations, it allows them to be performed to a higher standard, with the correct verdict being reached 90% of the time, with a large percentage of ban disputes being denied.

as far as i am aware, it causes no real performance issues, and could somewhat easily be implemented on zarp. it's done client-side, so it should work with relative ease.

Raeker wrote:
It's less catching hackers and more implementing stricter consequences to discourage hacking in the future. Come on just pull a Harvey Weinstein and scare them away.

Hackers but, the scamming rule regarding coin flipping. Coin flips recently have been brought to the forums over scamming many many times. I think there needs to be a solution to this (somehow) maybe by making a default set of rules for everyone to follow rather than players making up the rules, unless agreed upon.

Staffs
not all the staffs are bad some of them are making zarp great and let you rp since they will try to do a f1 as fast as possible to help you but ive seen so many staffs that just jumped around and did nothing while there were mass rdmers mass rulebreakers even if its spammed in chat last time on s3 there was a mass rdaer his realname is hellsdevil and a mod named jason was just trolling instead of even doing anything i even told him there was someone just fucked up that my recording program did not record or else i couldve made a demotion request

Sory for bad ingeliz

This thread is wrong on so many levels. First of all, one of the poll options is "Hackers being punished too lightly." How is that an issue? The issue is hackers in general, not how we deal with thim - if we'd find some solution to solving the hacker issue without having to punish them to begin with then there would still not be a problem.

Second of all, as Max stated this thread is biased. We all know what your opinion is on the matter Fred - I'd much rather someone with a less outspoken opinion on such matters would make a thread such as this one, like that one time Para and Tyler made the poll about the hacker issue.

Thirdly, you describe a solution to the hacking problem as an option, yet you provide no solution to "The usual RDM/NLR/RDA etc" or "Staff".

It's also a fact that this poll will not bring any legitimately useful feedback. What I would like to see would be legitimate numbers and facts, not people's opinions. How many users are bothered by hackers on a weekly basis? How many users are bothered by rulebreakers on a weekly basis? How many users have decided to leave the community over such an issue (although the latter is rather difficult to find out)? Once we know what the problem is, a solution can be proposed.

At first I was going to pick Hacking. Because yes, you may point out that there hasn't been many hackers who are banned on a weekly basis but also how many are blantantly hacking but not banned because anti-cheating them gives no visuals?
I can't count how many hackers I've seen especialy during summer week celebration who were joining solely for the purpose of hacking during events and getting away with basicaly an ez 30M after reselling the said tokens. Don't you think that's a major advantage to know that whenever there was an aim related event they were basicaly given 30M?

Also the fact that there are still hackers even now who abuse of their " god-like aim " to mow down unaware suits users even from miles away by 2-3 tapping them with a PSG-1 at mach speed. There is even more to be said about how hackers can be more annoying than a mass rdmer at spawn because its not their numbers that matter but how long they are allowed to reside. A mass rdmer will only cause havoc in spawn for a bit before they usualy get caught. And even then it's only a minor impact because they just kill you, making you lose nothing, and you just instantly respawn back. Sure it's annoying but its far from being a huge deal especialy considering that most of the time they are 10 years old with terrible aim that you can easily escape by simply running away until an admin takes them away. While a hacker usualy isn't that stupid and will use his hacks to rip expensive items, find hidden printers or have a massive advantage over peoples when raiding/basing for weeks if not months.

But even after all of that, my biggest concern is not hackers. But how distant the Lead Team actualy feels from the community.
Now I don't know what goes on during the actual LT meeting so perhaps this is out of place. But I still believe there is a clear lack of communication beetwen the the higher-ups ( Mostly CM+ since I don't really think SA/HA are given that big of a say unless they are very old trusted members ) and the community.

There has been several issues that were raised in the past months such as the policy regarding hackers. Everyone agrees that something should be done regarding that. There's been a poll made by para and tyler who wanted input regarding the said policy, it gathered over 100+ votes with 70% positive for a change. And yet nothing has changed or rather we've had no news regarding that issue whatsoever even tough the poll has been made over 3 months ago now. And the hacking policy isn't the only problem. But some major issues like when the metal detectors were used as an undestructable barrier that forced player to strafe left and right trough a tight corridor to enter someone's base while peoples were basicaly spamming the ion which was a two shot kill weapon with infinite ammo basicaly rendering 20 cops completly harmless for 15 minutes during a nuke which once again, took months before something was finally done about it. And yet it felt like it was dealt with only because a CM himself experienced it first hand how powerfull and ridiculously op it actualy was.

Now I've been part of this community for only 6 months so I may still be a newcomer for most of you and blantantly calling out the lead team like that may be uncalled for as I lack the experience to tell if you guys have been doing an amazing job for the past years or not. But I still feel like the lead team should be more open to communicate with the community and be more open regarding what their issues is.

Hacking
Just make it PERMANENT, like actually permanent, not a "wait two months, appeal and you're free".
People don't get discouraged to hack, like, if you'll make it perma, first time you get caught there won't be any members (not randoms) hacking, risk is too high.

Raeker wrote:
Everyday I play I at least encounter 1, not to mention the amount of hackers who can hide it so easily because of the limited AC and the stupid policy.

I think there should be a rulechange for the hacking policy. 2nd time you're caught you have no chance of appeal or have to wait a long period of time (like 6 months )

The usual RDM/NLR/RDA etc

My demotion

All 3
Hackers - pure scrum dont deserve a chance
RDM/NLR/RDA - Always have been an issue and always will be
Staff - Not even a team anymore, are so big uped on fucking each other over ruining the team. Also most staff use staff for just there own gain aka to punish stuff that effects them and just them.

Raeker wrote: Walter white
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There are plenty of hackers which we assume are cheating and even more that get away with it.

GmadTheH4cker wrote:
Look whos talking

One reason I would not want instant perma bans for hackers is that if there is no chance of appeal, what is stopping the player from hopping on an alt and continuing to hack? If they have a chance to appeal they have a reason to care somewhat and avoid the additional punishment that would follow with evading their ban.

Hamzah wrote: I only snap all the time now and then. Check my plays TV kid
GmodTroller1
Definitely no snaps or 180 flick headshots or anything

GmadTheH4cker wrote: Wow so impressive you can 180 kill like that's a real challenge!! You need to simmer down a bit to be honest with you, because you did use hacks then you complain about people not being skilled enough with a PSG and having to use a jugg suit yet you cheated to gain an advantage (I remember those consistent instant taps the day you got caught). Another thing I'd like to mention too is how autistic your forum picture and name is, it just makes you look nothing but someone so immature. You should sorta follow on whatever Morgan talked to you about in your steam messages as to why your custom title in-game got changed but that's just my opinion.

I'll give my opinion on this topic once I get on a computer as I am typing this from a phone.

Hard to believe you Fred, are such a high rank and still put hacking as the top option in a way everything seem minor to that. You should know you have to be neutral when making these posts and that includes giving every option a fair chance. I mean when you write something as "Hackers being punished too lightly" and proceed to write a huge issue on Zarp by writing 1 word "Staff" it's pretty obvious most people are going to pick the hacking option.

You're basically using something known as 'Rule Technique' as you've had some bad experiences against hackers and now everyone should feel the same you are, because why would they vote something as boring as "Staff" that says nothing about the problem you're relating to, yet hiding when they could vote for something more fun such as ""Hackers being punished too lightly".


Edit: Oh and btw, you have 4 polls yet there's only two options: Hackers and rulebreaks. However you split rulebreaks into two options with different perspectives. You're trying so fucking hard to get people to vote permaban for hackers that im almost rooting for the hackers to win, lol.