Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Registered Member #578 Joined: [ 23:05 ] [ 01 Aug 2004 ] Posts: 6
I'm sorry that my first post here has to be a rant but here it goes
Ok, it's really annoying when people use exploits/map bugs to gain advantages in the race maps. Perfect example is Dakar Rally. I'm racing along like people should be and we get to the first flag and everyone hops in a car and boosts over to get a plane. I like to actually race in the race maps, then in the final minutes after the last flag is capped it's fun to screw around. Is it possible to punish the people that are ruining my and other people's fun on the server? I think it would be a novel idea to do a 1 day ban first time people use exploits so they can just screw around in planes and such, second time they do it, two days, third time they do it, 4 days (2x2=4), then fourth time they do it 16 days (4x4=16) and so on and so forth. What is everyone elses opinion on this issue?
Next up is people stealing cars in maps like Ruined Vacation. People crash and burn on the first jump and then they just sit on the first island with wrenches in hand appearing to be kind enough to help you repair your car should it get damaged on the first jump (which happens often). You get out, then they come up and start repairing with you and then they get in and steal your car. That is BULLSH!T! (sorry about that). It's quite annoying. It's kind of like the kids on the border to Mexico that run up to your car at the stoplight do a crappy job on washing your windshield and then stick their hands in your car trying to grab whatever they can while the light is still green and you have to floor it so they get off your car so you can actually go. (woo, long sentence).
What about having a little 'dropbox' of sorts on the board where people can drop screenshots of bad behaviour on the server... or 'first hand accounts' like the experience just above.
Registered Member #96 Joined: [ 17:41 ] [ 19 Mar 2004 ]
yea, happens a lot of skylines the limit. people just fly to the end in there car, and dont even race. wish it was like the good ol days, as so does every1 else.
Registered Member #28 Joined: [ 14:33 ] [ 27 Feb 2004 ]
Hey Blackdog, was on the server with you the other night and you seemed a really cool guy, so am going to take your ideas to the admins, but i can tell you that we have plans for sorting out all the noobish shit that goes on in the server, BTW have you seen this http://www.is82.com/forum_viewtopic.php?3.7233..... so really am sick of it too, and you can take it from me, it will be sorted!
Also, about the stealing the car thing.. this exact thing happened to me while playing at the server last time. All you have to do is minimize battlefield, come to this site, get the persons keyhash, and give it to an admin, and they will be punished. I was able to get the person who did it to me banned for a few days.. Maybe they'll think before doing it again ;-)
Registered Member #578 Joined: [ 23:05 ] [ 01 Aug 2004 ]
Sean wrote ... Blackdog, I agree with your ideas.
Also, about the stealing the car thing.. this exact thing happened to me while playing at the server last time. All you have to do is minimize battlefield, come to this site, get the persons keyhash, and give it to an admin, and they will be punished. I was able to get the person who did it to me banned for a few days.. Maybe they'll think before doing it again ;-)
Hey thanks, didn't know that. Was confused at first but realized that the hash keys are on the game server stats page for those who also didn't udnerstand at first. thank for the replies I have really enjoyed this server.
Thinks like these come under the new shortcut rules, however an admin has to be on the server at a time to do anything about it. Hopefully a new version of Dakar will be coming out with improvements.
Registered Member #83 Joined: [ 17:26 ] [ 14 Mar 2004 ]
Yea.....Hope so. It aint any fun raceing when the noobs cheat and cap the flag. It`s like the game is over when they do. So I say OUT WHIT THE CHEATERS!