In case you're serious: Saxtoner is a mod for TF2, similar to vsSaxtonHale, but with multiple bosses. First video which popped up: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbrvCaORiw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbrvCaORiw</a> @Snelvuur: Hmm, I guess that would indeed cut down on the amount of useless admin calls. On the other hand it might be a bit... dangerous to only allow specific people to call for admins. I guess you could just try it on one server, and look if you get any negative reactions.
Well then people would also gain something with it.. the possibility to do a actual calladmin.. I could actually check if the person is registered on the forum with the steamid and has at least 1 post, then allow it (regardless of what tag he has) i think that would be a better option.
It has its pros and cons. Restricting people from calling unless they are on the forum might cause people to get annoyed. For example if there is actually a cheater on the server, and no one has |LZ|, then its hard for people to do anything. Other side of the story, it might encourage people to sign up so they feel they are more apart of the community by having this new fancy feature to use. See what others say
I like the idea for that! plus if we get an admincall abuser, we can easily get him on the forums as well, since he had to registrate and post. these kind of suggestions are better imo.
@alias: if your registered on the forum it would already allow you to do a calladmin, because we cant enforce people wearing the LZ tag if they want to call for a admin. For instance if you have some clan folks that just want to play on our server as regulars then they would not be allowed. You dont want this, hence just a steamid + 1 post and it should be allowed then. But we need to get saxtoner fixed, basicly we dont even have to enforce steamid+post for the !calladmin if the servers are running good. The amount of tf2 calls just for the saxton servers alone is like 90%.. we need to find a sollution. So if people call for a admin because of a lot of issues with player, install some kind of vote/kick/ban system so we dont have to.
Seriously, what do we gain with more people only registering on the forum to be able to use !calladmin? Check how many low count post users we already have. Restricting the ability to call an admin will probably give grievers/cheaters/micspammers the time of their life. Imagine: "Helpdesk, how can I help you?" "My computer just crashed, help me fix it !" "Did you register on our forum sir?" "Forum? No, why?" "You need to register on the forum before I am allowed to help you" ".........." Yeah... that would probably work out just fine ! :lol: Whats next? Admins that will need to have at least 1000 posts before they are allowed to respond to calls? /sarcasme off I understand what you're trying to archive but I don't think this is the way to do that. Reward players that register on another way, like their own chat color for instance or the right to use nominate/rtv or whatever simple things that are available. Some some thing for players that donate thought.
Well we do get a lot of spam from calladmins too, this would just reduce those numbers. Ok let me rephrase it then, perhaps put this on the saxton/saxtoner servers.. (after saxtoner is fixed though)
A lot of those calls are legit though. Everyone should be able to use calladmin, just as khadgar said. We should think of other ways of getting people here. Dont get me wrong, I don't have any groundbreaking ideas, but forcing people is the wrong way to go. Maybe a change of the whole website layout to make it look more inviting and all... ach I don't know... :lol:
Well putting it on Saxton is the worst thing for trying out. On the AM maps, admin calls are rarely made, and if they are they are usually done while regs are also on the server. There it wouldn't be a problem, and therefore barely any gain.
Well i do think we can force certain aspects, i see no problem in that. After all we put effort in the community as admins and all kinds of other work. I wont enforce something bad though.. but yeah everybody should be able to call for a admin but i rather want to have a blacklist then, of people that CANT call for a admin then ;p It would be nicer if you do !calladmin, and a person gets a message like "you have been reported by a admin" but then again if its a cheater he leaves.. blergh thing is with changes, nobody comes up with ideas.. so far i've seen negative feedback on several ideas but i dont see any other ideas too.. I know the LZ tag we will enforce that with being registered on the forum, purely so we dont have weird |LZ| folks running around creating a bad name.. because they would never do the effort anyways. (and besides, almost all regulars have at least 1 post anyway)
What about the possibility of using special skins? I know a server which has a Shop system where you can buy skins for every class, like a Dell Conagher skin for the Engineer, Aperture Science style skins for every class... Someone in the community that knows how to do these kind of stuff might do exclusive LZ skins.