[OLDSCHOOL]

[ai]

Last night, I played on DCC CTF server. There was this guy names Nadz who kept spamming and spamming and spamming 'Nadz nadz nadz (etc.)' AND made a vote covered in the spam that had the text 'kick nadz', but the vote actually was a timelimit -1 (to end the map).
People of course pressed F1 but it wasn't until like the 5th time the map changed people stopped pressing F1.
Then I managed to get a vote in there to kick him, it got accepted but as I didn't see and ban vote (didn't work at least to vote for it) he came back.
He tried this time to get the master command but it always failed. I did more vote commands as soon as this one timed out or got rejected. He was kicked several times but of course came back.

I would actually want master status on such servers to stop idiots like that. Eventually I believe he got banned. I left the server and came back after a while and he was gone, then I saw someone named Mr Green to have master status so I believe it was him who banned him. I actually tried to vote to become master myself but I failed to understand the proper vote command and vhelp didn't help me to understand any better how to make that command.

I even when to IRC and asked if there was any DCC masters/admins but it was late at night and wasn't surprised no one answered.
So to ANY DCC admins I would like to request to become a master. I have had master status on both div0's servers and Esteels .de, however I don't know if passwords changed so don't know if I still have it (and if I do I most surely have forgot the passwords ;p). Would like to have it there as well though (on the planetnexuiz.de), as Lazy Dog no longer exists I believe.

I don't play too often but I do hope to playing a bit more often. And I'm pretty much always available on IRC so one could just highlight me if a troublemaker is on those servers.
Cheers.

[Sepelio]

I second ai on that as well. The nadz guy has been a real pest as of late and its difficult to actually get him kicked due to the spamming and the fact he always calls a vote as soon as he begins. Ideally we just need more of the active players as admins to kick the nastier ones, we aren't trying to turn the game into a police state.

[C.Brutail]

iirc I've banned the guy once for a week.

So it wasn't enough for him.

Tell him, if you see him ingame, he'll get a ban for ONE MONTH next time.

[TVR]

... spammers, team fraggers, to-winning-team-switchers ...

Any server could enable flood protection, disable friendly fire, enable autoteam or team shuffle.

... trolls ...

Only verbal trolls remain, a mute/kick vote will pass if such troll is truly irritating, because then a majority of people are actually reading the chat & will see the vote.

... we just need more of the active players as admins ...

Paradoxically, anyone who is sufficiently well-known and trustworthy, does not play the Nexuiz on a regular basis, ie everyone who reads this post.

... I actually tried to vote to become master ...

'cmd vote master', or 'vmaster'.

But the most comprehensive usage of player masters is in Sauerbraten, where the first person on a server can claim master, and if the master is cheating or otherwise inept, players will join another server if they care to.

[RoKenn]

Any server could enable flood protection, disable friendly fire, enable autoteam or team shuffle.

Flood protection? Is in place, but can't handle the grey zone between legitimate chat and spam.

Friendly fire? It is possible to switch off the possibility to laser team mates into space? You found a way to prevent someone from taking the enemy flag and go into hiding without ever capturing?

Automatic Balancing? Just sucks.

Paradoxically, anyone who is sufficiently well-known and trustworthy, does not play the Nexuiz on a regular basis, ie everyone who reads this post.

My favourite CTF server has at least 3 masters who play quite regularly and 3 masters who show up not so often.

... I actually tried to vote to become master ...

'cmd vote master', or 'vmaster'.

Unless it is disabled on the server, which it should. There was too much abuse with it. After all, becoming master is the dream of every troll.

[C.Brutail]

NADZ is btw. banned from DCC Laid Back CTF and NOOB server now for circa 32 million years
In case I don't forget, I'll lower it to a month next week.

[tZork]

Do i have to say this thread is derailing?

[C.Brutail]

Nope. You're right.

[divVerent]

Irrc there's a cross-server banlist under works. But wich servers are using it? I think very few. Imho enabling it cross-world would improve on the situation a lot.

It is not under works, but ready and running.

http://rm.endoftheinternet.org/~nexuiz/bans/index.cgi

This is my ban list URL. Participating servers are NL Simba and mine, however, only.

Cvar settings for it are:

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g_ban_sync_trusted_servers "141.2.16.23 84.245.20.208 81.173.19.154"
g_ban_sync_uri "http://xeno.planetnexuiz.com/banlist.php http://rm.endoftheinternet.org/~nexuiz/bans/"


When you decide to use it, also tell me and merlijn the IP of your server so I can add it to my trusted_servers list (so I get your bans too).

However, this should really not be enabled by default... but we could put commented out lines for it in the default server.cfg, or even better, active lines for it with the trusted servers list empty (so all bans with a set reason get reported to the server, and any other server admin can choose which ones to import by taking the server IPs from the ban list website).

[Flying Steel]

What does someone do if they get on this list unfairly?