Game Server AdminsHere you can find the list of admins on our game servers:
Game Server Admins (see Usergroup "* Game Server Admins *")
The names are the forum user names.
The admins should add their current in-game nickname to the forum user profile mood or comment if they use a different name in forum and in game.
General rules for adminsHere are the golden rules for admins (o.k. the red rules^^)
Obey to them or loose your admin powers.
We started without any rules and only very few admins.
No rules were needed.
But now it seems that the admin powers are abused more and more.
I know many situations may not be so clear.
But please think before you act.
1) Never change the map with admin commands when players are on the serverWe had an incident with 9 players playing on alServ2019.
Some admin and one other player agreed to play a custom map.
The admin said to the players that they should download the custom map.
No other player said something in the chat about the upcoming map change.
The admin changed the map to a custom map with admin command.
On the custom map then only the admin and the other player played for about 10 minutes.
Then another admin changed back to the previous map (which is ok in this case).
And a little later all 9 players were back on the standard map.
So NEVER change a map when other players are connected.
Use !votemap instead.
Then every player can give his statement about the map change.
Asking in chat does not help.
So please send me a PM if you see any other "strange admin stuff"
I just want to describe the problem here quickly so that it won't happen again.
I spoke with the guys and I think it is ok for now if it never happens this way.
2) Use ban and kick only if it absolutely neccessaryNever ban or kick a player just because he hit you or others by accident.
There is a team attack counter which will take care about that too.
Banning and kicking should only be used when players are hurting or killing others intentionally.
You should also have a look first, which player you are about to ban.
Look in HLstatsX for the player history.
Recently a player who played here for a long time got banned.
I don't think he was doing something evil after spending so many hours here.
Only ban someone because of mic spamming when he is doing it intentionally or he is not listening to close his accidental open mic.
You can mute or gag the player instead or just kick him if it is too anoying to mute him in each map again and again.
I don't know if a "sticky" mute is possible somehow.
If you have banned someone, you should add some additional info to the ban on the SourceBans web page if it is appropriate:
http://85.214.222.39/sourcebans/index.phpOnly logged in admins can see these comments on SourceBans.
If you don't already have an account for the SourceBans web page, ask me via PM and I will create one.
3) Never use admin powers to kick tanks or special infectedYou should never kick any infected just because you think the situation is to hard to handle at this moment.
This already was done at least twice by one admin.
If this happens again, admin powers are gone.
So think about before doing that again.
4) Never use admin powers for stupid "funny" thingsSo don't use beacon etc. on players just because you can.
That is not what it is for.
It's ok when you want to test the admin panel to see what is possible.
But test it on players you know and ask them before.
5) Never get into discussions using bad wordsNo admin should ever get into a discussion using very bad words.
No matter for what reason.
If the discussion starts to escaplate, keep calm and e.g. add a little ban so that all the others (and other admins) can see the bad behavior of the other guy.
An admin using such bad words and swearing against any other will lose his admin powers.
This chapter has been added because of a recent chat discussion between one admin and one player.
6) Report certain admin power usageIf you had to use admin powers to solve a problem report that to the players on server so that they don't wonder what is going on.
Then report that to me, so that I could fix possible bugs which caused that problem.
Examples:
- You had to use noclip on players because they were stuck somewhere.
- You had to slay/kick a tank because he was stuck somewhere and the game did not continue.
- Anything else that feels like a bug or glitch or something like that.