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Quality judgement without objectivity (tests) and metrics is like chasing your own tail. What is a good "quality", "experienced" player 500h, 1000h, 2000h, 10,000h , 100,000h; or is it no. of kills, or no. of successful landings, or no. of AOs without getting killed, no. of complex minefields deployed, miles driven without hitting any rocks, no. of correctly applied quickclots , dBs of laughter when you miss-throw a nade ? Whom i like is not "quality" is love <3. And one must be a hell of a stud to love 30 ppl at a time. *play Op Flashpoint again to re-discover the true spirit of ARMA ! The character was always fighting alongside people he didn't know, strangers he didn't know whether to trust or not, always outnumbered and outgunned, always questioning himself, the plan, the others, always geared with anything he could get his hands on, always having partial or no intel about what was going on. The atmosphere created was "real". The plot got thicker with every mission. There was always something deeper, something looming beyond the mission, beyond the war, it perfectly related to the era the game was portraying, to 50 years of daily reality in people's lives in E. Europe. That made the game special and unique among thousand others. It is an art form to transpose that in a multiplayer environment but since it can only be done in coop mode and given the number of artistically inclined people in here i think you could be the first to truly do that, if only ...* ps

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1 listening to all sides is a major prerequisite for any improvement (and not any personal vendetta) 2 the truth also 3 "warnings" instead of teaching him something about advanced models flight characteristics / AO veteran approach tactics etc obviously didn't improve anything 4 as a "veteran", getting shot down by a BMP (not an AA asset) didn't teach the kid by example much either, disconnecting right after the "wrong doing" (avoiding thus any kind of responsibility) taught him even less and he picked up on it, behaving exactly the same way later, once himself got shot down 5 after 1h , finding the desired slot taken by the kid and starting a "personal vendetta", still not giving him any advice but continuously looking for evidence of wrong doing (even while you were offline!?!) while he was trying to play his role and do his job of flying people and equipment wasn't helpful at all. You did not want to teach the kid anything at that moment, you just stood there watching him fail, that's the truth. "Tacticool, milsim-ish" = we don't just watch friendlies fail and die, right ? 6 make an objective, transparent, tough test, like a pilot's license, everyone takes it if wants to be certified and allowed to fly, once the pilot gets his license then all trolling and picking on must be completely stopped 7 judging an idea based 100% on the issuer and not the content is a major lack of "professionalism and focus on improvements" plan B :"Kid i see you would like to fly. In this server we have strict rules about slotting and advanced flight model assets. If you want to learn i could teach you a lot at x o clock on the x of July if you desire , because the server is usually empty then" plan C:"Kid i see you would like to fly. In this server we have strict rules about slotting and advanced flight model assets. But i am sure, given that the server is almost empty, nobody would truly mind a veteran taking a kid as co-pilot and teaching him something useful. Hop in as co-pilot for 10 min, but not more, because the rules must still be enforced here" etc. If he refuses and still trolls, shoot him in the head, report him and perma-ban him like the worst kind of traitors deserve. just the little devil's advocate point of view (overemphatic, against the tide, lacking omnibenevolence, omnisciently delusional, suicidely non dogmatic, indisputably black sheep-ish) ...

The dark side is that the decision led to one unhappy customer but the bright side is that maybe a nice solution for the side-missions reward system issue might come out from the open discussion.

I stand term-wise corrected. The common place is that the server admins keep an eye on things and catch offenders, that is why common people call for "admins" and not "zeus-level players" for "policing" duty. But now that the contextual distinction in terms is clear to me i won't misuse it in the future. I know and appreciate that the work is voluntary as i have done it myself without any paycheck.