SL Disregarding Direct Orders

**Brendan1962** · 09-04-07, 04:14 PM

ahhhhhhhhhh, but there is nothing quite like

Brendan1962: ADMIN, blah won't follow orders.

ADMIN: Kicking blah. Follow orders or you will be banned.

Makes you feel kinda proud. Douche bags.

I know what you mean though. Last game I commanded, I had to pull my attack squad off for defense. Ridiculous.

**Turtlesexx** · 09-04-07, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by QuickLightning53

When he said "get over yourself" it was in the mic I believe. I remember Joker talking about it but I never saw it in any chat. And the guy was in that Vipers squad (he was the only member in fact, if you are able to look that up it'll be easy enough to identify him... Since his name seems to be rather odd or cut off in the screenie). I believe Joker mentioned he had played here before and should -know- how to follow the rules so maybe joker remembers the guy's name.

I was bitching at them trough text to get the hell off of our titan but they wouldn't leave. I was trying to get in contact with you Joker to see if you were telling them to stay or not but by that time the round was over.

**KromMonkey** · 09-04-07, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by joker23

Yeah, I think that we met the a**hat quota for the month this weekend. I hate commanding when it is like that; but on two other maps I had squads that obeyed orders, and it was beautiful. It makes up for it ...

Amen Joker, Maybe it was due to the holiday weekend but we had our fair share of lonewolf's and cretins romping on our server!
I rarely play during the day and must say the gameplay was slightly askew to what I am accustomed to during the evening bouts.

...Ban'em all and let BigDog sort'em out!

**Benandorf** · 09-04-07, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by KromMonkey

...Ban'em all and let BigDog sort'em out!

Hey, that's my line!

**mattscooby** · 09-04-07, 10:23 PM

ok is it just me here , or any oen else have trouble abotu early evening time on here , i mean about 5-7 pm .
its like this , get here 7-when ever , games are great.
earlier , and well , forget been commander , forget team work , i was on there about 5 pm today till about 6 till wife arived .
and i had only 3 squads , ok server was not at its fullest , but squad 1 , not sure on names should have taken note , was awsome .
2& 3 was terrible , all i got from 3 was cant do it , repeatedly .
so as that happened , we got hammered , i dont think i scored so low on this server as a commander for a long tim for that reason .
it was terrible .
it was nearly as bad as my gramma here .
so i sticking to later evenings here if i am able too .
better games by far .
later all .

**sjt17** · 09-05-07, 10:25 AM

The problem is more than just squad leaders not following orders - it's systemmic in the non TTP online gamers attitude...

I dealt with this all night last night.

The only way I know to fix it is for us that are here on the web and for us that communicate to always seek a position of power.

An admin/reservist should always seek the commanders position, and then squads should be headed by admins/reservists as much as possible. Meaning you may have to break out of your squads/crew/clans to help the commander, and help the game.

Big and I haven't been in the same squad consistently for about two weeks now - we need you guys to spread the wealth and do the same.

All that said, don't take any gruff from these fucks who don't want to play together. Verbally abuse them, get the admins attention - be PROACTIVE, don't give up!

We keep doing what we do till we educate the whole world.

**nsRaven** · 09-05-07, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by sjt17

The only way I know to fix it is for us that are here on the web and for us that communicate to always seek a position of power.

An admin/reservist should always seek the commanders position, and then squads should be headed by admins/reservists as much as possible. Meaning you may have to break out of your squads/crew/clans to help the commander, and help the game.

The only problem with that is now you will have squad members not listening to squad leaders and when they get tired of being yelled at to follow orders my guess is the major offenders will still create their own squad until the max number of squads is reached.

Originally Posted by sjt17

All that said, don't take any gruff from these fucks who don't want to play together. Verbally abuse them, get the admins attention - be PROACTIVE, don't give up!

This would probably work better if an admin kick goes along with it for those refusing to follow server rules. I'm not saying make it permanent policy to always kick or they would never learn the proper way to play as a team, but maybe think of it like a police checkpoint. Randomly enforce the server rules with a kick for a day or two every so many days or weeks.

**Angellmajick** · 09-05-07, 01:35 PM

I switch up my squads a lot...I enjoy meeting new people and helping new people learn the game. Some nights, I want to play with friends though, I want the jokes while we are playing...I want to destress.

lately it has been really hard to play as commander on this server. Getting people to listen, just hurts. I have no problem talking to people and telling them over and over to follow orders...but they also mute you.

And as much as I love the whispers of death...they also get old. It is kind of funny when an admin is commanding because you see half your team just start to dissappear.

yes, you can call for an admin, but unless there is one in the server, I won't call more than 2x...I think I have a pretty good idea of who admins are...and I have some good guesses at ones that aren't public...but it still gets old.
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you can have regs take every squad lead position, but then you have a lot of 2-3 person squads, if everyone still joins one. I asked in another thread awhile ago while Laggy was trying to get people to spread out if it was possible to change the number of squads....

I ask again, can you change the max number of squads? On a 24 person team, you don't need 8 squads...I agree with QL that people will just leave your squad and start their own, chaning numbe of squads can help limit that.

I don't know...just thoughts, this past week has been really frustrating with people on the server...I have met a few new people that are worth a damn (rinSorol) but not many...

**QuickLightning** · 09-05-07, 01:55 PM

I think off peak hours have been pretty bad. We get a lot of players that are just here to mess around and totally disregard anything anyone above them in the chain of command says. I pretty much always try to squad lead now because I got annoyed with the squads I joined having absolutely no communication.

If you don't tell me where you're going or why you're not with your squad at all times, be it typed out or said in the mic, you're in the fast lane to getting a kick from my squad now.

On another note... Could everyone please try to call out anyone in your squads that goes on Titan defense when your squad is supposed to be on offense or silos? It is EXTREMELY frustrating to have players that are not part of your squad jumping around the titan when you are throwing nades on defense.

Of course this results in a number of TKs and punishments from these players thinking we are really playing a game of fetch and chasing any of the nades we throw and jumping on them.

It is also really frustrating as a commander to hear the defense squad have to ask me to get them off and it takes time away from checking silos and giving out orders.

**FrauBlucher** · 09-05-07, 02:13 PM

I agree -- and I have found that getting verbally berrated and belittled, by all levels, is absolutely no fun.....

It is actually quite a turn off and makes one not want to even try or step up under certain situations....

I know as Commander / SL / SM, that my stupid ass / dick sucking / worst player ever seen butt, should just take it like a "man"....but it does get old after a while

For some reason Angel and I bring out the best in people :P perhaps it is our preteen voices and lack of balls :P

As far as the squad limit...i think we said..what 4 to 6 squads max? of course without admin intervention you may be stuck with a crap ass SL and can't do shiese about it due to squad limit (i.e. go off and make a new one)....so the cap might cause more probs/heartache than its worth

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Originally Posted by Angellmajick

Some nights, I want to play with friends though, I want the jokes while we are playing...I want to destress.

lately it has been really hard to play as commander on this server.
And as much as I love the whispers of death...they also get old.