Thread: Server Rules and Policies

[size=24px]#1. Play with your team.[/size]

Call of Duty 4 is an objective based, team-oriented game. It's a shame that so many servers are full of one-man hero's and the idea that the only time to play as a team is in a match. This server exists to end all of that. If you want to be a rogue, or you think you play better alone‚ then go buy a single-player game, and go do that. On our server, you WILL play WITH your team, or you WILL be punished. Use your mic, follow the leader (or be the leader), and get the objectives completed.


[size=24px]#2. Communicate with your teammates.[/size]

There is more to do in an online game than to simply trudge through it solo. If you want to play by yourself, without saying, typing, or responding to anything‚ why are you doing that in a MULTIPLAYER SERVER? If a request is made of you, answer. If you are being spoken to, respond. If you want to talk with your friends through external VOIP to the detriment of communicating with your team, go play somewhere else. If the only communication skills you can muster are insults to your teammates, mutiny against the organization of the team, or to purposefully cause conflict, such as spamming your microphone with music or singing, be prepared for punishment by the admins. Nothing is taken more seriously than an insult to the team, and spamming your microphone with “Shutup! I'm in CAL. You guys are noobs" is about as bad as it gets.

[size=24px]#3. Pursue your objective, or die trying.[/size]

Call of Duty 4 is a game of capturing and destroying objectives and holding points. Your objective is to work as a team and win the game. You CAN NOT just kill everyone and win. You CAN NOT sit in your spawn the whole game and win. Focusing on your personal KD, or your own statistics while forsaking the team sets a bad example for team play, and is thus a problem for the server. Regardless of what you think the game is about, the fact is, if you don't complete the objective, you lose. Focus on the objectives, and high scores will follow naturally. This involves many different strategies, including holding critical choke points, suppressing the enemy's ability to move freely within specific areas, and coordinating with the team to capture objectives, set up defensive lines, etc.

It is difficult to define camping in the context of Call of Duty 4, since the game requires complex strategies of defending and holding territory, the use of stealth, and precise timing, so it will be judged on a case by case basis. Camping, by definition, is remaining in a specific area only to take enemies by surprise, however offering no strategic advantage to the team, other than to pad your personal KD.

An example of camping would be:

- Being in a position to take a CP, especially when if it is not taken your team will lose, and NOT taking it, simply because you are worried about being seen, or dying. Worrying about LOSING should come BEFORE worrying about dying.

Camping is NOT simply sitting in one place for a long time. That is a definition for simpleton games like Unreal and Quake. It's an outdated definition that does NOT apply here. If you are able to hold your position for an extended time period because you have teammates guarding your flanks, and keeping you supported, then you go ahead and give the enemy hell. You and your team's coordinated efforts are shutting down the enemy's ability to advance and secure objectives/CPs, which thus enhances your team's ability to win.

If you are camping in a manner that does not benefit your team, you will know by the complaints and insults hurdled your way. If you know something that your team doesn't, such as WHY you feel you are JUSTIFIED in holding that position, all you have to do is speak up, calmly, and explain yourself. Your team, if they are true teammates, even if they are admins, have a responsibility to listen to your goals and ideas just as much as you do to theirs. Teamwork is a two way street, so be sure to communicate, and do so often, especially if you think you may be considered a camper. If you are communicating and justifying your actions to your team, then you are immune from punishment from the admin. If the team feels that you are wrong, and a majority of them agree.......then you will will be dealt with accordingly. The admin is about making the server happy. Not individual players. Keep that in mind.

In addition, if you are consistently camping, promoting camping, and losing while camping, expect the admin to take notice and become involved. The admin will become involved immediately when outbreaks of unjustified camping occur, and will do what admins do by issuing warnings, slapping, slaying, and perhaps even kicks and/or bans. Though we are reluctant to punish any one player for doing as his team does, we will identify and persecute the chief campers quickly, and move down the ladder from there.

Keep in mind, we are NOT asking you to run off into your deaths. But we ARE asking you to play Call of Duty 4. This is not Quake. This is not Doom. This is not Unreal. If you want to stand around and shoot at things, then go do it by yourself. We are a high traffic server with a LOT of people waiting in line to get on. If you don't play, and play hard, then why are you wasting our slots?

Get out there and play. Fight for those objectives, capture enemy CPs, and hold your ground. Call out desperately for reinforcements, set up your defenses, and win. Above all things, win.

[size=24px]#4. Abusive conduct cannot be tolerated.[/size]

If you are an abusive player, with insulting communications with your team, and purposely playing to lose, expect to be punished very quickly and harshly. However, since we are a mature server, occasionally it will be the responsibility of members of the team to speak out against slow acting, weak, or ignorant players (such as those not holding valuable territory, persistent campers, etc). The admins would GREATLY APPRECIATE the team to take care of it's own problems, rather than having to step in and start burning people alive and kicking problem players. All players are encouraged to speak clearly and calmly to get their team on the same page, however the server understands that some people just don't listen. In these cases, some yelling and screaming may be involved. The admin will make a judgment depending on the circumstances for any case of abuse resulting in a hostile playing environment. Should you feel that the admin is the cause of the abuse, feel free to post such comments in our abuse forum.

If you are a player being berated by your teammates, instead of jumping up and shouting back, listen to their complaints. Did you block the door? Are you not assisting in taking flags when you are able to do so? Are you selling out the team strategy? Then you deserve to be criticized, and you should modify your playing style to help the team, rather than defending your non-teamplayer attitude. The admin can always solve the problem easily in this situation. The problem isn't the yelling and cursing....the problem is you, the non-teamplayer, and you will be removed from the server.


[size=24px]#5. Punkbuster doesn't do everything.[/size]

Cheating is rampant in any multiplayer game. Though not as rampant in the Battlefield franchise.....they didn't add punkbuster functionality for nothing. Though PB is hopefully catching and banning a significant portion of hackers, that doesn't eliminate the need for admins to make their own judgements. Of course, obvious hacks that increase speed, or exploiting the game in order to move through walls or under buildings are easily detected and dealt with by admins. However, occasionally you meet a player who not only cheats, but knows how to do so without being very obvious. Though you may not know who the admins are, you should know that there is rarely a moment that the server is populated without at least 1 admin present. Should you feel someone is cheating, feel free to say so out loud, so that an admin can find and remove the player from the server.

Our decision to ban someone is based on a variety of things. Principally, it's based upon the opinions of SEVERAL admins, and at least all admins present on the server at that time. Rarely will anyone be banned by the decision of any single admin. Also, our bans are usually held off on until a larger investigation can be made into the suspicious player's statistics. Once enough information has been gathered, either by admins spectating the player, questionable anomalies in the player's statistics, and other issues, a decision to ban will be made.

It is important for us to point out that we don't want to ban anyone. We are not some punk server run by children who are here to pwn noobs and speek leet. We are here to play and manage the game. If we banned everyone that was good, we'd have to ban half our admins. If you get banned, and you think we're crazy, by all means, make a post in the banned forums about it. We'll listen. In fact, we've unbanned dozens players who made legible, clear, and open explanations or statements about their bannings.

Things to do that can get you punished, kicked, and/or banned on the server.

#1. Cheat, or refuse to reasonably explain yourself when questioned about cheating. Explanations do not include the phrases "Shutup noobs, I'm in CAL. I pwn."

#2. Say nothing but insults in the chat and mic, especially about teamplay. Spamming your mic, the text chat, or the voice command system with useless jabberings will be punished quite harshly.

#3. Refuse to help your team.

#4. Blatantly challenge the authority of the admin.

#5. Modify your displayed ping using abnormal rates.

#6. Exploit defects of the game to provide an unfair advantage over other players. This includes disconnecting and immediately reconnecting to circumvent the automatic time-out that occurs after 5 incurred teamkills.

#7. Team Killing. Obviously, accidents happen, and accidental teamkills do occur. However, irresponsible use of indiscriminate weaponry, or intentional teamkills for any reason, will earn you an immediate ban.

In the event that your account is banned by VAC, Punk Buster, or any other third party software installed on our servers, you will be required to appeal to those developers. Only then, if your ban is lifted you will be granted an appeal and be required to submit an unban request in the banned forums. If you are not able to resolve this issue with those developers, you are to remain banned from all TTP property indefinitely. TTP has zero tolerance for people that choose to cheat.

If any of you get kicked by an admin for "Even teams" or "team balance" then don't worry. That is just us admins doing our jobs.

You are being kicked by an admin so that they can juggle the teams and make them even by score.

This is the only way that we as admins have at the moment to help balance the teams by score.

Why is balancing the teams by score so important? Because bottom line, it makes playing the game more enjoyable for everyone. Sure, it's great to be on the winning team, but you all know it sucks to be on the team getting stomped all over.

We understand that being kicked to do help balance the teams is frustrating. We understand that it sucks.

So do us a favor, if you see an admin or another player saying the teams are uneven and would someone please switch? Help them out, if you are on the winning team go spec and let someone with a low score switch over.


Also understand that this is now server policy.

What does that mean? It means that we as admins have the responsibility to keep the teams even. And we have to do that with the tools we have at our disposal (which are console chat and kicks).

So if you get kicked for team balance? Don't come back cursing the admins. I don't expect you to be all sunshine an roses about it. You can complain about it. But keep it light and brief. Complaining, bitching or moaning about being kicked for even teams will be a one way ticket to the banned forums. In all likelihood, if you are kicked for balance there has already been another player or admin asking if the teams could be even. You could have helped out then.

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