Really suspicous happenings on the Hard Corps SF server

[puglous]

I'm not sure whether to report this, because I'm not sure if this was just a mess up by the server runners or if they are somehow padding their win/loss ratios with this? The rounds on this server would last about 20 seconds, so the team which had more tickets in the beggining would always win. They did, however, swap teams every round, which makes me doubt it was a form of stat padding otherwise they'd very quickly have to switch to the other team (not to mention it had auto-balance, but admins may be able to override this). What do you think? This all happened at about 2:54pm today (EST) and their IP adress was 70.86.64.211:16567.

Here's a screenshot for some proof. Notice how both sides had so many tickets by the end of the game (it was a 16 player server).

[rtgbs7k]

Re: Really suspicous happenings on the Hard Corps SF server

first time I see that, and I have no clue as to what is going on there

[-(PK)-DarkIllusion]

Re: Really suspicous happenings on the Hard Corps SF server

that happened to me once.. never understood weather it was a server prob or admin abuse... tell me if u find out anythin

[rombaft]

Re: Really suspicous happenings on the Hard Corps SF server

it could be that they are stat pading in the some kind of way but they don't win anything from it. because both teams loose as much ma=eaning your WIN loose ratio will remain the same

[H1gh-Veloc1ty]

Re: Really suspicous happenings on the Hard Corps SF server

...ghey

[imported_Rafterman]

Re: Really suspicous happenings on the Hard Corps SF server

That's definitely why I spent $50 for the game.

[BeerStein]

Re: Really suspicous happenings on the Hard Corps SF server

If that only happened once or twice it could just be the admin was trying to get to a map they wanted. Since it repeated, then yes I would say they were stat padding.

It is easy for the admins to change teams to the winning team before they change maps. They can do this before the game even loads for players...this is why there are more players on one team than the other.

I am curious to know if this was working for them or not. Since no one scores any pts, is there a real winner posted? I know the ticket counts at the start of some maps are different - and they one team still shows a win, but there is no player getting gold, silver, bronze - each player shows they are gold.

I would think EA/Dice would have noted this little strategy and not let a win register unless some scores were posted, or better yet - until at least X amount of tickets left one side or the other.