gCOPS - New World Order of the Gaming World
Okay, I believe in banning cheaters, hackers, etc etc etc, but this to me is going too far. Over at BASHandSLASH, they are reporting that:
Now, if it was just for their server, no prob with me. You go into a server, you follow their rules, no matter how lame, or you leave. Sounds good, I agree. But to tag them globally as a "troublemaker", NEIN! So what about the gamers who go into a clan's server i.e. me and many others, who completely own a clan, and not one arrogant word is typed at all. YET, because their entire clan was getting owned by said player, they now put a tag on this player so that when he goes to another server, they are going to think that he's a troublemaker when in all reality, he/she's just a better player than those "e-punks" themselves that had administrator's rights!?!
Apparently, the gaming world wants a "New World Order", not I. Yes, there are people out there that can ruin a server for everyone else, but to have a global system such as this is not logical in my opinion. If it's just for their own server, I repeat, I have no problem with that. What makes the server admins capable of judging a gamer's character? It is a rare case when an "a**hat" comes in and destroys a server, so are YOU willing to give up your freedoms as a gamer and put them into the hands of server admins? Granted, I'm sure just as with the gamers themselves, most of the server admins are respectable people, they pay for their server, etc, I understand this, I have been in that boat. But I have also known people who get instantly power hungry as soon as you let them be a server admin. I would get furious over fellow clan mates who would kick people simply because they were getting owned by them...wow, simply wow.
SO, if this system goes through, I only hope that server admins out there learn to count to 10 and breathe before making the decision to globally tag a person as an "e-punk".
I would gladly like for PST*Joker or PST*MeatPuppet to post here if they would like to elaborate on if there will be any restrictions on the server admins themselves, or if server admins will become "Gaming Server World Rulers" without anyone to stop them?
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Imagine you have set yourself up a gaming server and you have implemented some rules that govern your server's gaming style. There are resources available to help you run your server and keep the gaming experience clean via systems such as PunkBuster and PBBans to name a few.
These only catch cheaters and if players are caught, it results in a ban...a global GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) ban which renders the cheater's game useless for online play.
But what about the mouthy troublemaker who comes in the server and disses you and all the players on your server? Sure you can ban them, but this requires you to be on the ball and on the server 24-7. There's no automated way to filter out trouble-makers.
However, what if you were able to get intel on each player as they got into your server and you could know right away whether the player was predisposed to being an e-punk?
This describes a new era in adminning, the era of gCOPS.
gCOPS is a system that PST*Joker and PST*MeatPuppet have devised that allows game administrators to tag players in real time for offenses that pertain to their own server's gaming style.
As well, an opt-in global tagging system is available in order to share a server's tagged players with other servers partaking in the global system with similar gaming styles.
These only catch cheaters and if players are caught, it results in a ban...a global GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) ban which renders the cheater's game useless for online play.
But what about the mouthy troublemaker who comes in the server and disses you and all the players on your server? Sure you can ban them, but this requires you to be on the ball and on the server 24-7. There's no automated way to filter out trouble-makers.
However, what if you were able to get intel on each player as they got into your server and you could know right away whether the player was predisposed to being an e-punk?
This describes a new era in adminning, the era of gCOPS.
gCOPS is a system that PST*Joker and PST*MeatPuppet have devised that allows game administrators to tag players in real time for offenses that pertain to their own server's gaming style.
As well, an opt-in global tagging system is available in order to share a server's tagged players with other servers partaking in the global system with similar gaming styles.
Now, if it was just for their server, no prob with me. You go into a server, you follow their rules, no matter how lame, or you leave. Sounds good, I agree. But to tag them globally as a "troublemaker", NEIN! So what about the gamers who go into a clan's server i.e. me and many others, who completely own a clan, and not one arrogant word is typed at all. YET, because their entire clan was getting owned by said player, they now put a tag on this player so that when he goes to another server, they are going to think that he's a troublemaker when in all reality, he/she's just a better player than those "e-punks" themselves that had administrator's rights!?!
Apparently, the gaming world wants a "New World Order", not I. Yes, there are people out there that can ruin a server for everyone else, but to have a global system such as this is not logical in my opinion. If it's just for their own server, I repeat, I have no problem with that. What makes the server admins capable of judging a gamer's character? It is a rare case when an "a**hat" comes in and destroys a server, so are YOU willing to give up your freedoms as a gamer and put them into the hands of server admins? Granted, I'm sure just as with the gamers themselves, most of the server admins are respectable people, they pay for their server, etc, I understand this, I have been in that boat. But I have also known people who get instantly power hungry as soon as you let them be a server admin. I would get furious over fellow clan mates who would kick people simply because they were getting owned by them...wow, simply wow.
SO, if this system goes through, I only hope that server admins out there learn to count to 10 and breathe before making the decision to globally tag a person as an "e-punk".
I would gladly like for PST*Joker or PST*MeatPuppet to post here if they would like to elaborate on if there will be any restrictions on the server admins themselves, or if server admins will become "Gaming Server World Rulers" without anyone to stop them?
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