EA Crackdown

[David Champion]

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it doesnt take long. you look at peoples best round score. people who have 200+ scores probally were farming.

:laugh:

[Talus]

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I am so happy about this change. It gives both sides what they want.

It gives the serious and competitive gamer the chance to compete on an even playing field (ranked servers).

It gives the alternative-gameplay seekers a place to gather (unranked servers) for some varied combat rules and mods.

(and it gives stat padders a kick in the ***)

If you remember before the game was released, they (EA) had clearly stated that ranked servers won't be for everyone. They will be for the best players to compete against one another in a sort-of global 'tournament' with accumulated stats and awards.

They actually meant for the majority of average or casual gamers to play on unranked servers and to have the freedom to mod and alter the rules to their heart's content. Basically, they expected what we had in BFV for unranked servers.

I don't think they realized:

a) that the ranking/stats system would appeal to so many people, including the new players of the series/genre
b) that people would get so addicted to the stats that they would attempt anything to increase their stats with the least effort required.

I like how we have had all sorts of new forum sign-ups since this announcement. All of the stat padders heard through the grapevine that there was a rumour floating around and they came here for answers. They all suddenly become vocal, upstanding gamers who are fighting for 'freedom' to play 'their' game the way they want. They all seem to forget that they can play on unranked knife/pistol servers all they want...funny about that

[StormRavn]

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ea can get bent if they think usin a pistol/knife server is paddin. heres a idea why not just fix the damm game through patches instead of worryin about it someone spends hard earned money to host a pistol knife server

[fluffydice]

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There is also an article on the theinquirer http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25870
nothing new in it than we allready know

[Filthy_UK]

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This is a knee-jerk solution to a fundamental design problem – the unlocks system sucks.

People don’t stat pad for the rankings, they do it to unlock the weapons.

Weapon unlocks should be skill based not rank based, don’t tell me it cant be done, awards work this way already to some degree.

Give the knife-revivers a sharper/ bigger knife for their unlock, I`ll take my G3 and see you server side.

I don’t care about rank, I want to play the game fairly, skilfully and have fun (not mutually exclusive). But I should be able to unlock the weapons I want by getting skilful in that class, not by the amount of time I spend on-line.

And while I’m on my high horse, a tip for EA and other developers:

If your thinking of messing with (patching) a game, ask yourselves this question:

Does it increase the Fun?

If it doesn’t, don’t do it.

My fun suggestion – Tkers 10 sec punishment: character gains 200Lbs, cant run or go prone, all mouse controls invert.

[fluffydice]

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as i said before im not bothered about stats but has anyone seen eXp.ElekTriC !?
His stats were reset. I ask you was it worth it?, the hours of crawling around the floor when you could have used the time to get really good. The funny thing is that he seems not to have realized it, check his revive score after 5 hours of play 114

[ozziegt]

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The stats system is a feature of the game that ensures you can see how good you are against other players. It is a community. It is the responsibility of EA / Dice to make sure that this community does not get abused and remains fair. Trying to crack down on stats padding is the only fair solution for ranked servers. Granted this might not be enough because there are other ways to abuse the system, but it's a step in the right direction.

For those of you who are complaining, I ask you...why do you care if you aren't allowed to pad your stats anymore? The "I don't like EA telling me what to do" excuse is BS. See paragraph 1.

[ozziegt]

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as i said before im not bothered about stats but has anyone seen eXp.ElekTriC !?
His stats were reset. I ask you was it worth it?, the hours of crawling around the floor when you could have used the time to get really good. The funny thing is that he seems not to have realized it, check his revive score after 5 hours of play 114

How are you checking? His stats are still there on bf2s.com.

[fluffydice]

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How are you checking? His stats are still there on bf2s.com.

Nice GUI application for stats

http://bf2sr.com/download.php

Also checked with

http://bf2tracker.com/bf2_userprofile.php?bf2id=43501925

[CTD-Tiwaz]

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The stats system is a feature of the game that ensures you can see how good you are against other players. It is a community. It is the responsibility of EA / Dice to make sure that this community does not get abused and remains fair. Trying to crack down on stats padding is the only fair solution for ranked servers. Granted this might not be enough because there are other ways to abuse the system, but it's a step in the right direction.

For those of you who are complaining, I ask you...why do you care if you aren't allowed to pad your stats anymore? The "I don't like EA telling me what to do" excuse is BS. See paragraph 1.

I disagree with your reason on why the stat system was implemented. I believe it was put into the game so EA/Dice could attach goals, like unlockable weapons, to increase the sellability of their own ranked servers.. Then to make a poor system worse, EA/Dice decided to make the stat goals out of reach for all but the elite, jobless, lifeless players..

The reason the goals for gaining ranks, awards and unlocks was made so difficult was to ensure a reason to purchase and maintain a ranked server.. BEcause if all ranks and unlocks could be made within a year all players would just move on to unranked servers, and EA/Dice would lose money.. So we get a screwed up system because of EA's greed.. And we are threatened and intimidated by EA because EA wants ALL our money for crap products..

I believe EA/Dice wouldn't have as big a stat padding problem if the stats weren't connected to unlocking weapons...

So i believe, lets not blame the user for rebelling against a poor governing system; it is our inherited right to rebel. As EA/Dice was given their power by the people, for the people; and the people can take it away..

[imported_iLemon]

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how did you come to the conclusion EA was making money off the ranked servers?

[kleomenes]

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as i said before im not bothered about stats but has anyone seen eXp.ElekTriC !?
His stats were reset.

Ha! eXp.EleKtriC's stats were wiped! There are other threads somewhere about him. n00b...:)

[ColdDeath]

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eXp.ElekTriC was playing on a ranked knife pistol only server and was punished. im sure EA was happy to make a point by using him.

EA should do something about

http://www.bf2s.com/player/44542941/

he has over 500 DAYS of play time. i think some one is hacking the server.....

[^Garf*uk*]

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Alot of people won't play mods or custom maps alot because then they will have to leave ranked servers. It's sad and means that some maps and mods won't be as popular as they should. Starting to think this whole ranked/unranked server thing has done more harm than good.

100% agree with there m8

as 4 me i have not played on unranked servers 4 a very long time

[imported_iLemon]

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Alot of people won't play mods or custom maps alot because then they will have to leave ranked servers. It's sad and means that some maps and mods won't be as popular as they should. Starting to think this whole ranked/unranked server thing has done more harm than good.

doesnt that just mean the original game is more fun to play then a mod? is that a bad thing? I don't think this will be the case.