The next BF game needs BF3/4 style servers
From my experience since BF3 I feel the customized server experience has really declined in the last couple of BF titles, especially in BF5. Community servers of good quality help increase the repla...
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It takes a whole team to get the current result? Where do I sign up for that job.. it's painfully clear competence is not a requirement for employment.
No one need look for a silver bullet... we ALL know what works.
We all know what they are currently doing DOES NOT.
If they won't let us purchase/rent and moderate our own servers then the onus is on them to keep the servers we are compelled to play on clean.
How about we just not participate in insanity for BF6?
BF5 is officially abandoned. Ok. Let's work with what we have then. We're not asking to reinvent the wheel here. As I've noted many times.. these forums have active moderation... I'm led to believe this is not a paid position. Why not enlist some of the willing to clean up the game servers? If they perma banned "disruptive" players off the game servers as fast as they lock down any discussion of that word that starts with a "c" on the forums... the servers would be squeaky clean in a few weeks. Seems like an entirely reasonable and doable solution.
EA.. pretty please... with sugar on top.. stop with the "Our Anti-Cheat Approach in Battlefield V" boilerplate... it's downright patronizing at this point.
@stabbinhobo wrote:
It takes a whole team to get the current result? Where do I sign up for that job.. it's painfully clear competence is not a requirement for employment.
No one need look for a silver bullet... we ALL know what works.
We all know what they are currently doing DOES NOT.
If they won't let us purchase/rent and moderate our own servers then the onus is on them to keep the servers we are compelled to play on clean.
How about we just not participate in insanity for BF6?
BF5 is officially abandoned. Ok. Let's work with what we have then. We're not asking to reinvent the wheel here. As I've noted many times.. these forums have active moderation... I'm led to believe this is not a paid position. Why not enlist some of the willing to clean up the game servers? If they perma banned "disruptive" players off the game servers as fast as they lock down any discussion of that word that starts with a "c" on the forums... the servers would be squeaky clean in a few weeks. Seems like an entirely reasonable and doable solution.
EA.. pretty please... with sugar on top.. stop with the "Our Anti-Cheat Approach in Battlefield V" boilerplate... it's downright patronizing at this point.
@stabbinhobo You can always throw your hat into the ring at ea.com/careers ;-)
Regarding forum moderation there are two types of moderators, volunteer forum moderators like me who don't get paid, and then paid EA Community Managers. I'm sure EA legal would probably have issues with volunteer server admins on official servers but who knows, maybe they'll see your suggestion and look into it more. I just hope that we go back to the servers and admin rights that we had in BF3/4 instead of the highly ineffective BF1 and 5 systems.
Doubt I would make the cut for EA or DICE's corporate culture. I'm not nearly woke nuff and being in retail I think of the customer first.
Eh.. the "disruptive" players are clearly in charge at the moment. Doubt EA gives what is happening on their servers any thought at all. Based on their actions to date they think the BF5 player base are all obsessed with new skins instead of issues that ruin gameplay.
Here's to hoping we either get BF3~4 admin controls back -or- this franchise dies the death it needed after BF1.
I seem to be living in an alternate universe to the rest of the Battlefield community ???? The BFV platoon that I am gaming with have a server. We have the ability to remote admin the server with half a dozen admins that can monitor the server and remove disruptive players. We are able to keep the server online even when it's empty so the ban list preserves over multiple days. We can change the servers settings and map rotations (not wholesale changes but turn settings like ff on or off, add maps, just not change between 64p and 32p) without having to close down the server.
Now this is about half the functions of the BF1 solution but does allow our platoon to play in the evening peak hours without being trolled by the disruptive players out there whose only gaming objective is empty the server..
And if you can't work out how to do this with your own clan then how you going to work procon ??
@ShevermiN wrote:
I seem to be living in an alternate universe to the rest of the Battlefield community ???? The BFV platoon that I am gaming with have a server. We have the ability to remote admin the server with half a dozen admins that can monitor the server and remove disruptive players. We are able to keep the server online even when it's empty so the ban list preserves over multiple days. We can change the servers settings and map rotations (not wholesale changes but turn settings like ff on or off, add maps, just not change between 64p and 32p) without having to close down the server.
Now this is about half the functions of the BF1 solution but does allow our platoon to play in the evening peak hours without being trolled by the disruptive players out there whose only gaming objective is empty the server..
And if you can't work out how to do this with your own clan then how you going to work procon ??
@ShevermiN and BF1's RSP had far fewer admin tools that even the Console versions of BF3\4 so those of us who've admined servers for years see how much DICE has tied our hands in recent entries and that is precisely what we want and need to correct by being vocal about needing an equivalent to procon\rcon and not the recent watered down admin tools. In fact the guy that created procon now works for DICE - if only they'd use him in that role.
Games like BF2, BC2, BF3 and BF4 had large thriving community years after the official end of life specifically because of robust server tools to build and maintain communities and events.
- @ShevermiN How do you keep it online when empty ?, we are dying to know.
