After the Flyer incident, I decided to spend a little while speccing you guys in Tempest.
While I did not see blatant admin abuse (which I will define as using admin powers just for the sake of using them, or kicking people on a whim, things like that), I did see things that I wasn't happy with. That I hope you guys will consider changing moving forward.
A few things I want to discuss:
Currently this is what the Tempest rules say for team switching:
you are allowed to be on the team that you want to be, but do not stack teams on purpose
I'm sorry piipe, but I am removing that last part. What I am currently am seeing is hurting siege. Someone will switch teams because they want to play offense twice, or are tired of their team, or whatever reason. Angry admin sees this, and starts the usual warning, forceteam, kick. The person decides to leave. We lose a player. Then the admin decides to force team another poor sucker, which ends up putting that person off too. The best way to get back at someone who teamswitches is for you to switch to that person's old team and rampage against the teamswitcher who shifted the teams in the first place.
I want to see you guys switching yourselves instead of using admin and forcing everyone around. Forceteaming a bunch of people and making up to 3 people frustrated (you, the original teamswitcher, and then some other poor sucker) isn't helping siege in the long run. I understand there are some instances where you can't switch yourself due to stacking the teams (Example: Guard + 4 tempest noobs vs Schrute + 3 tempest noobs, and one of Guard's 4 tempest noobs decide Guard sucks and goes to Schrute's team. In this case there is no need for additional action because Guard shouldn't be butthurt over it and should just try a little harder instead of forcing him back to his team)
I want to see you guys making decisions for the best of the server, not to just teach someone a lesson. That's not what you have admin for.
Now the second topic, spam. You guys can't go around enforcing spam on a pub server. This was a tough decision when we started up Tempest, but pubs are a legitimate place for spam (that obviously isnt lift spam or spawn laming). If you want to play a game spam-free then you go to pug at Impulse, where excessive spamming can be enforced (recall that the rules of Impulse are pretty much whatever the current people playing there decide they are).
Since you guys have already started enforcing a no midget door spam rule, I will let you continue to do so since it will just confuse everyone if we stopped enforcing it, but I am not a happy camper that you made up this rule and started enforcing it. However, if I see you guys making up another new rule about spam without running it by me then there will be some serious admin revocations and I will overturn it. Pub players need spam as a crutch to keep up with you more experienced players, you cannot rob them of that, and you need to understand that.
Now, the good news. I have actually appreciated Magyk always double checking the official rules of Tempest thread, and in general always trying to admin in the spirit of them and sticking by them to the best of his abilities and moral compass. For that I am promoting him to council admin. I encourage you guys to do the same. While you should strive to know the rules inside and out, you should at least be checking them regularly to make sure you are actually enforcing the correct rules, and not something you are frustrated with. I am open to revising the rules, you just have to be open with me first instead of doing things on your own.
Anyways, read the rules, and send me a PM with the request for admin so I can keep track of who I am giving it out to. I already have Ramshi's request. I will roll them out over the course of the next week or two.