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Why would EA try to shoot us server admins in the head? DICE Stop
TKING US! We have been here for you since the begining, as supportive
fans... This is a bitchslap to our head.<br>
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I won't host a BF2 community if it comes out like this, this is CRAP.
They are incenting players to only play on their servers or rented
servers.<br>
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This plus the fact that they killed CTF means this game is doomed.<br>
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Steven Hartland wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I must say this is concerning.
Ranked players is one thing, but</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">only </font><font face="Arial"
size="2">enabling rank </font><font face="Arial" size="2">building on
official services is a sure fire way</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">to kill </font><font face="Arial"
size="2">the community very quickly.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">From reading this I would suggest
the following changes:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">1. Ranking on all servers or at
least "registered" servers.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">2. The ability to turn off racking
totally in the server config.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">3. The ability to enable all weapons
in the server config.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">4. The ability to limit the max rank
in the server config.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">With the above all quality servers
can gain people rank</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">and things like public servers can
be a level playing</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">field, with experienced players only
benefiting purely</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">from better play and not also
getting an unfair advantage</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">making the game inaccessible to the
new players.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"> Steve / K</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Did anyone else see this
interview? A former customer of mine showed it to me.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a
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<div><!--StartFragment --><font face="Arial"> </font><font
face="Arial"><font class="nf" size="2">All this sounds great, but a
few more details have come out that are of concern: <br>
1. Higher ranks get access to exclusive 'unlock' weapons <br>
2. Higher ranks are the default choice for 'commander' <br>
3. Only EA servers (offical and those rented from EA) will be 'ranking'
servers (eg: players can only earn rank when playing on EA servers) <br>
4. Ranks will still be visible on unranked servers and therefore ranked
players can get access to the unlocked weapons on unranked servers (and
potentially a factor in determining who is commander) <br>
5. Unranked servers can 'turn off' unlockable weapons, but cant
universally unlock them for all players <br>
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As you can imagine this creates a series of issues: <br>
1. Inbalance between players with access to unlocked weapons and those
without (especially for casual gamers or those late to the game) <br>
- plus will regular players on unranked (nonEA) servers get have to
hand over 'commander mode' to anyone who has a rank (which he carried
over from the EA servers) <br>
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2. Inbalance between EA servers and private servers (such as the ECGN
public servers or those rented from ECGN) <br>
- Are the 'unranked' servers going to become 'ghost towns'? <br>
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Personally I think giving ranks anything more than bragging rights is a
mistake (eg: special weapons). And I think only providing them on EA
servers and EA rented servers is blackmail. They did this with
Americas Army and it didnt work out that well.<br>
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thoughts?</font> </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jon</font></div>
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