There’s pitfalls and then there’s settings. Your server sounds great. With PVE-C there’s the scheduled combat and the only exception I’d expect for a change from vanilla is that it is 24/7 combat. I know what players behaviour is like. Yours is realistic but also not what I am looking for.

I’ve had one. I prefer being able to play. If I played on my own server I would be accused of all the problems that admins are known for. Plus, while I like to think that I would be fair and impartial, I am human. Additionally I’m not willing to part with my already full schedule to admin people, deal with complaints, ward against hackers, advertise and possibly dish out the costs related.

They are that’s without doubt. I can both accept that I’ll have to play with the problems while still being critical and want better though.

I’m no expert of course. Hacking is a reality of all online games and all will experience it. The difference with successful titles is that they deal with it in a consistent manner. This often is in having a anti-cheat client that updates regularly and active moderation to deal with the rest. So, I would hope they’d want the same as those other games. Hindsight is 20/20 and then we have Tencent…

They aren’t outsourcing the moderation; Umborls as an example. Zendesk is a third party tool to receive and manage tickets by the staff.

I truly believe that they don’t know what they’re doing. Perhaps outsourcing to have their game reviewed or hiring someone to overhaul would be appropriate.

It has been suggested to set aside a portion of the Officials as paid to have active moderation to offset the cost. Because I do agree they’ll need the money to support it. I’d pay a monthly fee to access those servers.

Edit:

Here’s something I wrote before:

• Tying the report system to accounts internally, within the game - this would allow for more consistency and accountability for all 3 parties (the current system is easily gamed)
• Providing a warning system into the game - warn > give timeframe > then act if not adjusted
• No automatic suspensions/bans for building violations - only reserved for real serious violations such as racism and alike, hacking or exploiting, etc.,…

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