05-07-2015, 11:59 PM
We've thought about this previously, many times even in my 3 years here. It was turned away for these reasons:
- Money. We don't have money to spare to upkeep a server that only a few people will use.
- Availability. We take pride in having all our servers open to anyone, sure it has drawbacks like what you listen but this is why we have staff and the User Report section of the forum.
- Popularity. Having another server open exclusive to only a certain people may send the wrong message out about us, for example: "You can only race if you're safe." This could give us a negative reputation in an already shrinking LFS community.
Those are the main reasons that stick out from the top of my head. Now your individual points which planted madly large red flags in my eyes:
1. Current RT on AA GTI of 85% or higher.
- This is incredibly easy to lose: Inactivity, a bad race or two, etc.
2. The administrator(s) will be chosen from well-known and generally respected racers like Jacques, Destruction Derby, Caerdrion, known for their clean driving ability and general human decency.
Why make criteria to join an already established Demo team for difficult? We like to keep ourselves equal around here. We only have higher administration as they are the most experienced people with the know-how about using the mass of commands. The judgement is pretty much the same across the team, higher administration are purely appointed based on managing our staff, finances, server control, etc.
3.2. Any person found to be causing deliberate crashes, retaliating against other players will be banned from the server for 7 days without warning.
- Without warning is incredibly unfair. We warn all our crashes (unless they're blatant destroyers who take out multiple people / repeatedly target people). We believe in chance.
I don't mean to sound harsh in this post - it's just that we're a very open team. Not many discussion happen behind closed doors, why should any racing? A lot of the extra points you put in are also generic rules in LFS and AA servers as a whole. Don't get me wrong, it's a good suggestion but it wouldn't be worth it in the long run IMO.
- Money. We don't have money to spare to upkeep a server that only a few people will use.
- Availability. We take pride in having all our servers open to anyone, sure it has drawbacks like what you listen but this is why we have staff and the User Report section of the forum.
- Popularity. Having another server open exclusive to only a certain people may send the wrong message out about us, for example: "You can only race if you're safe." This could give us a negative reputation in an already shrinking LFS community.
Those are the main reasons that stick out from the top of my head. Now your individual points which planted madly large red flags in my eyes:
1. Current RT on AA GTI of 85% or higher.
- This is incredibly easy to lose: Inactivity, a bad race or two, etc.
2. The administrator(s) will be chosen from well-known and generally respected racers like Jacques, Destruction Derby, Caerdrion, known for their clean driving ability and general human decency.
Why make criteria to join an already established Demo team for difficult? We like to keep ourselves equal around here. We only have higher administration as they are the most experienced people with the know-how about using the mass of commands. The judgement is pretty much the same across the team, higher administration are purely appointed based on managing our staff, finances, server control, etc.
3.2. Any person found to be causing deliberate crashes, retaliating against other players will be banned from the server for 7 days without warning.
- Without warning is incredibly unfair. We warn all our crashes (unless they're blatant destroyers who take out multiple people / repeatedly target people). We believe in chance.
I don't mean to sound harsh in this post - it's just that we're a very open team. Not many discussion happen behind closed doors, why should any racing? A lot of the extra points you put in are also generic rules in LFS and AA servers as a whole. Don't get me wrong, it's a good suggestion but it wouldn't be worth it in the long run IMO.
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