Warzs Current State

Yes i know this idea has been brought up numerous times recently over the past couple months but I still think it's important to talk about.
Brawl is still overdue on another ban wipe. Yes I know before you click off or comment something like "Ideas been brought up multiple times and it's not happening." 99% of the brawl mainly the warz community is all in support of a server ban wipe. I think now is a perfect time for a server unban. It has been multiple months since the big "ban wave" of the banning of several well known members of the warz community. There has been a recent push over the last couple months of the revival of warz. Paul and the staff team have been pushing numerous rather large updates to warz and multiple new staff members introduced into the staff team.

The problem with this is that Brawl's punishment system is severely outdated. I don't think there has ever been an update to punishment history involving permbanned players or the 3 ban protocol ever. There are rules written down but most of them are very vague when it comes down to permbanned players. It has always been the 3 ban rule, 3 accounts banned and you're permed for AT LEAST 6 MONTHS. Players in other gamemodes may think it's impossible to get 3 bans but with a warz player most of them play on multiple accounts a month and accounts are usually shared. 3 bans is way too many for someone to get permed. They should be only allowed either 1 or 2 bans before they're permed. Permbanned players also have to wait an absolutely absurd amount of time, 6 MONTHS. 6 months is insanely long for a player to get banned it's basically unheard of to hear any other server ban a player for 6 months. To put in perspective many other popular servers have a ban rule of usually 2 weeks - 1 month for players that have hacked. That is a reasonable amount of time for a player to wait to appeal and be unbanned to most people. 6 months to wait on a video game to get unbanned is completely insane. During those 6 months a lot can happen players can forget about the server, lose interest in the gamemode and etc. Brawl already has a small playerbase but when a pretty active player gets banned they have to 6 months to be unbanned. Now imagine multiple players get permed some for hacking but others for small things as a tpyes macro that doesn't open chat (lol). There would then be MULTIPLE players who would be on the server more often if they weren't banned or had to wait that ridiculously long 6 months. After your first perm you only get 1 more chance compared to the 3 other players is also unfair I know they should be punished extra but I mean 1 ban to 3 is just a huge difference especially when it's not stated anywhere in the rules.

Warz is a gamemode where 99% of the active playerbase has been permbanned before. Im positive that if the players voted upon a ban wipe it would result in a landslide favoring a ban wipe. Keep in mind warz has a fairly small playerbase where basically everyone knows each other. With this size of a player base 10-15 permbanned players would severly affect how many people there are with ranks and fights there are on the server. Everytime I speak to a current warz player I always hear about the lack of fights and that it is usually dominated by 1 or 2 teams (usually cjs and the germans). It's hard to have a revival when numerous well known active players have been banned. I know these permed players have all done something to get banned which most of them immediately regret it but, making them wait 6 months is absolutely insane just to teach them a lesson not to hack.

Warz never has a new players to begin with but the small playerbase just gets smaller by the month because of players getting banned every month and then having to wait 6 months. Over time the player base just keeps shrinking and it never grows so banning your players for 6 months is not a great idea.

Hackers are at an all time low due to the vpn ban and more staff members then ever before. If there was a ban wipe these players that were permed before could now be monitored even easier by the staff since there is a ton of new staff members looking to rake up bans on the server for promotions etc.

A ban wipe would also be good for the servers monthly revenue because the 10-15 players usually buy multiple accounts a month with ranks so that results to a ton of new server income which could be used to help expand the server even more with advertising etc.

Staff just view a ban wipe as unbanning a couple of players but there are thousands of accounts that unbanned players are linked too that are banned for alt of somebody and they can't get it unbanned because there's barely any way to prove they don't have access anymore. It is much more then that it is a chance to give one final chance to players and to have players not have to appeal for numerous accounts for alt of etc.

Most of the permbanned warz players were banned for even PROMOTING the server with posting of things such as montages and episodes that the server has to do nothing but let these players play and they product free advertisement for the server. Then they ban them for having such little things as a tpyes macro that doesnt open chat compared to one that does. They're literally making videos promoting your server and you ban them for something that doesn't open chat compares to open chat. This makes basically no difference in fights. It actually helps players because some people don't even have a simple macro or something that could /tpyes they could all use the laby tpyes macro and not have to have an insane gaming mouse set up or something.

Keep in mind a ban wipe could actually happen the community just needs to vote and prove to the staff that it is really needed.
@chickenputty

 

It wouldn't really be a banwipe if all players weren't unbanned. It'd have to be everyone to be an efficent server banwipe because those players would be pissed even though they alted. Basically the only player that has alted anytime recently has been nunya.

 

The main point of the unban is to give players another chance and bring more players onto the server. The appeal system does need to be changed but there would need to be ban reset before a new appeal or ban protocol so that people aren't judged or accused of their history. It would also make it so people are more aware of the rules when they get banned and there's actually WRITTEN rules that are in place not just different rules for everyone which someone admins *cough* change for certain players depending on their past history.

 

Brawl staff would rather leave a problem alone and not do anything about it unless it's seriously needed and last minute. They constantly ignore their player base and just do what they feel "works well" or is easiest for them when in reality there needs to be a change. It also doesn't help they don't have an official rule system so staff members often use these blurry lines to ban or take advantage of players. For example if you ask a staff member to a see a rule of why you were banned they will never show you it because it's not a set in stone rule.

 

I completely agree, 6 months is insanely long to get banned from a game/server for there's literally nothing even remotely close to having a player wait 6 months. Other popular servers usually ban players for 2 weeks to a month or two which is a reasonable amount of time and would work fine on brawl. 6 months is extremely long for a player to ban a server and it just so long especially for players who have already been permed before they get 1 ban and boom they have to wait another 6 months to month.