The Misuse of /alts - A Solution

I'll get to that once I have wifi in my new home, should be by Monday and I am happy cause at first we werent suppose to x3

 

Said video was reviewed and deemed to be invalid as it is short and the single text message in it is not clearly revealing an alt. Screenshots have not been acceptable evidence for rule violations for a long time as they are so easy to fake.

Personally, I do not see a disadvantage in only showing if a player is connected to perm-banned accounts. I have forwarded this proposal to other higher staff members for discussion.

 

The “misuse” that is seen are staff talking about the person who is on an “alt” or mentioning things about the player in calls that people could relate to who the player is. Even specific guns or combos that a player used is the “misuse” > “leaking” who a player is.

On WarZ there is a saying that the best staff members are always non-WarZ staff. Simply because they are always not in calls and are not involved with who players alting are with their skill level and game techniques.

One thing that I think a lot of people forget is that only because people find out who the opposite player is does not mean that a staff “told” its team who the player is. Since WarZ staff knows who people are “alting” I think that an anger is created which I completely understand and is one of the reasons to why this thread is created.

Here’s an example, I just did /alts [player] on someone who passed Scavenger just to make sure it is not a perm-banned player who plays illegally. Since I am playing the game actively and will therefore after doing that command afterwards know who the guy is on the account have precaution and fight the player in a certain way depending on their skill-level. This is something I can not control if I play the game. It is also the way people want to fight. If I know that someone alting is good in tower (a place in nether on WarZ) I would personally maybe stay away and not rush that person. However even though the player I am fighting feel exposed or have the feeling that everyone knows who he/she is, I am a staff member and wants to protect everyone’s identify whoever they are. I am also the only one who knows, not my teammates.

Before I got staff I knew that I neutralized my relation with every WarZ player in order to be a good staff. If you reading this and plays WarZ and think I would “expose” someone that is false because I have been “alting” a lot myself and it becomes so much more fun when no one knows who you are and I try my best to make that reality.

I would personally be down for any of these changes and if the command is taken away from JMOD’s there are currently a lot of MOD’s that JMOD’s could ask to /alts check to make sure the player is not perm-banned.

Thanks for reading,
- Warrey

 

Little late to the party but I'd like to throw in my opinion

I disagree with the part where they shouldn't have access to do it. They can sometimes have legitimate reasons.

This is a pretty good example, if they have a reason to believe it could be a permbanned player, they should be able to check. It also shows one of the many flaws in the current system, in that it will affect his play style against said player, and there's not really anything he can do about it, except for not using the command in the first place, and if they believe it could be a permbanned account, then this could put the jmod in a tough situation.

But I agree that there's not really a good reason for Jmods to have access to the full command. As a former Jmod, the only thing you could do if it was linked to a banned account was report to a higher up, and showing it without igns would serve the exact same purpose whilst protecting the privacy of the player in question. The higher up could then take care of the issue and the situation would be handled. The idea here is that the situation would be handled easily and efficiently, while preventing possible abuse of the command.

 

Thank you! This reassures the community a bit more since there was multiple reports of JMods abusing it on WarZ to an extent that is unimaginable. You're not even a WarZ SMod yet this is the most information the public community has had. Appreciate it.

 

Love the idea, yet my only problem is, most staff on this server don't play fair them selves. What if there is a situation when a staff member leaks the persons name???

 

Just because staff members are required to do something doesn't mean they're always doing it. There's no way to know if a staff member after using the /alts command disclosed that information verbally in a private discord (or another communication application) call/chat....unless you're big brother

 

But there's been instances of certain JMod's leaking information. If they can't keep it secret, it should be taken away until they obtain a higher rank.

 

i very much agree it has happend to me before i 100% came back to warZ so i had to reveal and 100% come back instead of being undercover and anonymous to evreyone.