Current State of Targeting

oh another target thread.

tbh your tldr sucks minky and im honestly going to boogerhook your bumbhole outside of spawn on the daily

 

The fact of the matter is that you have two factors when dealing with targeting: staff effectiveness, and player behaviors. Minecraft and the real world are the same in the sense that you are expected to follow rules, but if you really wanted to, you could do anything you wanted as long as you aren't caught/convicted. There is no plugin that just detects targeting, so it is entirely up to staff and helpful players to manage this. The problem there is that, unless you have at least one active staff member or helpful player with the ability to record & document these instances online at all times, there will always be someone out there doing as they please without consequence. Many staff members would agree that observation drastically reduces the probability of someone targeting; Averaging several hours of play time every day only amounted to 3 or 4 instances where I witnessed actual targeting in the 3 weeks when I was JMOD. Until Brawl manages to acquire such means of monitoring, this will continue to be a problem.

If I'm a hero we need to step **** up asap lol

Have A Brawltastic Day!

 

Yeah i can agree on this specially with the spawn camping, i absolutely despise such a thing and its cruel to do something to that extent

I also suppose our game is kinda hard to get into for a new player because a good sum of players are pretty experienced so theres a higher skill ceiling to reach to actually stand up for ones self so id personally say its nice to go easy on newbies every once in a while to give some confidence

 

I've noticed the exact same thing. This can also be helped if spawn camping was actually added to the rules. As of right now, if you do /rules, it's not even listed.

 

remove mage

 

Just don't die lol

 

lmao that completely misses the entire point that this post focuses on though

 

nah he got a point

 

Well if we ban recovs and zefina that's probably about half the issue that's gone lmao don't really know anyone else that specifically targets people anymore tbh

 

LMAO

 

Thats unfortunate.

i think we should set up a community event where we target the targetter. Exactly what it sounds like! Do it on Tuesday, call it Target Tuesday, get CMS to stream it and we can monetize the content to help fund a less laggier match server or better anti-cheat.

 

she still does it?

 

She never stopped lmfao

 

I'm just going to say this so everyone stops babying the actual meaning of it: Experienced players farm new players SPECIFICALLY to prevent the skill ceiling from being lowered. If you nuke an enemy country's capitol before they can get their first division to your border, you won't have to worry about them again; immediate an absolute opposition is the most effective way to deter/prevent someone from contesting your superiority. CTF is in a pretty bad spot for this because the ceiling and the floor are extremely separated. In 2017, I was probably one of the favorites on the list of people to farm & target because I was ****. Then, after becoming less ****, I was allowed into the domain of "regs" and pretty much saw 0 hostility from others. In CTF, you are either at the top or on the bottom, nothing in between.

The only thing that prevented me from remaining on the floor was my connections to players at the top - such as NotDropped. I'm honestly average at pvp, and my only reliable source of internet being hotspot made it very easy to think that I downloaded the game a week prior to a fight. This "community" is only friendly to itself, with very few exceptions every year who make their way to the ceiling. This is the ramification of hosting a more anarchy type server, without built-in regulatory plugins like Hypixel or Mineplex. I tried to help by moderating for the time that I did, but it became apparent very quickly that it would take far more than this server is capable of to get a grip on problematic players.

Recovs memes aside, anybody at literally any time could shift motives and become toxic scum without pushing the rules. When I first made it to the ceiling, I pretty much nolifed CTF for a year, spending 100% of my time farming any randoms I could find out of boredom. And you know how many warnings & bans I got because of that? Zero. I caused dozens of players to rage quit in that time, and probably caused a few people approaching the ceiling to return back to the floor, with literally no consequence. CTF will not see any real, long term improvement until they find a way to monitor players 100% of the time, and efficiently manage them, with stricter rules.

I'm not trying to **** talk staff, but I have learned in my 5 years here that being blatant is the only way to catch their attention.

 

Wow that basically sums up our fundamental problem, it’s basically impossible at this point to really fix things because it’s too difficult to enforce and at some point it’s down to a moral issue where we as a community can’t really even come together when most problems aren’t even blatant which is kind of depressing to think of but a reality we should still be aware of