The Ghosting issue

[johndstill@gmail.com 172]

Let me explain a situation where ghosters really fuc*ed some stuff up. I run the CQF and we like to play on our servers. Last night, I managed to get most of my guys on the server for a major convoy op. We had 4 vehicles (all with gear [med supplies, guns, ammo, even a mountain dew]) and we were making our way out to do some extraction of team members and survivors from hostile zones. Long story short, we made it to the NW airfield where a squad was under heavy fire. We rallied by the lone two northern hangars and put the vehicles inside and formed a perimeter. Our squad was at the ATC tower and heavily engaged, so we moved to meet that front. Next thing I know is that my guys are reporting that they are being shot, so I order a retreat into the hangars until we could regroup and go on the offensive. We put the vehicles in front to provide cover temporarily.

I was in a the hangar with 15 other people and the next thing I know, the fire on us stops as the shooter disconnects. So we begin to regroup. After about 5 min of aiding each other and rearming, we were good. the next thing I know, the shooter reconnects in the middle of my group and ends up killing 6 of my guys before we can get a bead on him. I ordered a rapid pull out of the airfield so that we didn't lose any more guys or vehicles. Then as they go out, the two guys my lone squad was fighting spawn in and riddle the convoy with bullets. In the end only 3 people and 1 vehicle from my original group made it back.

Now in a non-ghosting situation, I would have admitted a fuckup on my part somewhere. But I think that this issue was a huge problem. It ended up setting us back and forcing us to stop any friendly extractions of random friendly survivors for the near future (until we rearm and such).

I spoke with ander (who came on due to complaints of me banning a ghoster a little earlier) and he stated that it wasn't an exploit to ghost at this time, wait, what?!?!. So I unbanned the ghoster from my server. When I said that compares to death dodging but I feel it is 10x worse, we got on the subject of how to deal with exploits. Apparently, I am not to ban exploiters (could be wrong)but should kick them and not on the first offense.

As a server owner of a bunch of servers, I feel it is concerning that exploiters, especially ghosters (the bastards taking advantage of the glorious hive system) are able to just continue their cheating without reprimand. They need to be banned as it is just as bad as hacking.

When we figure out the situation on dealing with specific types of situations, there needs to be a post made in the forums and stickied about what server admins can do to deal with specific types of douchebags.

[johndstill@gmail.com 172]

Any thoughts?

[dale0404 16]

Yeah it sucks mate, you'll just have to deal with it until a solution (re)appears!.