US339 Chicago - Administration abuse

[Kwitch 8]

Howdy. I have an appeal to file based on the past 48 hours of activity on US339 Chicago.

To initiate this appeal, I will explain that this server is on Central time, I myself am on Pacific time, and all times indicated were referenced immediately to confirm the accuracy of these events.

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I lead a group of 7-10 active players, on a few pvp roams. We have encountered two players consistently that have established that they have the ability to add items into the game that do no currently exist and manipulate the uptime of the server. This has been demonstrated to myself personally and over voice communication 7 times in the past 48 hours. The list of these events is as follows.

1/. A player on voice communication logs into the game in a remote location (away from any landmark, lootable spawn, or player camp) and is shot and killed while loading. The players online at this time coincide with the players expected of these events.

2/. A total of 2 Toyota Hilux, 2 bicycles, 2 Offroad motorcycles, an ATV and a Tractor are all removed from our various bases (we have relocated a total of 3 times over the past 48 hours) and have some have been found at their camp after 'killing' one of their group.

3/. After finding their camp and succeeding at killing one of their members, we evacuated with two vehicles and travelled a distance of roughly 400 meters (out of vision range, perhaps 60 seconds) and all received 'No Message received' causing these vehicles to disappear upon re-logging in.

4/. We have killed an enemy player when the server consisted of 4 players total, three of which were friendly and accounted for on voice comms, looting an enemy camp at Novy Sabor some 7000 M from the coast, and been fired upon within 80-100 seconds by the same player without additional players joining the server while looting.

5/. Said player attempted to dodge death by logging out when were firing on them, and as this server specifically states dodging death will result in a ban, attempted to contact the admin of this server with zero feedback.

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(3, 4, and 5 are all the same event, occurred within a 4 minute period, and confirmed by multiple players over comms, at roughly 3:55am PST. Server restarts occur at 1am, 9am, and 5pm daily according to this server message upon logging in [see attachment A])

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6/. A pilot-able helicopter was located at their base and removed by our players, after firing on the same player as confirmed by the current player list. Attempting to take the helicopter away from their base with the intent of destroying it and the silenced PDW found in the Bus next to it was presented with an additional server restart at roughly 9:30pm PST.

7/. After waiting for the most recent restart, our team returned to a new, third base location and were fired upon by two AS50 snipers with accuracy that was impossible as the AS50 does not permit night-vision use and the server light being pitch black at highest gamma setting, and with both snipers being at the location of our 6 person squad despite our having NVG overwatch in an open field not observing these two players prior.

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So, to sum it all up, here are my conclusions:

• The server administrators do not reply to messages regarding what their server rules pinpoint as a ban-able offence.

• The server contains two players that have exhibited their ability to cover great distances after respawning from death without the aid of vehicles or maps to do so, or being visible during this process.

• The server has always gone offline after these two players have been attacked, lost vehicles due to other players finding their base or firing upon them, despite the listed server times not coinciding with the time of these events, in such a way that always favors these two players.

• The use of weapons without NVG without discrepancies in distance or accuracy during zero visibility night confirmed by multiple players with the sound and damage dealt coinciding with the non-NVG equipped BAF-AS50.

And finally, my additional conclusion that the two players in question are the administrators themselves, and are both mis-using the server command functionality and the ARMA II client inappropriately to gain an unfair advantage over other players.

I have provided two screenshots to corroborate my reports:

A (Server MOTD showing scheduled downtime) http://i183.photobuc...3_22_11_247.png

B (Player list) http://i183.photobuc...itchy/us339.png

I would like to request that the times of this server restarting be investigated to potentially be found as abused to gain an unfair advantage over other players, as well as the administrators contacted as all attempts to do so have failed to identify if the identified players are in fact the administrators.

If these two issues are investigated and found to be as claimed, I would humbly request that the server hosting guidelines pertaining to administrator abuse be upheld in this matter.

Thank you for your time.