I'll say right away that I played on the server with my brother for 2 years, periodically. During this time I teamed up with other players many times, and more than once I witnessed the administration behaving inappropriately and disrespectfully towards players. But I very rarely had situations where I needed to contact them. And I always resolved the issue calmly. Most of my teammates complained about the admins and personally about the creator and head admin - Fenix. More than once I personally witnessed his rude communication with people in the project's Discord channel. It didn't particularly bother me. I played calmly, didn't break rules, and if I did, it was minor stuff, and no one complained. I didn't argue with people in chat, often rofl'd, created a fun atmosphere.
We mostly played on server 5, which has a lot of mods. The mods are interesting, and most of the time everything works stably. Lately there's been a frequent bug with hands where you can't drop an item from your hand, and the only fix is to reconnect to the server. Seems minor, but the server has 127 slots, half are always full, and a restart every 3 hours. And after the restart you need about 10-20 minutes to get back on the server. If you get bugged during that time, it's better not to bother logging in. And in the evening there are many people wanting to play. Any reconnect means another 10 minutes of waiting.
And so after 2 years of playing on the server, I decided to write a negative review. But why?
Answer: Fenix. The project's creator and head admin is a narcissistic, hysterical little boy who compensates for his childhood complexes by humiliating players over whom he feels power. A petty tyrant of his own personal authoritarian little world, where any criticism is punished with a ban. Lucky if it's only on the Discord server. That's what happened to my brother, who asked why PvE server number 6 wasn't working. They didn't tell him why, didn't point him to read the project news. Just a ban on Discord. But we kept playing because it didn't affect the game on server 5.
The most interesting part began when I was heading to the safe zone in a police Ford, I had 500 meters left to enter it. And this clan guy kills me from 500 meters with a headshot from a modded weapon, which ruined the car. Then I remembered one of the server rules: "It is forbidden to camp the safe zone." But you can't camp the safe zone itself: no one takes damage there. So it means you can't camp players going to or coming from it, because that's unfair. A good rule, except no one bothered to specify at what distance from the safe zone border I can't be killed? I was 500 meters away from it, in an open field, driving straight towards it, and I was killed with a rifle from 500 meters - is that not camping the safe zone? Is 500 meters too far from the safe zone? How far should it be for it to be a rule violation? I wrote a ticket, they immediately told me I died much farther away, even though any admin with a disability could teleport to that field, see the smoking SUV where my corpse is, and check the distance to the safe zone. That's the first thing. Second: they told me without a rollback they wouldn't look into it. Wow! Am I supposed to record every second? Just in case some devil decides to kill me from half a kilometer away? I have to strain my hardware, play to my own detriment, just to prove to the admins that I was a victim of a safe zone camper? And even so, they could still tell me it was too far. Because the rules don't specify the distance at which it's okay to kill someone. They can't specify that distance, but they can cover for a donation clan that would leave the project if one of them got banned.
I wrote another ticket to ask about the distance, but Fenix immediately answered, said I had already been answered, and that without a rollback they don't review it. To my question that I was supposed to foresee my death from a sniper at full speed in a car and record it, Fenix answered yes. I didn't even get to ask about the distance so I'd know next time whether I was killed fairly or not, and Fenix ordered his minion to permanently ban me.
Quote:
Me: "'Camping safe zone is forbidden' it says in the rules"
Fenix: "You were told without a rollback we don't look at it"
Me: "A rollback at the moment of death?"
Fenix: "Well yeah, where the violation is visible"
Me: "Well, the car where it is - I died"
Fenix: "my minion, hey" (inexact quote, there was an admin's nick)
Me: "Distance to the safe zone"
Fenix: "Give him a perma since he can't read"
Me: "Fenix, explain from what distance it's considered safe zone camping"
Fenix: "F* off or
Go
I don't talk with people like you" (Apparently he means reasonable players who know how to ask the right questions that he doesn't want to answer, because then he'd have to do something and sort it out. Easier to just ban permanently.)
And then I get kicked from the Discord server and from the game. Yes, for asking about something not specified in the rules but that should be - I was banned from the project. But the guy who blatantly broke the rules - no one touched. Fair? Fenix doesn't know what that is.
Clarify that distance for me?
No.
Put it in the rules?
No.
Threaten a Discord ban for a third ticket?
No.
Ban me on Discord so I wouldn't bother him with questions?
No.
Ban me in-game for a couple of days?
No.
Permaban for wanting to find out who's right?
Yes!!!
And even if I had been rude to him or his admins. I always start communication politely. I never blamed anyone! I just wanted to figure it out, help supplement the rules so there would be fewer controversial moments. But this offended upstart with a banhammer couldn't care less about the rules of his own project, about fairness, about respect for players who address him politely without reproach.
From a regular player's perspective - the server is good, the mods are interesting, bugs and lag are almost non-existent. I personally haven't seen cheaters. Haven't heard about them. But the bastardly attitude of this monster kills any desire to come back. Even if the ban were temporary - to return to this abode of sycophancy and groveling before a little king drunk on power, after such a vile, nasty, disgusting behavior of the project creator towards me - would be disrespecting myself. If you haven't played on the Skyfall servers, be sure to go check them out to confirm my words. If you have played, you most likely will confirm every point I've made.
And, Fenix - I know you'll read this)) I won't wish for your project to die. You yourself will drive it to that with your behavior and attitude towards players. In that situation, even if I was wrong - and I think I acted logically and correctly, politely and respectfully - then YOU in any case acted like an animal. I guess you're used to it by now.