Server admins

[Kim.]

Hey!

Since the game will give server admins the power to spawn anything they want, I am wondering if the rest of the server will know when this happens?

It's kind of unfair if an admin gets frustrated, or just falls to the temptation to give himself unfair advantages, and no one would be able to know.

[0P3R4T0R]

wonderful suggestion, the best ive read on this forum. im also very worried about admins abusing their tools, funcom add this!

[Authun]

I can see this being a good deterrent from admin abuse, but I can also see the admin trying to build a public building (which happens a lot on private servers) and people assuming the admin is cheating.

[Kim.]

Originally posted by Throg the Barbarian:

I can see this being a good deterrent from admin abuse, but I can also see the admin trying to build a public building (which happens a lot on private servers) and people assuming the admin is cheating.

Perhaps they can announce it in a server-wide message prior, or maybe people can see in the "server log" what kind of commands the admin is invoking.

[Greywolf]

If there was such a feature server admins would just turn it off and kick anyone who disagrees with them!

I don't think there is much that can be done to deter admin abuse other than players leaving and refusing to play on their servers.

[[GS]Vaandrass]

i agree as an admin

[Authun]

Originally posted by Kim.:

Originally posted by Throg the Barbarian:

I can see this being a good deterrent from admin abuse, but I can also see the admin trying to build a public building (which happens a lot on private servers) and people assuming the admin is cheating.

Perhaps they can announce it in a server-wide message prior, or maybe people can see in the "server log" what kind of commands the admin is invoking.

Maybe, as for pvp servers where public buildings are less frequent it wouldn't be an issue. It's not a bad idea per say. I've seen some mighty shady admins in the past who used commands in secret.

[Sunrock]

Originally posted by Kim.:

Hey!

Since the game will give server admins the power to spawn anything they want, I am wondering if the rest of the server will know when this happens?

It's kind of unfair if an admin gets frustrated, or just falls to the temptation to give himself unfair advantages, and no one would be able to know.

I would never play on a private server where the admin take part in PvP or play with other players that do. Server admins should take the same roll as board game, game masters does. He is either there to create live events or just monitoring the game play.

[0P3R4T0R]

yea but the thing is, if theres no message then more than 90% of admins will eventually abuse it.

there has to be a chat message of whats happening (for example: admin blabla spawned 10 flawless longswords), and it should not be possible to turn that off. lets push this great idea so funcom includes it.

[Authun]

Originally posted by Bentzo:

yea but the thing is, if theres no message then more than 90% of admins will eventually abuse it.

there has to be a chat message of whats happening (for example: admin blabla spawned 10 flawless longswords), and it should not be possible to turn that off. lets push this great idea so funcom includes it.

I want to call your statistic a gross exaggeration because it obviously is, but then I don't have admin messages to tell for sure.

[Thorim]

I would like to see a serverwide screen-message or chat message. But if an admin builds e.g. a city for his server population it could be annoying when every spawned item gets an extra message? I hope the devs find a good solution for this (if they want to implement something like that).
A log that can be seen by the whole server is a must for me.

As an admin I would always communicate what I spawn and for what I spawn this. But to prevent any confusion I want that the server members can see everything I do.

[Kim.]

I'm thinking that you could have a filter for server messages in the chat log window, which you could switch on and off, to check at your leasure when and what the server admins were doing.

[Authun]

Originally posted by Kim.:

I'm thinking that you could have a filter for server messages in the chat log window, which you could switch on and off, to check at your leasure when and what the server admins were doing.

I like this.

[Thorim]

Originally posted by Throg the Barbarian:

Originally posted by Kim.:

I'm thinking that you could have a filter for server messages in the chat log window, which you could switch on and off, to check at your leasure when and what the server admins were doing.

I like this.

Me too. :)

[Kim.]

Originally posted by Þórim blóðøx:

Originally posted by Throg the Barbarian:

I like this.

Me too. :)

Are you employed with Funcom, or do the developers read the suggestions posted on this forum? :)

[Thorim]

Originally posted by Kim.:

Originally posted by Þórim blóðøx:

Me too. :)

Are you employed with Funcom, or do the developers read the suggestions posted on this forum? :)

No I'm not and yes they do. :)