The Sovereign

No... Someone else should have been.. but to stop that from happening they compeltely rewrote the rules on the fly instead of doing it the right way.

Ok they changed the rules on paper on this one. I'm wrong and stand corrected. Wasn't an attack on you milo you know I you.

Take boltcutting. Boltcutting a house door has never been engagement, but now @ Milo and a few other staff members seem to think it is. Has never been.. but now, instead of correcting what they think, we're gonna do a whole gaslight cycle, pretend it was a gray area, and it's going to be a new rule. But we're going to pretend it was always that way. Just like we did with plane engagements, just like we just did with planting bombs ect. People who pay attention and actually try to follow the rules get fucked cause staff don't pay attention.

As I have pointed out like 100x now, staff on this server do nothing at all to bridge the gap between the written rules and the rule interpretations. I've tried to encourage defining these more times than I can count, and I usually get told something along the lines of 'we never really have problems with that status quo it's fine.' Then it leads to a bunch of wild and radical changes, that usually take place in the middle of situations after staff have already told players it's one way. Players should never have to be concerned that one day staff is going to suddenly just up and decide that something is or isn't against the rules when it was always the opposite prior. A vast majority of staff on the server are basically checked out, and don't even bother paying attention or keeping up to date on previous rulings. Take for example, tags. If a gang has a tag directly tied to a gang you're at war with you can kill them without initiation. So if someone has Teamplayers (TP) tags, and I'm at war with Teamplayers, and they're white name I can kos. I guarantee 90% of the staff would say you can't. It's already been ruled on. I know how fucky staff on this server are about keeping track of this so I cover my ass by holding onto a screenshot for 4 years of @ Grandma Gary saying that's the case. How many staff honestly know that? There was no formal announcement, no formal rule change, and I guarantee almost every staff member would ban for that because of the poor communication and rule updates. If I didn't have the forethought to take that screenshot, good chance I would be banned and shawn would say he has a different opinion and it would become an entire vote process to randomly change the rules, they would all try to gaslight me into thinking I don't know what I'm talking about as they have in these last two instances where I don't have recordings/screenshots. Grandma gary probably doesn't even remember ruling on that. The rules are so bad players have to keep track of them themselves and even then, constantly wonder if some staff member is going to randomly form a different opinion and everything's going to change for no reason at all.

I have not threatened to break any rules or exploit in any way. Quite the opposite. Only to demonstrate both the difficulties in trying to enforce this insanity and some of the many ways it will backfire and how it is exactly what I said it is.... speculation based rules where players have a license to rdm without consequence. I don't intend to do the rdming. And you know as well as I do that if the first two staff members said they were against changing it, it would be 11-0 the other way. Subordinates don't vote against superiors. And I'm outnumbered, but far from alone in my take on this...I just use bombs more than anyone so I'm the most affected. The ol Retired staff special. If someone who's never played a medic wanted to make a drastic rule change that effected you severely, you would care. Were bending over backwards to let a gang rdm me that declines war invites from me on the daily. I offer them a license to kos, and they decline because they manipulated their way into one way kos where they never have to be in danger.

This is insanely abusable on both ends and I 100% intend to demonstrate how and you guys are going to refuse to ban when I follow this new system to the letter...watch. you're changing the rules and you won't enforce them accordingly. I'm going to be rdmed... multiple times...according to your new made up stupid rules...and you wont do a damned thing to the rdmers.

Staff are not going to do their due diligence and enforce this fairly. You're putting the burden on rdm victims to have to upload every single time they die in these circumstances to check if ownership is on point, and they will swap, and I have no fucking clue how anyone is actually expecting staff to be thorough in these situations when half the time they can't even be bothered to read disputes. You're saying "fuck you" to the people buying the expensive shit to blow up stuff and giving the goahead rdm license to anyone who sees them doing it and they just have to take any potential rdmers word that the property was theirs. You're fucking people over for using bombs. And you guys don't care because you can't figure out how abusable this is because it's not your problem.

Look I get the general notion, but this is the exact type of juvenile, not thought out, knee jerk reaction by uninformed and I experienced people that got us into this position in the first place. Be expected to check with staff on home ownership every single time is aids, and I have 0 faith and 0 confidence staff are going to be thorough enough for this to just not turn into an rdm workaround. I've explained it to exhaustion at least 5 times and the only people who don't see my issues are the tl;dr omfg a paragraph I hate words types.

Literally @ed every staff member who is somewhat arguably actually a staff member in some capacity.

Haha whatever you say Mr swilly. GL

Honestly..

Well I look forward to seeing you back in the field since you're allegedely not inactive. Good luck Mr swilly. Ctf on top.

Nicole did. She did it for proud cause he got his feelings hurt.

We had a whole conversation where I told you guys I don't hate you and it isn't personal...just needed some in game enemies. You're capping so hard.

Because Shawn likes to rewrite rules. I follow the rules exactly as I'm taught my staff. You really don't take losing well. It's not personal bud...it's just a video game.

I know who started the vote. I'm not stupid. And any vote that's 100% is broken ....obviously fucking broken. It's like when a dictator gets 100% of the vote. There's flaws and it wasn't conducted fairly or in good faith.

Lol...your sov rulebreaking fanfic is insane. I'm sorry you're so angry.

This should have went thru cc if they wanted to make such a major change to the rules. Not backroom discussions where the actual playerbase themselves get no input. The day career medics start launching votes to ruin conquest you'll understand. SEE??? YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT. AOS DOES 24/7 You're forming your opinions from no experience and absolute guesswork Y'all should do this shit the right way instead of fucking over people who follow the rules as staff have explained them . This whole thing is only an issue because Shawn told a bunch of people some bull shit that he knew nothing about...and instead of him having to admit he was wrong y'all changed the rule so he was right. Put it to cc...stop changing things you don't understand.

They pay 150k a month in taxes. They're fine. You're making it impossible to blow up sheds and you don't understand because you don't play the game in any real capacity. I'm not reaching for shit. It's politics. If a couple Admins say their opinion and hold a vote....ofc 90% of their underlings are going to agree.

I said this same shit too. Yet another rule change made by a couple staff with no input from the community that 100% was there to benefit one faction. It's apd ban bait.

It was 100% fleshed out. Shawn just doesn't understand the server rules and makes them up as he goes and they have to hold staff votes by people agreeing with people mindlessly about shit they don't understand for a promotion. Debate this on stream and I will destroy any staff member in an honest debate that isn't being heavily moderated and silenced where someone can't dodge questions.

So you think blowing up a building as a tactical move to force the enemy to redirect should lock you into nlr and cost you a kit on top of costing you the bomb even though is costs the building owner nothing. Explain this to me please.

All of my clips are within 1 week. Including you demanding 20 mil comp for dying to a game bug when you were naked and crying and raging.

Changing the rule to needlessly fuck over 5% of the player base by career medics cops and inactives that have no clue what they're talking about is unreal. Nobody is crying. There would be just as much blowback from some ppl if a career medic that never played conquest decided to ban infrits from conquest. It's not a freebie. You're smoking crack Shawn. It's free to fix a shed. You just wait till restart. So if I'm blowing up a house anyone in the radius even not on the house I'm bombing can rdm me because it could potentially damage theirs. That's fucking stupid and this is..and I mean this.. the most retarded take I've ever heard from any staff member on this server ever. If you are really egoing a rule this hard with arguments this bad...you have no business being staff. They can always engage. Why are we acting like they're not allowed to engage. The only person who this costs money for is the person spending money on bombs and then having to rekit because you're out here giving people permission to rdm without discussing it with staff first. You should not be staff Shawn. If you are pushing this hard when you don't even understand the mechanics of gang sheds you should not be staff. It costs them nothing.

Houses cannot have ownership verified and blowing it up costs the owner nothing. Same for gang shed. Someone's paying to delay their use of it and it comes back free of charge at reset. You would do this in the middle of my work day.