Milo

There's definitely been more said in more details in other posts. I don't wanna misrepresent so will keep it brief but we have looked into Reforger previously and do have an interest currently. Reforger is extremely different from A3 so would require lots of effort. Only thing I really can guarantee right now is that we could absolutely blow any of these existing reforger servers out of the water when we put our minds to it

It came up a few different times. We did remove infinite money for all new staff so I think that along with the perm being years ago made it less of a concern. I think the potential cheating concerns were the larger focus of those opposed

I don't disagree. Again that's why I was the largest no when it came to voting. Not sure how I feel on this one. There were definitely people voting for him who were in the same gang. That said he also had a lot of support from other staff as well, and I believe those votes were a minority to staff with no conflict of interest. As much as I had my gripes, he did have other attributes that made him a desirable candidate. I think chalking it to just that he was friends with staff is kinda reductive. Honestly not sure what you mean by revisionist history. I voted no during the time he was discussed for the cheating concerns that you mentioned. Not sure how fair this is really either. Different months yield different candidates. That could've been said for me when I had my Mod app in a long while ago. There was someone else who was applying with me who I said it should be granted to first, and would prefer they get chosen over me during the process if it came down to one or the other. I think he would've made an absolutely great staff member but unfortunately I was the better candidate in the eyes of everyone else. Who is more deserving is a subjective opinion.

It was before my time, but pretty sure we had a web dev contributor who got caught spinning. He was removed immediately. Yeah. Arma and BattleEye do virtually nothing to prevent cheating- even the most blatant forms of it and the game has been out 10 years. To have a bearable public server, you have to know how to make your own AC or you're gonna get massively cooked. It's always boggled me how little Arma detects and how much it has fell on mission makers. Yes and no. We obviously have our ways of detecting more blatant forms of cheating, and that's what FAC is for. However there are things that even triple A games struggle to detect accurately that we realistically struggle with as well. It's not as easy as people would think. It's just kind of a crappy catch 22. You can either over-ban and have innocent people who've never cheated and are good at the game caught as collateral or you can under-ban and potentially have a few slip through the cracks until they eventually get caught. Both options suck but the ones we are realistically left with. Yes. I know you're not speaking to me, but would like to point out there were staff who shared your exact concern. In mine (and others) opinion- those who have been suspected of cheating should not be staff. For that reason I was highly against him getting staff when it came to discussion and is why I voted no. To the counter points though, Zeroblade is a genuinely nice and pleasant dude to be around and he put in a lot of effort on Support Team. I've had good conversations with the dude since then and have expressed to him that although my opinions haven't changed on the principle of potential cheaters as staff; he is a good dude. Also for what it's worth as someone who was probably the single handed largest -1 I would be extremely surprised if he's even cheated at all in the past 2-3 years. It was around 3 years ago he was someone we even ever suspected. Since then he has played and not raised any red flags to us large enough for us to reconsider that position since then. Which honestly is pretty exonerating.

Contrary to popular belief I actually don't think I did that haha. I think it was an idea spun by me though as the quest last year ran later in the month. Whatever we had last year just got switched on automatically- I don't think anyone off us intended it. I'll remove it though so it isn't around next year

I was gonna write a post saying exactly this. I'd agree this was a server rule break but given the directive was "leave or die", makes the entire situation kinda petty. The medic did what he thought was best in this situation, even if it was technically wrong. The server wouldn't be a very fun place to play if we did ban on petty stuff like this.