Milo

I'd have to run it by someone but I ball with the idea

As I said in your support ticket: When it comes to Olympus one of the only things we have a zero tolerance policy for is cheating. Players who use third party software to give themselves an unfair advantage ruin the experiences of our players; which is something we tend to take extremely seriously. As a staff team we do strive for transparency which is why we let players see their ban information on their stats page. Cheating however is one of the only kinds of bans we will not release information for. This is out of principle and out of respect for the severity of the infraction that has been committed. Now to go back to being that unprofessional staff member that responds with GIFs:

Hey, I am really sorry about this. When I was watching the video that was attached in the report I saw that he was nowhere near a red zone and I missed that the turf became active when he was shot. That is entirely my fault and I sincerely apologize you had to spend time out of game for it. When I'm on later today I'll try to send you some comp for the time you had to sit out. Apologies again.

I've seen so many people not comp their way into a ban just to try and negotiate it after the fact so they could have it reduced or removed. Obviously not in all circumstances will someone want comp and we do not endorse "force comping". Though if someone is being really petty with their dispute reason and the player tried their best to be apologetic and remediate the situation with comp; odds are we aren't gonna ban them for that. I feel like a lot of people don't even think about how much money they can make in the bare minimum 24 hours of them being banned compared to what they'd have to comp. Drives me nuts when people cheap out and shoot themselves in the foot for something that could've been avoided if they would just try to right their wrong.

I haven't really chimed in on one of these posts before but would like to put out two things: I don't believe we have any actually racist staff members. I don't believe the server is currently dying. Although David has summed it up really well, I would like to expand on both of the above. For the first one, I can say having access to internal administrative discussion; there hasn't been anyone that has ever spoke to me or said anything about banning anyone over race. I think one of the trickiest thing our administration team has dealt with in the past and continues to deal with is being on the same page. Every once in a while someone will either make a decision that only half of us agree with or where we discuss something we never have before and we debate on which is the best way to handle something. We all try to be on the same page at the end of the day but realistically sometimes people face bans for things other may not just due to varying admin discretion; or perhaps even just a personal mistake. I think this can also be caused by discretion for ban lengths too. I probably give out way more warnings than I should where as another admin may see it as "if I ban them then they can just put in an appeal so we can have a discussion about it". For the second one, I like to remind people that this server has not only survived (but for the most part thrived) for the better part of more than 10 years. When I first began playing the server 10ish years ago I was 14 years old. If you'd have asked me whether this server would exist in 10 years I would have said heck no and would have talked about Arma 4 haha. Over the course of these years that server has experienced a crap load of hardships before where people talk about it "being the end" or that "the server is dying". The largest was in 2018 where the gaming community Asylum even made a joking video about Olympus going under with a flat heartbeat of the Olympus logo "dying". Not only did we not die then, we have out performed the community significantly these past couple of years. Although the game itself has been on a decline with it being old, I don't really believe the server is dying. That being said I do recognize that there has been a lower relative player count as of recently. Looking at it objectively, if I had to say the largest struggle we have been seeing recently is that Bohemia has been (unintentionally) kinda been bending us over with their updates. They will push them out and we will have little preparation as to what is actually in them and sometimes they will break things that we are physically incapable of fixing. That's why in this past month lag has been higher and we were dealing with people having issues loading in. We've made a lot of changes to increase network performance, optimize the client and reduce lag over the past few months. We do appreciate our Turkish and other ethnic players and enjoy having them here as regulars