SiMPLE | Forum

Hello there,

we had some unpleasant words this morning on Midway, due to the Japanese carrier being sunk by Allies (me, in the Prince of Wales, plus planes and a destroyer). As the Japanese team weren't controlling any flag, they were quite unhappy. It took ages for one to get the sub and sink me. Teams were even in numbers… Maybe not in quality, though.

I've seen that problem arise many times on that map: someone drives the battleship to the opposite side, and as the carrier there is quite fragile and respawns fast, it's repeatedly sinking.

Usually that's not too much of a problem, since there may be planes or other ships around to sink the battleship (a couple torpedoes and it's saying hello to the little fishes). Even if the sub's elsewhere, "victims" have other solutions, lke spawning on the lower deck and escape in a landing craft, which is difficult to sink for a battleship. Trying to take off when the battleship reloads is possible too, as is shooting the battleship with the AA guns (although it works better on destroyers, and takes time anyway). But apparently not everyone can think of that.

Would be possible to decrease the spawn times of the other ships? Maybe depending on the number of flags controlled, if that's possible: the less flags you have, the fastest they respawn. I've got no flags, you sink  my carrier: blam, eat the whole armada respawning in seconds!

Or to give the carrier a couple of different spawn points, so that if it's sunk once it respawns someplace else? You sink it in B4, it respawns in A1 so you can't just resink it.

Making it plain unsinkable wouldn't be fun, but making it harder to sink would be a favourite, although I fear it's not possible.

Is any of these solutions feasible?

Plus, an incidental problem: I wanted to check in the server rules if there was a specific mention of Midway's carrier, but I cannot find them anymore. Have they moved?

Hello,

today on the main Simple server, at about 10:35 UTC+1, an Allies player named Igor' bombed the German main base with a B17. I warned him about the rules forbidding that, and he answered "No admin, no rules".

I suppose some ban time may teach him that while admins may be away, rules stay.

BTW, a happy new year to everyone.

Hello,
a bit after 16:30 French time today (14:30 GMT), on the Simple server, while playing Kursk, a player named lop|Arwen (number .26) teamkilled me by shooting straight at me in the main base, at point-blank range.
When I asked why, he said he didn't, that I was a liar, and called me names.

So I think he's a teamkiller and a liar himself.

I'd like an admin to check the logs to confirm he actually is the guy who teamkilled me, please, and if so, to punish him somehow. I'm asking for that check since he's a player I've seen playing properly, and his calling me a liar makes me doubt a bit, although I'm pretty sure of what I read. Sometimes log goes fast.

But one thing I'm sure of is that I was teamkilled in a way that can't be an error, the guy came straight at me while I was standing besides the runway and gunned me down with their SMG.

Hello,

I'm sorry I have to submit a report, but too much is too much. So, on RtR+SW server, we had this afternoon (just after noon UTC, right when i'm posting) a player named THE WHITE TIGER who, in addition to their defective caps lock, had a tendency to teamkill on Raid on Agheila. Totally deliberate teamkills, like zooking a team plane to be able to take it when it respawns, or headshooting a team flettner pilot who had landed to take a flag.
And that wasn't a kiddy noob, since he played normally the rest of the time.

If that person can be banned from the server for some time, it would certainly allow for more normal play. Especially when there are no admins around.

Hello,

I was just banned from the normal server (Notapix, today at about 14:10 GMT on El Alamein map). I suppose this is an error, an admin had banned someone minutes before and claimed he had mistyped their name (don't remember the name of that admin, not someone I know).

I see no reason as for why I would have been banned, neither base attack nor teamkilling, which are things I don’t do (OK, the occasional unwilling TK happens, as everyone else ).

What I did before being banned: shot down a B17, some time after take off (I spot it taking off, make a big turn and came back to shoot it down, after it had turned). That was clearly not a case of "shooting down a plane at take off" case as it had taken off before (when I first saw it) and had manoeuvred before I started shooting.

So I would be happy to be unbanned, as I suppose it is an error; and if it is not, then I would like the admin that banned me to explain why he did so. I’m all for the "don’t shoot planes at takeoff" rule, but it doesn’t extend up to when they’re manoeuvring in the air, just to when they're rolling on the strip and a few seconds after that, but no more.

Hello,

I noticed something I thought weird just a few minutes ago on RtR+SW : a player who had a very low score (due to teamkilling) kept being automatically banned, but did not even leave.
I suppose (s)he should have been kicked, but apparently it didn't work for him/her.

Here's a screen capture I took:

The "Banning for too many kicks" message kept appearing on-screen, but the player was not kicked not banned.

At the end of the game, they had -34 points.

Dunno if they were using a hacked client or whatever, but I thought I had to report it here.

Hello,

it looks like the anti basecamping system has been disabled on the Essen map on the RtR+SW server.

If a German player goes to the Alied base, he's not automatically killed, and can kill all the other players/bots and/or steal the planes.

I tested it after seeing someone stealing the AW52 and using it to turn the base into a slaughterhouse (of bots, mostly).

Is that normal?