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Yes, using an artillery spotter is perfectly legal, unless the flag is on the uncapturable main base.

Pixel shooting is shooting from a fixed position and using a known landmark to aim at something you can't see.  For example, you get into a defgun, and you know that if you aim at a certain spot on a certain cloud, that the shell you fire will land at a certain spot on the map that you can't see.  Usually that spot will be a spawn point or some other place you know there are often enemies present.  The cloud example works on BF1942 because the clouds in the skies are a fixed part of the map, just like the ground features.

Pixel shooting is against the rules, including SiMPLE servers; see http://team-simple.org/rules:

- Pixel-shooting is strictly forbidden.

Edit: meant to say "Pixel shooting is against the rules on many servers, including SiMPLE servers..."

I for one really like this map, but it just takes a few campers to screw it up.  I think simply disabling parachutes will change it from a spawncampfest into a naval air battle like its historical namesake.

I think there are two simpler ideas: 1) death bubbles around enemy carriers, 2) disable chutes altogether.

IE means Internet Explorer.  Just ignore that because people are making jokes instead of being helpful.  I don't see your name on the USA server ban list.  Do you play under the name "ikebana?"  It's also possible the ban has already expired.  If you don't know why you might have been banned take a look at the rules at http://team-simple.org/rules.

What's your point?  On the FRA server they have literally banned admins from the French server in the past as well.

You should have enough players on each team to crew the B-17 fully, 3v3 on stock B-17, 6v6 on your modded plane.  That might also make some interesting dogfights.

There is a difference between just being in the enemy airfield, and going onto the enemy uncapturable base and spawn-killing someone who hasn't even seen you yet (meaning you can't plead self-defense).  Your warnings were 1) the many warnings that were going out over the server to players who couldn't seem to follow the rule against attacking the enemy main base that game, 2) kicks of those players who didn't heed those warnings, 3) your previous kick no more than 15 minutes earlier, and 4) the previous knowledge of the rules you should have gained from playing on this server since or possibly before registering here almost four years ago.

A ban will often follow being kicked for another incident during the same game and can be a bit longer if there is a history of problems following the rules or someone has been here long enough to know better.  Your ban is for three days.  Please try to have more respect for the rules in the future.

Map voting is good to have enabled, but it gets abused.  I've said this often, but if the map vote for Stalingrad fails 3-4 times within the same game, it's probably not going to succeed the 5th time.  That's when an admin needs to disable it for the current game.

In my opinion map vote should be used in two cases: 1) at the beginning of a round when a map has started that most people don't want to play.  Or even if just one person doesn't want to play it; bring up a vote and see what happens.  But once it's apparent people are satisfied with the current game, leave it alone; you're just annoying everyone.  2) the game has gone on and on and everyone is getting tired of it, or maybe people have left a large map and not enough people left to play it, etc.

People also need to realize that if a map vote is successful it will immediately end the current game, and a lot of people would like to finish the current game.  Wait until the next one starts then vote.  There have been many times I've voted no not because I didn't want to play the map being voted on, but because I wanted to finish the current game.

I would say leave things as they are, but people don't need to be complaining when an admin turns off map vote when it starts getting annoying.

Also, upon a successful map vote I think it's a good idea for an admin to !setnext back to the map that would have been next in the rotation had the vote failed.  That way a whole bunch of maps don't get skipped because of one map vote.

I love editing other people's quotes.

Hey, that's my schtick!

Merlin's OK.  I feel bad for him because he is constantly having problems with high ping, and that must be frustrating.

You can use this link to open a new topic in the Server Ban Appeals forum: http://team-simple.org/forum/post.php?fid=4

It's spelled the same way on the starboard side as well.