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Complaints / Sabotaging on CB server (its getting really common and annoying)
« on: February 04, 2013, 12:37:32 am »
Hello,
Long time OpenTTD player and great CB fan. In the last month or so I've started to play CB frequently on your server... Its fun, at least it was fun until secondary resource stealing became so common that it happened in every other game. If I'm not the victim, someone else is - usually the player who has the biggest town and is closest to win.
I'm very well aware of the rules of the server, and realize that competition is allowed. But, the resource stealing that I'm talking about can constitute to any reasonable person as sabotage. These bad players are abusing "competition allowed" rule by stealing secondary resources (food and goods) usually form winning players and transporting them to closest city - usually in the screen distance. They make very little money with this, they don't take it to their claimed town. They just do it to harm players who are doing well and are close to a win.
Also, some go far as they forget about their own town for the last 30-60 minutes of the game, they make it their sole purpose to sabotage others. So sometimes, some third ranking player wins because the first was sabotaged by second.
What stunned me is that admins don't even come close to doing anything about this... Even when they are mocked by these players.
Last game we had was one of the best games me and my friend had. Until some ******* started to steal every possible secondary resource we made. From that point on our job was to protect factories and stations within the scope of the rules. Funding industries in (our) town area, building long entry and exit queues that go around the factory/industry, which to an honest player like me seems like "cheating" the rules. I like competition servers, but this is ridicules.
People spend more time sabotaging and defending from it than having fun by building complex transportation networks, which this game is all about.
I honestly hope that you consider changing the rules in any direction that would prevent or at least curb this kind of behavior. Otherwise, you are gonna start loosing good players that respect the rules.
Picture is worth a thousand words. I've linked to (big) screenshots from the last game.
On the fourth picture he admits that he is actually doing it on purpose because we are too fast/good/and were more of us.
Edit: grammer
Long time OpenTTD player and great CB fan. In the last month or so I've started to play CB frequently on your server... Its fun, at least it was fun until secondary resource stealing became so common that it happened in every other game. If I'm not the victim, someone else is - usually the player who has the biggest town and is closest to win.
I'm very well aware of the rules of the server, and realize that competition is allowed. But, the resource stealing that I'm talking about can constitute to any reasonable person as sabotage. These bad players are abusing "competition allowed" rule by stealing secondary resources (food and goods) usually form winning players and transporting them to closest city - usually in the screen distance. They make very little money with this, they don't take it to their claimed town. They just do it to harm players who are doing well and are close to a win.
Also, some go far as they forget about their own town for the last 30-60 minutes of the game, they make it their sole purpose to sabotage others. So sometimes, some third ranking player wins because the first was sabotaged by second.
What stunned me is that admins don't even come close to doing anything about this... Even when they are mocked by these players.
Last game we had was one of the best games me and my friend had. Until some ******* started to steal every possible secondary resource we made. From that point on our job was to protect factories and stations within the scope of the rules. Funding industries in (our) town area, building long entry and exit queues that go around the factory/industry, which to an honest player like me seems like "cheating" the rules. I like competition servers, but this is ridicules.
People spend more time sabotaging and defending from it than having fun by building complex transportation networks, which this game is all about.
I honestly hope that you consider changing the rules in any direction that would prevent or at least curb this kind of behavior. Otherwise, you are gonna start loosing good players that respect the rules.
Picture is worth a thousand words. I've linked to (big) screenshots from the last game.
On the fourth picture he admits that he is actually doing it on purpose because we are too fast/good/and were more of us.
Edit: grammer