Rohan

Thank you for appealing. 

Your ban was placed after discovering a racist sign saying "N****** Raus" in the database with only your Playername and unique SteamID attached to it. Like this example: 

The sign was deleted  and a ban implemented as per protocol.

With the current cancel culture in the world, racism in all aspects of society is being closely scrutinized.  While we do understand that it still heavily permeates music, comedy, movies, and other media, it is something we do not feel is appropriate to have in our servers.

Words such as what were used on your account, are not welcome in any context wether in chat or painted on signs.

This is plainly stated on the server's loading screen before you enter.

Additionally, this is also stated on Facepunch's Terms of Service. 
https://support.facepunchstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007485418-Banned-for-Racism-Homophobia

Here are resources that you can explore to learn more:

guidetoallyship.com
https://guidetoallyship.com/

Anti-Racism Glossary

https://www.rwjbh.org/why-rwjbarnabas-health-/ending-racism/anti-racism-glossary/

Anti-Racism Resources

https://www.rwjbh.org/why-rwjbarnabas-health-/ending-racism/anti-racism-resources/

The ban will not be lifted.

You are solely responsible for what happens on your account. 
We wish you the best of luck.

Raidable bases plugin isn't up for consideration as Death wants all his plugins to be made inhouse.

As for the player raiding their own base, please re-read.   "a script of some sort that allows others (except the one who sold it to prevent double earning of networth)"

Ownership has to be removed exactly for that reason, though more ways to exploit it might happen.

it doesn't have to have all sorts of fluff and special effects from the start. This is just to tide things over until something more solid can be developed. This theoretically just runs on stuff that's already there.

I know that the latest we heard on this, Death wants to create something like a custom monument.

Until something like that can be done, there is a simpler (coding wise) way to entertain players looking for something to raid.

Theoretically it should be possible to scan all the items within a TC protected building privilige area for their total value in Networth.

Allow players to sell their base, including all present sellable black market items to enable a script of some sort that allows others (except the one who sold it to prevent double earning of networth) to do damage to that base. In short, the items in the base will remain, the seller will just get the value in Networth (possibly discounted to say 75% or 50% of the value you'd get if you sold everything 1 by 1.)

Basically what I envision is the following:

Player hits the "Enable Raid" option added to the TC menu. A script will run to calculate the value of networth inside the TC's loot protection area. The seller verifies he wants to enable and gets say 50% of the Networth value, and gets locked out of the base, removing authorizations for them and any others authorized, and allowing other players to damage and loot it. (Should work with some of the coding from the old plugin that allowed players to damage those Garrisons, but not player bases, possibly the builder's ID will have to be removed from the entities placed)

An announcement will show in global chat: "Player 'insert playername' has enabled Raiding on their base in Grid X# valued at $##### credits! Get going!"

Players will try their best to raid the hell out of it. Fun all around.

In addition, the same script could be added to the 7 day Inactivity Purge. Once the 7 full days are up, the base becomes raidable. (The discounted networth value could potentially be added to the inactive player's account)

The above will most likely inspire others to build nice bases and fill it up with loot for others to raid. It should also help a lot with player retention.

I'd love to hear what others think of this idea.

Kind regards,

Rohan of EU Scourge

On 9/26/2023 at 8:44 PM, Sr_Nova_ said:

I still feel that falls under griefing but

Yes, but no. But also yes. Maybe, but maybe also yes or no. Yes?

Context and situation is important for the interpretation and reaction. In most cases looting a room someone else opened would be griefing, but not always.

If it becomes a discussion, it's up to the active admin(s) to make a judgement call, and for that you need to weigh the facts.

My reaction just explains the difficulty with that in those cases, though our competent admins usually work out satisfactory solutions in my experience.

It's one of those things that are incredibly hard to moderate, as each situation can differ. 

It's usually not as black and white as it seems. There is no strict interpretation of rules regarding card rooms. In theory, a duo could be running the whole rig. Killing all scientists, opening the green and blue card rooms, and then suddenly someone flies over and opens the red card room and yoinks the locked crate. 

That also negatively impacts the duo's fun. The above is just one example out of dozens.

For us admins, we try to appeal on the players themselves to cooperate and share. It's a community server with hundreds of different players and a limited amount of monuments . Interacting with others is a big part of it. Sometimes you can take it all, sometimes you have to share and sometimes you have to take a deep breath, accept a loss and try again later. 

If a situation turns heated you can ask an admin to mediate, but if there is only fingerpointing and no clear evidence to back up either story, there won't be much an admin can do. 

Hope this clears it up a bit.  

If you have more general questions it is best to ask them in #General in the Discord chat. You can get input from players and admins alike.

Only the name was banned. If you change your Steam name and restart Steam and Rust so the change goes through, you can login just fine.

Agree to the above. Or hide it in another menu like /shop or /skin

Just throwing it here, as it'll be requested at one point anyway once it's released.

If submarines could also be turned into a 'nade or flare that would also be great, especially when living on a tugboat.

A suggestion for the difficulty: Have the zombies increase in durability/strength the longer they remain alive. At least so they remain a challenge for the players with full endgame kits as well. The ones near the spawn coast get killed relatively fast, so it shouldn't prove too hard for new spawns to make their way, but the ones at the opposite coastlines/dirt paths tend to be left alone after the first week of wipe.

This should increase the difficulty a bit without causing extra strain on the server by having more zombies spawn.

Just an idea. Not sure if it's been suggested before, I couldn't find any mention at least.

Thank you for appealing. 
 

With the current cancel culture in the world, racism in all aspects of society is being closely scrutinized.  While we do understand that it still heavily permeates music, comedy, movies, and other media, it is something we do not feel is appropriate to have in our servers.

Words such as what were used on your account, are not welcome in any context. 

This is plainly stated on the server's loading screen before you enter.

Additionally, this is also stated on Facepunch's Terms of Service. 
https://support.facepunchstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007485418-Banned-for-Racism-Homophobia

Here are resources that you can explore to learn more:

guidetoallyship.com
https://guidetoallyship.com/

Anti-Racism Glossary

https://www.rwjbh.org/why-rwjbarnabas-health-/ending-racism/anti-racism-glossary/

Anti-Racism Resources

https://www.rwjbh.org/why-rwjbarnabas-health-/ending-racism/anti-racism-resources/

The ban on your account will not be lifted. The ban on your friends account has been lifted  as he was a victim of circumstance.

You are solely responsible for what happens on your account. 
We wish you the best of luck.

Kind regards,

-=Rohan=-  / Admin team EU Scourge

Hello,

I checked the logs we have for that, and can confirm your story. I've undone your ban. You will be able to join the server again should you decide to in the future. Be sure to refresh yourself on the rules by typing /rules in chat to see what's allowed and what isn't.

Kind regards,

-=Rohan=-

Happy Holidays and a hopefully healthy and happy New Year for all.

also,

EU Scourge is #1 RustEZ server.

Thank you for appealing. 
 

With the current cancel culture in the world, racism in all aspects of society is being closely scrutinized.  While we do understand that it still heavily permeates music, comedy, movies, and other media, it is something we do not feel is appropriate to have in our servers.

Words such as what were used on your account, are not welcome in any context. 

This is plainly stated on the server's loading screen before you enter.

Additionally, this is also stated on Facepunch's Terms of Service. 
https://support.facepunchstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007485418-Banned-for-Racism-Homophobia

Here are resources that you can explore to learn more:

guidetoallyship.com
https://guidetoallyship.com/

Anti-Racism Glossary

https://www.rwjbh.org/why-rwjbarnabas-health-/ending-racism/anti-racism-glossary/

Anti-Racism Resources

https://www.rwjbh.org/why-rwjbarnabas-health-/ending-racism/anti-racism-resources/

The ban will not be lifted.

You are solely responsible for what happens on your account. 

We wish you the best of luck.

Offender: no1TOPG BattleMetrics Steam Profile
Server: EU Scourge
Time: 03:24 GMT+1
Length: Permanent
Reason: Racism

More info: Player joined the server and started harrassing and disrespecting players in the chat immediately. A warning was issued minutes before the offender typed a racist slur in chat and a ban was issued. Screenshots available on request.

Perhaps having an decay-increase every other day or every week would decrease base sizes and therefore entities as well.

Now you only have to farm wood/stone for a single day to have enough upkeep for the rest of wipe if you build an average sized base.

It'll force the lazy/casual players to build more modestly and it'll get rid of abandoned twig bases sooner as well.

Can also be done per week I suppose.

Example rates: Week 1: 100% vanilla decay, week 2: 200%, week 3: 350% week 4: 500%. 

Just an idea on this topic.

Once it's fixed, @Jamesy has to wear the "Strawberry Jamie" outfit for the rest of the week. Details regarding the outfit with @Marija

Plus, free pookie for everyone.

RustEZ is getting more popular and draws people of all walks, ages and cultures from all over the world.

Some of the players have a poor grasp of English and will no doubt find themselves being confronted with a rule they might have accidentally broken due to ignorance. Not everyone will show due diligence and Google-translate the rules before jumping into the server.

As I've witnessed myself, in such situations admins/helpful players tend to use google translate in order to make the rules clear to the new players. And they have to do this with each situation where a non-english speaker might need attention.

I believe it would be far simpler to have a pinned Multilingual Rule topic from where both admins and players can copy/paste the rules in one of more common languages. Besides english I've seen a lot of spanish, portuguese, french, polish, dutch, russian, german, arabic, chinese, pig-latin, klingon and so on in the chat. Having them translated in the same format as the english ones under /rules will also keep them uniform.

Admins who don't speak the other languages might be able to use this within a warning pop-up as well. That way would also immediately make sure any rule breakers can't claim ignorance, and will probably help in de-escalating any ongoing situations faster.

I'm sure that there are enough regular bi-lingual players as well to help give proper translations for the more common global languages.

Kind regards,

-=Rohan=-

Note: this is only a suggestion meant for translating the rules as they are under /rules to improve the overall accessibilty. Please refrain from any off-topic commentary like which rules need changing or clarifying. There are existing threads regarding those topics.

Edit:

Why waste space. Here's the Dutch translation:

Help Center -Reglement

1. Geen spelerbases overvallen, spelers lastig vallen of enige vorm van stelen.

2. Geen chat spam, speler disrespect of pesterijen, racisme of politiek.

3. Niet kamperen in loot- (buit) kamers, monumenten of andere druk bezochte plaatsen.

4. Je mag in grotten bouwen, zolang er maar vrije doorgang is voor andere spelers.

5. Je mag geen monumenten, publieke gebieden of waterwegen blokkeren. Rivieren mag zolang ze niet voor transportverkeer worden gebruikt.

Good points. And after the first few days you can tell less players have been going to the Arctic research base, and most of the hidden toxic players have been removed thankfully.

Our lovely admins () have also created a storage where players can put the snowmobiles if they're going to the other biomes.

It's not really an issue to get one currently on EU servers. Though on Scourge we don't tend to take the seemingly abandoned ones in case the owner left it there on purpose. Having them as a flare after smacking them would keep them from being another entity in the area that has to load.

No idea how it is on the AU/US servers, though I expect the same issues start waning there as well as the wipe progresses.

We'll see what the future will bring.

Because why not?

Why it should be a flare:

The server only spawns 1 every (half an) hour-ish.

Players are waiting for hours to get one.

Toxic players can easily steal/destroy them unless stored behind lock.

It will be funny to summon one on the flightpath of the Chinook and make it crash.

How?:

Copy paste the code for Mini copter flare, rename to Snowmobile, change the spawned object identifier, add to /shop for 1K networth. Done.

I bet you can't do it under 5 minutes.

What do you guys think? Post below

Kind regards,

-=Rohan=-

EU Scourge

Maybe a countdown clock works better?

Define wipe

"Wipe is in ~days~hours~minutes~" (pull actual time left from the server's time until next first thursday next month? dd/mm/yyyy)

Then it won't matter what region it is. Just a thought.

Repost, cause I can't edit the previous one.

Your server & region: EU Scourge

Your in-game name: -=Rohan=-

The name of your build: Rustic Addams house

The Map Grid ID of your bui8ld: G11/H12 center of swamp

A small taste of the final build:

Your server & region: EU Scourge

Your in-game name: -=Rohan=-

The name of your build: Rustic Addamms house

The Map Grid ID of your bui8ld: G11/H12 center of swamp

Screenshots: Subject to change.

Station Name: Classic FM

Station URL:  https://www.globalplayer.com/live/classicfm/uk/

EZ Server and Region: EU Scourge

Only classical music. Cause BBC 3 is [REDACTED].