Sorry for writing a short essay on this I am just very passionate about video games
I am going to link a clip of one of my bans, I did not want to have to post this on the forums but I feel compelled because of the way it was handled and how since then I've had friends been given warnings for similar acts. Me and my friends were being payed to kidnap officers, we ran upon these 3 and proceeded to yell at them to drop their weapons and things of that nature. I was as loud as i could be and i covered as much ground as i could closing into the officer. I am first sure I've contacted him at 29 seconds, he looks at me, sees my rifle pointing and at the very least hears faint commands, the officer beside him values his life and does not move and does not draw a weapon, the officer before me does draw a weapon, he takes it off of his back so he did look at me and click that is sure, by that point I should not be expected to give him more time, I'm all for giving time for people to obey commands as you can see we give the other 2 officers plenty of time to head the commands and surrender their weapons, upward of 15 to 20 seconds, the officer I shot however did not even make an attempt to value his life or comply, even if he some how did not hear my specific commands he at the very least should have realised that drawing a weapon on me at that moment was a death sentence, what am i to do? Just stand there barking orders while giving him 5 seconds, I'm fine with giving someone who isn't presenting at me time to comply but you cannot expect me to ignore the fact he looks at me then takes the rifle off his back and tries to re position, he wasn't going to comply and that is why he was shot.
At one point when i was arguing against my ban they brought up that it was an animation, if you look he was out of the vehicle for some time and the automatic animation for holstered weapons does not make them removed it from their back and present it forward. Also if you look at about 47 seconds in the last officer drops his rifle and as such the animation automatically drew his pistol, rather than shooting him i hold because i know he's trying to comply, he turns away from us and drops it. The first officer does not turn away he draws, presents and re positions while looking at me. The two officers that complied were kid napped and we Had a great rp with them, it was an exciting moment and it was cut short when I was banned mid way through the drive.
We were payed £750k for the officers but we could of potentially got £1mil, I tried to give him the full chance to comply but he just would not, some people may say i didn't give them enough dialogue but tell me, we have one cop at one side of the road to subdue while two on the opposite side all the while a helicopter is near by with rotors spinning, the best and most effective method to engage them in this RP scenario is to make the threat and have them restrained, if i did not do what i did this would of just been another incident of a gang shooting up a cop patrol but I prevented it from becoming that by effectively coordinating the capture to the best of my ability. Every other cop complied even the one further back from him stood and headed the instructions.
I was not called on teamspeak, I didn't even think this was the reason i was banned i assumed it had to of been something from hours or even days ago but i was mistaken. I said to the guy something to the tune of "hey so i was banned just there, I'm not really sure why so i wanted to ask first so I dont look like that guy on the forums going 'I DID NIFFIN WRONG ADMIN ABUUUSE'". He said something like "yip you picked the wrong guy to RDM buddy" and explained it was him that i shot, he claimed that i just rolled up and shot at him and his officers with no warning and no attempt to engage them in RP and that is why i was swiftly banned. I told him I have the video and I'll upload it and me and him can watch it together and sort it out between ourselves because I genuinely didn't want to make this much of a fuss out of it. When I uploaded and showed him that i did speak in direct, i was in audible range and that him drawing his rifle was not some automatic animation he couldn't control he dismissed it and so did the staff member above him.
I asked to speak with the staff member in question but I don't want to name names because this isn't me trying to do some witch hunt to have people removed. He heard my case and after 10-15 minutes of discussing it he said something (I am loosely quoting) "I've had to really try to justify this ban and i am less than 50% sure that it was fair" He also said to the officer in question (again loosely quoting i don't record ts convos because i dont want to make people uncomfortable when talking to me) "I have doubts that you did not hear him at that range even if there was an orca near by". My ban was lifted within the minute and I was content at the time, i wasn't going to demand an apology but what I would like to see is bans being handled gentler. I was in the middle of the situation, I missed out on the best part of the night my group had because I was banned mid situation, i missed out on my cut for the mission and I was not even requested to come to teamspeak to justify anything before the ban was given. It put a real downer on my night and it does put me off of RP servers, I am all for the RP but there's RP and there is just letting someone ignore and kill me for fear of a ban.
If you look on my channel I posted the last Life server i played on, payed $30 to get in and it seemed cool had played it for a couple of weeks then a police officer tried to taze me at 25+ meters with a semi automatic tazer that had a 3 round magazine and banned me for fail RP because "you wouldn't zig zag in real life". Like i said I'm all for RP but you have to draw a line and be reasonable and at the very least have the situation vetted by a non involved member of staff or even call them onto ts before giving out the ban mid situation unless you believe them to be hacking or mass RDM'ing of VDM'ing, you can't give compensation for those great moments stolen from you by hastily given bans
I would like to hear your feedback but i want to stress this is not me having a go at any staff, admin or player I just want you to read and take it into consideration as i feel players like me would have a richer experience in the community if we feel that we can play while adhering to the rules and know that we wont be ripped from the situation without a run down. after all it's the community that makes an arma RP server, you cannot have role play without players feeling engaged in the situation
