Posts by Conatur

    Sadly Bizerco wasn't suitable as a Junior Admin by abusing admin rights or not acting in situations when was needed, and has left the Admin Team.
    I believe that some of the abuse cases were due to the desire to help the majority of players in situations when some individuals were too powerful compared to other players, but it's not a way how Admin Team should solve such issues. Upgrade mods never were fair to everyone, and there are no 100% workable solutions.

    Description of current roles and their responsibilities in our community


    Community Member — represents a whole community as a friendly person, who is always ready to advice to new players on our servers.
    Dedicated Community Members become Admins over time.


    Junior Admin [JA] — first level administrator with limited set of commands, potentially a future Regular Admin.
    Responsibility: maintaining rules on a server. JA Needs still a higher level admin as a partner.


    Server Admin [RA] (Regular Admin) — a staff with a decent admin access, sufficient for maintaining healthy atmosphere.
    Responsibility: maintaining rules on a server. Able to do the work independently.


    Senior Admin [SA] — highly experienced officer with an extended admin access.
    Responsibility: maintaining rules on a server. Able to do the work independently. Сertified to train Junior Admins.


    Admin Manager [AM] — head of Admin Team with a full admin access.
    Responsibility: person with that rank controls the whole Admin Team in terms of following internal rules by admins,
    resolving conflicts within a Team, monitors given punishments and the process of administer by admins.


    Community Manager [CM]
    Responsibility: maintaining the work of SoD in terms of Forums, Discord Server and Steam group, supervision of the performance of duties by the listed above Staff.


    Server Manager [SM]
    Responsibility: maintaining the work of SoD in technical terms (Server, Development of SoD ZPS Mod, Forums), supervision of the performance of duties by the listed above Staff.

    As a community, we try to maintain a friendly and comfortable atmosphere for all players.
    So there are rules which we strongly recommend to read and follow!


    Communication rules:
    1. | Respect each other. Playing together means having fun together. We get it, it's the internet and some banter or playful shit talking doesn't break a neck, as long as everyone adressed is fine with. Do not go around and repeatedly target indiviuals, if they are clearly unconfortable with it otherwise it is considered as bullying and harassment and will be muted/gagged or on multiple occassions banned. Stick to your group of fun buddies and everything is fine.


    1.a | Racism is not tolerated and deep global political discussions should be avoided. An open multiplayer game isn't the place for such things.


    1.b | Sexual harassment is forbidden. Consensual flirting or similar is fine.
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    2. | Do not pretend to be a SoD member / admin.
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    3. | Only English language is allowed to speak using microphone, since it's an international server and English is commonly spoken around the world. You are still able to use text chat to write in your native language. There are also multiple language voice rooms in our Discord!
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    4. | Do not microphone or text chat spam. Be sure to use decent microphone. We don't ask to buy pro hardware, but at least don't make people's ears bleed.

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    5. | Do not try to avoid mutes or gags by rejoining the server. Usually first mutes / gags longs only till the map change, so use that time to clear your mind and act like a decent player.



    Gameplay rules:
    6. | Using any cheats will result in an instant permanent ban.
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    7. | Sabotaging gameplay is unacceptable.


    7.a | Do not block or team kill / prop kill your teammates. Same goes for barricading your team out or triggering stuff that kills your team intentionally


    7.b | Do not create situations where it's impossible to enter or leave certain areas for your or the opposite team.


    7.c | Be a team player and share your equipment as much as you can. Don't hold unwanted weapons or ammo (if you don't have a gun which uses it).


    7.d | Do not share information about current location of survivors / zombies while you stay in a spectate mode or lobby.
    (medics can share that info since they can judge by special "symptoms")
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    8. | Both teams, Survivors and Zombies need to complete current objective (for ZPS (survival) maps: kill all zombies / survive for 10-15
    mins / kill all humans)


    8.b | Do not delay the round if you are last survivor. At least die like a hero trying to do the objective!


    8.c | Camping or patrolling around the spawn is forbidden on ZPO maps for survivors. Passing by a spawn to get to the next objective is fine.


    8.d | Zombies can await for coming survivors (ambushes) but not for too long.
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    9. | Do not stay AFK as a zombie.
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    10. | Rejoining as a starting zombie to avoid playing as a zombie or even infect survivors from that is forbidden. Same goes for intentionally killing yourself to play as a zombie (whether it's by physics, jumping into horde to die or using console commands). Play the team that you're assigned to by server.
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    11. | Glitching and exploiting are forbidden. We would be also thankful if you report about such cases to us.

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    Special rules:
    12. | Avoiding admin's punishment by any way isn't allowed. If you think your punishment was undeserved then open a complaint at Ban Appeals.
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    13. | Any kind of Advertisement (web-links to some external content) is forbidden.



    If you think that you were punished incorrectly / unfairly, please get in touch with Lead Admin or Community Manager.
    You can always also fill Ban Appeal or Admin Abuse Complaints forms:

    Admin Abuse Complaints
    Ban Appeals

    For those ones who didn't read it in our Discord ( discord.gg/JFgkHXC ) yet :P


    We decided to update the list of our ranks with new "Junior admin", "Senior admin" and "Lead admin" positions!


    So the table of ranks now looks like that:
    Server Manager
    Community Manager
    Lead Admin
    Senior Admin
    Server Admin
    Junior Admin
    Member.


    "Trial Admin" and "Game Admin" roles were exchanged by "Junior Admin" and "Lead Admin". While "Senior Admin" rank is a brand new one!


    Explanations
    @Junior admin has some basic admin commands (less than previous "Trial admin" role), but now it's much easier to obtain that role being an active player and adequate person!


    @Senior admin can be awarded to a person who was with us for a quite long time being in a role of @Server admin... and who still keeps being active! It's an honourable rank, which also has some additional commands comparing to @Server admin rank.


    And finally @Lead admin.
    It's a staff with an extended list of commands, just as mentioned above "Senior admin" role.
    But this rank has tools for managing and controlling. It's a head of dedicated game project

    For those ones who didn't read it in our Discord ( discord.gg/JFgkHXC ) yet :P


    We decided to update the list of our ranks with new "Junior admin", "Senior admin" and "Lead admin" positions!


    So the table of ranks now looks like that:
    Server Manager
    Community Manager
    Lead Admin
    Senior Admin
    Server Admin
    Junior Admin
    Member.


    "Trial Admin" and "Game Admin" roles were exchanged by "Junior Admin" and "Lead Admin". While "Senior Admin" rank is a brand new one!


    Explanations
    @Junior admin has some basic admin commands (less than previous "Trial admin" role), but now it's much easier to obtain that role being an active player and adequate person!


    @Senior admin can be awarded to a person who was with us for a quite long time being in a role of @Server admin... and who still keeps being active! It's an honourable rank, which also has some additional commands comparing to @Server admin rank.


    And finally @Lead admin.
    It's a staff with an extended list of commands, just as mentioned above "Senior admin" role.
    But this rank has tools for managing and controlling. It's a head of dedicated game project!

    In terms of technical, there are exactly 4 admin access levels.
    1st lvl is lowest with minimum of commands, 4th is a highest.


    It's a Management's decision and it's how we gonna grow a new admin team since the old one isn't active anymore ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    There are some changes related to our updated Hierarchy within SoD : )


    Sasuke Uchiha is promoted to a Lead Admin!
    Susuke is one of the oldest and active admin nowadays, and what's also important he was always caring about SoD community by helping in different ways!
    Now he has even more abilities to make our community better!


    Mr. 9 is promoted to a Senior Admin!
    I won't be mistaken if say that Mr. 9 is the oldest and one of most honorable member of us, now with "Senior Admin" rank!


    *GoodName*, KingRoan and Dreack are promoted to Junior Admin!
    Ron (GoodName) and Kingroan are members of SoD for a quite long time, Dreack is a new SoD member,
    but what's much more important they are all active and adequate persons to fit the role of Admin, what I can't say without smiling (being happy :d)!


    Congratulations everyone! ^ ^