Server Policy

There has been a lot of talk amongst the clan recently about suspected cheaters on our server. These individuals fall into two camps, those that are genuinely very good players and those that are cheating via somekind of cheat or hack. Whenever some is performing overly well on the server, say 20 kills and 0 deaths, we endeavour to watch this person playing in first person to see if they are obviously using a cheat like a wall hack. If we suspect them of cheating they will immediately be kicked and banned.

Sometimes it is difficult to judge if a player is cheating or not. The Dads Army clan prides itself on being a friendly, welcoming clan and therefore having a friendly server to play on. Unfortunately if one player is owning a map, whether cheating or not, they are are also likely to be kicked and/or banned. We realise that this sometimes means that legitimate players are kicked from our server and this is regrettable. In our defence we feel that if a person is not cheating but is managing to chalk up so many kills for so few deaths, then they are not really be tested as a player and would do better facing a stronger challenge elsewhere. We can only suggest they die a little more often and make the game a little more even for both teams.

Hopefully, Valve's Anti-Cheat (VAC) will improve in future and lessen the number of cheaters and improve the game of CounterStrike for everyone.

Instructions to Admins

Our server runs a piece of administration software called admin_mod which contains a large list of commands which you can run on the server like admin_csay, admin_map etc. All the members of the clan have full admin rights to the server, meaning they can run all the admin_mod commands. But anyone else who connects to the server, lets call them Joe Public, also have some limited admin rights. Joe Public have the rights to run the following commands.

admin_vote_map <mapname>
admin_vote_kick <playername>

Joe Public cannot change maps automatically or kick people automatically but they can start a vote that may change the map or kick a player.  Map votes require at least 80% of players to vote Yes, kicks require at least 90% of players to vote Yes. It is only right that we leave this level of access so that if several members of Joe Public connect to the server whilst no admins are on, they can still play the maps they like.

Joe Public cannot keep starting vote maps if one fails, as there has to be a three minute delay between each vote map. Final point, if Joe Public starts a vote map and you want to continue playing the same map then admins can use the command

admin_cancelvote

which will stop the current vote.