The gradual changes we asked for time for was not really specifically the attitude from us in CM.
My bad I probably should have been more clear, meant moreso an example of like a CM acting out of line. That said, those are valid complaints. I think its been said that punishment guidelines are getting updated, but (obviously) that has yet to happen. Basically the real point I'm trying to make is that this thread, while very valuable, kind of happened at a bad time, as things are changing behind the scenes and all we can tell you guys is "hey we're working on it" and the only option is to kind of ask you to wait and let us prove it.
Mod -> Admin is not a huge jump and doesn't give you too much power to cause harm. Admin -> SA, SA -> SD is where you see some of that poor decision making. I respect you for not claiming to know much about those situations because you may not. But, I definitely suggest talking to someone who wont lie to you about it lol
I have crazy respect for you friend and I would hop into a call and play league with you like nothing ever happened, because nothing did happen. You've gotta be careful generalizing us by saying "any of you" because I haven't shown any toxicity to you especially. I've been as respectful as I can to Monolith's staff team and their management since my resignation. Though, I cannot speak for others when I say that. I just saw this thread as an opportunity to speak my voice and to raise awareness of the horde of elephants that have been crowded in this room for months on months.
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It is more that the community have lost faith in higher management from what ive seen and i hope from this it changes, if it doesnt then i dont see monolith surviving
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More transparency in terms of what is happening and why people get banned, be generally more open to criticism which seems to have improved and make your players feel wanted. For a while now me and a lot of other people i have spoke to dont feel wanted or valued as if we are just disposable and can just be permed with a malicious activity ban/no appeal and then never given a second chance. The community doesn't seem to feel valued or listened too.
I just reread your reply and yeah I don't think most of the individuals I criticized are disgusting people. I'm sure when Stuvi goes out and has a couple of beers with his pals or whatever it's a great time and he might be pretty easy to get along with. While they are not monsters, I think that I am mostly speaking within this community. Some members of upper management are unable to properly lead this community. They set bad examples of how others should act, they lie, they aren't considerate, they won't listen to you, etc. I will not make judgments of Stuvi for example because I've never had a conversation with the guy. It is 100% a problem that we have never conversation and I will criticize that all day. As weird as it is to say, Monolith has brought out the WORST in people. The topic of management can make people pretty angry and drive them to do stupid things like mass rdm, create podcasts about a Garry's Mod server, and you know the rest.
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Some sort of log for bans, not a really in depth one but just a forum that after you ban someone is quickly filled out with a real reason, that everyone can access so if the community feels a player was falsely banned they can look at it. It seems now that less people are getting silenced in the past that was a real big issue, another huge issue is hacking. You cant act like it doesn't exist. So many people cheat, and monolith doesn't seem to have an anticheat. Why is that a thing, a real anti cheat would stop false bans and try to stop people from hacking. Also i'm glad to hear that monoford is getting a big map update as lets face it, monoford in its current state with the current player count hasn't been enjoyable for a while now.
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Lol, I said "functioning" anti-cheat. It's clearly non-functioning. To be fair I worded that poorly, what I mean by this is that there is an anti-cheat (it just doesn't work)If I recorded a video of me downloading free cheats from the first website I found, loaded into Monolith, did some raids, and uploaded a player report on myself for cheating, could I change your mind?
I'm not talking about telling people about the anti-cheat lmao that's dumb. I'm saying that the community knows there is a huge cheating/alting issue and the CM's kind of nudge it off and say that it isn't a problem.
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Again there's little I can say without leaking, but new systems have just recently been put in place to streamline the identification and reporting of cheaters internally, which has made me as a staff member feel listened to. This is however very recent.
I brought this up just now, and the CMs responded well to the idea of making a public channel that logs bans made upon the server. This will be discussed, hope that signals a bit of listening to happening as a result of this thread!
It happened all too late sadly.
I'm not gonna go out and say that this is incorrect, I will however say that if that is how it is perceived then that is our fault.
Better late than never
But yeah should have been done sooner, can't really argue with that
