From looking through the report forms and reporting players and trying to record a demo or get proof for the report just a tole on your response time and some times some people might forget to record a demo for the in game chat or mic spam. Using some of my experience as a security provider for my lake community i think i have come up with a way that might improve skial admin and player response and report time. Now what i am thinking is what might be good for the servers is if you had Something like an in game camera the records audio and the names of the people talking. This camera would be placed in the center of the map or the most trafficked part of the map in the very top corner to peer down upon the players.
I'm going to give you an example of what I'm talking about. If you go to spectate and you press space until you have full control of the camera and take it to the most trafficked part of the map dose not matter where but it also might help if it was there and you put it in the top of any corner and let it sit there and watch the players. If you look to the left you can see the kills and the chat so if some one was mic spamming or being racist over the mic that one camera would record the players voice and name which will be displayed to the right side of the screen.
Now what you would have players do is give you the server ip the persons steam id and the time of the spamming or miss conduct and tell if it was voice chat you would send one of you admins to the server to see if its still going on and you would have another go to the exact time and map footage and review it. If they see the name of the player or heard the voice of the player they could then judge if its true or not or administer what ban or mute that needs to be done.
Now I know the question is going to pop up that the cameras will take too much room on the servers memory. Well if you have the cameras set to delete the recorded info after every 1hour and 30min or so then it Would save space and keep the cameras up and running another question would be is that still a replay mode and if it is it will lag the server well no. It is only for admins to review and it is not something that records every single detail that people want in a replay.
The whole idea to this is some people get away with things and there is a lack in strictness in the servers. The whole goal of this is to keep a firm security stand point on the servers and to keep players happy with the skial community which there for might bring in more people to the community.
I'm going to give you an example of what I'm talking about. If you go to spectate and you press space until you have full control of the camera and take it to the most trafficked part of the map dose not matter where but it also might help if it was there and you put it in the top of any corner and let it sit there and watch the players. If you look to the left you can see the kills and the chat so if some one was mic spamming or being racist over the mic that one camera would record the players voice and name which will be displayed to the right side of the screen.
Now what you would have players do is give you the server ip the persons steam id and the time of the spamming or miss conduct and tell if it was voice chat you would send one of you admins to the server to see if its still going on and you would have another go to the exact time and map footage and review it. If they see the name of the player or heard the voice of the player they could then judge if its true or not or administer what ban or mute that needs to be done.
Now I know the question is going to pop up that the cameras will take too much room on the servers memory. Well if you have the cameras set to delete the recorded info after every 1hour and 30min or so then it Would save space and keep the cameras up and running another question would be is that still a replay mode and if it is it will lag the server well no. It is only for admins to review and it is not something that records every single detail that people want in a replay.
The whole idea to this is some people get away with things and there is a lack in strictness in the servers. The whole goal of this is to keep a firm security stand point on the servers and to keep players happy with the skial community which there for might bring in more people to the community.
