Here are my thoughts, for just one more time.
I think this rule should be limited to just the uncaps, people who follow the rules are killed by people breaking them daily between D and B and its always been like that, nightmare for players who do the right thing, nightmare for admins who are trying to work out who is doing what.
-Rule: do not enter uncap red zone areas.
Rule-Mortar/UCAV/SUAV Into and Out of Uncaps
This rule can really be left as it is, my personal opinion would be to change it to not being able to mortar/ucav/suav into the uncap only, so in saying that lets deconstruct the possibility's of being allowed to mortar/ucav/suav out of the uncap without limits.
1) There are two types of people who will do this, the ones who want to go on giant kill streaks without being killed, and the ones who are base raped and have no other way of fighting back. The ones who want to go on giant kill streaks? who cares really the real skilled mortar/ucav players will move out of the uncap as the game pushes forward, it will be rare occasions they have an ideal situation to mortar and ucav from inside the whole game.
Base rape situations will limit most guys to only be able to mortar out, its impossible to ucav the enemy team from the RU end of the map, and only really skilled players know how to ucav the under ground passage on the US end with the rest of the US being un ucav'able ( lol ).
people who know this game will tell you, Mavs kill mortards, guns kill suavs and ucavs, smoke and flairs make ucavs and suav' really hard to use.
-Rule: Do not Ucav/Mortar/SUAV into uncap areas.
Rule-Explosives Into Uncaps
Without a doubt this is fair game rule, AGAIN in a base rape situation the receiving team who is clearly already stacked by a higher skilled team then has to put up with ammo crates at doorways loaded with never ending supply's of grenades and rpg's. However it is impossible to police and while the admins have successfully caught a few people there is still someone who has made dozens of kills doing it in the process, and has gotten away with it completely. There is no point policing rules that are near impossible to monitor fairly, it is just that simple.
-Remove this rule completely.
Rule-Firing Towards or Entering Uncaps
already touched on above. Another base rape scenario situation.
I will always stand by the fact that a 64-70 slot 30hz lockers should never be home to someone with a 300+ ping, the server simply can not handle it, the game play turns to rubbish for everyone, game mechanics start to fall apart, I completely understand ego's take on this and that is totally fine, but at least cap people who are connecting with 500+ ms pings and people using VPN's to connect who otherwise are very high pingers or have global bans.
Suggestion-Vote Nuke/Admin Nuke
If you have not already noticed, most of the above all comes down to base rape situations, there is no dispute that base rape is boring for both the US and RU teams, and there is no dispute that base rape is the apex of rule breaking on ego with the current rule structure. eliminate the base rape by adding the nuke, either an auto admin, an admin nuke or at least a vote nuke, there are many ways to implement some kind of base rape control, some work better then others, why not at least trial some kind of nuke? better still imagine you where an ego supporter and being an ego supporter gave you the ability to start a vote nuke?
You will never be able to have admins online 247, however some more active admins would be nice. Without naming names ego has a few admins that claim to admin correctly but are legitimately inactive, make some room for active admins.
Rules-Repeat Offenders/Bans
You guys have people who just break the rules until they are caught, or have zero care for the rules because they know all they have to do is reconnect, being kicked out of a game for breaking rules is no different then being kicked out to make way for a white listed player, lets face it kicking people out as ' punishment ' has little to no effect and is a waste of the admins time.
People who are caught breaking the rules need to be banned, starting out with short amounts of punishment right up to being perma banned, just as its done on all the other big servers, some of battlefields most toxic and racist players are regulars on ego, the reason why they are regular is because they have run out of places to spread there hate speeches.
There are plugins/mods available for almost everything on BF4, explosive limit, shotgun and sniper limit, auto admins for base rape, auto admins for abusive language, you name it, it is probably available. While some work great others will make the server unstable / the more plugins the more unstable basically, there is no need to launch a bunch of mods at the ego Lockers server but adding the more important ones like some kind of nuke, and some kind of auto admin for abusive players should be considered.
in a perfect world ego would be 64 slot, 2 spec, 2command a few light mods to help keep the game play balanced and
45hz!!!!
feel free to tell me the reason why some of my suggestions are or could be made ineffective, no offense intended but if you are not playing BF4 currently or are not a regular BF4 / ego lockers player, re frame from commenting, input is needed from people who have there fingers on the pulse.
-Kurtis