Posted on 22 June 2016 - 11:50 PM

I have a couple of things I would like to say:

1)TeamSpeak- I have always had helpful, informative, and overall, well assistance in TeamSpeak. However, the problem here is how much time it takes to get assistance. I have to, usually, message every staff member on the TeamSpeak and wait about thirty minutes before getting a response. Even then, staff members are unable to speak to me sometimes. I also notice all staff members are usually congested in private servers or staff lobbies, never spread around in different support rooms/ different server channels. I feel like it would definitely be in the server's best interest to have the staff members spread out more and helping players quickly.

2)Punishments- I am just going to be straight up with this one, staff members seem to have gotten lazier than they used to be. Staff members sit and monitor chat, and that's basically it. Look at the number of mutes actual staff members have given compared to the number of bans actual staff members have given. From what I see, staff members rely completely on GCheat. Not to deny GCheat is one of the best anti-cheats out there, but it can't detect everything. I make reports often on people who are obviously cheating, using things such as "fly" and "speed," but nobody ever follows through with them. It is almost like all staff members always assume another staff member will take care of it. (The following sentence may be slightly biased {appeal in progress.}) Even when staff members do monitor chat, they seem to be too happy to type /mute and are always looking to get there "record" up. I think it would be helpful for all staff members to be reminded of what is worthy of a mute and also need to step it up and not let GCheat do all of the work.

3)I feel like staff members definitely play favourite. I have seen, multiple times, two players say the same or similar thing and only one get muted. Most of this favouritism is between ranked and nonranked players. I understand that ranked players should obviously get some perks seeing as they did support the server, but come on. You can't determine bans based off of that. That is unfair to all players because even perked ranked players will have to deal with ranked cheaters.




Although there are more, I simply don't feel like typing them right now. I feel like the server could definitely benefit from increasing the size of their staff team and having the staff members be required to go through some sort of training once every certain interval of time. Thanks and I hope my opinion has helped!

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 03:41 AM

Sorry to say but the appeal system is corrupt as it simulates a horrific historical event called the Salem witchcraft trials where you were guilty until proven innocent and only if you admitted that you were guilty of witchcraft then you could keep your life. Same thing here, no matter if the ban is false or not, as long it is banned by gcheat, a gcheat admin comes in and denies it by saying "you were cheating." This gets so many people to just say "yes" to an appeal to get unbanned because they were falsely banned and the staff would not believe them no matter what unless they had clear evidential proof. This gives a huge advantage to youtubers and streamers as they always have evidence when they get banned falsely (SuchSpeed, BlueDeww, Danteh etc). The reason I said this is to not look down on gcheat but to somehow bring a fairer appeal system where people can actually plead innocent to get unbanned. I know countless people who have told me that they were just going to say yes on their appeal to get unbanned. I hope badlion gets admins who are able to identify literacy and tell if the person has guilty conscience or if they're plain innocent. I see so many people who tries to put as much as they can say on a ban appeal to convince the staff they're innocent but they get instantly denied without evidence. I liked the forgiving appeal system at first for giving people a second chance but I feel like it's 1. Unfair for innocent players and 2. Getting abused by actual cheaters. I'll conclude by just saying that you guys do a good job running the server and tries hard to make it work for everyone, but I do hope that y'all can do something about this whole appeal system. I have never gotten punished so it doesn't affect me a slight bit but I want the system to be balanced for everyone.

Thanks for reading
-NeedleKingJR

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 06:31 AM

I Think that a certain staff member (MaccaTacca) Is very immature and sometimes OP Abuses. Thats the only problem I've seen with mods

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 06:52 AM

i have good contact with a lot of mods (@JustBuurman @Joeninetyjc) and these people really help me out a lot. but i think some mods( not saying names, uhc and arena mods) dont do jack shit. back in the old days when uhc's werent overfilled .this was no problem. I think that uhc mods have problems to handle all the reports. msg's and helpops so maybe it would be ebtter if there was more staff in a uhc.

i joined BadLion in 2014

Last edited on 23 June 2016 - 11:45 AM by Ny_

The staff do a good job, they still mute/global mute appropriately for the most part. More staff would always be nice, as I don't think I've ever seen a report I've made attended to (usually I have to contact a mod I know from outside of Badlion and get them to come on). I think global mutes should be used a bit more sparingly. It seems pointless to me to mute because of smaller spamwaves (which just draw more attention to what's being spammed) and any sort of server event - Danteh getting a build milestone should never cause a global mute, because it's one of the few big community things that happen here, where everyone knows about Danteh's build ELO and wants to see the milestone. Anyway, I just think in general that most global mutes do more harm than good by drawing attention to the spamwave rather than letting it fizzle out on its own.

Also the appeal system being automated just doesn't work well. It's so impersonal that selecting yes will get you unbanned. People need to feel like they have to put effort in and like they aren't just selecting the "unban" option, but making a promise with someone. I think you would see better rehabilitation rates and less repeat-hackers if you had actual mods handle ban appeals.

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 11:59 AM

nevermind i take all my good words about the staff teamon arena pvp 0 STAFF ON ARENA PVP
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Posted on 23 June 2016 - 12:30 PM

I think the overall staff team could use some work. I feel that EVERY SINGLE STAFF MEMBER should have tabby chat because you can set it to make a noise to alert you when someone has msged you. Also if a staff member is AFK. They should be forced to log off because them just being online and people msg them and they do absolutely do nothing, it gets the players mad even though the staff weren't even there. I am also disgusted by some of the staff, not going to say who, someone was camping in side there house (built on the corner of the map). I tell a MANAGER and he legit says why don't u just walk over there and kill him. I legit told him I am ashamed of you. He had no clue what his job was.

I join late 2013 or 2014

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 04:39 PM

Suchspeed was the only one false gcheat banned. They don't auto deny appeals, they look at logs. There are many times people get unbanned when saying not guilty.

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 05:49 PM

I joined in early 2014.

I do not really have that much to say but it does mean a lot. My first topic will be activity within the staff. Like a past staff member said responding to this thread, there are way too many Arena PvP staff members to only have 3-5 staff members on at a time. There are even times when I find that there are no staff on at peek NA hours. This is a big issue and results in many people getting on and breaking the rules. I feel that the staff members either need to be more active or leave and then have more staff members get hired.

My next topic is biases between staff members and select players. I understand that if someone is more know, their accusation or whatever they say can be more accurate, but that doesn't mean that you don't pay attention or take into consideration what another random player will say. Many times there will be situations where a player with a rank like Youtube or famous will say that a player will be "stalking them", even if that is not the situation. An example was when my friend was in a UHC with me and he was in a cave and he noticed that iBearHD came into the cave and started exploring. Now, even though my friend was IN that cave wayyyy before this famous player entered, because of the standing of his position in the server, my friend was teleported away from that position and it threw off our game. This is what i mean by bias staff members. They sometimes immediately see something, and come to a conclusion, this is an issue.

Up next I would like to bring up the fact that staff member on ArenaPvP sometimes NEVER respond. There are many times where there will be a camper, light hacker, or even someone flying, and no matter how many staff members I and my friends message at a time, they never say anything back. Now listen, I fully understand that the staff members would like to play the game, but it gets to the point where I have gone against so many cheaters, and no matter how many times it happens, no action is done. I would like to see something where maybe their tag could change to (Playing-Busy) or to some kind of message that indicates they will not be moderating. It wastes a players time, and sometimes their health in their match. To add on to the biases too, a staff member would much more often be responding to a famous member's accusations to any player. (Random Example) Let's say Smqcked is in a ranked match and reports that there is a cheater. But a little before that, a random player reports that someone is flying or hacking very hard and they are recording the match. Most of the time, a staff member goes to the Famous player being Smqcked rather than the other player who believes the opposing player is hacking so much, that they actually recorded it.

Another thing is respawns in UHC. Why does a famous player have a chance of getting the respawn late in the game but someone who died maybe 4 kills before the famous player's (who is waiting), can't get one? This is very wrong and shows that normal players are not taken care of even close to as much as the higher ranked or known players. We are all playing the game and deserve equal rights no matter what.

Thankyou for reading if you did and I hope you take these words into consideration.

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 05:50 PM

Alright so I am going to try my best to not say what you don't want to see.

ArenaPvP Related

When you are playing in a match and you find a hacker, you know, you report him. I understand that staff play matches too, so I wait for a while for a response or something. If I don't get a response, I pm them in game addressing the hacker, but no one response. Once I am done with the match I still keep trying to get something like, "IGN" or "Hold up, in a match". I never get a response and I eventually just give up. Now, I do not normally find hackers or rule breakers in 1v1s, but more in UHC Meetups and 2v2s 3v3s etc.

UHC Related

I feel that staff do a pretty good job with everything that needs to be dealt with.

SG Related

Never see staff on SG. But there are to many rule breakers on SG so…

TS Related

I think staff on TS are fine because there isn't really anything to moderate on TS.

I am not listing the other servers or game types since I don't play any others.

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 05:50 PM

I mean abuse is a strong word to use but the owners have fun :) Sometimes it can do harm but it is just a matter of going w/ it

Posted on 23 June 2016 - 06:25 PM

I believe that the staff team as a whole is still top notch when you consider all other popular servers, but I definitely feel that the quality of the staff and their dedication has gone down some. When I joined badlion the server was much smaller and their was always at least one or two mods on at any given point if not more, who were always spectating matches and watching the chat. I have seen a recent drop in available mods, and an increase of mods that are just playing ranked or in partys or are just afk, and not responding to things such as pm's, teamers in chat, callouts about somebody needing a mod, and kids who need to be muted because they are spewing negativity. Overall I think the badlion staff is still great, but I think that the level of quality and dedication has gone down to a degree on arena (I dont play UHC so I dont know about things over there but I have heard that the hosts and mods are great from friends within the communtiy.) In SG I believe that the mods are top notch, and I absolutely love the way that the staff is handled over their, and I never have any problems connecting with a staff member about a problem.

I began playing Badlion sometime around 2013

Last edited on 23 June 2016 - 11:33 PM by Mapfal

Mods need to stop Elo Grinding. One example is m0xy. The other day I went on his page and his first 15 pages were matches that were all on the same day. 15 PAGES of matches just from 1 day. He's really not mod if he's gonna be playing that much. That's what needs to be fixed. Cause somebody like m0xy isn't gonna crap and just work his ass of elo grinding all day. Most staff are like this, but not as much as m0xy. (no hate to m0xy)


Joined Mid 2014

Last edited on 24 June 2016 - 12:08 AM by covidbatsoup

I don't have anyone in particular but when I play and I try and ask a staff member a question, I always get ignored. They are not afk, I see them talking in global chat yet they don't give a hoot about what I ask.

Just been playing a little on and off for about a year

Posted on 24 June 2016 - 03:52 AM

Some of the staff are bias. For e.g., today two kids were in a heated argument in chat about something dumb but instead of muting them both for spam, the mod only muted one of them for spam. In addition, when i questioned his bias, he even said "(username) was not spamming as much.", therefore indicating that he acknowledged the spam from both. I have screenshots if necessary but just thought that I should point out.

Posted on 24 June 2016 - 07:13 AM

(This is a long response so please hang through and hear me out til the end)
Staff overall isn't bad but at the same time I wouldn't necessarily say the badlion staff is good. I mainly say this because it seems like staff is either doing very well at their job but then again at other times they have their pm's off, they ignore chat, just play ranked matches etc. Which is very annoying. Now me being a west player, I play in such a small community therefore mods are very rare to see and like I said, sometimes they're amazing… But sometimes not. Now think about it; you play pretty much everyday and maybe once or twice a week you see a mod, but upon that very few occurrences of a mod sometimes they don't even do their job. And by 'not do their job' that's exactly what I mean - For example: One day I'm playing and I join a meet up. There's a team who SHOULD be kicked but the one and only mod online on west isn't reading chat. So after I die a new meet up is starting so I try to be as respectful as I could and ask the mod in between their fights to spec or even play the meet up to assure no teams. Sure enough no responses whatsoever, not even to say, "Get outta my face, it's my time to grind, kid". (This would go for na east as well) All in all, staff isn't terrible but there's plenty of room for improvement in places such as communicating with players and prioritizing modding over elo.


I joined January 2015, when mods were way better (more dedicated, understanding, talkative, and less elo dedicated)

Suggestion: possibly you could make it harder for players to become full on mods, so that those on trial will have to really show their dedication and prove it so that you're positive they're mod material.

Posted on 24 June 2016 - 12:20 PM

any of the factions staff don't do there job or just aren't on like kmon went raidable and they allied with another fac to defend there base and I waited in ts for 1h+ and nothing ever happened when they should be disbanded and there is just never any staff on and the server needs to reset btw.

Posted on 25 June 2016 - 12:18 AM

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Last edited on 25 June 2016 - 11:47 AM by Etai007

Well I just looked at appeal and here is appeal they badlion staff didn't look FOR 12 DAYS
https://www.badlion.net/appeal/thread/130974

Posted on 25 June 2016 - 01:34 PM

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