Poll on 1st person / 3rd person, Public vote Options

[MonkeyFiend]

Hi all,

Although this is a decision to be taken by the clan, I feel that the public whom play on our servers should have a chance to provide their opinions. I'll therefore add this poll into the server message spam.

The poll relates to recent complaints about the combination of High FOV, 3rd person and lookdown overheads. It was confirmed as not a bug by the devs, however many feel that the culmination of these mechanics gives unfair advantage.

The only way to fairly prevent this (since if we ban it, we could only enforce individual bans based on admin interpretation) would be to remove the 3rd person view.

I am aware that many people use 3rd person view without using high FOV and looking at the floor while overheading shots.

Anyway, I'll add a similar poll in the clanmembers section, but figured the public vote would also give the clan something to consider as we have no definite numbers as to how many players use 3rd person.

Happy to hear any comments from you guys too

thxsies

MonkeyFiend

[MonkeyFiend]

Thanks for the comments. It does appear that while removing 3rd person would address the issues, the collateral damage on regular players who use 3rd person normally would be too high.

The only other method we'd have to for addressing it would be to ask admins to guage if a player is excessively 'floor-sniffing' then issue warnings and eventual kicks. However this then opens us up to the issue of interpretation of whether someone is doing this or not :S

At the moment the limited archer server is differentiated by the archer thing. I'd not like to start a variety of servers to cater for all playstyle : archers/no archers/ 3rd person/no 3rd person. Plenty of the people that want to play in 3rd person playon the archers server or on the carnage server so applying this change to one wouldn't really be workable.