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Also, consider that being an admin is a very stressful, frustrating job... you gotta sit around all day and slap people around with the ban hammer, and you never really get to have any fun on your own time. not a position I'd want at any rate

not exactly true, because you dont have to be always on the admin character. you can be an admin on another char, and if you happen to witness an OORP thing, or summit, you can always log on your admin char, and sort things out. admin character or not, you can still do your admin duties methinks? yeah, have fun playing, but dont let the oorpers ruin the fun totally eh?

EDIT: heres a suggestion. the Angels have characters that are there to help and guide new players. maybe upgrade their ability to 'hurt the bad guys as well'? or *laughs* give the Angels a special death squad:laugh:

I'm afraid Tenacity has the jist of it. After, eh, 3 and half years DMing(Admining) on NWN and almost a year on a BF2142 server, I've come to understand that admin isn't a fun job unless you make it that way. Which would be incredibly hard on a Freelancer server.

You have to keep a bunch of things in mind as an admin. For instance, say a noob logs into the server, undocks, takes a potshot or two at a pass Lib BS patrol and gets torn to bits. Now he starts cussing his head off, and you have to kick/ban him. Problem with this is, do it outright, and in the long run, any of the other newbloods sitting around will mark you as a power abuser/jackarse/etc.

Admin is a balancing act and frankly, not too many have the ability to do it. Plus, consider this. You have to give up playing Freelancer for portions of time a day.

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