' Wrote: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.
Well, we could just have the admins process sanction reports so Cay doesn't have to go on her 1-page rampages. They'd get done quicker, plus with a split workload, single people wouldn't have to do too many. You wouldn't need to be in-game for this... actually, I rarely see any admins on. And I bet that if they do come in-game, they're always bombarded with PMs.
