Didn't really want to come onto these forums from after a week off but okay, was asked to by some people as I'm being told the server is turning even more shitty than when I left it.
Here are my two pounds on the issue.
I spent quite a bit of time on the WW3RP server, went through all the ranks and made it to SA eventually, lead the Militia which wasn't the best thing I ever did in my opinion as I'm not cut out for leading much of anything. Got NCO's and CO's which was nice.
And with all my time I spent IC and OOC, I learned quite a few things about how the team operated as a whole. Their weak and timid, with the exception of maybe a few people, stressing the maybe. As opposed to banning someone outright for breaking the rules it instead turns into them having to have a philosophical debate about why they should and shouldn't with them caring more about what will happen to them as opposed to the ban being implemented onto the player.
If you can't properly enforce rules it leaves rise to no one actually respecting them, for example.
Because person A has managed to get away with poor, undetailed and unserious /me's for so long he's come to take it as all that's required, it then spreads onto the newer players as they don't know what's required of them, it becomes a domino effect.
One of the reasons I left the team was because I got a job, fair enough as I want to make as much room for overtime as humanly possible. The other reason was that no one cared about serious RP anymore, it was all talk and no action. We'd ban a notable player for acting like a complete retard then he'd get unbanned soon after, all because of a lengthy ban appeal including all his friends.
A third reason was that admins covered for each other, they'd rather make sure their admin friends are alright as opposed to the players being alright. Everyone was meant to prioritize their admin duties over roleplay, however, 10% of the admin team did this at any time, even as an SA I had to go do the brunt of the work, coming onto the server when playing something else as no one could seemingly be asked or capable of doing something as simple as setting HP, changing names and banning troublemakers.
All of all people are saying that the player base is the brunt of the issue, that point has validity as with my time on the server it was people's attitude to RP that ruined a lot of stuff, however, do you want to know the real issue?
It's the Admin team, a fair amount of people who don't know what the hell they're doing.
