Vertex 32 Posted May 22, 2016 (edited) In some cases, the all-talk during the round prep phrase has become an uncontrollable period of mic spamming. Many of the people on Garry's Mod are far too immature to handle it. There's been instances on a full server with blasting high-pitch sounds. And other instances where one or two people are overpowering everyone else's ability to talk; with, utterly annoying and disruptive garbage. (ie. The prop-phys on the barrels) I was considering disabling all-talk, all together during the round prep phase and just having people use their respective local chat. This is not something which should be taken lightly by means; but, more something that almost has to be done. Even with a moderator online, they can easily lose control when the server is full. The problem steams from trying to jam almost 30 players into a situation where only one person can really talk at once and a lot of people want to say something. It has become significantly worse as player counts increase. Overall it's a systemic flaw with the game-mode configuration. There was a mass rage which happened today after a few people started blasting high pitch sounds on and off for 30s. As a server administrator I lost control and had to threaten plus push through a mass mute in-order to resolve the issue. This was a double edged sword, which caused players to leave due to their perception of bad administrative action and the actual spammers. It was a horrible scenario created by a few intelligent people working together in on/off intervals. There are other options available as well such as only having round-prep all-talk with less than say sixteen players. But something liberal needs to be done about this issue, it cannot go on any longer; as, it's just getting worse as time goes on. Our overall active moderation is declining tremendously and even so, piling up moderators and having to constantly mute people is not by any means a proper or permanent solution toward the systemic root. Edited May 22, 2016 by Vertex (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
