Michael L

Ski is a great guy! One of the better and more active admins we had. Capable of playing/seeing the perspective of both factions and not concerned about banning big names when they screwed up. Of course he will get targeted as a result of this. Hope asylum doesn't get to a point where playing in game is one of the discouraged things an admin can do and we get stuck with the guys who disappear for months on end or just play cop in private channels.

Ski is a great guy! One of the better and more active admins we had. Capable of playing/seeing the perspective of both factions and not concerned about banning big names when they screwed up. Of course he will get targeted as a result of this. Hope asylum doesn't get to a point where playing in game is one of the discouraged things an admin can do and we get stuck with the guys who disappear for months on end or just play cop in private channels.

@RoguePilot

Skimancole was a great admin, and in my opinion should still be. To be clear, before reading anything else I will put out there that I do have a friendship with skimancole but I will be completely honest in this post, no bias will be present. 
 
Skimancole was one of the most active administrators who particpated amongst the average player base. I have a personal perspective on admins especially the ones that role around in a group and spam events, troll in city squares, and always have suicide vests/rpgs ready to go without due care because they are not effected by economy. Admins being able to fight with the average player base that is effected by economy with the use of their uncontained armory is a issue in its-self the way I see it. The game / playstyle is conducted in a way where there is a sense of loss when fight, repurcussions, and so on. 

I've seen admins constantly abuse their in-game admin, to much greater extents. Simply not understanding how and what they do effects normal players and not so much themselves. If this is the direction the server is taking then it would expected of our higher level staff to employ no-tolerance on all staff members or much higher degree of scrutiny. I can say for fact and others may vouch that all admins or majority have done things in their past that would justify removal or consequences. Which leads me to believe that Skimancole was targetted, hence additionally this was an out of the blue removal.

Skimancole was not an isolated problem. In terms of productivity, and true respect/care for the community he had it. He was never stuck up, never thought of himself as to good for the average player, never acted as if he was untouchable. As I have played with Skimancole now this is true and continues to happen with members of the playerbase. In my opinion he was the most approachable admin due to his consistent interaction with the community wether it be in game or simply chatting in the teamspeak.

To dive into his admin usage from my experience I will start with gang fights. In gang fights, we never recieved information that would not or should not be known. Gangmates were never teleported, even in the smallest degree to produce an advantage. He was cautious on the amount of vehicles/armory he contributed to fights knowing that there is a unfavorable advantange if he was to be supplying the economy to us while the other gang we were fighting had to sacrifice their own vehicles/loadouts. 

To be more specific, a very simple but proving scenerio was one that took place at a cartel event. We were fighting a gang and wiped them from the cartel capture event. The event was over at this point and we were ready to leave. One of our gangmates was dead but ragdolled inside a down wall so nobody could get the revive option on him. We told Ski and instead of simply reviving him he played it by the book, told one of us to stand over his body for 45 seconds, then after that revived him via admin. This is such a simple situation but was treated with due care. 

I can continue to rant but I've already wrote part of an essay so I will leave it here. Anybody who has played with Ski understands his level of respect/care for the community. Knows he does not wave his admin privileges in the face of others and uses that privilege with respect to the player base/server. Finally, was one of the only ones to take action and step forward in the banning, unbanning, and moderation of "big" bans or "big" names on the server. He cared, and in a situation where your trying to promote a growth in player base, removing a vital member from the equation is not the best step forward. 

Anyway, thanks for reading. 

@skimancole

Epic, congrats all. Glad to see the superior continent represented Mr @Vash. Takeover is progressing well....

Epic, congrats all. Glad to see the superior continent represented Mr @Vash. Takeover is progressing well....

It's been a fun ride. Thanks a bunch for the time you've invested into here and enjoy being away from us @Mitch (IFRIT) 🙂. o7!

No need to reveal things publicly when naughty little leakers like yourself will just tell everyone anyway Mr

shit on by APD Union Co-Chief @Polar

+1 from me, this is how it should've been from the start, it was always a weird idea imposing a "roleplay faction" onto a combat-only server. People not being allowed on SRT because they are kicked off cop for their roleplay points and people not being allowed on roleplay cop because they bullied an LT who went crying - should not be creating more barriers to people who want to play only 1 of the 2....

+1 from me, this is how it should've been from the start, it was always a weird idea imposing a "roleplay faction" onto a combat-only server. People not being allowed on SRT because they are kicked off cop for their roleplay points and people not being allowed on roleplay cop because they bullied an LT who went crying - should not be creating more barriers to people who want to play only 1 of the 2....

+1 from me, this is how it should've been from the start, it was always a weird idea imposing a "roleplay faction" onto a combat-only server. People not being allowed on SRT because they are kicked off cop for their roleplay points and people not being allowed on roleplay cop because they bullied an LT who went crying - should not be creating more barriers to people who want to play only 1 of the 2....

+1 from me, this is how it should've been from the start, it was always a weird idea imposing a "roleplay faction" onto a combat-only server. People not being allowed on SRT because they are kicked off cop for their roleplay points and people not being allowed on roleplay cop because they bullied an LT who went crying - should not be creating more barriers to people who want to play only 1 of the 2....

Why not exercise the ability to stop inviting cheaters into your gang constantly? Maybe then you wouldn't be perm banned in the first place and be forced to spectate all the doms from discord. We are doing our civil duties in shedding all the ifrits driven by YOUR cheaters!!! My union reps @Michael L and @william will keep practicing our god given rights!!

No worries dude just get on civ, buy hatchbacks and carry on doing it anyway. APD policy update extending their "authority" to s2 will solve this issue from ever happening again I am sure
 

No worries dude just get on civ, buy hatchbacks and carry on doing it anyway. APD policy update extending their "authority" to s2 will solve this issue from ever happening again I am sure
 

No worries dude just get on civ, buy hatchbacks and carry on doing it anyway. APD policy update extending their "authority" to s2 will solve this issue from ever happening again I am sure
 

me, @Djmon, and demi roze are single handedly reducing the economy. You're welcome @ObiWoki @Patato @Gen. Henry Arnold

Oh no, the server that gangs use to print money is being hindered by 4 cops shedding ifrits

+1