Folks,
Of late there have been quite a few issues and incidents that the admins of TIDMADT feel should be addressed to the community as a whole.
The first is that of visitors and their conduct while on our TeamSpeak and in-game channels. There are 2 sides to every situation. We cannot control the other but we can lay down some guidelines and rules for our side of things. So to make things clearer for all:
• New visitors to TeamSpeak can initially be brought to the main game channel to be advised of our rules and requirements. Once they have been advised of these they are to be taken to the “lounge” by their host. On further visits they are to be advised they are to only go to the lobby or lounge areas and to “poke” the member they wish to visit.
• We are not to get involved in flame wars, arguments etc. with any visitors to our TeamSpeak or in-game channels. If you feel that a visitor has overstepped the mark in their behaviour or comments – in the first instance POLITELY request they stop the behaviour, then ask their host to have them removed if those actions do not get you resolution find a member of the game officers (WoT, DayZ, BF3 etc). If these are not online then try for a TIDMADT Admin not of your game.
The other issue is that of our general conduct. We have a code of conduct and the WoT community has a handbook that detail what is expected and what will and won’t be tolerated. As an adult gaming community we don’t have a language filter – the games do that. We do however have a behaviour standard that is expected. General abuse and tirades at other players, whether they be TIDMADT or from another group is not acceptable. Again if you have an issue with someone else use the systems that are there – see your games officers, TIDMADT Admins or use the in-game complaints system. Don’t lower yourself to their level and get yourself banned for abuse. By lowering yourself to their level you make it very difficult for your game officers or TIDMADT Admins to be able to do anything about a situation on your behalf.
Cheers,

The TIDMADT Admins:
Mocs, Bonestriker, DevilDog (Baghdad Bob), Wilso2276, Dead_man_walking

There has been quite a bit of discussion about strats.  Let me set the record straight.  We are open to new strats.  The TIME for the discussion is NOT right before a battle, and it is NOT right after a battle.  It is easy, suffering from a loss, to say “strats suck”.

NO strat is perfect, but we need to have SOMETHING to work with.  The strat we have is the strat we have until we have a new one.  So, what is the proper way to bring a new strat into consideration?  It isn’t by sitting in channel saying “we have to do this or that”  It IS by taking a little map, putting little dots on it, and saying HERE is what I am thinking.  Now, if you have submitted a strat and it has been turned down, I guarantee you it isn’t because it was dismissed out of hand.  We may look at your strat and just think it sucks…

Believe me, the admins spend countless hours pouring over things.  We want to win every bit as much as you guys do… so much so that we formed a clan and poured all this time and money into supporting it.  A lot of the ideas you bring us, we have thought of… we have tried them, we have shot holes in them, so if you bring us a strat that we think is something we have tried and tested, we might dismiss it…

Now, dismissed does not mean discarded.  We have them all, and sometimes we take parts of one and put it with another, and try to hobble something together to make a strat we think might work.  Just because we don’t put a strat in place doesn’t mean that we don’t like you.  It isn’t personal.

Now, if we DO discard a strat, and you have absolute faith in it, and you listen to our reasons, and you STILL think you have a point, then one of two things is going on… 1) You missed something 2) WE missed something… there is the entire possibility (hard as it may seem) that we made a mistake.  If you put forth a strat, and you DID WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO (i.e. documented the fuck out of it and brought it to us in a way that we can review) and you think we dismissed it prematurely, there is a way to settle that… it’s called a TRAINING ROOM.  The proper place to try new strats is in a training room, and if you have submitted a strat, and done what you are supposed to, and don’t think it is being given a fair shake, then you absolutely have the right to request that strat be tested in the training room.

One of two things is going to happen… most likely, your strat is going to fail by the flames of the burning tanks over a tactical issue that you missed, in which case you will see the error of your ways, and maybe make a BETTER strat.  Alternatively, you will get the chance to prove an admin wrong… and who can pass up THAT opportunity?

But, let me make this perfectly clear, for anyone that might have missed it… the time to bring these issues up is NOT in the middle of Clan Wars… and probably not in the heated emotional moments after a loss.  It is to be done with the calm reason of a seasoned general.

And let me say this also… DO NOT EVER counter a Battle Commander in the middle of battle.  If they tell the E100s to roll and shoot on the move, don’t sit there in the middle of battle and say “they have better accuracy if you stop”  You can talk about that later… and it MAY just be that the important element that the Battle Commander was trying to get across is that you need to get those damn tanks where I need them ASAP, and if they hit anything on the way, so much the better… Maybe, just maybe, they are trying to do something you don’t quite get or understand at the time, but I stress to you that in the heat of the battle, when they are trying to get things done, they don’t have time to discuss it.  That’s why it is called an order… and I don’t care WHO you are, WHAT your stats are, or WHAT tank you drive… if I am commanding a battle, and I order my platoon sgt to do something, and that isn’t EXACTLY what you do, you WON’T be a platoon sgt next match… of all the things that I can be negotiable on, that absolutely isn’t one of them…

End of bitch session… let’s roll…