our "sport" attracts allsorts, of that there's no doubt, I've seen players armoured up like a juggernaut, but are reluctant to clear rooms for fear of getting hit (wtf that about ?), & I've seen a player in a mankini sprinting through a field of nettles to flank the opposition ?.
by the same degree the reasons people Marshall are equally as varied, but I doubt that many choose to do it because it allows them "God" status, that's like saying only nonces ? are attracted to jobs involving kids.
on a side note, I dabbled with the idea of setting up a site, wrote a business plan the lot & had financial backing in place etc, just struggled to find a suitable location, & then life threw me a curveball that meant plans had to go on the backburner, but one of the things in my plan was a marshalling team, I had some bods in mind, most of which were non players, so essentially a blank canvas to work with, which would have included getting them playing & suitably enthused with the game, refering back to an earlier post I made, re "speak to me how you'd expect to be spoken to", its an adage that only honest players will get, give me fair unbiased play & I'll do the same for you.
for this reason there's at least 2 sites I'll never play again, & another (longmoor), that I wont play if a particular firm is running it.
I get your points though, its bad enough having to deal with cheats, never mind piss poor Marshalls that cant or won't address the issues.
ps. Back when I player marshaled, non hit takers usually behaved themselves after a polite chat, always after I'd subjected them to an "honesty" shot, only players I kicked off the playing field were often overly aggressive to the point of threatening behavior, again a firm chat in the safe zone, witnessed by the site owner usually sorted this, repeat offenders were banned, & only saw 2 cases of instant bans for hot guns, one was a silly cnut who sneaked a 650fps sniper on site & injured another player, the other was a whole team of walts, led by a mouthy Aussie bird, who always arrive late & tried to fiddle the chrono, with them we notified most of the southern sites to their antics.
As a marshal, how you speak to the accused players goes a long way to getting a positive response, & hopefully a change in their playing style, even those who know they're cheating often feel their "sportsmanship" is justifieable, even if it's just because they can't be arsed to trot back to a respawn, but a polite but firm word is often enough to shame/embarrass them in to playing properly.
Twice I've had to "go loud" during games, 2 older players on separate occasions threatening other players & getting in their faces, my response each time was "put your hands on him & I'll put my hands on you !", which to the wind out of their sails.
heres the kicker though, while this was 2 separate incidents, it turned out that the 2 instigators were actually father & son, & both serving police officers.
both were subsequently banned from all cage sites, & we later heard many other sites followed suite, some of the old hands may even remember them, the older dad sported an uncle Albert grey beard, & they both usually wore the weird European camo with splashes of red in it, Swiss alpenflage or maybe Belgian ?.
right pair of nuisances ?
