In the end, we lost the game because our zenith was being rezed

The same shit did MrGreen8 - lost us this game in the end
I guess at least several players apart from me reported him
Nothing done

From this point on I'm not even slightly care about outcome of zk cluster battles. I just do what I find fun and resign as soon as it becomes slightly less fun. moepmoep 's way
Each time u play to win in cluster battle u just bring needless suffering to uself, cuz trolls gonna ruin it anyway, one way or another.

There is not always an admin (let alone the several required for multiple perspectives on an ambiguous case) available to review a complicated hour long game promptly.

With respect to Rainbow33:

We are unconvinced that Rainbow33 originally set out to harm their team; the reclaiming constructors were given a fairly large area-reclaim order and the player's attention was occupied holding the front line. By the end the constructor being moved away after being Faradayed indicates they were probably aware then. However this moment comes after about six kick votes and a litany of abuse. Rainbow33 has no prior reports or moderation history. A warning will be issued.

With respect to MrGreen8:

Given that several players believed the best course of action was to assist MrGreen8 in building the DRP, and at most five players were vocally against reclaiming the Zenith, there is insufficient cause to think that MrGreen8 was trying to troll or harm his team. No action will be taken.

A fair bit of the language directed at both of these players in-game was quite unbecoming. We don't intend to action any of it but do try to be less abusive in future. It does not, as a general rule, improve the situation.

The question of whether rezzers or reclaimers should have priority is difficult to establish a reasonable general rule for.

I can understand a single kick vote after failing to get his attention in any other way but the subsequent kick votes served little purpose. Insulting him when he moved the com away can hardly have encouraged him to move the other constructor. (I'm not positive this was you without watching the replay again but there was definitely an offensive marker placed on his com at that time.)

Neutralising the reclaimers with Newton/Faraday/Lobster/etc. earlier doesn't seem like a bad idea. If the reclaimer deliberately avoids such a thing then another kick vote with that new information is appropriate.

These measures are a bit of a waste of metal but in a 15v15 on Icy Run I would not be too concerned about such inefficiencies.

quote: it's ok to make troll tactic to stop players that don't listen to you? To expand what you said: "Neutralising the reclaimers with Newton/Faraday/Lobster/etc. earlier doesn't seem like a bad idea" So from now on I can : 1. Neutralize ally commander if I know he suicides and captures it with vindicator. 2. Reclaim what he makes because he's wasting team's metal. 3. Make terraform to block his base because he spams snipers all game to counter fleas. 4. Hmm what else...let me think, oh wait we have tons of these examples.

Pushing the constructors a player is presumably unaware of a little way away from the Bertha without significantly damaging them is not particularly harmful to their game experience.

All of the things in your list significantly harm your teammates' individual freedom to act and game experience.

They are not reasonably comparable.

For as far as I can remember, the general rule has always been that wrecks belong to nobody in particular. So if your bertha is being reclamed faster than you can rez it, too bad for you. You should have kept it alive in the first place.

I think the main distinction between Connetable's general rule and this situation is that in this instance the team clearly indicated they would prefer the Bertha not to be reclaimed.