Keep getting banned

Hey! I've been playing and enjoying games but I keep getting banned for "playing bad"
I haven't signed a contract of carrying my teammates, I just come to chill and enjoy some games in a "lobster pot"
And I'be been trying various tactics some of them for the first time for a long-long time(like throwing enemy units with cloaked lobster in https://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/868709 and scyllaing enemy units and coms in https://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/868716)
So what my tactics are unortodox I've been playing like this for ages and my elo should be in accordance with this.

Isn't balancer supposed to account for such cases?...
I really didn't want to create a whiney forum post and messaged several admins on discord but they just ignore me.
A lot of people are doing exactly the same or even worse and aren't getting banned...

quote: As far as I am concerned, the only problem i have with you is that you don't give anyone else a chance to play stupidly. If you played 'standard' every couple of games so someone else can goof off with a stupid tactic I'd be a happy dude

wait what, Firepluk is banned because [GBC]HarveyN cant play stupid when hes in his team`?

quote: So what my tactics are unortodox

Strange. Seems resign isn't so unortodox tactics.

quote: wait what, RUrankFirepluk is banned because [GBC]HarveyN cant play stupid when hes in his team`?

I think he means that Firepluk is too much playing unortodox methods and some players aren't happy with that because they can't also try such methods. We all have stupid games and try failing odd startegy but seems Pluk outperforms everyone. :D

TL;DR: multiple people keep reporting for multiple battles.

The balancer only reflects an average but not any individual battle. For example nuke rush might well be OP in a 16v16 but it sucks in a 6v6 on a small map. So if you get both kinds of games then it looks like it averages to 50% and the balancer might think it's fine but in reality you're playing above your elo in a 16v16, yet with a predictable loss if you do it in the 6v6. Unorthodox strats mostly happen to be swingy in that way and get very inconsistent results.

Resign is nominally allowed anytime because we understand that IRL stuff can happen (guests come over, phone, child shat himself and needs diapers changed, whatever) but resigning every game just puts an unfun strain over the rest of the team (somebody gets extra units, morale is even further down).

The combination of consistently doing unorthodox stuff + resign makes others frustrated. To some extent this is what Harvey is saying. I don't know about "a lot of people are doing exactly the same or even worse" but for some reason nobody else is getting any reports about it.

The ban is fairly lenient so you should still be back for the weekend.

I would much rather he resigned after trying something unorthadox as it gives immediate support to the rest of the team. He sees his idea not working and doesn't waste any more of the teams money on it. Unlike certain players who spam piles of pointless stuff every game.

... thought it was about DaKeys :(

so we all write what we dislike on pluk here now?

Firepluk

quote: Not like I'm teamkilling or going on insulting spree,

I see what you did there, and I don't like where this is going!

Nah... My live is surprisingly boring, especially working remotely...
ZK is my collective and neighborhood :P

Few people dislike Firepluk.

We just get mad when he plays like a lobster.

In my case, whenever he is on the other team his cheese tactics always work out and I am the first to die, so, double rage ...