Hello Bohemia Interactive Team,
I am reaching out to report a critical issue currently ruining the experience on official Game Master servers, while also providing feedback on how the game's core mechanics could be improved to prevent this.
1. The Issue: Coordinated Server Griefing via Vote Exploits
There are organized groups of players joining official Game Master servers with the sole purpose of destabilizing and destroying active sessions. They take advantage of the current democratic voting system, using their numbers to outvote legitimate players, initiate unfair vote-kicks, and completely hijack or shut down the server's progress.
Because the voting system relies purely on numbers, it currently does not work as intended when a malicious group coordinates to abuse it.
2. The Suggestion: The Return of Arma 3's Zeus Admin Mode
To combat this behavior and restore order to the Game Master mode, the community highly requests the return of the acclaimed Zeus Admin Mode from Arma 3.
The democratic voting system in Reforger often creates chaos. Having a dedicated, authoritative Admin/Zeus role—or at least giving official server moderators/appointed Game Masters stronger tools to override malicious votes and manage the lobby directly—would completely stop these toxic groups from hijacking servers. A structured Admin system is vital for a game mode that relies so heavily on moderation and curation.
I kindly ask the development team to look into the server logs regarding recent mass-voting disruptions and to consider reworking the Game Master lobby permissions in future updates to protect the player base.
Thank you for your time, dedication, and for continuing to improve Arma Reforger.