When I first heard about the administrator rank, I was completely fine with it. Sure, I'd lose /slap and /freeze but it's a small price to pay for these big changes, as they could be very beneficial for the servers. I figured that I'd still have access to admin maps to create special events for the players, and I could do all my administrating without a change like before. However, this opinion took a 180 degree turn as soon as I got on ZE today. For the first 30 or so minutes, I noticed I didn't have /slap, which was fine, I accepted that.
At one point while I was playing however, I noticed that a couple of people were delaying in the hard maps because they didn't want to die and lose points, so they kept asking for me to slay them. Normally when someone does this, I use /beacon to reveal their position to the other zombies so they can't point farm, but I didn't have access to that either. I thought that was a bit weird, because it was one of the main commands an admin would use on ZE, but I accepted it, figuring that it's not the end of the world if I just slayed them.
Later, some people were talking about wanderers palace v2, a map only accessible through admin nominations, so I asked them if they wanted to play it, and they said sure. So I went to make a vote, and I realized that I didn't have access to that command. This honestly made me extremely frustrated and angry, because I couldn't pursue my main goal as an admin, to make ZE more fun and interesting for the players. This reminded me that I also couldn't activate special levels and secrets normally accessible with noclip, so I tried to use /noclip and I didn't have access to it either. I also realized that I now had no way to get myself unstuck, and I checked and saw that I didn't have /teleport, so I couldn't get other humans unstuck from walls either.
When the people that were on heard about the lack of these commands, they were all very disappointed that the other ZE regular admins and I couldn't do fun mini-events and challenges with them anymore. Also, all the other senior admins and up don't play ZE actively anymore, one may be seen every 3 days or so, and they are only on for a short time, or just sit AFK the whole time. The only truly active ZE admins are all regular administrators, which also disappoints many of the players that not only me, but Cept, Venom, and all the other ZE regular admins can't give them the fun challenges, maps, and mini-events that we used to give.
The verdict? The administrator rank doesn't work for ZE like it does for TTT and JB where these extra commands will not be needed for fully administrating, especially for those of us who have had these commands before and can use them effectively. A common theme of ZE is that when there is an admin on, the server becomes reasonably more populated than without any on, and the reason for this is not because they ban the rule breakers, as there are rarely bans on ZE compared to TTT and JB where there are much more rules to be broken, but it becomes more populated because the admins make the game more fun to play. This is why I applied, two months ago, at a time where ZE admins were a rare sight, I saw the opportunity to take that position and make ZE a more replayable and fun gamemode with original challenges, minigames, and maps that we don't see on a normal day like de_dust 2, ccc floator mislands timantetrix, etc. But now that I can't do that, I don't feel like I can fulfill my main reason I applied for admin, instead, I feel just like a glorified regular.
At least on ZE, at the very least, regular admins should have access to at least /vote, /noclip, and possibly /beacon, so we can do what populated and revived the server in the past.