I mentioned a bug I discovered in another thread on PW, but fell short of explaining what it was as I felt jerks could exploit it. There’s a simple work-around, so I felt it should be made common knowledge so players could deal with it.
It seems players with a carat (^) in their name can’t have votes to kick called against them. for example, the name I use is:
!SoS!^Skeet
if you were to try to call a vote from the menu to kick me, you’d get an error:
I could see jerks w/ carats in their names joining servers just to be disruptive - and players who don’t know any better wouldn’t know how to call a vote to kick.
The solution is simple… use the /callvote function to initiate the kick. First, get the player’s player id by opening the console using the tilde (~) key and then:
/players
then:
/callvote kick [p_id]
omit the brackets… substitute [p_id] w/ their id. you can also use the player’s name as shown in /players to call the vote instead of their player id.