We have been seeing an increasing amount of poeple taking advantage of the lack of server administration during matches. What I am proposing would allow the players of the game to vote to “kick and ban” a player by IP Address who is team killing.
Although functionality is in the game to kick a player, the player can reconnect quickly defeating the purpose of kicking them.
This might be a better topic for anti-cheating engine instead, but something must be done. Thanks.
There are enough idiots out there playing the game that you could find yourself banned for simple mistake TKs and the like. Putting the ability to ban someone to the hands of a random group of players is not a good idea. It’s bad enough dealing with tyrant server admins.
Yeah it’s a good idea in theory, but there are just too many people out there that’ll just vote yes for no good reason…
Eventually I think thing’s will get better the more time the game has been out.
I think until then a simple kick will do considering they will lose all XP they’ve gained if they rejoin the server.
Good point though.
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Not to give you a hard time, but that would be a terrible idea.
Significant portion of the average player cant handle voting to kick as it is now, let alone having the power to ban by IP. Voting to kick is one of the most abused features of any voting. Half the time, I’m convinced that I should disable this feature on my servers because of the idiots abusing it.
try being more picky in server selection -
i usually either join servers with recognised names, or look in the server info column for “IRC” which means you know the admins want to be contacted and you know how to do it.
I would rather see people who get kicked by vote banned for a few minutes. I suspect most TKers will move on, rather than waiting 5 minutes just to get back into a server and get kicked for another 5. These should be logged in the server log, so if the admin wants to go back and do a perma-ban, they just have to look for the guid in the log file.
Note that if pb_power is set up correctly this can be done with pb_kick.
Letting players ban for longer periods of time is open to abuse. Imagine a clan comes onto the server and bans everyone else…
The power to ban should not be put into the hands of the masses. If it was all the noobies would ban every skilled heavy weapons player, or as the idiots like to call them, “Panzer Pussies”, “Flamer Fags”, and “Spawn Camping Piece of Shit Mortar Bitches”. And also I have found that a lot of times idiots will vote yes to every vote called automatically without even knowing why the vote was called, like some idiot will call a vote on the best player in the game and everyone hits yes.