Over Use of Kick and Ban

[Kendakari]

I don't have a suggested solution to this problem but I've gone on to a few servers and been immediately kicked or banned for no reason. I'm not a hacker or griefer and haven't met these players before but I'll come on, say hello, and then I get kicked or banned. I just got this game a few days ago from a friend and consider myself a helpful player. I'm an adult and this happening to me hurts my feelings, I can't imagine how a kid would feel that this keeps happening to. My only thought of why they may be doing this is because they want to keep slots open or only play with certain people, but I think that's what the password function is for. So maybe something that flags players who ban or kick too much or requires them to give a reason for banning or kicking. Or maybe something that lets you see who's on a server before getting on it so you can avoid certain players.

[Ridley]

The forums have tossed around the idea to flag or mark problematic players or admins, but it was generally decided against the use of flagging because it would be abused to mark good admins and good players who are having to put up with trolls.

 

But I don't see any reason why people shouldn't have to give a reason for kicking or why we can't see who is on a server before we join.

[imsomony]

But I don't see any reason why people shouldn't have to give a reason for kicking

 

I totally agree, I've seen plenty of streamers get kicked/banned just like Kendakari was... no reason at all, just seconds after joining a server. And these aren't griefer-streamers either. Making the host check a box, or type a quick comment, would help them stop overusing the functions and help the other player know WTF just happened.

 

 

[werlpolf]

simple solution:

 

- player get kicked or banned.

- the client of the kicked-banned player talks to the central server (the server who serves the list of all availble pubilc server). he will tell him, that he got kicked or banned

- the central server will save a or 2 counter and show these counters on the public list - so all player on the world will see which admins or server behave so nicely

 

and if the counter reach 100 then the 'central' server don't need to list them anymore and offer this server to player

 

 

so of course this can be misused by trolls. they manipulate the client and send thousand of these packages to the central server telling that he got banned 100-times on that server and 100-times on this server. this can also be solved (unfortunetly with high cpu-resources), but first this approach need to gone.