Post by flying on Jan 1, 2006 10:48:47 GMT 1
Well, I finally did it: yesterday I managed to ban myself out of the game server!
My advice to you, boys and girls, my fellow "banners" is this: don't ban by slot number, you may mistake a 4 for a 5, your finger may slip on the keyboard (doh!...) and remove yourselves from the equation.
But don't worry, because even if you do, it's not so bad...
If you just get up from your PC chair, go to the toilet or something, then go make yourselves a sandwich or something, then go check your e-mails or something, and by the time you're finished doing that, the 16.5 minutes of maximum "ban" time will be over... If you're lucky, you'll even re-join in time to finish the same map...
Yes, that's 16.5 minutes. Not hours, not days, but minutes; that's the total amount of time a player gets banned from the PLC server when a Ref uses the !ban playername 999 thing.
It kind of takes away the meaning of the word "ban", doesn't it?
"Oh, darn, I've been breaking the ground rules at this cool server; I even lied and said I didn't realise I was breaking any rules, but they caught me randhanded twice, and now I've been banned..."
"But wait, what's that screen saying? 999 seconds!? Not kicked, but banned?! Banned for 15 minutes?! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, what laughable server admins they are!"
"Hehe, if this is the worst they can do to me, I'll just come here and break the rules any time I want to!"
So, I think this short ban time actually encourages rule breakers: you can be a nauthgy boy as many times as you want to, because the worse that will happen to you (IF you get caught red-handed... and IF the Ref is willing to waste his time dealing with you... and IF the server owner doesn't chew the Ref's ass for it...) is that you will be sent to the corner and not be allowed to play with the other children for a whole 16.5 minutes.
That may be a significant period time for short-lived creatures such as the fruit fly (no relation to me, btw), but not so for the average human being.
My advice to you, boys and girls, my fellow "banners" is this: don't ban by slot number, you may mistake a 4 for a 5, your finger may slip on the keyboard (doh!...) and remove yourselves from the equation.
But don't worry, because even if you do, it's not so bad...
If you just get up from your PC chair, go to the toilet or something, then go make yourselves a sandwich or something, then go check your e-mails or something, and by the time you're finished doing that, the 16.5 minutes of maximum "ban" time will be over... If you're lucky, you'll even re-join in time to finish the same map...
Yes, that's 16.5 minutes. Not hours, not days, but minutes; that's the total amount of time a player gets banned from the PLC server when a Ref uses the !ban playername 999 thing.
It kind of takes away the meaning of the word "ban", doesn't it?
"Oh, darn, I've been breaking the ground rules at this cool server; I even lied and said I didn't realise I was breaking any rules, but they caught me randhanded twice, and now I've been banned..."
"But wait, what's that screen saying? 999 seconds!? Not kicked, but banned?! Banned for 15 minutes?! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, what laughable server admins they are!"
"Hehe, if this is the worst they can do to me, I'll just come here and break the rules any time I want to!"
So, I think this short ban time actually encourages rule breakers: you can be a nauthgy boy as many times as you want to, because the worse that will happen to you (IF you get caught red-handed... and IF the Ref is willing to waste his time dealing with you... and IF the server owner doesn't chew the Ref's ass for it...) is that you will be sent to the corner and not be allowed to play with the other children for a whole 16.5 minutes.
That may be a significant period time for short-lived creatures such as the fruit fly (no relation to me, btw), but not so for the average human being.
