Oh man Do I agree with this 100%
Let me say. I don't understand some of the choices people in the community make. Mainly the ones that I don't understand are more of the people that have played on here longer. Some of our "Veterans*" as you pointed out test the limits of what they can get away with. While this might be apart of human nature, to push the limits, it becomes almost annoying on Herocraft.
I see the same users banned (or muted) for the same thing over.. and over.. and over again with their punishments increasing higher and higher in wait time, until they finally mess up BIG time and get a permanent ban. This tells me two things...
- A) These people don't care about playing and committing to a decent server, they like to watch the world burn per-say.
- B) They aren't afraid of the punishments dealt to them. They can easily go play League for 3 days, a week, maybe a month... and come back to everything... so what is there to loose?
Well as we already know, depending on what the user was doing reflects their punishment. Item duping, or coin abusing (Like the Casino bug in Dragon) will land you with a coin/item wipe, along with a ban. The same thing goes if you are caught using a dark room/illegal spawner to boost your levels, you will end up with levels being wiped and a ban to boot.
Now that I've explained all that, lets get on topic. The repeat offenders, and I don't mean ones that have a 3 day ban.. but the ones that hit a month or more need a more severe punishment. Depending on what they've done, a month is normally reserved for your 4th-5th ban if I'm not mistaken. By this time the offender should know better, even more in the case if the user is a normal "Veteran*" of the server.
Once you hit the month ban time, I propose a level reduction of 20 levels to all classes the person has experience in. Not only will the slap on the wrist be in place, making the wait the time out, but when they return their hard work would be slashed, making them work to gain their levels back, and hopefully less likely to have a recurrence.
Even a flow system like this could be used..
- 1st Ban - 1 Day - No Level Reduction.
- 2nd Ban - 3 Day - No Level Reduction.
- 3rd Ban - 1 Week - 5 Level Reduction.
- 4th Ban - 2 Weeks - 10 Level Reduction.
- 5th Ban - 1 Month - 20 Level Reduction.
I think with this put in place it would deter people from breaking the rules as much as they do today. Don't want to have to remaster your class? Don't break the rules. Simple.
Honestly, It's not even hard to obey the rules. Herocraft was my FIRST multi-player experience. (Thanks
yoIyo and
BlackOhso) I didn't even KNOW what griefing meant when I joined the server yet here I am... almost 2 years later... and I haven't been banned one time. Sure, I'm not perfect, I know I'm not. I've had my episodes of anger and frustration, bickering fights in different chats, misunderstandings, some people even might think I'm a complete asshole and I've even been kicked from the server once for something I said, but never have I gone as far to push my limits with anything that would be ban worthy. It's not hard.. Just be mindful of what your doing.
Dielan, this has my support, 100%, 200%, 1000%. What about the rest of you in this community? Come-on! Add your thoughts!
EDIT - Forgot something... *Veteran does not mean you have been playing for a year or more nor is it measured by any amount of time, it means you are a frequent in the community and 10 to 1 know better.