Lucky I can't use Valikorlia's death metal jail.

Official "rules for the game"
 

Ok how about this?
Warning>>12 hours>>One day>>Two days>>Four days>>Six days>>One week>>Two weeks>>One month>>Six Months>>One year.

Essentially the warning, 12 hour band and one day ban are warnings. After that the punishments become more severe.

Or instead, warning, 1 hour ban, 2 hour ban, 4 hr ban, 16 hr ban and keep on squaring the awnsers.

Game Disruption

• Players who attempt to interrupt any type of event going on in the server. This could include intentionally lagging in spars, modem-tapping in events or at towers, blocking areas of interest to news updates, etc. This also includes players who encourage other players to break any kind of rule.

Warning, 1 Week, 1 Month

This should just be an event ban for X time, pretty ******ed

Boosting Statistics

• Players who boost their statistics through illegitimate means. This is for players who are boosting their spar wins/losses and PK kills intentionally and illegally. If you are banned for this, your stats will also be cleared in the respective area.
Warning, 1 Week, 1 Month

Boosting spar ratio.. Eh, I'll let you have it, but boosting PK counts is just ******ed to ban as well. PKing shows nothing and can easily be tampered

General Harassment

• Players who evade the swear filter and direct this foul language at other players. Essentially, players who harass other players verbally.

Warning, 1 Week, 1 Month

Foul language shouldn't be a ban. Harassment can easily be fixed by blocking the player. If said player goes beyond and makes accounts just to harass, then it's a problem. Shouldn't ban unless multiple accounts are involved to harass one player

Inappropriate Behavior

• Players who are slightly offensive (in some text-based manner) but not severely.

Warning, 1 Week, 1 Month

This is too ambiguous and needs more clarification

Severe Vulgarity

• Um. Kind of self explanatory. Don't do it. lol.

1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months

To a certain extent yes, but this is something I really don't care for. Free game

Inappropriate Solicitation

• Players who are clearly asking for sexual activities/favors. Don't do that, ew.

3 Months, 6 Months, 12 Months

Given this, I whole-heartedly think is fair, but should warrant a permanent ban on the third strike; if from the same IP, then IP ban may be warranted

Distributing Personal Information

• Players who distribute private, personal information about other players/staff.

1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months

Eh, yeah I'm fine with these times

Intentional Scamming

• Players who attempt or successfully scam other players. This includes any scamming of any kind.

1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months

Way too harsh of a sentence for scamming, especially when things are in place to prevent it.

Hacking or Cheating

• Players who use third-party software to better themselves in-game. This includes wall-hacking, speed-hacking, farming bots, etc.

3 Months, 6 Months, 12 Months

I agree, except third should be permanent

I don't think the ban reasons or punishment times are that unreasonable, it's just that sometimes I feel like there's a rush to punish people who genuinely didn't intend to break a rule. There's never any manual mediation, as in GPs here never seem to actually personally look into the issue. They just observe or look at a report, then make a decision.

As an example, a younger person in a guild I'm in was asked by a friend to make a guild. For whatever reason, his friend asked him to make the guild "siegheil" (the Nazi salute). He's not German and didn't even know what the hell that was, so he makes the guild and before he's even able to transfer it, he's banned.

He claims he has no extensive ban history and was banned for a month with no warning. Could staff not just delete the guild and talk with the player first? Warn him and ask about the situation? He appealed and was denied. Even if his story was a lie, I think month-long bans for stuff like that is kind of extreme and unforgiving. Maybe if his guild name was in his native language and read "KILL ALL KIKES IRL BECAUSE I HATE THEM" then I get it, but geeze. It's arguable that just the phrase "sieg heil" is even offensive. Is there like a quota that GPs have to meet per month?
There's a guild named "HAIL TITER" since forever, isn't that equally as offensive? There was a guild named "Kool Kids Klub" that made a ton of KKK references and they got off. "Sandy Hook Elementary" was Loops' guild, poking fun at a school shooting in the US. It seems like GP interference is very selective in most cases.

Not trying to hijack this as a thread to make a plea for him, but just providing a recent example that I know of to support what I'm saying.

I've had some obsessive weirdo who I exposed for stealing hats making countless harassing statuses about me, claiming that I'm a ********* and using my real name, etc. Every time I've reported it, the status gets cleared. He hasn't been banned yet. So, I really don't understand the thought process behind banning vs. clearing/deleting vs. warning.

It should be, and people who hack gralats should probably be banned for a much longer time initially, because people pay a lot of money to get them and it's kind of a disrespect to supporters of the game.

Concerning the quota thing; it's more that new GPs want to show their GPA that they're good and ****, so they'll try and ban for whatever they can just to show that they know the rules and how to do the process. Hell, when I first got PR I was a hard-ass and jailed for a **** ton of things that most would just brush off, but after a few weeks I stopped caring and only hammered down on repeat offenses and whatever actually needed it. If someone was being racist I would ask those around and everyone was fine with the words, so it was fine. Otherwise they'd get a warning and then go from there.


Or they could be power-hungry, but you never know

Does this also include gift for gift scamming during Christmas? Not saying I support banning for this since g4g isn't the point of Christmas, but technically it's still scamming.

Scamming shouldn't even be jailable, honestly. There are systems in place to prevent scams. If people choose to ignore it, then that's their loss and the scammer should get off free. Now if it were something like Era's system and it involved an actual trade with a money counter that's very small to see and doesn't announce any changes, then it's acceptable to a degree

people like you are the reason people leave the community

Thanks Xavier, that helps!

Explain? He made a great point.

Some of these rules shouldn't even warrant a ban in the first place. They have systems in place to stop this from happening, so anything that involves going around these things is the fault of the player only (Only exception being vulgarity; shouldn't even have a ban in the first place). As for some of the other times like hacking/major glitching, asking for sexual favors and ****; I feel the times on it are too soft and need a much longer sentence with a permanent ban. Hell, even an IP ban would be nice to have for repeat offenders.

If you want more clarification then just ask. I can't write up much more as I have stuff I need to do.

Is it actually legal to be evading a ban of any sort? Serious question, because sometimes I'm seeing that banned players seem to be immediately rebanned and then other times I see players who are banned on alternate accounts, using their recognized name, and getting off with it, so I'm confused about that. If it is, alrighty. If not, what's the punishment for evading?

It is not legal; anyone who is getting away with it just hasn't been caught. The punishment is just the same ban originally given.

As in you just ban the account that they're evading on? Or you extend their ban?