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Old 10-26-2009, 07:49 PM
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While it's nice to see something can be done about the unruly, I have a problem with the knockouts. See, I had a friend TP to see Constance with me. The lag was so terrible I didn't get to even warn her to stay out of the house before she got knocked out. She wasn't with me a minute before it happened. Not exactly fair since she wasn't even there long enough to get warned then BOOM down she goes? No, they can't see who TPs in, but I thought that was pretty unfair. She had done nothing wrong on purpose. She just didn't get the warning till it was too late.

I would say a notice should pop up on the players screen. Something like this for Constance....
"Leave my house or you will go to jail." Give them 30 seconds to leave, cause in a lagfest it might just take that to even move, then off you go. If it's the same player twice, they should get, "Leave my house or be booted from the game." Third time, "Leave my house of you will be booted and suspended for 24 hours."

That way the player gets more than enough warning if it's an honest mistake, and actual consequences if they do it on purpose. For players caught doing this at more than one GM event (and we've all seen em running around, maybe claiming to be EITC, maybe looking for GFs, whatever) after the 24 ban they would not get the first warning again. It would be "Warned ye have been, stop what you are doing or be booted and..." a 3 day, 7 day, and permaban. Cause lets face it, if a player gets 6 warnings that's more than enough. It should be clear by then they enjoy making trouble and well deserve the permaban. But for honest players who just didn't get warning in time? Nope, a knockout is not fair.