[Feature] Area-Ban?

[Accipiter]

Just a tiny input from me regarding Area ban feature (not about ownership and responsibilities).

Actual Area ban (or rather area restriction) will be something we will eventually have.
I see it used for not just banning misbehaving characters, or characters not fit for the area. But I want it for exclusive areas as well - like guilds or VIP rooms or such things.

[GuldurBrackWing]

I think a ‘white-listing’ setting would be a good idea for private areas. Codes for rooms can always be guessed if they are ‘bad’ or possibly leaked by someone out of spite.

[Accipiter]

@Kelmi

If getting a character banned prevents the player from being summoned on any character, it becomes a trivial exercise in patience to deanonymize all alts of that player

Yes. So I will not allow any area restriction or script feature to allow access to player ID or similar info. It will only be possible to restrict characters. However, this may not be the case for admin owned scripts.

_{FYI: Moderators have peer reviewed insight into player alts. Meaning, other moderators will be notified of player alt checks to avoid it being abused for non-moderation purposes. Admins have full alt insight.}

[moz386]

Fortunately, everyone has a mute command of their own.

[moz386]

On Tapestries they use the term “character assassination” for this, and it’s a strictly bannable offense: If you publicly call out that one character is an alt of another, even if it’s really obvious, you’re out of there.

[Crassus]

@Aletheia

If the ban goes through, the person will not be able to be summoned in the area, see the exits, or teleport to the nodes they have saved, just as if there were no area or way to reach it.

I’m a believer in free will.

Some areas need to be accessed to get to other areas. If it’s public, it’s public, and people need to have the right to travel, just like there are real-world common-carrier laws granting the right of freedom to travel.

I think that instead of bans, trespass notices would be better.

If an area owner does not wish people to visit without being invited, they can a place trespass tag on land which is part of a certain area/region. They can edit who is or isn’t allowed: All people, or just some, or select individuals.

If someone who trespasses ends up in an area they are not wanted, the Room and Area view displays a notification to the user. It gives them time to leave or just pass through.

If they do not leave in sufficient amount of time, it notifies the owner and the mods.

The trespasser can then explain themselves to the authorities about why they violated the Neutral Zone Treaty and entered Romulan Space.

That would allow for more fair justice than just making someone blind, immobile, deaf and dumb.

[Talon]

With our fairly controlled building/linking system we would not allow areas to become inaccessable due to area bans. Public thoroughfares should really remain just that, Public.