Petition for permanent IP ban punishment option

[Gadwen]

The intention is legitimate and I do support it, but I honestly doubt IP bans will accomplish much. If someone really wants to get back in they will anyway. Steal a neighbors wifi, tether their cellphone, and hell even get a new ISP. None of those things are hard to do.

[Ezalor]

Swish, you seem to be extremely confused here.

1 - Person A gets caught RMTing
2 - Person A's EQEmu account is banned as punishment. He can no longer access his PP or characters on that account. No need to delete his character. He already can't play it.
3 - Person A creates a new EQEmu account
4 - Person A starts all over and RMTs once again.

The fact that there is no permanent punishment and this person can start over so easily is what I wanted to address.

My question is, with fluid IPs, is there any possible way we can have any type of permanent punishment for people who deserve it?

[Yajirobe Yajipants]

Originally Posted by Ezalor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swish, you seem to be extremely confused here.

1 - Person A gets caught RMTing
2 - Person A's EQEmu account is banned as punishment. He can no longer access his PP or characters on that account. No need to delete his character. He already can't play it.
3 - Person A creates a new EQEmu account
4 - Person A starts all over and RMTs once again.

The fact that there is no permanent punishment and this person can start over so easily is what I wanted to address.

My question is, with fluid IPs, is there any possible way we can have any type of permanent punishment for people who deserve it?

The idea is to negate the benefits and prolong the amount of time until RMT begins again. Since RMT can't be contained and eliminated, inconvenience is the next best thing.

Edit: Also, public shaming. Public posts regarding toon/account banned.

[Lazortag]

Originally Posted by Ezalor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swish, you seem to be extremely confused here.

1 - Person A gets caught RMTing
2 - Person A's EQEmu account is banned as punishment. He can no longer access his PP or characters on that account. No need to delete his character. He already can't play it.
3 - Person A creates a new EQEmu account
4 - Person A starts all over and RMTs once again.

The fact that there is no permanent punishment and this person can start over so easily is what I wanted to address.

My question is, with fluid IPs, is there any possible way we can have any type of permanent punishment for people who deserve it?

The problem is that currently, only accounts and characters are banned. "Players" are never really banned because if they reroll on a new account, they're allowed (under the rules) to play on the server. This should change - when someone is "permanently" banned, they shouldn't be allowed to play on any account, period. If they admit who they are in game, that should get them banned again. This way they can't get PLed back to 60 or assisted in any other way. They can come back, but it'll be a lot harder.

[Yajirobe Yajipants]

Just delete the toon. If that's not possible, delevel and strip the toon.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Yajirobe Yajipants [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just delete the toon. If that's not possible, delevel and strip the toon.

Now we're talking, de-level all characters to 1, stripped, coined and they can start again. Play properly and it can never happen to you.

[Nune]

Originally Posted by Yajirobe Yajipants [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just delete the toon. If that's not possible, delevel and strip the toon.

This. IP Bans are 2 thousnd and late pals.

[Ele]

Let me reset my router.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Ele [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Let me reset my router.

Easy to do once you've been delevelled to 1 and stripped of all items. Reset x1000 if you want, won't bring your RMT pixels back [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ele]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Easy to do once you've been delevelled to 1 and stripped of all items. Reset x1000 if you want, won't bring your RMT pixels back [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This I support.