Sorry if this ideas come up before. On other servers I play on there is a 'prison' system and as I understand it, sometimes you need to find a punishment between Fining and banning.
Pretty much a system without any gates or jumpholes leading out of it, and one 'base', with no images, just black with a launch button. The system is obviously empty, except usually for an uninteresting background and solid(means you cant suicide on it) sun.
If people break the rules you could move characters or entire accounts there for periods of days to weeks. It allows them to get online but virtually have no use of the character, and since there is no sendcash command here their money is trapped as well. It could be more useful than an account or IP ban, while harsher than a fine.
That's what we have Conneticut for. It is sometimes done that People That the Admins Don't Like into a Starflier, lock the jumpholes, and chase him aorund in our uber-Sabers and destroyers. I don't think it's happened in a while; Nowadays they usually just skip straight to a fine or a ban.
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Ep.. Admins can't just LOCK a jump gate on the server.. Thats part of the game and mod, not part of the server. Admins have been known to put people in starfliers, hostile to Corsairs and Nomads into the Unknown systems. But thats it. They can't lock jump gates on the server.
Interesting idea, would probably work better people that have been around a bit though, and not some new guy. Mostly because a new guy can just delete his character and make a new one, where as the guy on the server for much longer wouldn't want to delete a character and make a new one in it's place if it means losing lots of money or codenames and stuff ect. But the problem with that is, most of the people we have trouble with are only new.
Still might be worth thinking about, and at the same time, might not be THAT useful on our server.
About new guys. If we are talking about 'kinda' new, then I bet they don't want to delete their character. Flying about in my large train I can forget that without help it's hard enough for a total newbie to make enough money to get a rhino, never mind working up to a CSV, Camera or any other freighter.
If its a complete newbie, ie just undocked from manhatten, well you can't fine them, they don't have anything and banning, they might not even read the forum, if they can't log on for a few days they might leave.
Even putting new starfliers in a prison system would allow them to take a hint about what will happen.
Well, but for all these bright ideas to come into existence, these prisons would have to be popular. That means many people, breaking the rules, whom frankly I don't see too many.
1 or two every few months. And instead of making punishment fun, let it be real and painful. Not a good-looking system, where the bastards would be safe from other players.
A real prison would probably have no background, no sun, no NPCs. The base is just a place to beam/ioncross the player to. It has no internal graphics, no faction and no rooms.
2-3 weeks in there, your character/account is virtually useless, and its harsher than just having it banned, as you can still log in, but can't do anything. Plus other players can laugh at you with PMs ^^
As for being safe from other players, if i was a rule-breaker and being chased, I`d just stay docked and jeer at them, and change character just before I would be kicked for idling, to jeer some more.
If we had a prison system, and rule-breakers were placed in it, why would they even play at all? They don't have to fly around in nothingness, they could just wait around until their 3-day time was over... Same as a ban, really.
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