11 Sep 11, 10:09AM
Thanks V-Man.
Jack, I make every effort possible to contact server owners before I block their server. There are plenty of opportunities for them to make contact info public: server name, MOTD, serverinfo_en.txt, this thread. If they choose not to do this, I check the server's IP history with player logs and forum registrations. Sometimes I still have no leads after this.
This particular guy was a fool. In a previous game there was a cheat in the server and IIRC he was deliberately blocking kick attempts, using admin. I could see he was on an internal IP (the admin, not the cheat). He then deliberately ignored any attempt to communicate with him in-game; not helpful, regardless of whether he was aware of who I was. I may have acted inappropriately in this case, but there were extenuating circumstances that make it unique.
Jack, I make every effort possible to contact server owners before I block their server. There are plenty of opportunities for them to make contact info public: server name, MOTD, serverinfo_en.txt, this thread. If they choose not to do this, I check the server's IP history with player logs and forum registrations. Sometimes I still have no leads after this.
This particular guy was a fool. In a previous game there was a cheat in the server and IIRC he was deliberately blocking kick attempts, using admin. I could see he was on an internal IP (the admin, not the cheat). He then deliberately ignored any attempt to communicate with him in-game; not helpful, regardless of whether he was aware of who I was. I may have acted inappropriately in this case, but there were extenuating circumstances that make it unique.