Feature Req: #ban?

[Merth]

How does the community feel about a command along the lines of #ban? This would ban a user's IP address from connecting to your server.

Currently, I believe the way to ban a user is to set their account status to -2, but as I found out recently, the user will just create another forum account and get back on.

While I find it would be worthwhile, it would probably involve adding a field to the database, which some people might not like.

[Wolfman]

Good idea Merth. I was just going to try and implement a command like this and have it tie into a new db column. I also had an idea to have players that connect be broadcasted to GM's along with thier IP and then logging it. I think it would be much better for it to broadcast the connections to GM's than checking /who all the time. I Just haven't had the time to figure out how to broadcast and log it yet.

[Elrach]

Banning by IP is kinda useless. Are you going to ban entire blocks of IP to prevent people on dynamic connections?

This is not as simple as it may sound.

[Lurker_005]

I may just be rembering an old suggestion not used, but isn't there an option that setting the user level to -1 or -2 will ban the account? Thus no need to worry about IP

[Merth]

Read the first post in this thread.

[Lurker_005]

:oops:

Oh how bad is that.

*read first line, skip middle, read last line.*

*smack self*