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I agree that having accounts will deter some griefers and hackers but having an optional extra requirement that servers can choose to add I don't think is a bad idea
Besides servers without the requirement will exist anyway to add fresh blood into the loop
I see only a win win situation here

My fear is without this system the servers will start implementing whitelists,and that is far more cumbersome for new players to join

I like Jackster's idea.

Adrix, I think that's a small price to pay. If they cause too much trouble, maybe they can't be bothered making a new account. What if Email addresses got banned too? Then they'd have to make a new account AND Email account. Soon enough, there are too many hurdles to be worth it.

Jackster Whats stopping them for making another account?

Ok !

I am up for the rep system but just not the way you propose it.

Personal I would have a system like PBbans for the COD/BB/CSS games.

Server owners can say if they want the ban system or not.

So if someone got banned off one server, Then moved to another and got banned.

They system would log that and put his/her name and other information on a database witch the server side would read to see if a user in the server has a bad reputation. And not allow the user to play on their server.

ZakDCCLXXVII donating rep can be removed

Lokiamis Why never? Whats wrong with it?

ryan the penalty system can be removed too

It's all suggestions, things can be modified, be more detailed

no, if people want to build random useless shit in a corner, who are they hurting?

No. Never.

Eh, I'm not for this system. The whole donating rep to other players thing is a real red flag.

It'd be much easier if admins just handled their servers accordingly and informed the AoS team of any REAL problem users.

Its not killing them its a small penalty like -1 per 3min(5min) that can be easily won back by getting intel or shooting and defending
And it only ticks while your alive,if you get shot by enemy it resets with no penalty and a 5min(10min?) buffer till next penalty
This is to incentives assaulting the intel sometimes too
Also people who have plenty of rep can build without problems
Also there should be a hard limit for the amount of rep you can have
With a hard limit of 200 a player has 100rep for building without problems and at a rate of -1 3min that's 300min, 5 hours until you get demoted to a no rep server
Of course you shouldn't kick players even if there rep is lower so they can still win it back if they are on the red

Killing people because they're building in-game is a terrible idea. If they're maliciously destroying (their team's) structures, kill them/ban them. Discouraging players from one of the game's primary mechanics is just not on.

When we get accounts how about a rep system that will get you points while you play just like normal points and some servers will require a certain amount to enter them(100? 500?)
That way account ban will actually sting

You could also donate rep to some players(like your friends or people you trust) but with stiff penalties if they get warned or banned, like rep loss,warning or even
Or use real money donations to help the developer

You could even add rep loss over time(played) for players that only build fancy useless shit in base with death as a temporary stopper(but not suicide) for people who are building around intel

Server wise I don't think it would be too imbalanced as servers without rep will generally be full and thus still popular and they still have the advantage of account ban in that the banned need to set an account again

Temporary Ip ban for a day would be nice too