Hey, I have an idea how to deal with griefers. Once you see a griefer you can call him a traitor by saying /traitor. If one gets busted he can't destroy blocks for half a minute. Then the status will be forgiven.

If someone else calls the griefer a traitor as well, unless it was forgiven, he won't be able to place or destroy blocks for 5 minutes and his name will appear in the chat window every minute. Then it may be forgiven.

If fourth person in the team calls a traitor on him, he can get teamkilled*, and a votekick on him will appear. While the votekick lasts he can not place or build blocks.

If the whole team votes a traitor on him he gets kicked and banned for 10 minutes. If he comes back in the next 10 hours and gets traitor-kicked again he is banned for 1 day. 1 more day every time this happens again.

Yeah and if you are the guy who originally called him a traitor you can /forgive of course.

*Even if the friendly fire is off, and instead of blood rainbows will appear, just for the sake of it.

I like this, it's better then the orriginal votekick where blue can kick them, and it stops the players from griefing, the only problem with this is that someone may switch teams and call someone griefing there base a traitor and then switch back so he can't destroy your base...

Well you won't be able to switch teams while you're busted. And if you get out and come back it doesn't mean anything. The timer just "pauses". Or you get banned for 15 min like usually. Ben's choice.

What's to stop people from claiming /traitor on an innocent? Not to mention the difficulty involved in making an entire team vote.

^ exactly, but that happens with regular votekicks as well

^^ The punishment from one griefer on a traitor isn't really that bad. But the punishment on one griefer from an entire team of pissed off builders is.

^ that's what I focused on, if you are innocent you can just go and start shooting. If more people frame you just shoot some more. And if the whole team tags you just don't hang out on the server anymore, I mean what kind of person would come back to a server full of assholes *sorry* just to prove them they are wrong.

And after all, you can ask for /forgive.

Edit:
I thought a little, and let's keep the initial punishment just to half a minute.

What would stop a troll (or group of trolls) from abusing /traitor?

make it a 3 person vote so its not just pure bull shit mabye 4 but you get it

No the point of it is that you alone have the power to stop a griefer from at least griefing your building for a while. And that if more people catch him he gets what he deserves.

outwrangle:
one troll can't hurt anyone. Plus one can't call and hold more then 3 /traitor statuses at once, so one troll can't do any damage, four trolls can do little theoretical damage and you'd need a whole team of trolls to actually do some damage.

This whole thing just screams "EXPLOITABLE" in my eyes.

I do like the idea, but i don't think it would work. Unless both teams can assign someone (like a team captain) that has the power to call a /traitor mark on a team member.

And not make the /traitor mark time limited, but permanent until the captain undoes the /traitor mark.

ReubenMcHawk:
The chances of exploiting are the same as with /votekick

Avalon:
1. You can't call more then 3 people traitors at a time.
2. No this breaks the whole point.

Lets hope it just gets introduced in the next update, griefers just ruin the game. don't mind if the opposite team breaks your stuff. that's just how war works :P

I'd like this idea if only the "traitor" thing appears in team chat, and not all.

Pulchritude:
That's kinda obvious isn't it. And I think I've mildly suggested it already. "If fourth person in the team" <-- see?
Avalon:
300% agree
It almost brought me to tears when I realized I wasn't just keeping the other team from destroying my 45 minutes of work worth building, I had to keep my own fucking team from destroying it, but the worst part is that you can't do anything about it when it's your teammate doing it! Votekick is slow and unreliable process, especially on a big server with a lot of AFKs.

Myface when this happened: ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Dany0:
Amen to that... that's exactly how i think about it, i know that the structures don't last long or get heavily damaged. but the building to shelter your team and make strategic advancements is what i mostly like about this game. so every measurement taken towards kicking or banning griefer's would be a real bless.

i thnk that awsoem but wen ther kiked the server should restore or rool baklc what he was destroyed

I wonder if Ben ever answers these topics...
rambobond:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mDTLphIVY&feature=related

I have a better idea for psyspades so everyone starts with god mode blocks that can only be destroyed by the opposite team if you want your team to be able to destroy blocks you have to write /allow then your team can destroy your blocks

That's overcomplicated and annoying and just stupid.

^ its not this complety this discourages griefers but sapping can still be done

Your sentence makes no sense. Also /traitor is cool.

Cpt. Falcon:
That seriously would not work. too many chance it would be used to anti-grief. and make structures un-usable. Plus like Dany0 said overcomplicated

to each his own

Come on more support :P

Hell yeh! Its an awesome idea.
Its almost imposible to ever votekicking a griefer so that could be the solution for those goddamn griefers.
BUT!
People can troll with it and nominate you a traitor for stupid reasons or just for the sake of trolling and that would be annoying.
Also, I dont think that the WHOLE team needing to nominaite one player as a traitor to kick him/her would be a good idea cause there are many people who does not pay attention to the chat wich could be a problem.
Other then that AWESOME!

maybe if someone uses the /traitor mark the team needs to hear a different noise to get there attention

The Mighty Comrade:
Okay then just 9 players must tag him to kick in more then 8 players per team setup.
Avalon:
What do you mean?

There is alot of organized griefing out there
If this traitor thing was added, they would have alot of fun calling /traitor on everyone who trys to votekick them