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* Re-wrote invite spam-blocker:
- Now only triggered on declines, so as to not block legitimate invites.
- Penalties now increase with each decline:
1) 1 min lockout
2) 5 min + warning
3) 10 min + 10 advisor point fine + 10 duel point fine, if duel spam + death
4) 30 point fine(s) + death + kick from server
- Penalties expire with gameplay time, and can be lowered by getting an accept from a player with no penalties and a enough advisor points.
- Penalty level is saved to the player\'s account entry in the database, so repeat offenders can\'t escape it. (relog resets to 3rd level)
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* Exiting the death realm now spawns you at your racial spawn point.
Please note, that these are 2 separate things. I did the spam-blocker, someone else did the spawning. If you get penalized for spamming and don\'t like where you get sent, tough.
Now, about the whining:
I expected this. But, simply put, you should be using your words and not the /challenge command. ASK FIRST. Say something like \"I challenge you to a duel\",
then after they accept use /challenge. Don\'t just go around challenging everyone you see. That\'s kind of the point.
There is a warning sent onscreen in red and to the chat window at penalty #2. If you need specifics on what the penalties are for you to consider stopping, you\'re probably one of the people I made this thing for.
On the subject of penalties:
To get to the point at which you get penalty #3, you need to be declined for an invite 3 times recently. Frankly, if you were just spam inviting and everyone accepted, that would be allowed. If you\'re up to level #3, try not challenging for a while... it will expire with gameplay time. Specifically, if you don\'t challenge at all within the lockout time for the next level up, you\'ll be automatically dropped down one penalty level on your next invite.
example: At level #3 (just had #2, next penalty is #3), wait 10 minutes to invite, you\'ll be bumped down to #2. Of course, if it\'s a decline, it\'ll go right back up.
And yes, the spam-blocker no longer cares who you\'re inviting.
It only cares about recent declines. That was a major flaw in the old one, because you could just keep spamming new people.
Edited to add:Level expiration after having penalty #3 is after half an hour of gameplay time, btw.
About the following comments:
Quote #1: Originally posted by Nikodemus
Person A have personal reason to kill person B \"I challange you! Prepare for death\"
Person B declines \"I will call guards if you try somethink on me!\"
Then person B realizes that he isn\'t that poor fighter comparing to the offender \"But afterall... lets see whos better. \" Also \"ooc: You Challange me, because you wanted to fight\"
person A \"So be it!\" Person A cant challange B, because of weird rule which magically won\'t let him to do what he want.
Quote #2: Originally posted by Nikodemus
Additionally Suno says, that if one person decline your challange, you will be punished for all challanges to all other people, so:
Person A and B takes part in dueling tournament. Few fights are happening in the ame time. It hapens that A and B has just won a duel and the next fight will be beatwen them. They have to wait few long minutes, before they can fight. Why they have to wait?
Quote #3: Originally posted by Nikodemus
Additionally mistakes happens and one can decline by mistake/ challange wrong player and so on. You will ask: how it is possible? Answer: because of human mistake.
Quote #4: Originally posted by Nikodemus
If I was going to propose some solution for challange spam. I would solve this in IC way, or OOC which dont inerfere in RP. current OOC solution, surely does interfere.
The solutions for #1, #2, and #3 is to simply have the person not in the lockout issue the /challenge command. If the lockout was due to an honest mistake, it\'s easily remedied. But in all likelihood, it would only be the 1 or 5 minute lockout, because I don\'t see \"honest mistakes\" happening more than once or twice.
As for #4: Invite spamming is most certainly OOC, so thus the solution must be. If you\'re declined enough to complain about these penalties, you have nothing to do with RP. Deal with it.
