Allow IP Bans
Allow server owners to ban a users IP instead of their AGID. This would help prevent players from evading their bans by simply switching to a different Alderon account. Allowing IP mutes would also be a nice feature to have.
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02 Apr
Heccin PenguThis would greatly help in stopping people from buying a new account or even just getting a free account on their phone, rejoining a server and harassing users. Counter point to the people that will mention VPNs, most major VPN providers list the IPs they use, which means if you would like to prevent users from avoiding the IP ban with a VPN, you only need to look up the list of VPN IPs and ban all of those as well. Nearly preventing someone from using a public VPN. https://github.com/X4BNet/lists_vpn
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If a list like this proves too hefty to manually add to the ban list, it wouldn't be impossible to add a server config option to allow connections from VPNs, true/false. In a similar vein as bServerPaidUsersOnly=false. Which should be just another check done by the server during the connection attempt.
All of this of course wouldn't stop someone from ban evading, but it would raise the bar of difficulty for ban evaders to get back into a server they have been banned from.
Thanks!