User:EVA-251/punish~1

=Listing of All Punishments= discovered as of 05 Feb 2008.

Causes for Punishment

 * Hitting the server excessively within a period of time
 * This includes flooding the chat, F5ing, Enter-smashing, using macros, etc


 * Interacting with a player/NPC with multiple accounts within an 8 hour timespan.
 * Interacting with your own alts
 * Interacting with a barrier with multiple accounts, including friendly barriers within an 8 hour timespan.
 * Keeping your accounts too close together.

Punishments

 * Muting- Muting is when you may not broadcast and/or speak to other players.
 * You try to speak but your words come out garbled.
 * A powerful force disrupts your thoughts.


 * Accuracy- Accuracy is when your attack/magic accuracy is drastically lowered. These reductions are not displayed on your screen, but they are there.
 * You try to hit dasuperbitch with a Spirit Sword but miss. (4 times)
 * You hit dasuperbitch with a Spirit Sword for 9 damage and leech 3 HP.
 * You try to hit dasuperbitch with a Spirit Sword but miss. (6 times)
 * You hit dasuperbitch with a Spirit Sword for 10 damage and leech 3 HP.
 * Your spell misses dasuperbitch. (6 times)
 * This above would be an example of this punishment. The spell in question is Static Snap, the most accurate in the game. The amount of damage inflicted in the above 40 BP/30 MP attack was less than 50 of 100.


 * PoP Skills- PoP skills, or Player on Player skills, are forbidden from being used. This means you may not use the skills Healing Touch, Siphon Magic, Health Transfer, Pickpocket, Read Aura and Zombify.
 * You try to use your skill, however a powerful force compels you not to.


 * Locational Magic- Locational magic, or the spells Barrier of Trust, Barrier of Darkness, Barrier of Light, Destroy Barrier, Soothing Mist, Monster Ward, Sanctuary may not be cast.
 * You try to cast the spell but your energies are disrupted by a mysterious force.


 * Reduced BP Regeneration- BP Regeneration is reduced.
 * Searching- Chances for finding anything, item or human, is reduced to 0%.
 * Labelling- Should a developer be on during your violations, perhaps hitting the server excessively, maybe causing a CPU Quota error, you may find yourself with a custom user title, like Macroer.


 * Before automated punishments, the method of action against people who committed the acts above was of two paths- Clearing their banks, inventory, gear and vaults, or a ban of unknown lengths.

Severity
Originally, committing too many of the above acts, or severely violating them enough warranted a permanent ban from the game. This no longer happens.

As of this writing, it seems that punishments for the above offenses are a package deal- you will likely get all of these dumped on you if you violate one of them.

Many of the punishments have varying levels of severity that degrade over time.
 * Muting- Muting can last the longest, with one player being muted for over 3 days on broadcast. It has been observed that being able to speak occurs before being able to broadcast. Continuing on the first statement, muting often will outlast many of the other punishments here.
 * Accuracy- The exact trigger for accuracy reductions is not quite known, and from what has been observed, it is fairly short-term, most likely the shortest of all the punishments.
 * PoP Skills and Locational Magic- These punishments seem to last the same length as muting, although this is not always true. It has been observed that the Locational Magic punishments often stick around quite a while after the other punishments have ended. Its occurrances have been described as random at best at this point.
 * Reduced BP Regeneration- This is the only punishment that ramps. It begins at a 2 BP reduction but for severe things like zerging+rapidly hitting the server, the deduction can work its way down to 0. Once at this point, 0 BP regeneration can occur for up to a day. It will slowly work its way back up to 10 after this. This has no impact on the skill Morale Boost.
 * Searching- This punishment appears to last around a day- this is not confirmed.
 * Labelling- This punishment will only end after having a chat with the coder that put the title on you, and making sure you can stick to the promises you make there.