200m BanLines!

The new release finally features usefully high ban lines!

At last, and maybe just in time for some. It has to be said though that the length of the ban list needs increasing ASAP - 50 is simply not going to be enough.

Still, it's a start I suppose.

Huh. Well, there goes the mainland. I'm quite happy I moved out when I did really.

Hooray. As for the ban list, recursive sensors + script = more entries!

I fly at above 700m.

I wish I had > 700m draw distance...

...there are *some* things worth seeing on the mainland.

Me too. I usually do it to avoid seeing crap.

Yeah, it sucks doesn't it -- now assholes won't be able to keep dropping bombs on us after they've been "banned" and are floating at the same level we're at.

I can't believe people are already protesting this. Previously, the only effect of a 'ban' was the ability to say "neener, you're banned, go away now".

Now, they actually have to go away.

This is a long, long time coming. We've been managing a mainland area for 3 years now, and have been able to do NOTHING about griefers except "calling live help".

Now, finally we have some control.

Yeah, there goes the mainland indeed. Maybe finally it won't be under the whims of unbannable naked deformo-avs with push bombs.



Nice to know you're blanket-damning the whole place. We've been working, literally, years, to keep our section of the mainland "non-ghetto". Now, finally, we don't have to just *sit there and take it* when griefers come to call.

Good for you for running off to an Estate. Not everyone can do that, especially seeing that we've put as much into our 3 mainland sims as any Estate owner has.

Well, they don't have to go away. They can just register new alts.

And that's a reason to *not do anything at all*?

What's your solution, Ordinal?

Indeed... our "50" has been full for a year. We have to rotate now.

With all due respect, Michi -

I can understand the problem. Particularly as a vehicle seller, the prospect of 200-meter-high walls of impassable force is a daunting one. I can fully sympathise with your position, particularly managing the Aerodrome for the past couple years, but I do see where the complaints are comming from.

I don't know what the answer is. Do I think this is the right one? No... Not particularly. I haven't read the pre-patch notes yet, but I'm assuming this applies to ban lines in general, right? If it just applied to avatars on the banlist, I'd be all for it. If it applies to the generic "privacy fence", then I do have some problems with it.

It should be 768 m ban lines..

I won't be moving my skybox, so stay above 400 meters around my place to be safe. There is -no- warning on the eject.

Ooh, good compromise!
I do think the limit should be increased, as the current 40m is pittance, people just drop physical objects on top of your parcel. However, a 200m-tall ban wall is completely unacceptable as a privacy fence. Only make it that tall for people explicitly put onto the ban list.
/me wonders why it wasn't implemented this way in the first place.
==Chris

Well, I thought it was better than nothing. It would have certainly saved me a lot of heartache last year

I guess it's not the ideal solution, but if people won't pay for decent third party security systems, a half sensible built in one has to be a step forward - a step however that SHOULD have been made before 666!

I think we need a list of 50 people to put in a 768m banheight list.

I think we need a 2nd list with UNLIMITED entries at the 200m height.

Common these ARE GREIFERS after all. With 'unrestricted' access to the game we need equally unrestricted power to deal with them.

So let's do something *completely pointless with immensely annoying side-effects*?

Increased mainland owner tools, scripting functions to remove objects automatically, proper response to ARs by LL and identity verification. That'll do for a start.

Are those of us who fly vehicles for fun just supposed to automatically know where your property is and that it's protected? What's wrong with a warning?

Not everyone is trying to see you get your freak on, you know.

Nothing wrong with one. Nothing wrong with me not providing one either.

These are BAN LINES. People who have actively done something stupid on the property in question.

Uhm...You can still drop items from 200 meters just as easy as from 40 meters. So a 200 meter ban really isn't much of an improvement. I suppose it will keep the less intelligent griefers from shooting you. Unless they just stand next to your land and do it.

Geez. What a blunder.

And if people set their land to access only, what are people who are just out to enjoy a nice flight suppose to do?


This hurts people who do not intend to cause trouble also.

No warnings are against the TOS

No, its not.

Report me and find out.

Cause its just like me using ban lines.

Can you show me where it says that? I sure can't find it in the TOS.