DoctorCookie wrote:"ban hammer" fr? do you really want to moderate whole world because someone built palisade around u? xd
Yes. This is a playerbase of a few hundred. It is a game that would only ever see a few thousand if it had a welcoming playerbase. Current players trend towards actively hostile edgelords. Afew thousand would be a nice, healthy niche MMO population, keep the game going and be RELATIVELY easy to moderate. We are not talking about WoW here.
On top of this, I'm sure there would be plenty of people who would volunteer to scout and record reported situations and report back to a trusted team of staff members to action griefing. I'd be one of those people. I did this as a GM for APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth, two games with similarly low populations. It would be even easier for this game because rather than having to camp somebody clipping through a fortress or griefing car meetups, I could just be like "yep, that's a palisade" and send a screenshot.
The only problem I have with this is the guarantee that the perpetrators would never truly be banned, if Snail is any example. Though, the fact you have to expend resources and those resources could be tracked back to their origin would result in the eventual exhaustion of their ability to grief with certain techniques. I guess you could always just spam log cabins.
