Hello again -- banned for not breaking the rules?

[MustangP51D]

Hello there,

This is Mustang -- I hadn't played SWBF2 for six months until this January, so nice to see you all again :)

I was just banned from SWGO JBA -- not hero assault -- for using choke-lightning when i got a hero. I've never been aware this was illegal in JBA -- iv'e never seen anyone booted for it & it's sure not in the forum rules. I believe Talon was responsible, as I had just dispatched his hero with the aforementioned method, when I was banned without warning. Please ask him though -- given that I complained about him switching my teams around several months ago, I don't want to whip up a controversy.

Cheers and happy new year!

[Heatmaster78]

Choke-lightning is an exploit in the game and you should know better than to use exploits on SWGO servers.

I guess you deserved your ban.

[TaTerToT]

I was there when Mustang got banned, I saw that he was doing nothing wrong.

[THEWULFMAN]

MustangP51D! You must earn your wings with honor and valor, not easy exploits. Now get back in the air, and fight with dignity!

[11_Panama_]

I've been playing this game for over 5 years and I didn't know the Emperor could do that. How do you do that anyway?

[Bryant]

I was there when Mustang got banned, I saw that he was doing nothing wrong.

He just admitted to breaking the rules.

[THEWULFMAN]

I've been playing this game for over 5 years and I didn't know the Emperor could do that. How do you do that anyway?

Please, tell him how to exploit so he can get banned on the servers. I'd like that very much.

[MustangP51D]

TRIVIA TIME! Before anyone says that I "broke the rules" again: can anyone list for me in black & white, an SWGO rule that bars C-L in JBA?

Heatmaster, I ought not to "know" better; I am not able (nor would I desire) to read your mind* & discern what you want me to do and do not want me to do. I follow the same rules that have been standing for years & make reasonable deductions. These rules are listed here; I invite you to read them. You will notice that C-L is explicitly forbidden in HA, but not in JBA. And before you suggest that the rules that apply to one server apply to the other, notice that the author of these rules took the time to write global rules twice...and did NOT do so for choke lightning.

Furthermore, your implication that exploits are obviously & universally illegal is misleading & INCORRECT. There are dozens of commonly used exploits (running up walls on tatooine, walking on the death star's invisible railings, super det throws, double-shocks, etc etc). Which are allowed and which are disallowed simply depends on the server. If it isn't explicitly disallowed or patenetly disruptive, one would assume it's fair game. It's not explicitly disallowed; it's not disruptive to gameplay (it would be in a hero-only server, but in this case, it was simply annoying to Talon -- who lost a run as jedi b/c of it)

Look, I've wasted enough calories typing this up. SWGO, There is a minority among you who ignore, skew or plain break your own rules to achieve some sort of petty vindication for grudges that exist only in the realm of 1's and 0's (Talon falls squarely in this group). When someone inevitable complains about this kind of stupidity, some choose to investigate the complaint (thanks to haasd0g, MC, MD, DoF, & others who did so last time on my behalf when Talon kept switching my teams) while others seek to obscure the issue by attacking the person who made it. Now, I can't make any of you do anything about this. And that's fine. I enjoy playing with (most of) you, but not so much that I'm going to beg anyone to behave in a way I think is "fair." Your server, do as you wish! I'll try again in a week or a month; if a year later, I get the dreaded message "Your CD Key...blah blah", then it is what it is. Au revoir!

Talon, I get the impression that you feel that you're "denying" me something by hindering my ability to play this game (not likely, or I would have been playing it more in this past year). Here's a question to ask yourself: if you were, what does that do for you & why?

Now, to catch up on some late night Star Trek and then off to bed.

[Duel of Fates]

Since I have been adminning, way back in the WGO days, and all the way up to the present, I have enforced that rule on JBA. If I had seen you doing that, I would have warned and then kicked you. If you persisted, I would have banned you. Its a glitch, and glitching aint allowed on any of the SWGO servers. Says right as you walk into any server, Glitchers can be banned with no warning. Say it wont happen again and move on already.

Oh, and welcome back. Looking forward to gunnin' for ya.

[THEWULFMAN]

I don't agree with everything he said, but he is technically correct. It doesn't explicitly state choke-lightning is against the rules in JBA. I simply request that be changed. People will do their best to find loopholes, so you might as well plug this hole up.