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We here in Germany think getting around IP bans is less a matter of being clever and more so one of not being stupid and lazy.

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SIKE!!

Should be a permanent mute unless he promises not to post here again.

If you are blacklisted by every ISP in a 2,000 mile radius, having a VPN doesn't do **** for you. Trust me on this, the ones that are likely to go that route have too much ego attached to stay in the shadows unnoticed. They always slip up in the end. Forget to turn on the proxy just once, etc. Also the small matter of the low number of people with inclination or technical skillsets required to set up even a basic VPN or proxy in the first place. And the fact that its going to take longer to switch proxies than it takes me to ban a new account, etc. Also we have more than one admin around here.

And both of those VPN services listed have "report abuse" methods. All of which is a completely moot point because if someone is doing something annoying enough to be banned over, I'm probably going to ban them anyways even if I don't know for certain they are a sockpuppet of someone I've already banned.

I remember the good old days where we used to bamm people instead of just banning them.

/memories

That depends on what you mean by blacklisted though. I assume that an IP ban here doesn't necessarily result in every ISP in the world (or part of the world) refusing to do business at all with the person associated with said IP at the time. If that person can get any internet access at all (and has half a brain), they should be able to get around such things. It gets tricker registering a new account and whatnot, and I agree that most people are going to ***** up (and have waaaaay too much internet identity out there to hide effectively), but it's not as absolute as all that.


The bigger issue IMO is social. The kind of person who manages to get themselves consistently banned is unlikely to be the kind of person disciplined and knowledgeable enough to get around such things in the first place. Eternal phail and all that...

I never knew the uni 1 alliance still existed.

Ogame's weird now. I started up when Io started about a year ago, but recently they introduced some new features that basically make fleeting "bad", therefore give attackers rights to 100% of resources on planet.

So now, your hits have to be less profitable than they were before the change to prevent that. Also, depending on size and rank the defending fleet gets a chance to escape with no effort too.

Anyone interested in a top 50 account?