ALL Your Character Names: FunkBlade, FunkFist, FunkStarz,Funkementals,FunkEyes,FunkSmoke,FunkBody Last thing you did: Set up FM spot I believe Why do you think you got banned?: Not entirely sure, I don't recall harassing anyone yesterday xD Ban message when attempting to log in: Your account has been blocked for harassment. What GM banned you (optional): Unknown
Hello, You were banned for your first strike of Objectionable Behavior, specifically for Kill Stealing & Map Stealing. You refused to leave a map that you did not have ownership of, despite being asked to and being shown the map ownership was for another player. Your ban will expire in approximately 2-days and 7-hours from this post. Please be more mindful of the rules and of other players.
Thanks for the reply Stephen. Would it be possible for you to tell me the map where it happened? I have a recollection of an old interaction on the wild boars map many months ago during the tribal ring event. If this is the event and you can review the chat history, then that can be explained. I was already active on the map and moving my mule to a safe spot for my bishop to farm etc items for the quest. While I was actively moving my characters on the map to a safe location, the other player cced into the map and started killing boars despite me informing her that it was taken (she got map ownership despite me being on the map with 2 characters before her since I was moving my mule and didnt kill anything). I specifically recalled she wrote in chat that she "didn't care that I was there first" and thus acknowledged I was there then told me she is a friend of a GM and would get me banned which is why I remember this event so vividly since I was surprised she used the friendship of a Gm as a threat. If you can review the chat history, I think it would clear things up.
If this is not the event I have in mind, then I am really confused. There was no other contested map situation I can recall and I am pretty respectful of map ownership.
While your recount of what happened may be correct, in the end, you lost your map ownership. The ~mapowner command is there to establish who has the right to the mobs and drops of that map. It has a 3-minute expiration from the last attacked mob. Since you did not attack a mob in more than 3-minutes, you lost the right to the mobs and drops of that map. This is explained in detail below: Spoiler: MapleRoyals ToS Kill-Stealing & Map Looting 2. Kill-stealing - The ~mapowner command has been put into place for the reason of understanding which player in a kill-stealing altercation is in the right and which is in the wrong. The ~mapowner command functions in-game to determine which character possesses ownership of the map and all contained monsters. Upon attaining ownership of a map, the owner is granted three minutes of immunity, after which the first character on the map to attack will have ownership transferred to them. If the owner attacks prior to the three minutes expiring, the three minute immunity is refreshed to the time of the attack - therefore, the owner of the map must not attack on the map for a period of three minutes before the ownership becomes claimable. This allows the owner to leave their computer for smaller purposes without allowing ownership retention over long periods of inactivity. A player who is not the map owner may still attack on the map, however, if the owner of the map decides to ask the player to leave, they must comply at the risk of consequence by this rule, regardless of any past agreements. 3. Map Looting - Please refer to the above appendix section on Kill-stealing for a detailed explanation of how the ~mapowner designation functions. This rule does not apply to group bossing and party questing expeditions, where players are expected to communicate with one another on the allocation of drops. Additionally, this rule does not encompass items dropped by a player. You are responsible for items you have dropped from your own character, whether the incident was accidental or not; map ownership does not apply to instances in which a player has lost an item to another player via looting in which that first player dropped the item. Finally, a player is allowed to loot drops on a map with the permission of the designated map owner; however, in the case that that permission is revoked by the map owner, they must comply at the risk of consequences under this rule, regardless of any past agreements. So, even if you did own that channel before, your ownership was lost. The new owner then had the right to that map's mobs and loot. It doesn't matter if you were there previously. You violated the rules by refusing to leave the new mapowner's map. That is why you were banned.
I see, thanks for explaining. I had thought being active on the map would give me the right to the map (was drawing on assumptions from GMS which is my bad and will adapt my behavior in the future) and there was no ill will there. I will accept responsibility given I should've read the terms and conditions in closer detail (like I do with all terms and conditions haha). I am still pretty shaken by the fact that another player used the friendship of another GM to threaten to ban me and then to see it pan out a few months later. Is this sort of behavior tolerated in the royals community or will that player's behavior be addressed as well? It will be the same time stamp during that interaction if you can review the chat history. I would think that abuse of power would be concerning to the community as well.
We take power abuse seriously so I had a look for you but you seem to be misremembering your conversation with them, the only chat they had with you at the time was: - cc pls - i have mapowner - ty - idc i have mapowner - i will report - have fun banned at no point did they mention they were friends with a GM and threaten to have you banned because of that.
I appreciate you taking it seriously Tim. It was a while ago during the summer event. I must've misremembered "manpower" and "I have manpower" along with the immediate threat of getting banned as "I know a GM", especially since during that time I believed I had the right to the map and this player was being abusive to me. It was bewildering at the time to me why they thought they could get me banned since I was there first. Sorry for wasting your time and thanks for all that you do.
