I can’t remember the game, but I remember one way back in the day that would put your character in a bunny suit if you used a cheat program in single player then transferred your character to multiplayer. I was so confused when I saw all these people walking around in pink bunny suits at first.

essi2 wrote: »

Good old Perma-ban. People who have no shame, cannot be shamed.

Bingo. Because bunny suits don’t actually work.

Put them in stocks around the map, until another cheater gets caught and must take their place. Then ban the account.

Public execution, followed by reincarnation as a skeever (or other vermin) in a delve which they can never leave...

Getting guts, crawlers, etc... will become a rather enjoyable experience

doomette wrote: »

I can’t remember the game, but I remember one way back in the day that would put your character in a bunny suit if you used a cheat program in single player then transferred your character to multiplayer. I was so confused when I saw all these people walking around in pink bunny suits at first.

Sacred Underworld? Not sure how effective of a punishment that was but a great game though!

There are a lot of pillories in ESO's world. Cheaters loging in the next time must find their character stuck in one unable to move or use anyting (not even logging out).

Then other players can throw mudballs, rotten eggs and perhaps doodoo on their faces

banned, ez as that

Put them all in a dedicated PvP server for cheaters (preferably a slow server), so the cheaters can fight each other instead of ruining the fun for all who play fair.

Cheaters should be sentenced to death!....by snu snu....

In all seriousness though, the punishment needs to fit the crime so to speak. For example, if someone habitually cheats in Cyrodil and Battlegrounds, they should receive scaling bans - first a 2 week ban, then a 1 month ban, and after the third time, we can assume they are not going to change course so the account should be banned and all characters deleted so if that person manages to get back online, they basically have to start from scratch.

For botters? They just need a permanent console/PC ban or IP ban. Deleting characters won't solve the issue because the accounts that they're doing the botting on are just newb accounts with newb characters. This should be a zero tolerance policy. If Zos can trace where the farmed materials are going to - because they're most certainly going to an alternate account with a higher level character - then Zos should ban BOTH accounts and delete the high level characters.

Death penalty for cheaters. But, I'm no monster. I'll let their friends and families watch.

Permanent IP ban.

You can't ban an IP because it may affect others who currently use or may in the future be allocated that IP, and the offending player may simply switch IP anyway. All you can do is permanently ban the player, and whilst you can't prevent him creating a new account you can take action elsewhere such as reporting your decision to Steam or the console provider where appropriate with a view to those accounts being banned too. I've always fancied the idea of game developers sharing a list of permanently banned players but I dare say that isn't practical or legal these days.

I used to play a MUD where they didn't favour deleting established characters as they had become part of the history of the gameworld, so if a permanent ban was necessary the admin simply changed the account password and locked it.

There are several problems with publicly naming and shaming offending players. First, it's probably illegal in some jurisdictions as it may be held to contravene an individual's human rights. Second, if a player is running around with a label then he's still in the game, and you want him out of it. Third, it would make a nonsense of the EULA ban on players naming and shaming if the company was seen to be doing it, so the forums would be open to all manner of personal attacks, most probably unwarranted. Finally, there are enough idiots in the world that will see it as a challenge in a game they've become bored with and they'll just set out to "earn" that particular achievement. We see them from time to time here on the forum, challenging the Mods to ban them permanently. We don't want to pander to those sorts of players, we just want to be rid of them. Forever, and not by way of calling it a ban when it's only a suspension for a few hours or days.

Tandor wrote: »

You can't ban an IP because it may affect others who currently use or may in the future be allocated that IP, and the offending player may simply switch IP anyway. All you can do is permanently ban the player, and whilst you can't prevent him creating a new account you can take action elsewhere such as reporting your decision to Steam or the console provider where appropriate with a view to those accounts being banned too. I've always fancied the idea of game developers sharing a list of permanently banned players but I dare say that isn't practical or legal these days.

I used to play a MUD where they didn't favour deleting established characters as they had become part of the history of the gameworld, so if a permanent ban was necessary the admin simply changed the account password and locked it.

There are several problems with publicly naming and shaming offending players. First, it's probably illegal in some jurisdictions as it may be held to contravene an individual's human rights. Second, if a player is running around with a label then he's still in the game, and you want him out of it. Third, it would make a nonsense of the EULA ban on players naming and shaming if the company was seen to be doing it, so the forums would be open to all manner of personal attacks, most probably unwarranted. Finally, there are enough idiots in the world that will see it as a challenge in a game they've become bored with and they'll just set out to "earn" that particular achievement. We see them from time to time here on the forum, challenging the Mods to ban them permanently. We don't want to pander to those sorts of players, we just want to be rid of them. Forever, and not by way of calling it a ban when it's only a suspension for a few hours or days.

I think @Tandor nails it here. Esssentially you can only perma ban the account and not the person. Even if you could, the person still holds rights you simply can't infringe as a company.

So I always thought the soft power approach would make sense. Not punishing to the extreme (deletion), but rather make the person feel that everybody is disappointed in the person (the offender). And maybe over time cheating behavior drops, and eventually stops. You know, like a little behavioral therapy.

It also kind of reminds me how I taught my Kids not to beat other kids about a toy in the sandbox.

First time cheaters remove CP and delete character that was being used for cheating. 2nd time caught say bye-bye to the account.