quick question

[za gophar]

im banned for 2 days. i dont know if its random or not random

all i need to know is if it is possible to get banned while you are not playing, because on tuesday i signed off to go out of town, now im back and im banned. not that i care much about not being able to play for a day, but i was wondering for future reference.

[IceStorm]

They might of got your Ban ID# mixed up. Because that happend to me once they banned one guy but it also banned me. Usually you get banned more than one day if you talk back or tked a mod or smod or have got banned a short while ago for doing the same thing.

[Kolar]

To the best of my knowledge with the BanG system they can ban you when you are off the game.

[za gophar]

hm yeah true, actually it was a kind of stupid question. of course it can ban me when im not playing, it just did. the question really is i guess, would a mod ban me when im offline without talking to me at all before hand?

[Kolar]

If the offence is serious enough, yes a mod can ban without warning. It could also be a mix up with another person being banned. Email Mr.Spam about it or there should be an e mail with your ban #id.

[Dim]

You could be 'caught' under a ban.

Eg: Someone having a similair IP or whatever,

[Stabwound]

It's probably a mix up. If you did something serious enough to get banned without warning, you wouldn't be here asking why you were banned. I know several instances when someone went to sleep (or whatever) and when they tried to log-in the next day, they were banned.

[Spiderex]

i get banned all the time. I sign off, the next day i'm banned. The guy that handles the bans (overstrand or something, i forgot) said that its caused by bot mixups or some staff is fooling around...

[Vehicle]

Originally posted by Spiderex
i get banned all the time. I sign off, the next day i'm banned. The guy that handles the bans (overstrand or something, i forgot) said that its caused by bot mixups or some staff is fooling around...

Mr. Spam now handles bans, and you can get caught under a ban. It's when you have similar ip's, email Mr. Spam your ban ID number if this has happened to you.

[Dim]

What he said.

[Stabwound]

How exactly do you get caught under another person's ban? I know someone that gets falsly banned EVERY single time another specific person does (they are NOT the same person). How would this be?

[Dim]

I don't know the complete facts, but its happened to me a few times.

Someone has the same 'characteristics' of their PC, Similair IP, Machine ID or w/e.

[glacier]

happened to me 5-6 times, someone with a similar IP just loves to get in trouble

[Kolar]

An IP is:

00000000.00000000.00000000. |00000000|

In binary. The Placement of 1's and 0's. Putting 1's to replace a 0 gives it a value.

00000000

from right to left counting in Binary: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024 ect...2 to the power of X.

You will also see these numbers a lot in information technology and in hardware. Binary is the way computers transfer information, so you will rarely have a device like a video card with 67 mbs of ram and not 64. It's cheaper this way somehow.

so 00101000 in binary = 40 in our decimal numbering system. So if the # 40 is the end octial above with the | | around it, it would be 8 0's.8 0's.8 0's.40 but you would do give all 4 octials a decimal # aswell they can't be all 0's. All the IPs are assigned by your ISP, either staticly or they are assigned though a DHCP server.

You can not have the same IP as someone else. But sometimes errors can ocure where two computers have the same IP causing routing problems. This could also explain the bans that are wrongly assigned. I found a number of duplicated IPs on my school's network my self, so it's not all that rare. Simular MAC (Media Access control address) which can not be changed (well you can but it's a waste of time) could also cause a problem. Again these addresses can not be the same but can be simular, and some ISP's can assign IPs based on the MAC address of the Network interface card.

[Xog]

You probably got banned under someone elses banID# .. I didnt read the other posts, just the thread start so if it was already solved dun worry just ignore this