It appears I've been banned from a custom map; every time I join a game, two minutes in I drop from the game. I know it's not my connection to bnet because I tested this.
My questions is, is there a way to get around this? If you care to know about my situation, read on.
I was playing a game of Phantom Mode (great map) and some player was accusing me of 'teaming' which I wasn't, and we started to argue and I raged on him. I said some things that I normally wouldn't have. He was just being very very dumb. I'm sure I won't be unbanned if I messaged the map maker.
On November 07 2010 15:50 awu25 wrote: lol i don't think you can even do this if you were banned why would you still be able to join/start the game
I'm not all that sure how it works to be honest, I think it's something to do with the triggers. He puts my name and code into some list, the triggers check for players in the game (after 2 minutes) and it drops players on the list that are in the game. That's just my un-educated guess.
On November 07 2010 15:50 awu25 wrote: lol i don't think you can even do this if you were banned why would you still be able to join/start the game
I'm not all that sure how it works to be honest, I think it's something to do with the triggers. He puts my name and code into some list, the triggers check for players in the game (after 2 minutes) and it drops players on the list that are in the game. That's just my un-educated guess.
I'm just looking for a workaround for it.
well unless that guy was the original mapmaker, there's no way it could happen even if it was him, i'm still skeptical
He is the original map maker. Apparently people send in the replays, he reviews them, and if he doesn't like what he sees (such as 'teaming' or whatever else he doesn't like) he bans them. I don't know how, but he does. Essentially banned people just can't play the map any more.
Oh man you can be perma banned from custom maps now? That's just great.
There is however a silver lining to all this as this is a problem with only one real solution. You need to remake the map except somehow better then the original and get it really popular so its at the top of the game list. At this point you have 2 options, enjoy life and take the highroad with your new and improved version and/or ban the maker of the other phantom map along with the guy who reported you out of spite.
He's not being "banned", but more like the map just gives him a defeat... most likely...
In Wc3, you can make a trigger that also forces Wc3 to exit/endgame/skip score screen/disable replay ( the latter three are native functions so it was intended when they made the game )
call EndGame(false) ( this one is still in SC2 if someone wanted to add it )
// this would force the player to go back to windows, no fatal error is given so it's kind of "WTF" for the player since that'd normally only happen if their game crashed
On November 07 2010 16:29 Nailath wrote: He is the original map maker. Apparently people send in the replays, he reviews them, and if he doesn't like what he sees (such as 'teaming' or whatever else he doesn't like) he bans them. I don't know how, but he does. Essentially banned people just can't play the map any more.
Aw shucks, for real? I 'team' all the time in Phantom with my friends. The fun part though is that most the time we lie to each other about whether we're the Phantom, and a lot of backstabbing diplomacy goes on, lol.
On November 07 2010 16:29 Nailath wrote: He is the original map maker. Apparently people send in the replays, he reviews them, and if he doesn't like what he sees (such as 'teaming' or whatever else he doesn't like) he bans them. I don't know how, but he does. Essentially banned people just can't play the map any more.
Aw shucks, for real? I 'team' all the time in Phantom with my friends. The fun part though is that most the time we lie to each other about whether we're the Phantom, and a lot of backstabbing diplomacy goes on, lol.
I talked with the map maker, and he confirmed both that he can ban players, and that I was not banned. He suspects that it may have been a hack that's going around that can actually drop players from a game as well as other things including telling them what other players are. I'm surprised that people would would both already have figured out and implemented how to do this, and that they would dedicate the time needed to do this to players in custom games.