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Nailath
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada4 Posts
November 07 2010 06:48 GMT
#1
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.

Thank you for your time,

Nailath
awu25
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2003 Posts
November 07 2010 06:50 GMT
#2
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
Nightmarjoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States3360 Posts
November 07 2010 06:51 GMT
#3
Use a different account.
aka Lyra; My favourites: July, Stork, Draco, MistrZZZ, TheStc, LastShadow - www.broodwarmaps.net - for all your mapping needs; check my stream: high masters mech terran: twitch.tv/lyrathegreat
Nailath
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada4 Posts
November 07 2010 06:54 GMT
#4
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.
awu25
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2003 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 07:02:15
November 07 2010 07:01 GMT
#5
On November 07 2010 15:54 Nailath wrote:
Show nested quote +
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
Trion
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada291 Posts
November 07 2010 07:29 GMT
#6
I may be mistaken, but I'm fairly certain that the only thing you can do is talk to the map maker or use a different name.

Maybe you should start with figuring out how it is possible to be banned, and how you were banned?
Nailath
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada4 Posts
November 07 2010 07:29 GMT
#7
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.
Nightmarjoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States3360 Posts
November 07 2010 07:44 GMT
#8
Is that even kosher by blizzard's eula? A player doesn't own his map right? So he shouldn't have the right to "ban" people from playing it?
aka Lyra; My favourites: July, Stork, Draco, MistrZZZ, TheStc, LastShadow - www.broodwarmaps.net - for all your mapping needs; check my stream: high masters mech terran: twitch.tv/lyrathegreat
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 07:56:45
November 07 2010 07:53 GMT
#9
Pretty sure they can put what they want in the maps as long as it doesn't contain any profanity and nudity in it...

In Wc3, it only required something similar to...

function HG takes nothing returns boolean

return(GetPlayerName(Player(5))==" ")or(GetPlayerName(Player(5))==" ")
call CustomDefeatBJ(Player(5),"Defeated")
endfunction

kind of useless since they can just make another account

or they can create some triggers to desync you...
Year 2500 Greater Israel ( Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen )
Antiochus
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada548 Posts
November 07 2010 08:08 GMT
#10
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.
All play and no work makes Jack unemployed.
levophed
Profile Joined May 2010
United States7 Posts
November 07 2010 08:41 GMT
#11
wow...this really makes me mad. map makers shouldnt have that authority to choose who plays what. maybe try reporting the map with the ingame tool?
i have 99 problems...they are all you.
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 10:23:21
November 07 2010 10:14 GMT
#12
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

function ExitWarcraft takes nothing returns nothing
loop
call ExecuteFunc("ExitWarcraft")
endloop
endfunction

function SendExit takes player p returns nothing
if p==GetLocalPlayer()then
call ExecuteFunc("ExitWarcraft")
endif
endfunction

Year 2500 Greater Israel ( Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen )
Randomaccount#77123
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States5003 Posts
November 07 2010 10:23 GMT
#13
--- Nuked ---
kyrshiro
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3 Posts
November 07 2010 10:31 GMT
#14
I shouldn't be doing this, but its getting changed soon anyway.

C:\Users\Kyrshiro\Documents\StarCraft II\Accounts\843236\1-S2-1-266760\Banks

Go through a path that looks like that one of the folders should contain the "bank" file used by Starcraft 2 to save data from custom maps

Depending on how many custom maps you've played that save variables you could have anywhere from 1 to any number of folders containing these files.

You really just have to guess. It might be labeled something obvious like "PhantomBan.SC2Bank" but I don't know.
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
November 07 2010 10:38 GMT
#15
That probably doesn't exist...blizzard wouldn't make a trigger just for that...
probably a mapmaker made trigger
Year 2500 Greater Israel ( Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen )
Trang
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia324 Posts
November 07 2010 11:11 GMT
#16
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.
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3615 Posts
November 07 2010 15:49 GMT
#17
On November 07 2010 20:11 Trang wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


aint that what phantoms all about?
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
thekibk
Profile Joined April 2010
United States116 Posts
November 07 2010 17:37 GMT
#18
oh god. you can get banned it phantom too? it's like freakin' dota all over again.
Corn is no place for a mighty warrior!
Nailath
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada4 Posts
November 08 2010 01:39 GMT
#19
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.
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3615 Posts
November 08 2010 04:37 GMT
#20
possibly a lie hes telling so he dont have to unban you
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
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