IP Bans?

[Xphifre]

So when you get banned, your key is banned and you can just get another, (atleast, to my knowledge)

What about the people like Spencer who made a website to steal keys? Shouldnt people like him''Ip banned'', so they can't create more keys and do the same thing over and over again?
Does this system already exist? I think its sort of BS if someone does something super bad and they could just use $10 to do it again.

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[Zeblote]

pro tip: changing your IP is easy

[#Ravencroft]

Unplug router for thirty seconds, plug back in, boom you have a new ip.

[AutoBahn]

IMO IP bans are a stupid idea all around for the reasons listed in the above two posts.
It'd be nice if you could see MAC addresses and ban by those instead since it's harder and/or costly to get around that.

[phflack]

the internet shields it's users too much to be able to ban a specific person from the game, without just stopping all new people from joining

[DiceyGrammar]

Unplug router for thirty seconds, plug back in, boom you have a new ip.

doesn't work like that for everyone

[espio100]

My ISP changes my IP like 4 times a day
Hehe...

[Skelesys]

IP bans used to exist in the past and here is why it changed http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=175975.0

[honytawk]

doesn't work like that for everyone

Unless you have paid to get a static IP from your ISP or your ISP has some weird rules, it does work like that.
Maybe not 30 seconds, but given enough time.

[DiceyGrammar]

Unless you have paid to get a static IP from your ISP or your ISP has some weird rules, it does work like that.
Maybe not 30 seconds, but given enough time.

Typically ISPs in my country give a static by default and either don't provide, or charge a premium for a dynamic ip

I didn't say it doesn't work like that, I said it doesn't work like that for everyone

[Headcrab Zombie]

In all the time I've had high speed internet, my IP has only changed like two or three times, and those where times I either moved, or had my internet (the service itself, not just my router) disconnected for a long (several weeks) period of time

[ZSNO]

Unless you have paid to get a static IP from your ISP or your ISP has some weird rules, it does work like that.
Maybe not 30 seconds, but given enough time.

I've had the same IP for the past 5 years at least and we don't pay for static.
Static IPs are not uncommon.

[Pecon]

In fact, most American ISP's now use static IP's by default. As it turns out, we've actually run out of new ipv4 IP addresses. Due to this, all ISP's who know what they are doing are rationing the addresses so they can delay the inevitable need to switch to ipv6.

[#Ravencroft]

Pretty sure most residential IPs are dynamic by default

[Hansome duded]

IP bans are too easy to bypass. I can change my IP every 15 seconds if I consistently changed my router settings. What someone really needs to make is something that places a file somewhere in your steam/computer files, inaccessible without reinstalling the OS/Steam, that track if your computer banned. On top of the ip ban, you also are being tracked and banned by a ban addon. Although this could be exploited to collect personal information if there was a blocklander who modded the addon, making it malicious software.

Don't do this..