(What does it take to) Getting banned

[Rattie]

I sometime hear about people (on this forum) getting banned from the game / the game server. Sometimes for a limited amount of time. And in other cases permanently.

Assuming people are playing the game as it was intended, what does it (actually) take to get banned? What are the criterias? I failed finding these, so I am keen to know.

I have *touch wood* never had to experience this, despite I have been making occasional kock-ups (misspelled on purpose). I am of course forever grateful that the moderators have been this lenient on me... And I actually do my best to avoid mistakes. Although I am only human... 🫣

[Mikos]

Asking too much questions about the shady rules is one of the criteria...





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[BigVern]

The first rule of Fight Club... applies!

I think generally so long as you act in a mature and responsible manner, for most of us there's nothing to worry about.

Drive your train sensibly and try to avoid passing a signal at red. Don't abandon your train when it should be moving, though I think these days the bot steps in fairly quickly.

Don't mess players about if you're signalling and if you want to learn a particular signalbox, pick one of the dead servers to do it (another reason why we need to be able to do signalling in SP).

Also I think, don't abuse the chat feature,

Edited January 21 by BigVern

[chancellor]

Inappropriate behaviour when communicating with others can be one.
Repeated trolling while signalling or doing it not according to the priorities. While driving, blocking the traffic by not moving according to the current speed limit (going 20 km/h on a 120 km/h section for example). Usually, one can get kicked for singular cases of those I believe. 

Now, those punishments will be apply sooner on PL3. Since it is the highest populated server, you can receive the most reports for people like that and the moderation seems to also be in higher numbers.