I mean I think @Kent has a couple of good points there too
While I agree that there have been a couple of false-positives.
The truth is… so far I haven’t really seen many of them on this forum…
Take for example Edu’s base over there… he knows I liked that base, said this many times I think it was amazing
However… would I allow it on my server?.. I would probably allow ONE… or TWO of those types of bases… because I can be picky and give my friends privileges on my own server… no more though… if everyone built like that on a high populated server I have to be honest, I would wipe them too… and in the case of Funcom, they can’t really show any favoritism. (contrary to them though, I would talk to the people and even offer them database exports… - this is where I believe @Kikigirl and a lot of others are 100% right)
On top of that… was it malicious though? Did he deserve a ban for it?.. Absolutely no! I even started a topic if you remember with a suggestion that Funcom should allow you to transfer your base to single-player before wiping you.
Wasn’t very popular as you can see, kinda got lost among all the threads
(another point I think they should handle differently… if they ban someone they should give them a very good explanation as to why and not just blanket-ban people as “part of the procedure”)
I’ve been saying this in many threads, I think they’re finally going in the right direction though. The new ingame reporting features are a very good sign… they should get rid of Zendesk or integrate it into that system so it’s no longer possible to submit anonymous reports.
Even then, like Edu said above… if they don’t check the bases before wiping and go based on screenshots… what’s stopping me from building an enormous abomination in single player… taking a picture and telling them it’s your base just to get you wiped?
That’s why there needs to be an ingame system that gives them additional data… Who reported it… on what server… in fact they should be required to initiate the report from a radial menu off of something belonging to the offending player so the admins have at least the slightest idea what’s going on and it’s not just based on somebody saying something.
But while some features could be added to make it easier (such as a proper reporting system) like we pointed out so many times… this is an admin problem… this is not a game coding problem… you can type all the code you want… nothing short of some miraculous AI would be able to solve admin problems in an automated fashion. It’s not something building limits or blocking off building access can really solve.