Ballelma country ban

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 19 Jun 2007, 15:36

For some secret reason there are loads of n00bs coming from Poland that try to ruin the fun at ballelma by starting internals (QWQUU.. - will be fixed soon), impossible levels, stupid balles (survivor tutor1), old/others levels
95% of banned kuskis are from Poland and they usually use proxy so I can't ban their IP and they can reregister under different nick
So if this will countinue I will ban all IPs from Poland from Ballelma
I guess Poland has some elma forums where they've heard of ballelma, let them know teh

Zweq · Post by **Zweq** » 19 Jun 2007, 16:03

lolllllllllllllllllllll :D

berhabdul · Post by **berhabdul** » 19 Jun 2007, 16:08

Can you possibly unban my nick for starting battles? And we can't do anything about these kids that start internals. Solution is one for the starters of abortable battles - 3 such in a week and temporary bans...

wjelo · Post by **wjelo** » 19 Jun 2007, 16:09

good idea! not

Kowal · Post by **Kowal** » 19 Jun 2007, 16:19

Xiphias · Post by **Xiphias** » 19 Jun 2007, 16:31

omg what a situtation

rofl

skint0r · Post by **skint0r** » 19 Jun 2007, 17:16

I thought you were making the battle starter flag thing -- what's the point of banning a country when that's in place?

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 19 Jun 2007, 17:32

this can be done once and that's it
flags are kinda annoying ot update every time and then:)

Kuj2 · Post by **Kuj2** » 19 Jun 2007, 17:43

Not that good. But we have foreseen that, haven't we my Polish mates? When they started to sell that 'Komputer Świat' magazine with Elma we knew there'll be a massive wave of people who aren't pretty well informed about the rules.
YummyYuck...

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 19 Jun 2007, 17:54

sell something with elma?!?
isn't it illegal or smth?

Xiphias · Post by **Xiphias** » 19 Jun 2007, 18:11

milagros wrote:sell something with elma?!?
isn't it illegal or smth?

can't be more illegal than your patching. read the copyrights in the readme.txt file =)

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Crazy · Post by **Crazy** » 19 Jun 2007, 18:27

Sounds really stupid to ban a whole country
There are a lot of great elma players from poland - don't blame them for what their non-elma-educated-brothers do..

This is like what I experienced when I first joined the scene - some kind of hostility towards newbies. Don't we want the scene to expand? Not only do I talk about this thing with Belma.
Belma might be the biggest happening since alo-key patch, or whatever you treaschure, but still we have to help and educate these n00bs instead of chasing them away. That will set the scene in decline..

- Might be stupid me just not getting anything right, feel free to tell me if.. -

eidt: Here's their thread http://www.elastomania.novak.blink.pl/e ... .php?t=581

skint0r · Post by **skint0r** » 19 Jun 2007, 18:39

Don't see any reason to ban whole country either. If the battle starting flag is done, then you just give it to people who knows the rules? Not hard to update that at all when all moderators can give that flag through the site.

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 19 Jun 2007, 19:07

Xiphias wrote:can't be more illegal than your patching.

i guess it can, i didn't update any original elma file (i just downloaded some exe from internet and updated that one), i don't have to follow licence rules at all in this
might be worse selling it along with other original files (.res, ..) of elma

wjelo · Post by **wjelo** » 19 Jun 2007, 19:40

a polish magazine just bought the license and included full version of elma on their cd, dunno whats so strange about it

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 19 Jun 2007, 21:11

wiElOryB wrote:a polish magazine just bought the license and included full version of elma on their cd, dunno whats so strange about it

so how does everybody know about belma then:)

wjelo · Post by **wjelo** » 19 Jun 2007, 21:41

milagros wrote:
wiElOryB wrote:a polish magazine just bought the license and included full version of elma on their cd, dunno whats so strange about it
so how does everybody know about belma then:)

cause Novak advertised it on the biggest polish elma web

ez

milagros · Post by **milagros** » 19 Jun 2007, 23:09

ok i will try to add those startballe flags over the weekend, i hope skint0r will do some nice php where moderators can set teh

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