i put on an act. "im the best" "g i a" and all that. i've got the worst gaming set up now. i downgraded my gfx card so that the computer wasn't so noisy. i have these tinny little speakers. gone are the days where i shoot for heads - i'm lucky to hit feet now. so yeh, while i come across arrogant, i'm playing it up for reaction - and often i get one - like when i got kicked last night by some random.
I'd make a terrible fit here as admin. m8 i'm too liberal. i donated once, and i might again.
but on topic...
you cannot stop the serial pest without serious disruption to the server.
there are options:
- ban his entire subnet. it would involve banning a large part of bigpond queensland.
- introduce a player registration system (like internode did in it's dying days)
- continue to ban him whenever you can. unfortunately, this involves an admin willing to police it, which honestly hardly ever happens. most OZ just want to play.
!warns are ineffective, because ultimately the punishment is a guid ban, which he easily bypasses and reconnects within seconds.
when i was orcon admin, I did the policing thing, and the following sort of works.
the most painful ban for him is an ip address ban, because it involves him having to reset his modem for a fresh ip address.
eventually this causes him to give up and move on.
for players without admin rights, note the following
if you confront him, he name steals you, then tks others, then makes you get the blame by imitating other "annoyed" players.
do absolutely nothing. as hard as that is to do...
he team bleeds you in the back down to 25hp. do nothing. let him tk you. change teams if you can. do not confront him. do not speak to him. do not "wtf???" him. do nothing.
do not discuss him to others. do not talk about him if he leaves. do not talk to your friend about him.
his goal is conflict, and confrontation, and attention. deny him this and he moves on to an easier target.
there will always be someone else that will react. dont be that person and you will not be the target.