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How to Prevent Stream Sniping
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mindblaster007
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Loka has a donation store... you could offer orbs for protection or a Loka subscription.
Holy heck man I'm a college student I can't afford to pay money for Minecraft protection o.o
mindblaster007
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? I'm confused about what being subscribed to Loka has to do with this. I'm not currently subscribed either
mindblaster007
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IRL Deal
He's saying we use our IRL cash dollar money to bribe defenders
mindblaster007
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What he said...
Mr_Void99
Active Member
Well, let's think about this...
So first, we really can't do anonymous mode because people could just watch the screen to figure out where you are. We also can't give a streamer magical no-PVP powers either, because that would make it unfair to other players who come across them naturally. We also should not tell them to put a stream lag thingy (whatever it is called
) on their stream, because if its too short of a delay (AH! Stream Delay! That's it!) a stream sniper could find their general location, and if it's too long of a delay it could distance the streamer from his viewers.
So here's what I propose. A streamer has to register his stream before starting it up, giving a time of start and a rough time of the end. When the stream is over, or while it is in session the streamer can report a player for stream sniping. (Only streamers that are approved (Way giving to get approved above) can report for stream sniping.) An admin will go onto the stream and watch back to see if the reported is actually stream sniping.
Once they have been found guilty of stream sniping they will be given a one week ban, or slightly shorter; and warned of doing it again. If they do it for say... 3 times they get a month-long ban. If It becomes a recurring issue they should be banned for 3-6 months or a perm ban.
(I think the bans should be this long because the stream sniper is interfering with "advertising" for Loka. If they are allowed to keep doing this and keep killing the streamer, a person isn't going to want to watch the stream and will just leave. Therefore deriving Loka from another potential player.)
So first, we really can't do anonymous mode because people could just watch the screen to figure out where you are. We also can't give a streamer magical no-PVP powers either, because that would make it unfair to other players who come across them naturally. We also should not tell them to put a stream lag thingy (whatever it is called
) on their stream, because if its too short of a delay (AH! Stream Delay! That's it!) a stream sniper could find their general location, and if it's too long of a delay it could distance the streamer from his viewers. So here's what I propose. A streamer has to register his stream before starting it up, giving a time of start and a rough time of the end. When the stream is over, or while it is in session the streamer can report a player for stream sniping. (Only streamers that are approved (Way giving to get approved above) can report for stream sniping.) An admin will go onto the stream and watch back to see if the reported is actually stream sniping.
Once they have been found guilty of stream sniping they will be given a one week ban, or slightly shorter; and warned of doing it again. If they do it for say... 3 times they get a month-long ban. If It becomes a recurring issue they should be banned for 3-6 months or a perm ban.
(I think the bans should be this long because the stream sniper is interfering with "advertising" for Loka. If they are allowed to keep doing this and keep killing the streamer, a person isn't going to want to watch the stream and will just leave. Therefore deriving Loka from another potential player.)
How would you catch people for stream sniping? I would argue this even gives streamers a form of PVP immunity, who wants to stalk a streamer from spawn or find them in the wild to kill if they could get accused for stream sniping and get punished. There's no reliable way to track a stream sniper, even if you tried to look at stream stats to work out who's watching the sniper could go incognito or log out so there's no account being used to watch it and they can't be track. Maybe if you could have a replay of the area as things happen and then clearly see someone is stream sniping but this method feels too unreliable to be the big fix to the issueWell, let's think about this...
So first, we really can't do anonymous mode because people could just watch the screen to figure out where you are. We also can't give a streamer magical no-PVP powers either, because that would make it unfair to other players who come across them naturally. We also should not tell them to put a stream lag thingy (whatever it is called
So here's what I propose. A streamer has to register his stream before starting it up, giving a time of start and a rough time of the end. When the stream is over, or while it is in session the streamer can report a player for stream sniping. (Only streamers that are approved (Way giving to get approved above) can report for stream sniping.) An admin will go onto the stream and watch back to see if the reported is actually stream sniping.
Once they have been found guilty of stream sniping they will be given a one week ban, or slightly shorter; and warned of doing it again. If they do it for say... 3 times they get a month-long ban. If It becomes a recurring issue they should be banned for 3-6 months or a perm ban.
(I think the bans should be this long because the stream sniper is interfering with "advertising" for Loka. If they are allowed to keep doing this and keep killing the streamer, a person isn't going to want to watch the stream and will just leave. Therefore deriving Loka from another potential player.)
Mr_Void99
Active Member
I was trying to say that if a person keeps coming after the streamer multiple times they would be banned. A way to tell would be to see if the streamer is moving around and the stream sniper keeps appearing to fight him. An example would be say... @NerdieBirdieYT running across Garama and a person keeps appearing even though Nerdie is moving around a lot.
This is more circumstantial than anything, while it seems obvious to conclude that they're stream sniping, there still isn't exactly a very good standard of proof we can reach to punish someone for that.
Mr_Void99
Active Member
True but, like @Evil_X has said "Maybe if you could have a replay of the area as things happen and then clearly see someone is stream sniping but this method feels too unreliable to be the big fix to the issue"
There is no reliable way to tell if they are stream sniping, I was just giving what I thought could be used to help prevent at least some stream snipers.
That's what I was thinking. Honestly, a stream of exploring ruins sounds more boring than a stream of building. They both rely on community interaction to be interesting but building at least showcases creativity.