Ban
- If you're looking for information on bans from the wiki, see YPPedia:Blocking policy.
A ban is a disciplinary action by an Ocean Master that results in a player not being able to access the game at all. This may be done for various reasons including theft, swearing in public, shouting repeatedly, and "making rude and unsavoury allusions as to the sexual or other propensities of other Pirates."[1]
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[hide]Types of Disciplinary Action
Suspensions
A suspended account is one in which the player is not allowed to play for a set number of days. When the player tries to log in, they receive a message that says, "You must wait X days before you may re-enter the game," where X is the number of days of the suspension. In addition, the suspended player must agree to and retype the condition of his or her suspension in the text box provided. The condition is listed above the text box. It will usually be in the following format, "I agree not to <whatever the offence was>."
If the "Accept" button on this screen does not become enabled when the player types out the condition, either the period of the suspension is not over, or the suspension condition has been mistyped.
The period of a suspension usually ranges from one day to one week in length. Please note that it does not show the exact number of hours until there is less than a day remaining, so if it says 1 day, there can still be more than 24 hours remaining on the suspension.
Permanent Ban
A permanent ban is a ban that lasts forever, unless the Ringers decide to reverse it after receiving a ban plea at banpleading@puzzlepirates.com.
Any subscription time or doubloons that haven't been used at the time of a permanent ban is forfeited. (Subscription time cannot be gifted to or from a banned account.) Subscriptions are automatically canceled in the case of a permanent ban.
Machine Tainting
If a player is banned, either temporarily or permanently, their machine becomes tainted, and cannot be used to create new accounts to get around the ban. The machine will also be unable to use existing or new accounts to play in any other Three Rings games.
How Do I Get Unbanned?
The only way to get a ban reversed is for the banned person to email banpleading@puzzlepirates.com and plead their case.
A petition or complaint will not help in a banning case, nor will getting friends of the player to plead on his or her behalf. Unless specifically invited by the Ringers to do so, it is not appropriate to post in the forum professing innocence or otherwise pleading to be unbanned. It is considered especially poor form for a banned player to create a new account in order to ask about a ban. The extra account will also be banned.
