Sat May 17, 2003 4:33 pm by Hellif
GeneDefect has some almost unstated rules in relation to acceptable names, and even if you pass THOSE rules, he can/will ban you if he thinks you put no thought into your name (or he finds it possibly offensive to the Pope or any Elder of a militant Christian Amish order.. or town.. or something). Hell, he didn't like MY name. I've been using Hellif Ino for about 10 years now, and only used the first portion of it (Hellif) as aplayer on his server. I've not met a single person (other than him) in that time that was offended by my name. Not even random people stopping by JUST to tell me my name is offensive. I even get junk snail mail in that name *L* Was a rude awakening, though. I had been playing along fine, then didn't get to play for like 3-4 days. Finally try to log and find myself banned. Erhm? I wasn't even THERE! What could I have done? >.<
I heard of some guy who was playing along, had been on Seattle based for like 2 weeks, no problems. Then one night he breaks wind while playing. BAM! Suddenly he's disconnected, and finds himself banned when he tries to re-log....
Anyhow, the only way to play there is to get a new Freelancer ID (essentially, reinstall). This trashes all your previous play on any other server, though. Unless you want to bounce around between IDs, that is. I won't play that game. Too many hours invested in other servers.