OK, I waited for my "adoring" public to speak but never mind, I will.
* Does not allow cheesy methods of non-consensual PVP (such as gate camping). Odd you would mention gate camping which is a far less prevelant and easier to dodge than dock camping. Dock camping is allowed on my server but with fairness caveats - wait 5 secs after a victim undocks (let's the shields stabilize) and no dock camping for more than a half and hour.
* Has a mechanism for players to report other abusive players (and punishes them appropriately). Server officials, certain trusted oldtimers (I have some oldtimers, the server has been around 10 months!) and lots of checking by me. Abusive players, cheaters, any rule breakers get one final warning before permenant banning.
* Never goes down. I assume you mean besides other than normal reasons (server maintenance, flserver restarts, M$ updates, etc.) and the server is 24/7. My server is 24/7 but has a small problem with an intermittant flserver crash (FLSO restarts flserver quickly) but its frequency has been reduced. Used to be about once a day but seems to be once a week now. That's less frequency than the auto-maintenance which occurs every 48 hrs.
* Never deletes all their player accounts. Hehe! I would think this is a given! No, Boston has never lost all their accounts. We do have auto-maintenance where if you play less than a minute or haven't played in more than 90 days, your character gets deleted. This is to ensure the burden on the FL admin tools and indirectly on the players playing is not too large (currently Boston has 1846 characters with this auto-maintenance in effect - about 40 characters are deleted every 2 days but 60 new characters are created in the same time).
* Never lags. I defy ANY server to not lag when at or near full! Boston lags near full but mostly it's yellow lag.
* Always has a lot of other people to play with. This is the number one reason all players pick the server they want to play the most on. My server now has a good and constant following.
* Always has free player slots. In my opinion you cannot have the above but have free player slots! My server though usually has slots open. Weekend nights EST are the highest activity times though.
Does such a server (or something close to it) exist? I think Boston is close.
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Earendil
SysAdmin of Boston Freelancer server
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