Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26330892-20151228132243/@comment-24108228-20151228205133

This would not end well. Trust me.

The main difficulty in this game is from raiders, who are players with higher tier tools to you that want to destroy your settlement. In doing this, they anger basically every medium-large tribe on the server, and anyone who isn't nomadic or well hidden, which easily constitutes 75% of players. With the votekick, the raider will be lynched by the angry people who just had their stuff burnt, along with all their 2-3 hours work to prepare for their raiding spree, and their ability to play the game again for another 72 hours.

This means all the raiders are going to either be banned from playing, or just too scared to kill anyone. Ignoring the massive issues this causes in terms of the game's difficulty, this will leave only those who don't raid in the game. These people are typically tribal people, farmers, and possibly the occasional friendly soloist (although the vast majority will be of the first category).

This influx in people keen on joining tribes will allow for large tribes, who are big enough to surpass the 75% of players, to come into existance. This creates a whole world of problems, such as tribes being capable of making the "join us or get a 3 day ban" threat mentioned above, or even taking it a step further and making outright slave workers ("make this much in this amount of time or we'll give you a three-day ban").

Frankly, the whole system is flawed. If there's no ban accociated with the votekick, then hackers will just rejoin a couple seconds later. If there is a ban, then tribes can threaten anyone who joins with a ban, unless they join the tribe and make boulders indefinitely. For this to work, we'd need to have some "Trusted Players", who would be given the ability to decide if the person is actually a hacker, or just someone who got on the wrong end of a large tribe. But if you're trusting players, then you might as well call them "Moderators" and give them hacker-finding tools and the ban command.