[2022] Banned from TFP forums, need your help

Originally posted by The Tominator:

Originally posted by mathaniel: Not sure what you are asking here. Why not just make those? They are easy enough. Get a wrench and wrench cars for gas and oil, hit barrels, pumps, all the red barrels, ad nasuem, easy to get glass jars right now`, and cloth/ Coupled with the occasional molotov/pipebomb reward. Then mine and make gunpowder, add mats to make pipe bombs, presto. Plus mine the stuff to make gas, I forget, haven`t done that in ages. Maybe I`m missing your point here.
Both are pretty easy to make even before the first horde. Depending on how you play. Do you play solo? I do and I don`t play without molotovs, but use any handheld explosives as I go for 3 or more piles of Z`s on roaming hordes. That`s an easy 1200+ xp one kill. But am I missing something here?

Mostly my point is this: I want more POI diversity in trader quests. I feel like I'm repeating the same building too many times per tier. There's not enough quest POI variability and I was proposing a potential solution for it.

There's kindof a reason for that. The trader quests have a range limited by their tier- Tier 1 quests try to place quests within like 250-500m, iirc. T2 quests go to 1k, T3 to 2k, and so on. (Numbers might be inaccurate, but you get the idea)

So, when you're doing quests for a trader, At T1 you're getting houses that are right nearby. By T5, there's only a few T5 buildings to begin with, so even with the much larger range of search, it's liable to send you to the same ones several times since there just isn't a lot of variety to begin with.

Doing quests at different traders will, generally, offer you different quest locations, since the POIs nearby are different. Also of note, the game tells you the name of the POI (granted its an internal name) when you are accepting the quest, so if you dont want to repeat quests at a location, just keep track of the names and dont accept quests to places you've been to too often.

Originally posted by Ben1: Is it that abnormal that instead of reading the wall of text from the OP, I want to know why they got banned on the forums? Has to be a reason for that.

Nope, not weird. In the grand scheme of things, in the majority of cases there's a reason, and the person in question try to spin it just about any way that makes them look like the one who has been wronged.

In comparatively rare instances (Like 0.1% of cases or less), there's power abuse by a mod- Or more innocuous reasons that some might think "Well that's not really ban worthy..." But those are exceptions, Not the rule. And even in the latter case of "not really ban worthy", A repeat offender who has been warned 40 times to stop doing a seemingly innocuous thing is still at fault.

So it's not abnormal to be curious what exactly happened.


That said, Discussion of why the OP was banned would be discussion of moderation.. Even the title of the thread is a bit iffy- But since the topic wasn't an "Unban me plz" and just asking someone to make a suggestion in OP's stead, I chose to leave it be, since there isn't any really harm to it. (Other mods might disagree with me on that, iuno.)

So, please keep it to the contents of the posed suggestion for the continuing discussion.