Lets bring something up that hasn't been mentioned in a while. When you install paintball you check a box to show that you accept the terms of the License Agreement. If you do not accept these terms then you can not install the game, with the set up .exe anyways. I'm sure a lot of you haven't read it, but that is your own fault.
Paintball 2 (c) 1998-2012 Digital Paint -
http://www.digitalpaint.org/DO NOT CHEAT
Plain and simple. By installing, using, or owning a copy of Paintball2, you agree not to use any cheats or modify the game executable or content in order to gain an unfair advantage while playing against human opponents. Doing so will result in banishment from public servers, disqualification from competitions, and/or legal prosecution. Digital Paint reserves the right to scan your computer for modified game content and known cheat utilities during the operation of Paintball2. While the GPL grants the ability to freely modify the game engine, use of unofficial or modified engines on public servers will likely result in a ban. This is necessary to keep the game fair and cheat-free. You are responsible for other players on your computer and/or network. We will not lift a ban simply because somebody else was cheating on your connection. Digital Paint also reserves the right to generate and store unique identifiers using components of your computer's hardware. This is done using irreversible hashing algorithms. No direct data about your hardware is transferred or stored. This is necessary to hardware-based bans to keep evasive cheaters off of the servers.
DO NOT HARASS OTHER USERS
Repeating annoying phrases, degrading or belittling other users, intentionally killing teammates, impersonating other users, and other forms of harassment are also grounds for banishment. Extreme cases may result in legal action. Using this software means you agree to abstain from such behavior.
REDISTRIBUTION
Short: You may redistribute the game as it is currently packaged so long as you don't make money from it.
Long: Permission is granted to redistribute this game and its media so long as there is no monetary gain for the complete package or the media. The Paintball2 game engine must be distributed under the terms of the GPL (GNU General Public License), which basically states that you can modify and distribute the program so long as you also make the source code including your changes available. For more details read gnu.txt in the Docs directory or visit gnu.org. If you wish to distribute any of the media (textures, models, etc.) independently or within another package, please contact the author of that particular media (most likely jitspoe) for permission.
DISCLAIMER
This software is provided "as-is." We make no guarantees as to how, or even if, it will function. If it screws up your computer, you can't sue us. We don't make any money off of this, so suing us wouldn't do you any good anyway. The most we can do is refund the $0 you spent on this software.
Digital Paint does not have direct control over game servers and thus cannot take responsibility for how they are managed, however if you have any issues with the way a server is run, you can post a complaint on the digitalpaint.org forums and it can likely be resolved.
This agreement is subject to change. Digital Paint retains all rights to all products relating to Digital Paint: Paintball 2, and rights to all products which are designed for use in conjunction with Digital Paint: Paintball 2.
All right. So it starts with DO NOT CHEAT. That is the first thing mentioned on the License Agreement. It is even placed in all capitalized letters so that it will grab your attention easier. It does not state ban time length and it does so for good reason.
If you're supplying a game that people can enjoy for free then you're giving them something that people had to make, which takes time. Time is money. When you work a job, you're being paid for something that in one way or another required someones time to be used. The game is available for free. They're using their time for your benefit when they could be using it for themselves. There are around 200,000 player accounts. Even if they're multiple accounts, that is 200,000 times that someone visited the website and made an account to play the game. This is after the account wipe. That means that 200,000 times some one wanted to play this game. If 1% of those times occurred in some correspondence request or action request with jitspoe, that is 1,000 times some one wanted him to give up his time for them. That is only 1%.
There are around 70 active bans and hundreds of expired ones. Even if it only takes jitspoe a few seconds to ban someone, thats several hours he's already donated to us all. This is not counting any development of the game, website, or dplogin system. This is also not counting the time involved answering questions as to why YOUR PUNISHMENT FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS is so.
I've said this a lot lately. STOP DEMANDING that some one else give some thing of theirs up simply because YOU broke a rule that YOU AGREED to abide by and don't like the consequences of YOUR OWN actions. I don't believe that I can make that any clearer, nor can I believe how many people are so selfish as to DEMAND THAT SOMEONE ELSE GIVE THEM THEIR TIME WHEN YOU WOULD NOT ABIDE BY AN AGREEMENT THAT YOU MADE. I have spent quite some time preparing this post. You're welcome.
