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Windows Dedicated Server - Part 6

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Banning Players

If there is a player logged into your game that you never want to play with ever again because they are being a jerk or are ruining your game experience, then you can ban that player from ever joining your game again. To do this click on the players "Player Name" in the player list described above and then click on one (or more) of the available "Ban" buttons. You can then also remove the player from the game immediately by clicking on the "Boot" button. If you ban a player from your server, the next time that the player tries to log into your server they will receive a message that states "You have been banned" and they wont be able to log in.

Ban Name - This will ban the selected player from your game by banning their "Player Name". If the banned player decides to create a new "Player Name" using their account, then the will be able to join your server using their new Player Name, but not the old name that you banned.

Ban CD - This will ban the selected player from your game by banning their CD-Key. So even if the player creates a new "Player Name" using their account they still wont be able to log into your game if you ban them by this method. If the banned player has more than one copy of the game, then they could use their other CD-Key and log back into your game.

Ban IP - This will ban the selected player's IP Address. No players that share this IP Address will be able to log back into your game. It is possible for more than one person to use the same IP Address, so banning the player's IP Address may also ban other players from playing in your game as well. It is also possible for a player to have more than one IP Address, so if they are using another IP Address they will still be able to log into your game (of course you can then ban that IP Address too).

Boot - This will immediately remove the selected player from your game. They will receive a message stating "You have been booted".

Unbanning Players

If you ban a player by mistake, you can unban them by editing your nwnplayer.ini file.

After shutting down the server, open the nwnplayer.ini file in notepad. Look for the headings "[Banned Ips]", "[Banned Players]" and "[Banned CD Keys]". The players that you have banned will be listed under these headings. Remove the entries for the player that you want to unban from the nwnplayer.ini (and renumber the entries properly) then save the changes. Then the next time that you launch your server the player will be able to log in again. You will have to renumber the ban entries so that they follow a proper sequence.

e.g. to unban Dups you would change the following text:

[Banned Players]
0=Craig Welburn
1=Dups
2=Andrew Gardner

to

[Banned Players]
0=Craig Welburn
1=Andrew Gardner

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