I hear arguments for and against the protection code all the time. The uppers complain they can't keep doing it for mad minutes, and the lowers say without it they'd probably just quit because they can't play. Sure many of these players deserve their punishment, but there is a point where the punishment gets excessive... even when people NEVER learn their lesson.
Think about how long a typical hospitalization attack puts someone in the hospital for. The average hospitalization now is 119 minutes. Without the protection code it was 189 minutes. That's 2 hours with code and 3 without. It's gone up to 522 minutes (almost 9 hours!!)
**. When people complain about online hits that result in 20 minute hospital stays, one 2-hour stay hurts big-time.
It's extremely difficult to limit yourself in dealing out appropriate punishment without being excessive, myself included. Let's face it, when you are mad at someone you want to make them stay in there for a long time. But when does it become excessive? 5 hospitalizations? 20? Until they quit?
I've seen players get 1,987 minutes of hospitalizations in 1 day (which is impossible without stims). You'd figure 33 hours of hospital time would be enough, but the next day they got 1,440 and never logged in again (yes, that's exactly 24 hours of hospital in 1 day). All of this because they hit someone online right when they logged in (of course the rude mails that followed didn't help).
I like the idea of making hospitalizations cost more to perform in exchange for removal of the protection code, but I still think we will have this discussion in another 6 months because it's tough to limit yourself to appropriate punishment without going overboard. That's what the protection code is intended for, so you don't have to make that judgment yourself.
cheetah Wrote:Yep, bc when you can no longer hospitalize someone, your gangmates step in to do it. Which leads to their gangmates stepping in on yours, which leads to a hospital full of people who wouldn't have been there if the code wasn't in place.
I respectfully disagree. Before protection code it was the same issue. You upset someone in another gang and everyone was sucked in even if they weren't involved.
** Ironically, the person who hit for 522 minutes did it again for 428 on the same player right after they stimmed out and complained that it wasn't enough.
