it seems to me the simplest abuse of this could be removed with a slight tweak to the master server synchronisation. like this: if a player disconnects, their last status is retained, then that is synchronised with the master db next time the server gets round to it. there should probably be a safety net with timestamps in case the server is very slow and the player has already joined another server since disconnecting. of course there'd be ways around this, but it would deal with the most casual, alt + f4 after death, thing.
