Dealing with people getting free gear from other servers

[Wotuu 11]

Hi,

I'm the server admin of a server with no starting gear. My server is connected to all other Vilayer servers through their hive. There are however, a bunch of servers (public) that give everyone full gear upon spawning. So what happens (or what I think that happens / happened before), people die on my server, join that one to get full gear back, then come back to my server. Since the server I run is fairly popular compared to the rest, they will rather stay on my server instead.

Now, how do I deal with this? I can spot this kind of behaviour through the logs, but I don't have time to constantly watch the logs. I could write a program that also deals with it, but that takes time which I don't have at the moment. I also don't want to set this in the server rules, not to give anyone ideas that this is possible (I only just found out this was possible through a Reddit comment!). Anyone caught doing this receives a permanent ban from me. (Someone logging in with starter kit, and coming back with full gear 5 minutes later can't be a legit player, and either way is behaviour I do not want on my server.)

Any ideas?

Thank you

[SmashT 10907]

You really can't, it comes with using a shared hive. Go private. You have no way of knowing how they got that gear (if it was through starting loadouts or by simply having them stored in a tent on another server)

Edited January 22, 2013 by smasht_AU

[Insaneo 65]

I didnt think it was possible to change the starter load out on a public hive server? But saying that i cant remember the last time i joined a public server as the last time i did it seemed like it was a hacker vs hacker server

[SmashT 10907]

I didnt think it was possible to change the starter load out on a public hive server? But saying that i cant remember the last time i joined a public server as the last time i did it seemed like it was a hacker vs hacker server

It's a shared private hive that all Vilayer servers connect to.

Edited January 22, 2013 by smasht_AU

[boxman80 964]

You could white list and warn people that it's against server rules and they will get banned for doing it. Other than that I dont think there's a lot you can do.

[Wotuu 11]

Thanks for the insights. I'll keep it the way it is for now, and see if it brings in problems when people start doing it regularly. If it does, I may consider going private then.