Teaming.

[Ping Ether]

As you all might know, teaming is NOT allowed.
This is not really that old of a change, the rules were updated to disallow this behavior back in July. Of 2016.
Now, I must say, I was at the start pretty positive about this change.
Truth be told though, after a while playing, it didn't take me so long to realize that people were still teaming... if not more than before... And the constant spam of "[xXUsernameGamerXx] pls team?" in chat is still present.

"But hey, it's a punishable offence!"
Well, valid point, but the punishment is not stackable. While I do like the fact that it's just a day, it being non-stackable means one could team over and over and.... over. Now that doesn't happen commonly, but it still means, the punishment is always, no matter what, one day. People really don't want to bother reporting someone for teaming as they know, they'll keep doing it again, which is a shame.

Thinking about teaming: It's a valid strategy. Bow spamming? It's allowed, because "it's a strategy." Camping? (not skybasing) oh well, if it's for "tactical purposes" it's stil... "a strategy."
Lava spamming? It's annoying and takes no skill, without considering, it's incredibly powerful. "Hah lol strategy."
So now I'd like to know why bowspamming, lava-spamming, and certain forms of camping are a "strategy" while teaming is not, and is even a BANNABLE OFFENCE. It's always been a part of the game since the beginning of multiplayer minigames.

Now just some FAQs 'cause I know, you will have loads of them.
"omg r u stupid u dum idiot" Well, possibly.
"Teaming is too unfair!" You say it like camping and placing lava everywhere isn't.
"I can't fight two players at once!" Who says you can't team yourself or that they won't end up overwhelming and killing themselves? (It always happens to me lol)
"How about cross team?" That doesn't happen as often as solo teaming and it's way less efficient as your teammates might not agree with the teaming or could end up killing them without knowing of the truce.

Now, with the actual suggestion itself, put into fewer lines.
Allow teaming in solo gamemodes. If not, disallow camping, bowspamming and lava spamming.
Or just make punishments stackable.

I know it might sound stupid, or weird. But you're just cutting off a whole part about playing skywars.

 

[Mr_Riolu_]

I don't like the idea of teaming, but I do like the idea of punishing campers and spammers. I agree with this idea of the game, still not allowing teamers.

 

[Ping Ether]

I don't like the idea of teaming, but I do like the idea of punishing campers and spammers. I agree with this idea of the game, still not allowing teamers.

Uhm, thanks for giving a reason why you don't like teaming....

 

[Baploon]

I think that teaming is a strategy anymore because you can walk 20 block to the right to play team mode...

 

[Mr_Riolu_]

Uhm, thanks for giving a reason why you don't like teaming....

No problem ^-^ but for real, teaming will make it annoying for people who want to play alone in a SOLO game. Also imagine the whole lobby teaming up on you.

 

[Max ♠]

Lava spamming? It's annoying and takes no skill, without considering, it's incredibly powerful. "Hah lol strategy."

Good lava spam does take skill :3

Tbh, by this logic, there should be a plugin just banning everyone that logs onto the server. (Unless they play blockband I guess..)

 

[Ping Ether]

I'm already regretting this xD
I'd just like to see some other people's view on this before locking it tho ;-;

 

[Power Ranger]

Teaming is too unfair!" You say it like camping and placing lava everywhere isn't

The problem with this statement is lava buckets and camping is a strategy available to every player who plays the game while teaming is not making those strategies actually fair while teaming is still not.

"I can't fight two players at once!" Who says you can't team yourself or that they won't end up overwhelming and killing themselves? (It always happens to me lol)

To gives couple examples of where teaming would not be an option against other teams or just a very low chance is
1. The other team has eliminated every other player on the map except you <- this happens a ton and can even be seen in my "Best Skywars Win" video just as an example.
2. You are a muted player and ant ask anyone to team.
3. You are a player who has chat turned off as you find it offensive or maybe its just limited by your parents.
4. Every other solo player simply doesn't want to team making teaming impossible.
5. No one in the game speaks your language and cannot understand that you are trying to team with them.
Those are only a couple examples I could think off the top of my head but there are probably other reason why you wouldn't be able to team.

 

[Ping Ether]

The problem with this statement is lava buckets and camping is a strategy available to every player who plays the game while teaming is not making those strategies actually fair while teaming is still not.


To gives couple examples of where teaming would not be an option against other teams or just a very low chance is
1. The other team has eliminated every other player on the map except you <- this happens a ton and can even be seen in my "Best Skywars Win" video just as an example.
2. You are a muted player and ant ask anyone to team.
3. You are a player who has chat turned off as you find it offensive or maybe its just limited by your parents.
4. Every other solo player simply doesn't want to team making teaming impossible.
5. No one in the game speaks your language and cannot understand that you are trying to team with them.
Those are only a couple examples I could think off the top of my head but there are probably other reason why you wouldn't be able to team.

Now that, is really interesting. Thanks so much for the post :3
I guess making teaming allowed is not a possibility, but maybe making punishments stackable is. Anyway, at this point, I think everyone will reply with the same message over and over again, I guess this served as an "experiment" of some sort.
Might come back on this subject later, but for now, I'll ask for a lock. @YounB ? :3

 

[Younisco]

Locked, as requested.