I think that we can reduce this punishment for this infraction. He was given a 5 minute timeout last night for the intentional TK of Gomer.
I also warned the server against destroying team equipment. This is not allowed.
Here is the fine hair we are splitting concerning leeching:
I consider running off to some corner and not fighting, not contributing to be leeching. Noobie was indeed building equipment. This equipment could have been used by his team to counter the large number of ranged and especially Horse Xbow that run around nowadays. He didn't run off by himself, they ran away from him and his siege shields. His equipment was destroyed by his teammate. If he uses it to spawn a weapon, it was not his fault and I should have kicked his teammate for it. But instead of reporting it to me, he TK'd and earned his 5 minute break instead.
I don't see very much, if any, difference between what he was doing, and the people who always call "Experience Barn!" or "Camp the Boat!". (You know the maps that I mean). Inevitably on those maps, some people camp (leech?) in the "experience barn" or that Ice boat while the rest of their team is slaughtered. (There are several other maps with little buildings where a few people run off and hide, live to the last, but 95% of the time their team loses. In those cases they call themselves "defending")
He did indeed behave for the rest of the night. (no kudos Noobie, everyone behaves with the cop standing there)
@Noobie - While technically people are allowed to use their own playstyles, without your teams cooperation it isn't effective. We are apparently allowing HX or Archers who run away while outnumbered 10-1 to be poll kicked, even if they are technically fighting by constantly shooting. The guideline being that if 51% of the server feels your playstyle is essentially griefing them all, then the poll is valid.
The Golden Rule for us to use common sense, and to promote an atmosphere that allows the greatest number of people to have fun. When half the server agrees that a single players choice of playstyle is making it not fun, then please use common sense and find another playstyle that is fun for you as well as everyone who is waiting for the next round to begin.
In short, find another way to play that doesn't aggravate the rest of the server population. If you can agree, even if you think it isn't entirely fair, then I would give my vote to go ahead and lift the ban and let you go on your way.
But I am not convinced that you are merely a victim of your playstyle either. I do suspect that some leeching by you does occur. Let's make that idea go away.
