Alternative for banning some...

Ok, we have all seen players out there who are hell bent on being mischievous causing all kinds of havoc as they violate certain rules of the game. You know, those who lure World bosses into towns to cause mass slaughter, who scam, who cheat, who cause griefing, etc. (name your rule violation).

A lot of those people put a lot of time and effort into their toons and sometimes do such things either out of boredom, showing off, petty personal enrichment, or just personal entertainment. I think outright banning in many of these circumstances is just a tad extreme for being mischievous so I came up with an idea for an alternative to a ban:

Create a new instance called 'The Perfect World Jail.'

It can work like this. An offender busted for violating a rule is sentenced to serve a certain number of hours in this instance before being let back out into society. The instance I envison is similar to room 11 (Bored) of the cube but bigger and includes the colored balls of room 5 (count the apples) which has physical and elemental immunity.

When an offender is ported into the room the countdown timer doesn't start until s/he is off the spawn platform and into the main part of the room where those colored balls are slowly roaming about. If the player returns to the patform the countdown timer stops and for each second they are on the platform 2 seconds are added to their sentence. If the player gets within aggro range of the balls (like 4 meters or so) they get one shot and ports back to the spawning platform and has a penalty - 1 minute added to their sentence. The point of the balls is to prevent serving the sentence AFK by forcing the player to move about.

Make the room PK disabled to prevent griefing other inmates.

There could also be an NPC there that offers silly, very redundant quests like digging chests (takes 60 seconds to dig) and giving him a 'fractal stone' that reduces the sentence by 10 seconds or so. Make it boring yet give a benefit.

Other requirements could be that when a player is released from jail s/he must pay the elder of the nearest town a fine (amount based on the level of the character) within a certain amount of time or be forced to return to jail for half the time of their original sentence. Once they are released again they are free of any fines or jail until they get busted reoffending again.

The point of this is to grief the offender in an attempt to modify their bad behavior yet allowing them to keep their hard earned character.

For repeat offenders the sentences can be doubled or tripled. 4th offense can be a ban.

Only GMs can sentence offenders to jail. Complaints are made the same as they are now.. submitting a ticket with a screen shot of the offender committing the offense as evidence or a GM catching them in the act.

Some offenses I would still consider bannable such as hacking, trying to steal account info. etc. but those are beyond mischief though.

Just an idea..