[RussEfarmer]

I am not, nor should the staff, have to continually deal out longer and longer bans for basic rule breaking issues.

I think you misunderstand.. I'm not saying increase the number of bans a player needs to get to a "permanent ban", I'm saying just replace the permanent ban with long temporary bans. There's no extra effort required for staff other than changing the option in the menu from permanent to one year. I can almost guarantee that if we retroactively reduce/unban older bans made years ago for stuff like ghosting, racism etc, the volume of players we'd see that WERE banned returning to do the same thing as opposed to brand new players breaking the rules would be absolutely tiny.

Speaking of which.. for prophunt, I would especially like if old ghosting bans were removed. I personally banned over 100 people for ghosting, with other staff members tallying several hundred more, when back then, there was no warning or force swap or 2 week ban for ghosting. When you got caught ghosting, you immediately got permabanned.