After writing the following post, I received a plethora of emails and private messages from players with their own multiplayer experiences, their own stories to tell:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/370164

I have thus decided to name names for the benefit of the few decent people in this game who want an attempt at a decent multiplayer experience.  The purpose of this post is to provide a list of known assholes so that decent people have the option to avoid playing with these people.  Yes, I speak for YOU, and I am doing this for YOUR benefit.  Thus I will need YOUR assistance.

You will provide me, through private message and email, the names of multiplayer assholes who are unsportsmanlike, who are verbal abusers, who boot patiently waiting players (so-called "newbs") so that so-called "pros" can play instead, and who commit any other infraction that most decent people would consider to be beneath the pale.  Furthermore, you will provide for me evidence, in the form of screenshots of chatrooms and pre-game channels, and replays of games.  I in return will post their names here, along with a description of their offense.

Infractions include, but are not limited to:

1) Name calling, verbal abuse, berating another player, belittling another player, cursing another player.

2) Booting another waiting player just so that some well-known "pro" or clansman can cut in line.

Infractions DO NOT INCLUDE the following, because while irritating to some players, they do not constitute a personal attack on another player, and they do not constitute player abuse :

1) AFK.

2) Refusal to quit a game.

3) Exploit abuse or cheating.

Infractions also DO NOT INCLUDE:

1) Someone given the boot UPON GAME ENTRY because the host is waiting for a particular person (note that to qualify for this non-infraction, the boot has to be given within a reasonably short time frame, i.e. a few seconds, not after minutes).

2) Someone given the boot because they are a multiplayer asshole, i.e. their name is on this list.

3) Someone given the boot because the booter has witnessed bad behavior in the bootee in the past and does not want to play with that person (again, the boot must be applied in a relatively short period of time).

You may post players and their behavior here, but it will only be considered "heresay" and not make it onto this official list until evidence has been forthcoming.

I will keep this list updated regularly provided I keep getting emails, private messages, screenshots, game replays, etc.  I am off to review some submissions already, but for now ...

THESE ARE THE ASSHOLES OF A SOLAR EMPIRE.

NAME                 REPORTS  INFRACTIONS              EVIDENCE                              CLAN

Pawelo               2        booter, verbal abuser    personal witness, screenshots
[DT]P5yy             1        verbal abuser            personal witness                      [DT]
[_]-Knewgui          1        booter, verbal abuser    personal witness                      [_]
[_]-Howler           1        booter, verbal abuser    personal witness                      [_]
AlwaysRandom         1        verbal abuser            replay
[DT]Siddy ,          2        verbal abuser            replay, screenshots                   [DT]
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Caius ,              3        booter, verbal abuser    replay, screenshots
Achilles
[_]-BitchesInAction

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