*If* any amount of scripting is allowed on portal/ regular servers, it'll probably be ported straight from existing community scripts from 4 by the community itself, or someone will set up a third-party site to coordinate just that if there's any kind of stat tracking API (which there more than likely will be).
Don't think Dice/EA need to do anything outside of their own official servers, and i assume they already have a unified ban list.
As for abusive admins, there's always going to be those as long as there's community-run servers, but i'd rather take "ok, this server has a muppet admin, not coming back here" vs finding a few well-run servers with constant admin presence and sticking to those compared to having an admin available on "official" servers once in a blue moon.
Just a disclaimer, this is pure speculation on my part, but before BF1 (aka, when we still had a majority of community-run servers) we had just what the OP's asking about, see no reason why it wouldn't reappear if we get community-run servers again.
Since BF portal servers will just 'vanish' when the last person on the server leaves, I don't think this makes a lot of sense.
Also think of the various consequences: people copying someone's' name to get them banned etc.
@infantrypeasant wrote:Since BF portal servers will just 'vanish' when the last person on the server leaves, I don't think this makes a lot of sense.
You save the settings and banlist.
When you restart the server Its all back.
I think Its a great idea to share banlists.
