Also: Banline
Lines of floating yellow lines or red letters (viewer dependent) spelling out “no entry” that appears on the boundaries of a land parcel that your avatar is not allowed to enter. Typically trying to enter a parcel with banlines creates the message "Only members of a certain group can enter…" or "Can not region cross into banned parcel…" Also you might read that you have been banned from all levels of the parcel. The banlines appear like a wall and your movement is stopped immediately.
Especially for aviators banlines can cause serious trouble. The vehicle gets stuck, depending on the settings pilot drops from the plane and/or loses control.
There are two types of banlines:
- The "whitelist" banline: Acces is only allowed to a specific group or specific avatars. In such a case the height of the banlines is 50 metres, to be added to the level of terrain. So banlines on a 50m altitude terrain reach up to 100 metres etc. An aviator can fly over the banline cage, if he is high enough.
- The "blacklist" ban: Specific avatars are caged out. In this case the banlines reach up to a level of 5000 metres. This is above the height you can build skyboxes.
In general, parcel owners should consider if they really need such a restrictive access policy. Aviators touch a parcel for seconds, and have no interest to peek into a bedroom. Stalkers and noobs unwilling to learn can be seperately banned.
Another very bad thing is the wrong use of security orb: If set to a short warn time, these orbs often kick a person immediately and in addition to that "blacklist-ban" the avatar automatically, often infinitely. That way, even on parcels whose owners don't appear anymore, ban list can fill and contain up to 300 avatars, only for once having touched the parcel borders.