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Here you can create and manage your different blacklists and the players that have been sent into them.

Managing blacklists

A blacklist contains a collection of bans (temporary and/or permanent), a list of servers to which they apply and a sync method.

By default, CRCON comes with a unique Default blacklist.

You can use it as your unique one, throwing all the bad guys in there, whatever the reason they deserve to be in.

This has a drawback, though :
As each blacklist can only have one action (Kick Only, Ban On Connect, Ban Immediatly), and only one broadcast option (enable on all servers activated or not), all the players will be threated the same, whatever they did.

So if you want some of the blacklisted guys to be Kick Only and others to be Ban Immediatly, or if you don't want to apply your #server1 blacklist to your #server2, you'll have to create different blacklists.

Name

You can choose any blacklist name. Even the Default one can be renamed.

Action

Available : Kick Only, Ban On Connect, Ban Immediatly

It's always better to let the player know why he has been banned, so he may not come on Discord to ask.
Setting the blacklist on Kick Only allows him to get the message each time he tries to enter the server.
As a drawback, the player will occupy a queue slot on each try.

[!WARNING]
Any method besides Ban Immediately will allow a player to connect and play if your CRCON is not running, so if this is a concern to you, you should choose Ban Immediately.

Kick Only

A player can join the queue and then will be kicked when they connect to the game server.
This provides full flexibility with ban reason formatting and is highly recommended if you commonly enable or disable the blacklist from specific servers.

	Instant kick	Enter the queue next time	See reason message
Player on server	Yes	Yes	On each try
Player offline		Yes	On each try

Ban On Connect

A player can join the queue and will then be banned (either temporary or permanent based on the type of ban you applied when you created it) when they connect to the game server.

	Instant kick	Enter the queue next time	See reason message
Player on server	Yes	No	Only one time
Player offline		Yes	Only one time

Ban Immediatly

The ban will immediately be propagated to the game server.
This makes it significantly less likely for players to slip through due to temporary connection hiccups, and they will not be able to queue.
However, they won't ever be able to see the ban reason, unless they were online at the time of being blacklisted.
This method is not recommended if you intend to commonly edit the blacklist or any of its bans.

	Instant kick	Enter the queue next time	See reason message
Player on server	Yes	No	Only one time
Player offline		No	Never

Servers

If you manage more than one game server in your CRCON, you can share the blacklists between them, either choosing them one by one, either enabling the Enable on all servers switch.

It could be useful NOT TO share them if you manage a public server and an event server : you may have to accept blacklisted players on the second one.

If you have shared the Kick Only blacklists on your public server, you still can let the blacklisted players to enter your servers by disabling the BLACKLISTS service in Settings / Services.

Players who are on a Ban blacklist won't be allowed to enter, even when the service is disabled.
You'll have to clear their bans if you want to allow them to enter.

Managing blacklisted players

Create a new record

Clicking on the Create a new record button will display a blacklist selection list.
If you have more than one, select the one you want to send the player in.

Then you'll have to fill the form :

• player's ID (mandatory)
• expiration date (an empty date means "forever")
• the reason why he's blacklisted (either manual or reasons template)

Editing a blacklisted player entry

Clicking on the edit button of a blacklisted player entry will allow you change :

• the blacklist he's in
• the blacklisting expiration date (an empty date means "forever")
• the reason why he has been blacklisted (either manual or reasons template)

You also can expire the blacklisting at once (the record will remain) or delete it.
The linked bans should be cleared on the game server(s).