GeoIP Ban

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~~How GeoIP Ban works~~

What this does, is uses and external website that gives us the latitude and longitude from someone's IP.
This makes it rather hard to change your IP and log back into the game being as it is not your IP, but location.
Chaning one's IP would not change their GeoIP. The only way around this is to use proxies. This makes it hard for
most BYONDers. And since proxies can be unreliable and slow (unless paid for) it just makes it that much more worse
to consider.

~~Other information to consider~~

The website we're using also gives you city name, host name, and other information that might be useful in perminately
banning a client from your server. Though GeoIP is the most specific, if you're having problems you may be able to come
up with a stronger method of banning them.

Anyways, hope this works well for you. I've not tested it but on myself, so it may need to be modified if there are any problems.

(Note: This is highly un-accurate. It is more likely to give you the ISP locations, rather than the actual users. Be careful, if used it's recommend only to determine if someone could potentially be another.)