Well Snakebite, I have read lots of your posts and disagreed with you on some things but I can completely understand your frustration on this one. This really needs taking in hand and players in open need to realise how destructive (and quite frankly the worst kind of bad sportsmanship) this practice is.
Right, restrictions on the kind of ambitious evolving multiplayer experience they wanted to build (great!)......on top of a crippled peer to peer netcode (not great!) <headdesk>