Does anybody other than me think it's just a little bit extreme to be looking for a person's location in Real Life, merely because their life goal is to hijack the Non-Crappy Region of Canada? I mean, what exactly constitutes "extreme circumstances"?

I don't mean to offend anybody, and I may be getting an entirely wrong idea about all this, but it is a game. Albeit a very involved game.

:shrug:

Hi Comrade, good to see you're still active.


The reasoning behind of a lot of this is that the better invaders tend to be pretty canny about not using identifiable IP addresses. To combat that, you need to try and pin them down further. The point is not to affect them in RL, but to have something which can be cross-matched against known invaders.

I don't say that this is right - I'm simply explaining why it would be done.

We'd need to track them with GPS?

[Thanks for the explanation, though, and for the welcome back!]

Spot on Al :).

Additionally, in some cases, and this has happened historically, real life death threats have been issued to private and personal Email addresses that are not readily available through regular means.
The location of the poster (albeit may be proxy) can be forwarded on to the relevant authorities.

If it crosses international borders it becomes an international incident as is a very serious matter.

In addition, the Canadian Defence Force is a passive defence system. It doesn't involve itself in the troubles of other regions but simply provides a passive defence network (soldiers) to defend the sovereignty of Canada.