Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-24118302-20131222230602/@comment-24155103-20131222233331

Extremely unlikely, unless you abuse it too much. As of now we don't have any reliable reports whatsoever of people being banned for refreshing.

Now if you refresh fifty times within a minute, that may be an issue, but if you're just avoiding a node every once in a while it shouldn't matter. The main problem is straining their servers by reloading too much data, which is greatly lessened by a good cache size.

The... issue has been dragging on for far too long to do a mass-ban, they might lose somewhere around a quarter to half their players if they do so. So generally speaking, this is an extremely low-risk thing to do.

You're about as likely to be banned for doing this as being banned for playing as a foreigner.