User blog comment:Funk1983/EE or not to EE/@comment-5450408-20120918123808/@comment-5429934-20120919205520

Agreed. They are definitely abused in an SMP environment. It's like anything - a hammer can be used to build a house or kill your neighbor.

As soon as one of our players discovered a ring that would strike other players with lightning, within a few minutes everybody had them and all you heard while you were playing was lightning strikes, and all the forests were on fire because of it. That (and the nuclear winter with our former admin) was what got everything banned on our server.