Completely understood, Crook.
I did read, and no disregard or offense to your proposal, but if Inno is not going to give man-hours and dollars to implementing much more simple and common sense suggestions, they're not going to dedicate man-hours and dollars to monitoring IP addresses.
A couple analogies I'd reference is:
** The shoplifter that doesn't consider it stealing until they caught;
** The Jumping Frog of Calavares County by Mark Twain.
A town was so "christian" and moral, every citizen carried a town coin that reads "Lead us not into temptation"
A con man shows up, turns the town upside down, and leads them all into temptation.
Every citizen in town is ready to kill each other.
At the end of the book, the coin is changed to "Lead us into temptation", as in, so we can be tested in fire and judged as to our high morals if still true to them.
I see your proposal not being accepted by Inno as not wanting to lead the players of their game into temptation.
If my analogies make any sense.....