and why the .... gimp, your boar has no water?!?!?

bit of help from frogy an shall i start notifying the people of a new rule?

Yeah, by now I've protected johans place as safezone and crippled the portals...

I don't know how much you're up to this idea, but you could disable block breaking from creepers to just doing damage to players. I've noticed that Max and his posse lure creepers to bases to bypass the rule of having to claim plots in order to break them. This allows them to take a little damage while breaking down the wall of their enemies.

Just a thought.

hmm, dont really like the thought of that. having creepers blow up in your face is soooo annoying but its a classic part of minecraft . plus tnt cannons are the only other option for griefing then and they take up alot of precious tnt they wont be creeper griefing peoples bases randomly anymore so all should be good