I would like to suggest adding white lists for non ban evading players accounts IDs to connect with VPN while the restriction is on.
More and more often I am finding myself not being able to connect to the server, because protection is being turned on. While for me (and probably for some other players too) it is literally impossible to join the server, heck, accessing half the internet, without using VPNs. Trying to connect without VPN turned on leaves me in a never ending loop of server reconnects, because my ISP blocks a bunch of IP addresses, including MCNR website and the game server thus in order to be able to join, I always have to either wait for restrictions to be turned off or DM'ing staff members to turn in off.
Managers/Admins being able to add player's /aid to white list would solve this issue.
White lists for in-game accounts IDs during Anti VPN restrictions
why waste time on this when you can just use a good vpn to bypass this