Poll: Should the Management have been harsher with the 365 cheaters?

[greatdane]

What did you guys expect them to do, ban 365 of their probably most active players? Casuals who goof around on their level 30 druid don't cheat, it's the ones at the top who care enough about the game to do that shit. As bad as that is, though, it's quite likely that the server would have suffered more from losing what must be a pretty big chunk of its most dedicated players. I'm guessing we have between one and two thousand players who can be considered active and dedicated enough to make any kind of difference, and banning a quarter of them would hurt the server a lot, certainly more than the damage they've caused by cheating. That said, losing multiple levels and all their money plus being labeled cheaters is probably enough to make many of them quit anyway. I think they should be given a couple of weeks off from the game as well, and then those who care more about the server than their own success as players can come back and play it legitimately. I do think guilds should be held accountable to some extent, though - many of the players who don't cheat are probably fully aware of which guild members do, and it's the leadership's responsibility to make sure their members play by the rules. If any guild(s) had a huge proportion of cheaters, sanctions could be imposed such as banning from raiding for x weeks or similar.

[Vonkaar]

Originally Posted by casdegere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I pretty sore that numbers were more important then integrity. People have been banned in the past for the same offense that is being punished now with a limp noodle.

I agree (if I understood you right). I probably would have just permabanned them all. But that's me and it's not my server. I'm just saying that these polls don't really matter because the devs did what they did for their own reasons.

Maybe if this was written as a petition TO the Devs instead of a, "oh, by the way, we disagree," poll...

[tekniq]

meh

[casdegere]

I would have easily settled for a complete stripping of equipment and bank items to go along with the XP loss or the accounts premier character deleted altogether vs. a complete ban but this leniency really spells indifference to me. Not doing what their own rules dictated only makes them look swishy. I always worried about someone like Uthgaard coming down to quash a camp argument, so much so I would just move on even if I was in the right...now..not so much. meh~

[Goldburg92]

Don't ban them. They aren't worth the effort. Just wipe out all their gear and money. Leave them with nothing.

Wouldn't hurt to continue to enforce the deleveling penalty too just because they whine so much inspite of the fact that they got caught red handed.

[JenJen]

Never gonna happen sadly ;(

[Ring]

Kind of funny that Uthgaard's reputation is that he punishes people harshly but when he finally catches a ton of them breaking a serious rule, he goes along with letting them off with a slap on the wrist.

The integrity of this server is damaged by allowing these jackasses back in the game, all 50+, all with some of the best items (that they no doubt used hacks to help get, at least some of them - levi cloaks? I bet every clown had one). One of the suspended players has a Ton Po, the best weapon in the game currently. Removing his plat and knocking him back to 54 (he hits 60 in 3 days because his guild is going to AE grind him in Skyfire 24/7) is punishment?

Sort of disappointed that I played the game properly with no cheats for 2 years and these people no doubt cheated for just as long, benefiting the whole time and this is all they got.

[Spoodowg2000bc]

some of the cheaters were too well connected to be banned outright

the other cheaters should be thanking them

[Eternal-Elf]

Politics everywhere...

[Spoodowg2000bc]

Originally Posted by Eternal-Elf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Politics everywhere...

especially in not full banning