What can get you banned

CaineDeSoulis · 2011-07-22, 08:34 PM

has anyone been account banned for no known reason. i was recently banned and its been tough going getting any kinda help resolving this issue personally i want the ban lifted and my record expunged but hey an "oops were sorry" would be nice.

The programs ive been running are daemon tools lite,skype,station,utorrent

krnasaur · 2011-07-22, 09:20 PM

mutorrent can get you banned, peer-to-peer clients will cause a warping effect i believe

MgFalcon · 2011-07-22, 11:13 PM

My Outfit leader was Banned for talking in a /Comall argument over Superman. THAT shit will get you banned

CaineDeSoulis · 2011-07-22, 11:18 PM

well i subbed another account and have spoken a little to some gm's ive got everything cept station launcher turned off so im looking for confirmation to whether or not im hacking or not

Baneblade · 2011-07-23, 02:24 AM

You have to have the hacking certs before they won't ban you for it.

Captain1nsaneo · 2011-07-23, 09:41 AM

Bans are normally given out based on appeals submitted from other players. I know that people sometimes use programs to increase their warping thus making them much harder to kill in infantry fights. (I personally suspect every TR of doing this) I don't know how much follow up is done before the ban but I know getting a ban removed is a pain.

There's also probations that can be handed out for abusing various things like Global. Not saying that spaming things like 'n*gger' in comall won't get you a perma-ban (ah the days before broadcast limits) but this too is normally up to other players appealing as it is normally done late at night when everyone's drunk.

They can also reset your BR and CR and kick you from the server temporarily. Though that's more of a test server thing. (Good times)

If I had to bet I'd say you got appealed for warping. Utorrent would probably be the smoking gun in the CSR's eyes. Either way, hope you manage to get the ban reversed.

CaineDeSoulis · 2011-07-24, 01:50 PM

currently still battling with them over it I'm going to make a new thread on this that contains the full content of the messages sent and the messages recieved. As the messages sent are considered my "Intellectual Property". I've asked permissions to do this simply for kindness lol

Sovereign · 2011-07-24, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by MgFalcon

My Outfit leader was Banned for talking in a /Comall argument over Superman. THAT shit will get you banned

Lol, Really? Hate to be cliche on this but.. PIX or IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!

Would bring back such nostalgic memories of messing with the gms in SWG, even large collectives that I knew who would troll devs with player cities by forming genitals via building formations.

CaineDeSoulis · 2011-07-24, 02:28 PM

Hello,

The Rules and Policies can be read at https://help.station.sony.com/app/an...ail/a_id/16218. Again, we're not going to disclose exactly what you did to violate policy, except to say that you were found hacking. And yes, you can publicly post this entire correspondence if you chose to.

Regards,

Senior GM Chrol

Anyway I'm going to make a post with the entire Correspondents.

Goku · 2011-07-24, 02:57 PM

I think you are going overboard on this to be honest. I agree with everything the GM said about not saying what was the trigger. That info got not be made public for obvious reasons. Just wait out the suspension and don't have a million programs going on in the background. If you are telling the truth that you are not a hacker and they said do not run any of the programs then it sounds like you are in a clear. You are just opening up a whole other can of worms trying to talk to their legal department. I know you will not get anywhere there. At least the GMs actually communicated with you.

CaineDeSoulis · 2011-07-24, 03:06 PM

to be honest i can completely understand it and even support them. but....if they are legitimately wrong i think they should fix it I'm not asking for anything but the right thing to do.

Vancha · 2011-07-24, 03:25 PM

If people are getting falsely flagged as hackers just from running Daemon Tools or uTorrent, it's something that needs to be fixed, or I doubt Caine will be the last person getting unjustly banned (assuming he was, of course).

razor851 · 2011-07-24, 05:14 PM

My main account was banned for racism on the official fucking forum. SOE bans for the stupidest reasons, and lets cheaters off the hook far too easily.