Quote Originally Posted by Thantium View Post
First, I was not here 1.5 years ago and I have no idea what happened with that age 1 age 2 issue.

I will say that only 2 people had actions taken against their accounts based on comments in this thread. In both cases these players had the posts removed. In these posts they admitted to actively botting and multiple accounting in the post. As this was done in a thread I was actively participating in, I had no choice but to investigate those IP addresses.

The first user had created over 220 flat fillers and farming accounts in the past two months, as well as running multiple active accounts on the same server.

The other was running multiple accounts that they had not created but purchased from other players, about 8 on the same server I think, based on the investigation we confirmed 100% that the same player was using all of these accounts, we then emailed the original owners of the accounts to reclaim those accounts. This second player had already received warnings about this in the past from the CS team to stop multi-accounting.

I can assure you that we are not using your posting data to attack, punish or target people that are not for the captcha. What did happen was people bragged about breaking our rules in an open forum that was being actively monitored and commented on by support staff. What other option did we have? If we had done nothing I am sure one of you would have pointed out that we let people that admitted to breaking the rules continue to play the game.
LOL - the hypocrisy...whenever somebody posts something about CHE@TING ANY other time, you say, the forums are not the place for such things. AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. Somebody argues with YOU, makes some statements about their behavior, and then you RUN TO INVESTIGATE THEM? WTF?

Then you give the lamo excuse, OH they admitted to it on a thread I was participating on....give me a break man! I've seen city screenshots that people post ON THESE FORUMS BRAGGING ABOUT HOW BIG THEY ARE THAT ALL BUT SCREAMS THEY ARE CHE@TING - you've done NOTHING to them!!!! No, just the ones that disagree with you. I'm out of this thread, out of this conversation. You guys talk to use like WE need to go learn about ACRONYMS IN THE GAMING INDUSTRY LIKE WE'RE IDIOTS. Let me say this again -

Do you understand the concept of root cause analysis?
Do you understand the concept of requirements gathering?
Do you understand the concept of use cases?
Do you understand the concept of regression testing?
Do you understand the concept of user acceptance testing?

SOFTWARE IS SOFTWARE IS SOFTWARE. I've lead teams of developers in some of the biggest companies on the planet, and like I've said before, if I ran my organization the way you guys are, I'd have been fired 100 times over.

You DON'T understand your game.
You DON'T understand the unintended results of your coding.
You DON'T understand your userbase.

C'mon guys. WHAT PROBLEM ARE YOU TRYING TO FIX? Seems to me you're still only shooting at symptoms.