I have been refraining from getting involved with this topic but I will make one small statement ;
My views also mirror that of my colleague Arty.
In conjunction with Arty, from a game cop perspective we do not doubt Hippyfool and Selina/Skyfusion are indeed the same person.
We feel there is no question of this due to the constant patten of activity that myself and Arty witnessed taking place.
As to give you a small insight as to the extent of the activity I will point out that it reached a stage where us game cops would see either Hippyfool or Skyfusion online and we could correctly predict what the two accounts in question would do next.
That happened on a regular basis through out the wave and as far as we saw there was not one instance during the era that any actions from the two accounts crossed as we see every day when other players farm, spy, sab or raid.
These two accounts did not play like friends helping friends or alliances working together but distinctly like the same person using two accounts as one.
One with the sole purpose to mass, farm and sab the competition, the other to build up for a high ranked win/cash prize.
I do not tend to go in to my experience much but what I will say is what Jack previously touched upon ;
I joined the Met police force practically straight from college, I spent around 6-7 years as a constable before moving and taking a job in as a Detective constable with Gwent police for roughly three years following.
I now work for the family security company which for me mostly entails monitoring retail shops and industrial premises via CCTV. I also had a small admin part in another game a few years ago and saw a great deal of activity there which twins that of the two accounts in question.
Due to my past I'm trained in many aspects of detection and like to think I adapt my skills to suit what I am tasked with online so I want to assure everybody both myself and Arty (who is highly capable of his role also) used all the knowledge known to us to delve in to the situation.
We monitored the suspects closely and investigated all information we could find for a number of weeks, reaching in to months.
There were a number of instances Hippyfool would get spooked and back off a little but as soon as he knew the coast was clear it was business as usual.
Personally I hoped Hippyfool and Skyfusion were not acting dishonestly, he is a player who has been around a while and at the time was an actual alliance mate.
Unfortunately though we were online a lot of the time watching these incidents as they happened and after looking at all the data we collected, twice sometimes three times over, we were left with no doubt what so ever that this user was playing multiple accounts.
I agree again with Arty, some form of punishment would be the best solution in this instance and that is something I would not say if I was not 100% also.
Extra note****
It seems I have been removed as game cop any way, it is a shame the admin is not as quick to ban actual rule breakers as he is over removing his staff for banter to self admitted feeders.
My views and findings are all safe and valid though regardless of my status and I still have all the data.
In any case it was mentioned before this current incident that I would be stepping down any way so thank you for making my choice of when easier
Crixus. Out.