Discussion on Cheating [merged]
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:38 pm
This is a message to all the multies and cheaters out there. Delete. Never come back.
Juliette apparently thinks she has more time with getting round to banning cheaters. Or perhaps it will be all swept under the rug - some of those cheaters do pay 50$ here and there to keep the game running. Last era - bug abusers were given free pass. This era 2 accounts for which I'd bet my left testicle (or right, you pick) that are multies have been reported. Over a week ago. Reports have been read. Result? No answer. No ban. Nothing. Not even a "Looking into it, will give an answer within the day" message, despite all the necessary proof being laid out there in the open. The message took over an hour or 2 hours to be constructed, to be as plain and obvious as it can get, countless hours were spent on getting those cheaters. But not even a reply that takes 1 minute was offered. Kinda reminds me of me sending a long, long message filled with suggestions to make Q better, but never getting a reply. Just the "read, will reply next week" replies from Juliette. That kept going for what, 2 months?
Anyway, it wasn't me that caught these 2 - it was all Crixus and Arty, I did offer them my help after I officially quit the position and they asked me for an opinion based on the evidence, due to my experience as a game cop. I put about 5h into it, to be sure before I gave them my final opinion regarding the matter, they probably put in a good couple times more time just to gather the evidence. And apparently they don't even deserve the reply from mighty Juliette, despite them taking the time to do her job. Then again, Juliette was always more on the side of immoral people, so that doesn't surprise me much.
At this point, I'd just like to stop and make people acknowledge what a good job Crixus and Arty are doing - they're doing it out of their own good will, not out of anything that would give them any advantage or any payment and they spend a huge amount of their free time helping this game stay fair. Everyone should say a big thank you to both of them.
Juliette, you don't seem to want to do your job. I only hope Jason gets back - while he was never very quick in dealing with insignificant bugs (like you are), he was always very quick to check out the suspected cheaters and he actually banned them. He also made the eras actually unique, not just eras without any special feature - and if you were aiming for an old skool era, based on my recommendation way back, half a year ago, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but this isn't it. It's just an era with no feature that has nothing in common with the old skool era. More people are just playing the era due to the reward offered in main server. Anyway, while you're "too busy" to respond or read something (although I don't doubt this post will be read by you) that clearly proves the person in question is a multi and actually act upon it, I will.
EVERYONE suspected of cheating (bar that multi that is still waiting to be banned by Juliette - when and if she ever gets 'round to it - as I won't interfere in that investigation and I definitely won't alert them they are the ones under investigation, although if nothing is done before the era end, I will step in there as well) will be massed. I don't need an evidence that proves you are a cheater beyond any reasonable doubt. If my gut feeling and some facts support that you could be a cheater, I'll mass you. There are currently 7 IDs stored in my comp that will be massed every time they have something up that's worth to be massed. If anyone suspects someone else of cheating, let me know and let me know what you've got to support your case. If it checks out, they'll be massed. I don't need to hear those "it's my brother/sister/mother/father/dog/wall-poster" get-out-of-jail-free cards. You won't fool me with those. You'll just piss me off even further.
Those that don't want to be massed time and time again - delete your multies. I will make sure I remove the advantage you gained, but I won't be massing you every time you have something built (once I remove that advantage). I do have your IDs stored, so creating another multi won't do you much good. You have 2 days time - I'm shooting a music video with the band tomorrow and obviously it's Easter after that. So I won't have the time to do anything
I will be massing some other people - those that set war with me or attacked me in the past, perhaps even just those that I dislike due to their name. Just so that those that are massed don't know 100% they are the ones on my radar for multying.
PS: There was one person who created 2 or 3 accounts for what was actually a noble cause - and I will just say, here, that this noble cause does not include benefiting that person or hurting any other person in any way, shape or form, but rather something that will benefit everyone - especially the newbies. You know who you are. You stopped using the other accounts as soon as you finished what you started. You didn't gain any advantage. No one lost anything because of these accounts. If you want to disclose your identity (or the reason for creating those accounts) to the public, that's up to you. I certainly won't disclose it or do anything to you as the result from "using" those account will benefit everyone and won't hurt anyone.
PPS: I reckon a certain woman who has always fought hard for keeping Q clean will want to partake in this. You know who you are Just say the word, if you happen to read the thread, and I will put you up to speed.
~Jack
Juliette apparently thinks she has more time with getting round to banning cheaters. Or perhaps it will be all swept under the rug - some of those cheaters do pay 50$ here and there to keep the game running. Last era - bug abusers were given free pass. This era 2 accounts for which I'd bet my left testicle (or right, you pick) that are multies have been reported. Over a week ago. Reports have been read. Result? No answer. No ban. Nothing. Not even a "Looking into it, will give an answer within the day" message, despite all the necessary proof being laid out there in the open. The message took over an hour or 2 hours to be constructed, to be as plain and obvious as it can get, countless hours were spent on getting those cheaters. But not even a reply that takes 1 minute was offered. Kinda reminds me of me sending a long, long message filled with suggestions to make Q better, but never getting a reply. Just the "read, will reply next week" replies from Juliette. That kept going for what, 2 months?
Anyway, it wasn't me that caught these 2 - it was all Crixus and Arty, I did offer them my help after I officially quit the position and they asked me for an opinion based on the evidence, due to my experience as a game cop. I put about 5h into it, to be sure before I gave them my final opinion regarding the matter, they probably put in a good couple times more time just to gather the evidence. And apparently they don't even deserve the reply from mighty Juliette, despite them taking the time to do her job. Then again, Juliette was always more on the side of immoral people, so that doesn't surprise me much.
At this point, I'd just like to stop and make people acknowledge what a good job Crixus and Arty are doing - they're doing it out of their own good will, not out of anything that would give them any advantage or any payment and they spend a huge amount of their free time helping this game stay fair. Everyone should say a big thank you to both of them.
Juliette, you don't seem to want to do your job. I only hope Jason gets back - while he was never very quick in dealing with insignificant bugs (like you are), he was always very quick to check out the suspected cheaters and he actually banned them. He also made the eras actually unique, not just eras without any special feature - and if you were aiming for an old skool era, based on my recommendation way back, half a year ago, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but this isn't it. It's just an era with no feature that has nothing in common with the old skool era. More people are just playing the era due to the reward offered in main server. Anyway, while you're "too busy" to respond or read something (although I don't doubt this post will be read by you) that clearly proves the person in question is a multi and actually act upon it, I will.
EVERYONE suspected of cheating (bar that multi that is still waiting to be banned by Juliette - when and if she ever gets 'round to it - as I won't interfere in that investigation and I definitely won't alert them they are the ones under investigation, although if nothing is done before the era end, I will step in there as well) will be massed. I don't need an evidence that proves you are a cheater beyond any reasonable doubt. If my gut feeling and some facts support that you could be a cheater, I'll mass you. There are currently 7 IDs stored in my comp that will be massed every time they have something up that's worth to be massed. If anyone suspects someone else of cheating, let me know and let me know what you've got to support your case. If it checks out, they'll be massed. I don't need to hear those "it's my brother/sister/mother/father/dog/wall-poster" get-out-of-jail-free cards. You won't fool me with those. You'll just piss me off even further.
Those that don't want to be massed time and time again - delete your multies. I will make sure I remove the advantage you gained, but I won't be massing you every time you have something built (once I remove that advantage). I do have your IDs stored, so creating another multi won't do you much good. You have 2 days time - I'm shooting a music video with the band tomorrow and obviously it's Easter after that. So I won't have the time to do anything
I will be massing some other people - those that set war with me or attacked me in the past, perhaps even just those that I dislike due to their name. Just so that those that are massed don't know 100% they are the ones on my radar for multying.
PS: There was one person who created 2 or 3 accounts for what was actually a noble cause - and I will just say, here, that this noble cause does not include benefiting that person or hurting any other person in any way, shape or form, but rather something that will benefit everyone - especially the newbies. You know who you are. You stopped using the other accounts as soon as you finished what you started. You didn't gain any advantage. No one lost anything because of these accounts. If you want to disclose your identity (or the reason for creating those accounts) to the public, that's up to you. I certainly won't disclose it or do anything to you as the result from "using" those account will benefit everyone and won't hurt anyone.
PPS: I reckon a certain woman who has always fought hard for keeping Q clean will want to partake in this. You know who you are Just say the word, if you happen to read the thread, and I will put you up to speed.
~Jack