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New measures have been put in place to detect automation. (As of Feb 8th 2016.) This data gathering has continuously been building records the Administration will use to decide whether or not to ban for automation.


Some guidelines:
- When automation is detected with a sufficient degree of certainty on the part of the Administration (in the period Feb 8th 2016 through present), the account involved is banned, regardless of changes in ownership.
- When an account is banned, all of its trade history will be examined for patterns.
- If an account (A) has a significantly biased trade pattern in relation to a banned account, the account (A) will either be banned, or a significant reduction in statistics will be enforced.
- The logs used to support our decision will not now, nor ever be revealed, as doing so presents a security risk.



Decisions can be appealed through gameadmin@gatewa.rs
The decision made after considering the appeal is final.

is it retrospective or just from Feb 2016?
and what if account has been through a couple of sales since?

~NyX~ wrote:

is it retrospective or just from Feb 2016?
and what if account has been through a couple of sales since?

Support wrote: Some guidelines:
- When automation is detected with a sufficient degree of certainty on the part of the Administration (in the period Feb 8th 2015 through present), the account involved is banned, regardless of changes in ownership.

has this been running for over a year? or are those 2015s supposed to be 2016s and someone has just been a little bender for the last few months

This.

teesdale wrote:someone has just been a little bender

"DOING THE TIME WARP"

Great work! It will be interesting to see who gets busted and what happens with them.

~Odin~ wrote:Great work! It will be interesting to see who gets busted and what happens with them.

Lol no one and nothing.

Au contraire.

7 accounts have been banned so far. 3 for scripting, and 4 for trading with them.
There are a further 12 accounts flagged with a 'feasible' scripting tag (multiple pattern violations), and 23 more with 'possible' (single pattern violations).
Data gathering remains ongoing.

Can you name the banned accounts or is that privacy protected ???

redstorm wrote:Can you name the banned accounts or is that privacy protected ???

Public name and shame would be awesome!

Support wrote:Au contraire.

7 accounts have been banned so far. 3 for scripting, and 4 for trading with them.
There are a further 12 accounts flagged with a 'feasible' scripting tag (multiple pattern violations), and 23 more with 'possible' (single pattern violations).
Data gathering remains ongoing.

Ah I did not know this. In that case thank you and great work!

Would be curious to see the banned ID list.....

No.
Anyone can choose to publicise their ban, as that is their prerogative. Other than the numbers, we do not share the details.

Support wrote:The appeals process is confidential between the accused and the Game Administration.

Support wrote:No.
Anyone can choose to publicise their ban, as that is their prerogative. Other than the numbers, we do not share the details.

Support wrote:The appeals process is confidential between the accused and the Game Administration.

Sounds good. I'm just glad to hear that progress is being made honestly.

Would be epic to see a counter on the log in page like Jason did years ago so peeps can keep an eye on it. Great work, love seeing justice being dealt.