Lol it's real
Well I dunno what to say, this is what should've happened in the first place honestly. If you let people get away with something like that then you might as well permaspeedhack because they won't ban anybody ever.
Honestly if I were SE I would have just rolled back chars and let players decide wether they want to keep playing or quit, but maybe they had technical/practical reasons for not doing that.
Yeah Nynja, they probably couldn't roll them back to a fixed day for all accounts and defining a different rollback day for every single char would have been too much of an effort. It's understandable I guess =/
@Judgement
I seriously doubt someone with his attitude "learned" anything. Was there anything to learn to begin with? Maybe, but I doubt people like that would learn anything from a ban, and honestly who made you the "teacher" in this scenario anyway?
Not playing devil's advocate here, I found Tigerwoods' bragging attitude in this thread particularly despicable and out of place, but that doesn't make playing moral police a good behaviour, to my own eyes. Remember that the threshold of what is and what isn't a cheat are defined by your own personal judgement, which is not absolute and doesn't necessarily have to be agreed by everybody else.
If Tigerwoods learned something from this experience, maybe, it's to brag in private among friends and not on a public board.
Seriously doubt he'll play all legit and avoid using exploits in future games, if this is what you wanted him to "learn".
My accounts are fine, with all my ill gotten gains, from 70,000 alexandrites. Probably was just him because that guy reported him. First rule was always don't cheat where others can see you.
And just for fun, didn't want to post this before for obvious reasons, but linen purse data, over 808 purses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...EVhOADIxXutbFQ . That's about 1 month of salvage, which consisted of 10 minutes doing unlocks, and 90 minutes of watching a bot run.
^ Looks like someone else is just begging for the ban stick
SE doesn't even need to take my word for it. They could have simply looked in on him for a moment once they received my report to verify it, and saw him blatantly cheating. Cheaters gonna cheat. It would be extremely obvious to see/detect if you're a Special Task Force member. If they saw him cheating again, with his prior ban, they would permaban him. Do you think someone like him would just turn off their clipper and fleetool and bots for a while to lay low? Nope. So he got caught red-handed, again. As will any cheater eventually, if I have anything to say in the matter.
I say this with years of experience being that guy telling people to fuck off and leaving shells over tool use, schadenfreude over salvage bans, mocking BG for having members on the list when Taj hacked ffxiapp, etc.
You sound like a self-righteous prick and are vastly overestimating how much anybody cares about this shit, let alone how much ability you have, if any, to affect how people are punished for it.
Luckily I don't need this lesson because I don't cheat. But if you think you're immune form being banned for cheating "smart" (as if cheating could possibly ever be smart) think again, the only reason you haven't been banned is because no one has reported you due to cheating becoming the status quo in FFXI. Being against cheating now makes you an outcast in this game. Cheating is what the "cool kids" do. How backwards we have become.
I'm doubting we're dealing with Starcade here, to be fair.
It lacks too much "I'm going to look you up, watch your back, I am willing to go back to prison."
Quit this game a bit ago and never had an account on here but this thread kind of begged me to open my mouth.
I intentionally tried to get banned from this game because I played way too much and decided it was enough. I did things ranging from insulting SE's privileged JP player base to blatantly speed hacking everywhere, anywhere and in front of anyone. I even reported my main from one of my mule accounts(separate SE account) while doing violations. I concluded that bans no longer exist and eventually I just gave up and stopped playing the game(so glad I did too). Maybe I got lucky but I don't think so because I know I'm not the only person who does all kinds of deliberate hacks in front of people.
As for this God Almighty's Judgement guy, you seriously have to be some sort of masochist to not exploit this god awful game. Are you Doomslayer? If not you must be his long lost twin.
Spent a lot of time clipping all sorts of places in the game and you can find some cool spots and tricks. I know a lot of exploits to this game and I wouldn't want to ruin any on anyone but one of which I'll say cause I have NEVER heard anyone who knew this one(despite how obvious it is), jueno/WHITE GATE/starter cities can all be quickly accessed with new mule accounts by using maint clip in chocobo circuit. Wouldn't suggest doing this to Jueno if you plan on progressing on the mule cause in one case it locked one of my mules out of a CS that I could never trigger after.