Cheaters back and disinformation

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So the cheaters are back, probably due to some of them having high profile friends.  Mods could not bring friends and popular people back without also bringing the others back.

This brings the message its ok to cheat but if the mods have a grudge against you, you will get frozen longer for just not agreeing with them.

[2] 13:05 (Mod)SYRAID[Pond]: cant see that The Guy.. as we can now identify such use.. a multi logged in last night using it (for the first time) and was immediately banned

This is simply disinformation to scare others from cheating. Players are currently logged in using cheats and they are not frozen.  They may be able to detect one kind of cheat which next to nobody uses, due to a little error in the cheat.  This is easily fixed and I may supply the source code and a modified version without the obvious flaw if I can be bothered.

They probably simply spotted a multi.

If they could detect most of the cheats, they would not have had to enter into communication with players to try and get them to admit how long they cheated for and then roll back their XP to that date.  They would have frozen them for a certain time and automatically rolled back their xp to when they detected them cheating.  But as they cannot detect the cheats they could not do this.

Word on the street is that they rolled back xp for those players to the xp they had in February, which shows they cannot detect the scripts or know how long players have cheated for.  So a player who has cheated for years only loses a few months xp.

A cheater who went to the mods and admitted cheating 6 months ago before mods were aware of any cheats was frozen for good.  Also a friend of his was frozen as they simply suspected him of cheating and remains frozen.  The difference is these players could interfere with the top clans mining in the outlands and had caused Syraids miners problems in the past.

So you have to ask, why these players were not unfrozen after 2 weeks yet the ones in high profile clans that also have mods in them were.  The other unanswered question is why some of Syraids clan mates were never frozen in the first place...