Being Banned unfairly...

  • Retnavyboatsbarry
    Retnavyboatsbarry
    Potential Threat
    Joined Sep 2011 Posts: 40
    I love it when cheaters, hackers and idiots get busted, it just makes me smile inside.
  • Retnavyboatsbarry
    Retnavyboatsbarry
    Potential Threat
    Joined Sep 2011 Posts: 40
    Well, I will just keep this simple CFS, enough said.
    STC wrote: »
    Ok,

    Understand, this is not a threat, this is a promise...

    Here it is...

    You banned me right when I was in the middle of a battle, not cool.

    You banned me for cheating, I don't cheat, again, not cool.

    I have spent about $5000.00 dollars on this account, and you ban me for cheating?

    That means YOU (Kixeye) are theves...

    Listen up, I don't cheat, and I am no hacker...


    So, here it is, either you call me right now and we resolve this, or you give me back all of my money, or I do this...

    I will use my computers at work to do back ground checks on all of the executives and board members and I will put it all on facebook and twitter and anything else I can find...

    I will place your address, phone numbers and legal and ilegal activities for the past 10 years if I can find it and trust me, if it's there, I'll find it...

    And if you think I am bluffing, try me!!!

    you guys have really pissed me off.

    And if I do open another account, my suggestion would be for you to ignore me, ruffle my feathers and I will fight back...

    P.S. - You pissed off allot of others in sector 239 as well, I think you need to apologize with a written letter to them, but I know you won't do that, cause after all, all you want is the **** money and to hell with everyone else...

    Bob
    STC - Sector 239
  • Retnavyboatsbarry
    Retnavyboatsbarry
    Potential Threat
    Joined Sep 2011 Posts: 40
    Great work Kixeye, keep up the awesome work. You made my year. lmao <3<3:D

    Hi there,

    While normally we do not discuss account bans in detail, as you have come on the forum to discuss this in public, we will respond in kind. Let me assure everybody that the last thing we want to do is ban players - after all, why would we want to make games, and then not let people play them? But, there are cases in which a user is cheating and we have no choice but to remove them from the game.

    So, you won the most recent Revenge Raid, and were awarded with the Battleship hull on January 1st. Congratulations! The problem, however, is that you now have 50 battleships (no, that isn't a typo). I've provided screenshots of your base below, showing your fleets as well as the build times of the most common type of battleship that you've built, which takes 7 days and 15 hours to built. While you've spent credits in the game in the past, you have not spent anything since the most recent Revenge Raid. Building 50 of these battleships would take a grand total of 381.25 days, and it's been 4 days since the end of the event.

    I think the evidence speaks for itself.

    Here's your dock:
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    And here's the shipyard with the most common loadout of battleship that you've built:
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    I want to make sure that our players understand we do look for cheaters, we will remove them from the game, and we'll ban spenders - while we do appreciate people spending in the game, that doesn't mean they get to cheat. Oh, and the Battleship hull has been awarded to the runner-up in this sector. :)
  • KIXEYE CS Xandamere
    KIXEYE CS Xandamere
    Incursion Leader
    Joined Aug 2011 Posts: 1,120
    That is nice that something is being done. But you guys better get your story straight or something. One of my friends from the sector Im in sent something in about someone cheating but your (kixeye) reply was we can't do anything about it because they spend money.

    I'm going to say that this is absolutely, positively not true - you've been given false information. We ban anybody who's cheating, regardless of whether or not they're a spender. Beyond that, we would never respond to a support ticket by discussing the spend patterns of the person that has been reported.

    Edit: just to cover all of my bases, if your friend did somehow receive this response to a support ticket, that was an egregious error on our end, and I'd like your friend to please forward me the response he received (either via PM on the forum, or via support.kixeye.com/mail) and I will look into it.
    Kixeye Customer Service

    Fortis fortuna adiuvat
  • Flo
    Flo
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 8,586
    Attachment not found.

    just found this one when someone commented on a thread at community support showing it....
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    Alliance: Galaxy Lords

  • Minuet
    Minuet
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined Aug 2011 Posts: 2,501
    I was in sector 238 before the raid, i watched this guy level up 5 levels in a week. He was Seal Team Command. He had 10 FF fleets, the in two days he had 5 seawolf fleets. he also had three other bases near him called seal team command 3, and 6 who leveled up just as fast. After the raid, once the ships were awarded he had 3 fleets already built. My alliance were talking and thought he was coining these fleets, Job well down Kixeye...
    They must pay thousands :P
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  • Minuet
    Minuet
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined Aug 2011 Posts: 2,501
    Nice bust Kixeye, <3 your hack detecting skills!
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    eze wrote: »
    So you better watch out! You better not spam! You better not repeat! Cuz I'll kick you in the can! Ezeclause is stalking the Wishlist! hehe sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet this morning :S
  • hellsangel
    hellsangel
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jan 2012 Posts: 2
    he was a friend of mine from 239. he pissed and moaned when i used to hit him and then we become friends lol i told him that if he had multi bases he would get reported. no idea he was a hacker... hes a cop and has the skills to do all this at work.
  • hellsangel
    hellsangel
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jan 2012 Posts: 2
    Hellspawn wrote: »
    To those wondering why the OP has not responded to his public shaming, do you think that his forum account would not have been banned as well after making threats like that? If the mods are smart, which I feel they've proven they are, they banned him about 3.67 seconds after reading half of his post. Sayonara, sucker.

    its cuz he hasnt been online yet... he will be tho in a couple hours or so.
  • Flo
    Flo
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 8,586
    Hellspawn wrote: »
    To those wondering why the OP has not responded to his public shaming, do you think that his forum account would not have been banned as well after making threats like that? If the mods are smart, which I feel they've proven they are, they banned him about 3.67 seconds after reading half of his post. Sayonara, sucker.
    thats slow :)
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    Alliance: Galaxy Lords

  • Q Rich
    Q Rich
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined May 2010 Posts: 37,026
    Tormentor wrote: »
    Checkout sector 293, hacking galore, people are leveling like crazy there.

    Please see the Reporting Hackers and Cheaters FAQ.
    there's a STC-Personel 96170,216 in sector 161. Level 33. :)

    that user is currently suspended.
    Please do not contact me directly by Chat or via posts on my profile page. If I cannot deal with it on the forums, it should be taken straight to Support.
  • TbfRebel
    TbfRebel
    Greenhorn
    Joined Nov 2011 Posts: 6
    Well I can say he had it coming Because I started the ball rolling on getting this guy banned. I hit his all du4 level 29 base and 500% him a few days before the raid as others from TBF (The Black Fleet) hit his alts that day. (Probably the first time he had his base broke into in a while it must have scared him) Low and behold the next day he was a level 31 seal team command and the other seal team base right next to him went from a level 28 to a 31 as well. this is why he moved his bases before the raid. after he won the raid we were on line when the new ships came available and we were audio chatting with the winner Andyroberts while we were discussing on how to fit the new ship and his base gets attacked by a fleet containing 2 of the new raid ships and 3 ff spender maybe but the big tip off is that the new raid ships were fully ranked and this was 20 min after the raid prize was awarded(buying two ships maybe paying for elite rank I call bull ****). From the ss that the original mod posted you will see that all the ships are elite class I still don't have one single elite hammerhead b from the second raid that is an elite ship and I use them every day. Also the raid prizes take longer to level up as they require more exp to gain rank. I have a friend that has a fast track to reporting players as he had four players banned from 220 we passed that info along and here is the result good job kixeye. So the Few that are not one hundred percent sure that this guy was hacking I can tell you with first hand knowledge from me and the group that I am in and their experiences with him that he was abusing hacks.


    ON a side note in sector 238 and 239 for those bases that jumped a few levels in a single day and i am talking the 28 through 32 don't think for even one second that you went unnoticed. Also I am not looking for any attentions for this post I am just responding to some post that were defamatory to the kixeye staff. I mean Really would they unnecessarily ban a big spending player that does not make sense to their bottom ling again good job kixeye !
  • robert.day77@ntlworld.com
    [email protected]
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 22
    my base was hit within 2 hours after recieving the new shipp .guess who it was seal team command to my shock before the raid he was lvl 29 3 days later he was lvl 33 with 9 ff fleets and 3 seawolf fleets all elite explaned his base lvl and yes i leveled his base easily .my shock was 3 fleets of the new battleship at my base thou i had used my resorces mins before creating my first battleship to build.so the first fleet hits my base 5 fully ranked battleships thou he got it straight after someone else hit me he took heavy dmg thou he got in this fleet was almost killed b4 he retreated.his second fleet was configured with rippers and thuds he cracked my base with the speed and got my op and a wh.but it cost him 4 ships and last ship was 75% dmg to last ship.thou i'm all for being attacked and like to learn on what new ships can do people like than do take the fun out of it.but us in TBF love the challange but will report actions like this .
    who on there right mind would spend that amount in dollers just to win a compition let alnoe to hit members that hit there bases just to get the upper hand.
    good to hear kixeye have noticed and taken action.
    To all have fun and play fairly enjoy......
  • Hellspawn
    Hellspawn
    Strike-force Captain
    Joined Sep 2011 Posts: 988
    hellsangel wrote: »
    its cuz he hasnt been online yet... he will be tho in a couple hours or so.

    Well, I'd LOVE to hear what he has to say for himself. And an apology. Not just to Kixeye for hacking their game and then threatening them, but to the players he cheated as well. Because I'm sure he used those hacks to level bases and steal resources from other honest players.
  • Cancer_Clown
    Cancer_Clown
    Potential Threat
    Joined Dec 2011 Posts: 45
    Well done KIXEYE.

    This is a game, and should be treated like one, this guy obviously has more money than sense, i know of a few good charities that could be helped by this guy,(sucker):mad:
    :worried:Neil
  • RichterFB
    RichterFB
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined May 2011 Posts: 281
    This thread makes me wish that more people would publicly complain after being banned. I like seeing arrogant hackers busted. Thanks, KIXEYE.
    I have met several intelligent individuals in my lifetime. However, in my experience, people are ignorant and unthinking.

    "Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes." (Proverbs 26:5)
  • Bill Weissinger
    Bill Weissinger
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined May 2011 Posts: 128
    Thank you MODS for the numerous responses. I'm sure you just boosted the confidence of hundreds of players by responding and being active in a discussion, not just simple generic responses. Currently this threat is on page 26, WOW.

    For those that think an IP ban would solve this... you are wrong. An IP address can be changed very easily, and in most all providers, IP addresses are dynamic. That means you may have IP 129.111.1.123(FAKE) one day, and tomorrow it can change. Well, the same goes for other people. Someone else may get that IP and have to suffer for what a hacker did. A mac ban would last a bit longer (not for the average person who knows how to read and has internet) but that again is flawed. It can also be changed, relatively easy.

    The only true anti-hacking tool is community response. Yes it will bog down Kixeye man hours, but WE ARE THE ONE WHO PLAY EVERY DAY WITH THESE HACKERS. WE spot these things faster than it would take Kixeye to check every account in real time.
    Hopefully some coding gets done to prevent hacks from being used. Until then, we can only find and assist the DEVs in locating them. Yes this is a game, and Kixeye is providing a service, but a little help makes things go faster. Common courtesy goes both ways. Helping the DEVs leads to feeling more involved in the game.

    What I would like to see in the reporting process is a duel email response. One email to the person being reported and one to the reporter. I would like to know if I reported someone, either a clean or dirty status on that player. That would stop multiple reports on one player and stop harassment in game, which I see way too often.

    Either way thank you Kixeye for stepping up and showing your presence in the community.
  • dbeaudion
    dbeaudion
    Greenhorn
    Joined Oct 2011 Posts: 23
    LMAO! Awesome bust!
  • kier
    kier
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jan 2012 Posts: 9
    hows he cheating though. in that fleet all his ships are at the highest lvl??
  • Flo
    Flo
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 8,586
    kier wrote: »
    hows he cheating though. in that fleet all his ships are at the highest lvl??

    you can coin it
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    Alliance: Galaxy Lords

  • Omega Fleet
    Omega Fleet
    Incursion Leader
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 1,023
    I already emailed this in but yeah....I stopped counting at 90 land slots Max allowed is 85 Nice try. Now I know why he "had" So many base guards.

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    I really should buy a tablet would have been faster to write the numbers :\


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  • Flo
    Flo
    Unicorn Overlord
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 8,586
    I already emailed this in but yeah....I stopped counting at 90 land slots Max allowed is 85 Nice try. Now I know why he "had" So many base guards.

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    you forgot the 11
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  • Omega Fleet
    Omega Fleet
    Incursion Leader
    Joined Jun 2011 Posts: 1,023
    you forgot the 11
    I probably pasted over it. I was eating bases while I worked on this :)
  • The kitty Baron
    The kitty Baron
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Apr 2011 Posts: 137
    I had suggested,that some form of community be created... Where a group of people ,vote on a person to handle the reports of hackers in that sector,to lower the huge amount of emails sent to kixeye...some sort of system needs to be forumed by us with there help.
  • sector229
    sector229
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined May 2011 Posts: 144
    i love it kixeye, keep up the good work!!
  • FAQU
    FAQU
    Minor Nuisance
    Joined Sep 2011 Posts: 213
    Cheers Kixeye for not only making a great game but for posting this, nice to see all the mods chiming in as well - Keep up the great work as usual

    Faqu
    lvl 30
    sect 118 for now?????
  • logansan
    logansan
    Strike-force Captain
    Joined May 2011 Posts: 736
    hellsangel wrote: »
    he was a friend of mine from 239. he pissed and moaned when i used to hit him and then we become friends lol i told him that if he had multi bases he would get reported. no idea he was a hacker... hes a cop and has the skills to do all this at work.

    he's a cop who thinks he's above the law... surprised?
    Spack wrote: »
    Jesus H, it's like trying to edumacate pork.....
    If playing Battle Pirates taught me anything, it's:
    You can please some people most of the time, and you can please most people some of the time, but you will never, ever be able to keep those bitchy little whiners who inhabit yours forums from having a cry about every single thing you ever do (or don't do).

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  • no_convict
    no_convict
    Greenhorn
    Joined Jul 2011 Posts: 2
    Nothing like telling on yourself :o
  • dave aka relentless
    dave aka relentless
    Strike-force Captain
    Joined Oct 2011 Posts: 789
    This first page in this thread is the best thing i ever read on this forum
    Relentless lvl 61

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  • Vancouver Jimmy
    Vancouver Jimmy
    Force to be Reckoned With
    Joined Aug 2011 Posts: 1,553
    hellsangel wrote: »
    he was a friend of mine from 239. he pissed and moaned when i used to hit him and then we become friends lol i told him that if he had multi bases he would get reported. no idea he was a hacker... hes a cop and has the skills to do all this at work.

    The guys works in law enforcement? Oh nice! Too bad his boss doesn't play and read this thread too...
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