Account Bans (permanent)

onykage · Post by **onykage** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:08 pm

The following players were permanently banned from Age of Valor.
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[*:26d98354d7]James
[*:26d98354d7]Tony Montana
[*:26d98354d7]Xtreme Gamer
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Reason:
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These Idividuals were part of a conspiracy that caused problems on the shard (Ice-Rockers).
These Idividuals were suspected of using (cheats/hacks/exploits/bugs) by staff, accused of it by their peers, and convicted by your their partners in crime.
These Idividuals were found to have been account sharing.
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These bans are permanent and will not be reverted.

Let me be extremely clear.

The staff here at Age of Valor have grown tired of people abusing our kindness. Thus, the kindness has run out. We will be issuing no more warnings. Consider this your final notice.

Bans from the shard will also result in immediate ban from both voice chat servers, and potentially this forum.

Ways to receive a Ban.

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[*:26d98354d7] Cheats, hacks, exploits, bugs, or scams.
[*:26d98354d7] Excessive Shit Talking
[*:26d98354d7] Account sharing, hacking, or stealing
[*:26d98354d7] Racism
[*:26d98354d7] Advertising other shards
[*:26d98354d7] Threats of DDOS, phone calls, or any other type of harassment to any staff member.
[*:26d98354d7] Threats of hacking the shard
[*:26d98354d7] Anything considered by staff to be game ruining.
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Ways to insure Bans stay permanent.
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[*:26d98354d7] Agitate the staff member who is handling your case with pointless argument and finger pointing.
[*:26d98354d7] Threaten more
[*:26d98354d7] Accuse staff of Favoritism
[*:26d98354d7] Generally anything else to stay on our shitlist.
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Ways to insure you are not Baned.
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[*:26d98354d7] Report signs of exploits, hacks, cheats, bugs, and scams. If you want to insure swift action, provide a recording via screencast or screenshot.
[*:26d98354d7] Help the staff by finding exploits in the game so that we can fix them.
[*:26d98354d7] Turn yourself in. Honesty is the best policy. I would think a jail sentence would be better then a ban issue.
[*:26d98354d7] Play the game for what it is, a past time hobby.
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We want you all to have a great time on this shard. It is also our goal to insure that your stay here is pleasant, as well as ground breaking. We are diligently working on this shard trying to improve systems and create new ones. And it is impossible for us to to so when we have to deal with such ignorant behavior.

Lastly, the staff would also like to reach out and apologize to those who were affected by these events, and we offer our condolences. Any items lost as a result of these events can not and will not be replaced or recreated, so please don't ask. Its too hard to keep track of who had what, when and where. I would merely suggest you camp the idocs later on, you just might get lucky. 8)

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Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 4:18 pm

Please do understand that you will not get away with anything else anymore. Staff have been assigned to certain tasks and arrangements so that there is staff online 99.9% of the time (that .1% is our lunch break) So don't think that you're getting away with something now and we won't find out. We will Onykage has done a great job to make sure that AoV is once again a safe haven and he is right, we will NOT tolerate any more scams or hacks. Warnings were issued, they never worked. So the line is drawn. Everyone should thank Onykage for finding that hack and making AoV an "insured" area.

Shadow

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geezushhchrist · Post by **geezushhchrist** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:20 pm

cool glad you cought the cheaters though i didnt think tony or apple would be

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:24 pm

At this point they're the main suspects, mostly tony Montana, who was ice breaker all along and whether or not he WAS using hacks has not yet been determined until I view the packet logs, though those logs were only initiated after the main issue so it will only catch if the exploit was used again. Thsi is if they even existed in first place as what I'm getting so far is that they just made them up to start conspiracies. This is still under investigation and I still need to do a deep code review to see if the exploits are possible with the details I got.

Some of the other bannings not mentioned here are under staff review but it probably wont be before Sunday that any action will be taken, if any.

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geezushhchrist · Post by **geezushhchrist** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:27 pm

ok

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ValisUldren · Post by **ValisUldren** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:12 pm

Nice way to break ony's staff cherry

Granted I'm new as all hell, but damn lol. 1st day, new staff basically next day ass whoppin!

I'm glad you guys got the bullcrap straightened out!

Many kudo's to the Staff here!

Now they can focus on issues were it needs to be, and not the meaningless bullshit other children that want to take advantage of a expliot in a video game.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:48 pm

Oh hai, I upgraded our staff card deck.

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d. · Post by d. » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:56 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:Oh hai, I upgraded our staff card deck.

It's been years and years since I have played MTG, but that reminds me of hammer of bogarden.

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ValisUldren · Post by **ValisUldren** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:05 am

Red Squirrel wrote:Oh hai, I upgraded our staff card deck.

lol nice

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:08 am

Red Squirrel wrote:Oh hai, I upgraded our staff card deck.

Best.

Staff.

Ever.

Red just pulling that out is epic win.

Epic Win.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:28 am

the level that people will stoop to in order to fulfill their greed, its sad. Cmon you guys, its an online GAME.

Thanks to the staff for dealing with this and fixing the issue

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geezushhchrist · Post by **geezushhchrist** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:42 am

i play mtg and have the 1997 championship hammer of bogarden

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