Ritual

Hello everyone, A friendly reminder since I once again was forced to remove a bunch of posts that were in violation of our Forum Rules. Please do not post names or videos, or anything similar regarding this or that person allegedly cheating. Support exists to report things like these, and we do not allow such practice on our forums. Make a report with sufficient evidence and they will look into it. I do not want to spam warnings for you all, so I will simply remove posts this time. Next time, you shall be warned and sanctioned. Regards, Ritual

Hello everyone, I have removed few posts unrelated to the topic of this thread. Please stick to a certain line of discussion and discuss respecfully. Ritual

Locking this thread as it was not supposed to be opened for discussion in the first place. We apologize for the inconvenience. All your further questions should be left at proper threads around forums. Regards, Ritual

I have moved this topic to the proper place. Cheers!

Hello everyone, As I just removed a bunch of posts with large amount of information, I will have to ask you to tone down the discussion. It is an informational thread, and although the discussion is welcome, please keep it relevant, brief and clean for everyone to be able to follow. Any deeper discussion should be taken to other places/threads with such purpose. Thank you in advance, Ritual

Overdue lock on thread owner's request. Apologies for a delay.

The purpose of this thread has been fulfilled as the user is now familiar with the procedure of reporting suspicious in-game behaviour. I will go ahead and lock this thread. Also, for further notice please, make sure your report tickets are clear, specific, with proof. Tickets refering to something abstract or too general in terms of when, who, where, etc. will most likely be scrapped. Besides, keep in mind that by accusing someone of such offences, you are subjecting them to throughout checking. You tell me if you want to be falsely accused and go through that. Not everything is a hack/cheat. Take care!

Guys, I understand the need to respond to some of these questions you know/think you know/feel obliged to comment on regardless. However, questions of importance from here require official answer, so please refrain from any unnecessary and unchecked (personal) responses. ESPECIALLY so if they have nothing productive in them. Discussing any of matters asked about here should be taken to other thread or a specific new thread. Clogging this thread with discussions over asked questions can lead to spamming and derailing. Limit yourself to productive questions instead. Thank you in advance.

Alright everyone, I think that was about everything (and a bit over the top) that this topic was about. I am going ahead and closing it.

You are welcome, and absolutely. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about it, but I am fairly sure that after the upgrade is done, it will be a healthy compromise between the two. Anyway, even though related, this is a personal thread, so I'd like to leave a general ban policy discussion out of this so it doesn't derail the thread

To respond to your question, what we know for now is that the bans related to FairFight and using third party tools will be lifted after the implementation of the BattlEye. As you probably know, FairFight was a flawed system, and in general, dealing with these things was not done properly. Being so, checking each and every ban issued on these grounds would take weeks at best. It is faster and more convenient to simply address all the bans with these tags and afterwards, let BattlEye do its job. Whether some other kinds of bans will be included in this, is currently unknown to me and I am not to speculate about those.

SoonTM is my motto e^e

(The thread served its purpose. Locking it.)

We are sorry that you feel that way, but at the same time it is more than understandable to react in such way to a counter-intuitive thing as this. But it wouldn't be as rewarding and meaningful if the road to it was all nice and dandy. We are super excited to soon present you with the new, safer and more fair environment to play in, and we are hoping you will still follow us to our goal. After it is implemented, of course, we would love to hear your feedback. For now however, we are all sitting tight and waiting for it. I believe it will be worth it

I am sure they will get to it soon enough We really do appreciate your patience

(Moving this topic to its proper place)

I am merely replying to you to say how happy I am to see a post like this around here . I sincerely hope people new to this game will use this opportunity, because I haven't seen many offering the same. Major respect to you!

Heya! Okay, I want to clarify this issue for you. It can be a bit misleading for them to respond in such way, definitely. But here's why... As of today, there has been 1900+ tickets since 25th that support is dealing with. After the announcement of mass unban, support immediately flags any ban related ticket and removes them from queue to be dealt with later on with that mass unban. All tickets tagged as unban get similar uniform answer only because they are already in a rush to get to everyone reporting other issues, in order to get up and running as many things as possible, as soon as possible. If you wish for your ticket to be checked again, you need to reply to your ticket. If you still did not get an answer, it is most likely that they still didn't get to it. It is mainly done to organise and divide issues, it has nothing to do with being too lazy or uninterested to respond properly. Be that as it may, we apologise for the delay.

Hardly, but that was a good one haha. I love Bruce Almighty. 10/10

Thank you all for your kind words and positive attitude. We appreciate it a great deal and we are looking forward to share with you all the progress and new things! Granted, there is a lot of work to be done, but we are certainly catching up rather well. We are also happy to share this positive change with all of you, and we thank you for your patience while we get it all going again, better and stronger

No worries here, all of the candidates will be checked one by one. If a ban on them was false, we will know.

That will exactly be one of the requirements.

Thank you for your kind words And yes we are aware of such events. The sooner we get the right people to help us, the sooner we shall have interesting things planned and executed

I think you are all getting ahead of yourselves here, and not in a positive, exciting way (save for a few, and we really appreciate that, by the way, but this goes for you too). Now, I understand many of you do not trust us one bit, and that is fine. We got plenty of time to prove our worth to this community as it is our goal in the end, but doing so in time is currently the only thing we can promise. As for the issue in hand... You were so loud to complain about being "whipped around into behaving" beforehand, what's going on now? Now that we are providing you with such opportunity, you go around and whiplash on the exact same person that just about insisted on a little miracle so this community has a proper communication. You are absolutely free to express your opinion and concerns about the topic and we are happy to hear them. Questioning competence of a CM in a way some of you do, is neither polite nor constructive. Negative opinions will not be censored. Destructive ones will. These are public forums, and such frustrations (for no reason at all) are not helping either of us. And when it comes to reasoning behind program: 1. Why announce it now? - Because we want it to be fair and transparent for everyone who thinks they are up for the task to get a shot at it. It isn't something done under the desk. 2. Why going there at all? - We simply can't make it with everything. There is too little of us, and there are too many things that need to be addressed. Quality content is a bunch of hard work and well, sometimes you need more than few brains and few pairs of hands to tackle it. What better way to have it fitting to APB and its community than to ask those hailing from it? You complained about people never playing APB being placed as GMs. What's the issue now? 3. What makes you think they will not abuse their position for *insert all the pessimistic ideas here*? - Because, to be quite frank with all of you, none of us were born yesterday, and neither of us became into managing communities this morning when we woke up and though it would be fun. That especially goes for our CM. Do you really think that getting into this program will be a simple matter of being interested in it? We take our jobs and our obligations seriously, including this one. We've obliged ourselves to pick out the best individuals for us AND for you, and joining this program will be anything but a walk in a park. So no amount of deconstruction nor boot licking will change the fact. They will be responding to one of our trustworthy colleagues and let me tell you, he does not think of this as a fun joke. 4. How are you going to pick out people in the first place? - One by one, of course. There will be a line of things they will have to go through to be viable for this program, and after they do, they will be under strict surveillance. So I am telling you right away, if you do not like to stick to a certain schedule and fulfil your duties responsibly, don't bother. Just because it contains the word "volunteer", it does not mean that our time and patience is at your disposal. Whoever thinks it would be "fun", or "easy", don't bother. They will be our extended arms and as such, there is a procedure to follow. 5. What will volunteers do anyway? - Well, if you'd just trust us for a split second so we can work it through, you would find out soon enough yourselves. No, we do not need more people to ban people as it is a sensitive thing that is not taken as easily among us. Long story short, volunteers will be directed to do things we need to be done, but can't make it to do so in time ourselves. That is all I am going to say for now. The reason behind it, is that so we can focus on actually finally getting this game back on its track and keep it there. That is the endgame for us all. 6. When will this happen? - As it was previously said, we will get this show on the road as soon as possible, so sit tight for a bit more until we clean up the space and place a shiny new thing to the middle of the room for everyone to see. Again, as I previously said, we appreciate constructive criticism and will take it into consideration as we go through with this project, but negative comments without a proper goal to them, are not doing well for either of us. This is an informative thread, but as it is an important thing for the community, discussion was left open. At this point, I ask all of you to participate in it responsibly. Any additional unnecessary animosity or trolling towards any participant in this thread will result in warning and closing the thread. We will let you know when this little (big) project of ours starts off. Bottom line is, sit down and enjoy the ride. Have some beer. Something...

Yes, as I edited in my previous response, the support has been notified and some further directions were given