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Following the recent ban wave, after listening to the incredulous opinion of several players I know, and after trying to ask for explanations from the moderators and Matt himself, getting only a few and rude answers, I decided to write this message; dedicated mainly to the members of the community who no longer feel safe, unable to understand what is NOT allowed to be done in APB, fearing that their account could be suspended at any time without receiving any explanation and without any way to appeal. This message is NOT intended to be in any way a request of unban for those players deemed "guilty", instead it is meant to be a criticism of the poor communication, the recent decisions made regarding the ban policy, and the transparency of the game's EULA, particularly the Rules of Conduct (RoC) section. The message will mainly focus on the decision to ban a group of players who cooperated to complete the weekly baylan activity, and some levels of the cop role (stabba). So, no, they were NOT banned for cheating. I will base my argument on the following points. 1. The lack of specific and clear rules for everyone and an effective way to communicate them. Little Oribt should make it VERY CLEAR what behaviors/actions are NOT allowed in APB by updating their EULA/RoC and communicating it the best way possible. It is untrue to say that cooperation between players aimed at leveling up roles/levels is against the RoC, I invite you to read the rules to understand that there is NO section dedicated to this at all. It is as if all of a sudden they start banning players who play arranged matches or have car meetings/races in the district, justifying it with "this is not the intended way to play the game." After playing APB for over 7 years, I have helped and been helped by dozens of different players. Thanks to them I have been able to complete events, the rare contact activities (nano), fight club weekly challenges and more. It is not uncommon to find players looking for help in completing achievements or roles, particularly during holiday events. These roles take a long time to complete and become frustrating because of the number of objectives required and their repetitiveness, not to mention those people who enjoy griefing your mission. The same goes for the weapon roles, which require a total of 20 thousand kills EACH to complete. Regarding baylan, on the other hand, it has recently become difficult to find a full district, making it almost impossible to complete the weekly tasks if not with the help of a few friends. It should come as no surprise that players are cooperating to complete it faster, and I see no reason to punish them just now, after years. What has changed? According to most people I have talked to, and in my direct experience, no one had ever been banned for so little, but I could be wrong. In any case, the action itself is basically harmless, as I will explain in more detail in the next section, therefore players should be allowed to do it. 2. No harm was caused, nor intended, to anything or anyone. At this point I want to explain in detail why the ban is unfair. It all comes down to the fact that the players involved: - They did NOT cause any harm to other players, to Little Orbit, or to the game servers. - They did NOT prevent or make it difficult for others to complete their weekly challenge. - They did NOT use or abuse any bugs/glitches nor did they harrassed/griefed anyone in the district, the server was also empty. - They did NOT gain an unfair advantage in any way, they still cannot get more than 300 joker tickets per week from the baylan. 3. The gravity of the punishment, the absence of explanation/reason within the game, and the total inability to appeal. Because of the length of the punishment (14 days) the players involved were completely cut out from the Christmas event. Such a severe punishment for such a small and harmless action is absurd. Even if we consider their actions to be against the rules, there were other ways to "punish" them, such as issuing a warning on their account and, if they continue to misbehave, suspending them from that specific game-mode for a few days. Another solution would have been to remove the items obtained (e.g. joker tickets), returning their account to a previous state. If Little Orbit does not communicate to people and tell them what they have done wrong, how can they change their behavior? They will only repeat the same mistakes unintentionally and get banned again. It also doesn't help that we cannot appeal a ban in any way. It should not be difficult to create a section on your website to request an appeal, and we all know that sending a ticket to support is useless because they never reply. In conclusion, I hope Matt decides to give a comprehensive answer once and for all. Thank you.

How did LittleOrbit answer all support tickets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6BJON-77rQ I guess this board missed some occasional shitpost. Please don't ban me for that. P.S. You will only get it if you retried with support. And no... I don't really blame them.

Hello Everyone! I have banned from APB Reloaded by Easy Anti Chat(5 days ago). But I did not cheat. I objected to sanction and sent messages to support team but there is no any response from anyone of them. What should I do for this occasion? Thank you

Theres tons of youtubers right now posting videos of themselves blatantly aimbotting with the Cheat Hud turned off. Its clear as day and really needs to be addressed. They're posting daily videos of themselves aimbotting. You can clearly see without any doubt during their own video that they're cheating. You dont even have to explain the things they're doing that are against the TOS. You can also tell as well that they're running a Graphic changer and Shader to get better FPS for more of a advantage as well. Thats a link to their own youtube page where you can CLEARLY SEE they're beyond any doubt cheating and LOVING the attention they're getting. Heres a perfect video from them that clearly shows it all off without anything hidden but the Cheat User Interface. Once again, all proven by themselves mocking the community. This isn't a name and shame. This is showing a video of a player who isn't hiding their names, linking all their account information and then showing us they're cheating without a single care. Heres other youtube videos of people posting themselves cheating on youtube in which you can clearly tell without any doubt they're cheating with the hud turned off.

I want to know 100% by a higher up if using a VPN or program that lowers latency will get you banned or not. Due to the very low population in NA server, playing on EU server seems to be very likely for most players who plan on still playing the game. If someone can confirm for a fact if it is bannable or not, it will clear out any confusions and help people out to getting better connections, thank you! I also want to test such programs and see how much of an impact it has on latency -Kush (Fluchax) Merged. Also adding in Mudfish as another latency decreasing program along with wtfast and exitlag*

I wasn't gonna make a topic on this originally but this is getting legit out of hand. Please remove golds from Bronze, it's literally ruining the game. My friends refuse to come back, bronze servers are emptying more and more, matchmaking is getting more and more broken, all because these people can't stay in Silver districts. The usual excuse is "Silver is empty". Well if these players were in Silver to begin with, it wouldn't be. For those who don't know, it's simple. Golds go to silver, purposefully lose, suicide, teamkill, whatever, then come to Bronze to farm newer or less skilled players. I'm not the first to complain about this but as far as I know this is the first topic directly talking about this issue. The following were taken in the space of 15 minutes: Names covered to avoid rule-breaking. People in question already reported for Dethreatting. Please resolve this, it's getting near unplayable at this point, because there are more and more golds in bronze. Even more than bronzes themselves. Some sugestions would be: -Locking them from getting in bronze for a period of time -Disabling or increasing the Dethreatting dificulty -Putting Gold Players only against other Gold Players (Aka threat-based matchmaking, a working one) -Disabling mission feature for Gold players in bronze until they are silver again And last and less desirable although in many cases needed -Actually banning them. I know the ammount of hate I'm gonna get from golds on this post is gonna be real, but in order for the game to grow, and new players not to leave after the first couple missions, this is more than needed. This isn't a once in a while thing. it's every single day. The same names, the same players, the same threat level, every day without stopping. Please fix this.

I have said this so many times, but i never get a respond. The xbox community needs to be monitored closely. Since we got way to many people that gets booted n servers that get booted. And pleas fix it, so we can mute people for christ sake! Its so annoying when you got a op or teammate that blast shitty lagging music! And when you mute and block them... You can still hear them!!!

I still don't understand why LO n changes anti cheating again because I see old cheaters using cheats again, I see Battleye banning people randomly without even using third-party programs I hope LO solves these problems with anti cheating

Hello everyone, just a week ago I received a ban from the EAC, the fact is that I changed the DPI in my logitec mouse, in the logitec GHUB program, I wrote to support and they said that I should file an appeal, a lot of effort and money was invested in the account, the account is 6 years old, my appeal disappeared after 3 days, and they suggest that I file an appeal again, do I have a chance of being unbanned? I read the news and forums, there was some kind of wave of bans, what should I do at the moment? I am writing from a translator

good day. a few hours ago there was a wave of bans. banned completely random users, even those who did not play with cheats. please treat us with understanding. we did Not use cheater programs.

my account has been banned for 25 days due to false accusations! I've already made an appeal on gamersfirst, I've already given all the information about the game and nothing has been resolved to this day. I've been playing this game since 2018, I've never had any problems with anything. help me please!