**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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You don't, but Kabam know and instead of telling the leader they should temp ban the cheater and auto remove them from the alliance. This way the alliance doesn't have to go on a witch hunt and the cheaters "privacy" isn't violated.
Yes, but at least they will have lost a week of play time and hopefully learned the lesson.
If you think in terms of cheating *the game* then mods and hacks tend to be seen to be a more severe infraction than allowing someone else to play for you, because one subverts the integrity of the game more than the other. But if you think in terms of cheating in a competition against other people, allowing someone else to compete for you is generally considered at least as serious an infraction if not more, because it completely subverts the notion of a fair competition. And in terms of punishment it could draw higher penalties if piloting is intrinsically more difficult to detect than hacking is.
Penalties serve two purposes: to remediate, and to deter. Remediation seeks to take away the ill-gotten gains accrued through cheating. Deterrence seeks to make the punishment so high that no one would risk the potential gains. The harder a form of cheating is to detect, the lower the percentage of people you will catching cheating in that way. To be an effective deterrent, the penalties for those kinds of infractions must become higher to compensate for the lower detection percentage.
cheaters never learn look at what happened when a certain allaince jumped ship to another high tier allaince then disbanded again mid season
I will say that it is hard to learn when the punishment wasn't really a punishment.
This sums up the concept pretty well, to which i'd have to add that equal punishment has to be handed as long as cheating is registered. And when i say equal, i mean that giving a 1.4m deduction and 300 war rating penalty to an ally according with another one for a map devoid of defenders and not attackers is a good call, but not giving a penalty to another ally according a 2* war with the opponents out of game's reach in private chats would be stupid and an unfair treatment not only to fair players, but also to the first ally who got hammered down.
So far kabam has dished out the same penalties and deduction for every form of cheating (piloting, agreed wars) so i'd expect that to not change till new season. But not doing anything at all to punish this would mean that the judgement is not objective, thus pretty much allowing unfair play and bad conduct to every single ally in the game.
As much as i understand losing top 3 master would be huge at 3 wars from end, there shouldnt be any kind of justification into not doing so. After all said Ally has already accessed master top 3 rewards in season 1 with a full season of piloting, so it's not even first time they go unpunished. Big ally, small ally, medium ally, they all gets treated equally, if you wanna enforce fair play. Else just don't care and give back points to the ones who suffered deductions and just bluntly admit you don't care.
but people will still cheat, take alook at what just happened, some allainces havent loged in for days...and its THIS deep into the season, goes to show u, people know they are cheating and willing to risk it all.
im just glad kabam did something to them, and they are slipping....from masters
Those master - plat 1 alliances that have members who haven't logged in for days got banned for something else, unrelated to piloting, search manipulation, or anything AW-related.
breaking the rules is breaking the rules, plain and simple
Yup, just mentioning those recent bans were unrelated to AW. There have been no bans towards unhealthy AW-related activities (except for hacking) that has been dealt, afaik.
There's no need for a cheat tag
And decreasing aw points of the ally is a suitable punishment
I don't think any other form of punishment is necessary
A cheat tag just removes a players ability to join other alliances
Which in the long run is unfair compared to missing out a few shards in seasons rewards.
yeah screw cheat tags.... just ban them permanently period. Kabam needs to drop down a huge hammer and send a message.
My 2 cents
How is this a punishment?
Dropped down to t2
Its still the same..dropping alliance war rating and points but they can still fight to get good rewards and face weaker alliance round t2
Again it could be 1 person ruining for the team or all 30. But again.. everyone is effected by it. And we dont even know who did the wrong doing..