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[Primus of ComStar]

MechWarriors,

As you're all well aware, there have been bots, hacking and attempts to defraud the ComStar Bills monetary systems through multiple channels. ComStar cannot, and will not let this happen and have ordered the Com Guards to eliminate any so called ‘mercenaries’ daring to do so. Their BattleMechs will be melted down and forged into UrbanMechs.

If you're aware of any plot against ComStar, do not hesitate to send any screenshots or proof you might have to our Support Team of ComGuards, as they are the first source of information for our army to track down the traitors.

Be sure to provide the following information:
-Time/date (and time zone)
-Map
-Mech used
-List of offending players

Primus of ComStar
Lord of Terra
Defender of the Inner Sphere
Wielder of the BanHammer.

[Ceribus]

Primus of ComStar, on 30 November 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

MechWarriors,

If you're aware of any plot against ComStar, do not hesitate to send any screenshots or proof you might have to our support team of ComGuards, as they are the first source of information for our army to track down the traitors.

Primus of ComStar
Lord of Terra
Defender of the Inner Sphere
Wielder of the BanHammer.

Where do we direct our communications for the ComGuards?

[AvatarofWhat]

Myndo Waterly is devious, I wouldn't trust anything she says.

[Kyle Polulak]

Ceribus, on 30 November 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

Where do we direct our communications for the ComGuards?

support@mwomercs.com

[Elder Thorn]

CYBRN4CR, on 30 November 2012 - 02:44 PM, said:

If it is actually possible to catch such players and strip their account of everything so they have ONLY one mech (a TRIAL urban mech) and no way of purchasing anything else, that would actually be funny.

"Ha Ha look at the hacker in the urban mech"

But yes, do ban them.

i would make an extra account, only to get an Urban Mech, tbh

[Dirk Le Daring]

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[Onyx Rain]

Elder Thorn, on 30 November 2012 - 03:10 PM, said:

i would make an extra account, only to get an Urban Mech, tbh

The Devs ought to make a giant Urban mech...like at least 3-5 times larger then any mech in game...drop into a game the person they are going to ban is playing, call them out on their infractions then kill them with the giant urbie...and ban them.

[BigMooingCow]

Primus of ComStar, on 30 November 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

MechWarriors,

As you're all well aware, there have been bots, hacking and attempts to defraud the ComStar Bills monetary systems through multiple channels. ComStar cannot, and will not let this happen and have ordered the Com Guards to eliminate any so called ‘mercenaries’ daring to do so. Their BattleMechs will be melted down and forged into UrbanMechs.

If you're aware of any plot against ComStar, do not hesitate to send any screenshots or proof you might have to our support team of ComGuards, as they are the first source of information for our army to track down the traitors.

Primus of ComStar
Lord of Terra
Defender of the Inner Sphere
Wielder of the BanHammer.

Please define "proof". I have no facility to capture video, and without that it's my word versus theirs. I'll submit names of suicide farmers to support@mwomercs.com, but there's no point in doing so if you need more proof than me just throwing names at you.

Soooo... how does this work? Are names useful? I've got two at the moment, and of course everyone knows Duke Nukem.

[Kremator1968]

Could you do us all a favour and ban the suicide farmers. You should be able to look at self-kill logs and see how this happens within 30 secs of a battle beginning. This would end spoiled matches.

[Redshift2k5]

BigMooingCow, on 01 December 2012 - 09:20 AM, said:

Please define "proof". I have no facility to capture video, and without that it's my word versus theirs. I'll submit names of suicide farmers to support@mwomercs.com, but there's no point in doing so if you need more proof than me just throwing names at you.

Soooo... how does this work? Are names useful? I've got two at the moment, and of course everyone knows Duke Nukem.

Reporting the names (and time/date if you can) is certainly better than nothing.

Also, FRAPS is a free tool you can use to capture both video and screenshots.

[SteelyDan]

Aw, What The H-e-l-l??
Who allowed this bunch of Fear Mongers, in here???

[JT Black]

I approve of this service !

[Onyx Rain]

BigMooingCow, on 01 December 2012 - 09:20 AM, said:

Please define "proof". I have no facility to capture video, and without that it's my word versus theirs. I'll submit names of suicide farmers to support@mwomercs.com, but there's no point in doing so if you need more proof than me just throwing names at you.

Soooo... how does this work? Are names useful? I've got two at the moment, and of course everyone knows Duke Nukem.

Evga precision x, and msi afterburner graphics card overclocking utilities both have a screen capture mode.
http://www.evga.com/precision/
http://event.msi.com...er/download.htm

As does fraps, and gamebooster 3.5 beta, and the new razer gamebooster beta.
http://www.freenew.n...beta/545118.htm (If you don't want to wait till accepted into razer beta)
Razer gamebooster beta sign up http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster
http://www.fraps.com/

I suggest everyone run gamebooster, because it shuts down unnecessary processes and frees up ram...making your game run better....and many of us need that desperately for this game. IT DOES WORK

[Firewuff]

If you report a suicide farmer or similar include the time, date and map. If several people report the player they will definetly take action. I'm sure there are logs that can be checked.

DEVS - it would be good to outline the FULL process in more details once it is fully defined, I know you are working on a better system and await it.

I have noticed a drop in farmers over the last few days.

[Rustycan]

BigMooingCow, on 01 December 2012 - 09:20 AM, said:

Soooo... how does this work? Are names useful? I've got two at the moment, and of course everyone knows Duke Nukem.

I have been in dozens of drops where this Duke Nukem will kill himself and declare that he can "do this all day"

I have screen shots of his chats after his suicides.

Too bad that the devs cant make it so anyone who kills them self in a game within the first minute, get charged an amount of XP and c-bills that he would have made during a regular match win. (ie lose 500xp and 110k+ c-bills)

[BigMooingCow]

Redshift2k5, on 01 December 2012 - 09:46 AM, said:

Reporting the names (and time/date if you can) is certainly better than nothing.

Also, FRAPS is a free tool you can use to capture both video and screenshots.

I wonder, is it better than nothing to report names and date/times? Because surely many people have reported Duke Nukem already, and he's still around and kicking. I called out "Chieokure ko no" last night when a match started and someone else chimed in "oh, he's an old suicider, been here forever".

I'm happy to report people, but only if things actually get done. I'm not going to be that guy in Lost who sent all his daily reports in, only to have them pop out a tube somewhere in a discarded pile.

So, my question for PGI is: are names and date/times enough information to ban the cheaters?


As for FRAPS, I would rather not run utilities like that while playing an online game. Stability is already shaky enough without me introducing another app into the mix!

[AntharPrime]

So what I get from this message is that the Urbanmech is going to be added?

[Suicidal Idiot]

I suspect that publicly naming suiciders might be a violation of the "No Public Naming & Shaming" policy. I recommend using the email address instead.

Good luck. Perhaps someday we can get get 8 person drops again. The game is challenging enough with the lag making ballistic weapons unusable for me.

Edited by Suicidal Idiot, 01 December 2012 - 07:11 PM.

[Shimmering Sword]

For those wondering if simply giving the name of an exploiter is worth the time, yes, yes it is.
Their system uses stats tracking, and when a player is reported they are put under expanded stats tracking. They will be caught, not insta banned, but dealt with.

[DrnkJawa]

Primus of ComStar, on 30 November 2012 - 02:29 PM, said:

MechWarriors,
Their BattleMechs will be melted down and forged into UrbanMechs.

Primus of ComStar
Lord of Terra
Defender of the Inner Sphere
Wielder of the BanHammer.

so is this a confirmation that The UrbanMechs are coming?