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Escrito por IJustHaveTo, 02.10.2021 at 10:57

If unleashed is immediately found to be toxic, or xbugs is immediately found to be cheating, in less than a minute both can be perma banned again. I have no idea how mods handle that but it should be easy to ban again, so if they do something they will be in the same state as they are now. It is called the conception of 'reform'. If they have been already banned for many years, chances are they've grown up at least a little bit, but under the constant effect of a permanent ban, it is not hard to understand why they act like this. If you already spent a lot of time on a game, and then you got banned, I imagine moving on immediately might not be the easiest thing to do. Probably Hellykin's example is the best one, knowing the situation he was in, he actually decided to stay out of the game, or at least I have not seen him for some time, but maybe he just never cared enough to return or try to make an appeal.

You don't seem to realize we've gone down that road already with unleashed & bugs. They have already had their "one last chance", and they both sooner or later went right back to doing the same old shit. We (the moderators & staff of atWar) have been ridiculously patient and forgiving... but how many "last chances" do we give? We are not these kids' parents... we don't give them a new "last chance" every year. At some point we just have to say, enough is enough.

Every banned player's situation is different. For example Osix could probably appeal after a year or so and if he's sincere enough get his "one last chance" (although I doubt he's the kind of guy to ever change his behavior). Helly asked to be unbanned after some months by sending me a message full of further insults, so obviously he never learned anything. When it comes to people like bugs & unleashed though, they have PERMANENTLY burned their bridges here. I don't know how to say that any more clearly -- they will NEVER be unbanned, period. Those are 2 psychologically disturbed individuals who have demonstrated they'll never change, despite repeated chances, and we're simply not giving them any more "last chances" again. (The fact that they are still trying to get back in, after they've been told they are not welcome and not wanted, tells you all you need to know. When normal people are point-blank told they are not welcome, they go somewhere else.)

This is not because I or any of the mods "hate" them (even though they like to say that's the reason). I wish them well and I sincerely hope they get some professional help in their lives. Our motivation is simply to protect the rest of the atWar community from their abuse.

Real life has consequences. When you fuck up badly enough, the consequences can last your entire life. Some people need to realize this.

I was pr'd by this guy in game so i told him i would review his appeal again (even though i already review all of these). He seems to be confused on what his ban is for. He believes he was just banned for this scenario thing that CC gave him permission for or whatever. It wasn't even mentioned in your perma ban.

Given that you've already had other bans, reports, and mutes AFTER your perma ban and final warning, i'd say that alone should warrant this ban to stay. Please do not make alts to bypass your ban or make more appeals. You can appeal again in a year if you want, sorry dude.

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Name: Dr. Doof

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Character name: Nick

Escrito por Sveslav, 29.09.2021 at 11:11

Hello

Hi Sveslav

They are indeed 2 people and the person John_Wick is separate and skilled enough to be a rank 9 with his elo. I verified this myself through means I won't explain here. They may both CW/Duel.

Escrito por Tribune Aquila, 28.09.2021 at 10:25

I don't get it

we still ♥ you

Escrito por winkcat, 27.09.2021 at 22:57

...you know what they say about men with small hands...

They make better proctologists?

Escrito por Unweeshed, 27.09.2021 at 22:05

bad activity is better then no activity

I disagree.

See https://atwar-game.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=48001

I got a vertical mouse a year or so ago after Abraham recommended it... it really is great. Since I work at my computer all day long it makes a difference.

I'm working on it

It will have some restrictions though, like you won't be able to delete maps with more than, say, 10 plays, to prevent people from maliciously deleting popular maps. (I might change the exact number, don't quote me on it yet, but it will be something like that.)

Here's a screenshot from the test site -- it's not finished yet though.

Escrito por Noir Brillant, 27.09.2021 at 14:13

Would anyone know if this is going to be addressed in the near future or not? Just curious, no pressure.

Yes I'm working on it, but it will take a while.

The entire way AW saves/loads games is janky and not reliable. In July I started working on a replacement system. I got the saving-half of it more or less done. I still have to do the "loading it back in again" part. I'm hoping it will fix problems like this bug report, and other things too. However there's a chance it won't fix everything -- there may still be bugs elsewhere -- but it should make them easier to track down at that point.

Anyway it's definitely a work in progress.

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I think Unleashed has serious mental issues and needs professional help. (I'm not joking, I'm not trying to be insulting... I mean it in the literal, serious sense.)

It could be emotional turmoil like Brianwl said... in fact there's probably a lot of truth to that. I once heard somebody else say he has Borderline Personality Disorder... I don't know for sure, but that would make a lot of sense too.

Since I'm not a psychologist though, there's nothing I can do to help him. My job is just to protect the rest of the AW community from him.

It's challenging to keep someone out when they are so determined. So far we've banned almost 300 accounts of his, and over 700 IP addresses (mostly VPNs). The vast majority of those bans were added by our system automatically. It's not like I have time to sit here all day applying bans . We have a pretty strong banning system now that learns and automatically applies bans whenever it makes a connection between a banned person and some new alt. It's not perfect though, and he continues to slip through from time to time. Just about every single moderator has had to deal with him at one time or another.

So here we are, now 2 years and counting... and he's still trying to get into a game where nobody wants him.

Escrito por Chess, 25.09.2021 at 03:04

Check it out.... in your user profile / settings page:

Ted the philanthropist

Thanks for doing this, it was a very nice thing to do.

Escrito por Palmitas, 26.09.2021 at 08:31

Escrito por Amok, 11.11.2013 at 10:29

Will be implemented.

Updates on when it's coming?
8 years have passed by

First I've seen of this. I'll try to follow through on what Amok promised though.

I'll do my best to get it done sometime in the next 8 years

Moving this to Ideas and Suggestions.... would be cool to develop someday

Thanks to everybody who participated... it was nice talking with you all. We will do this again sometime!

I might be a couple minutes late guys... trying to get back home fast as I can

Escrito por Sid, 25.09.2021 at 14:01

We'll never know because China banned gaming except for like 1 hour a day.

Perfect for casual... could you imagine 100 million people playing a casual turn each day ♥
Dave should contact the Chinese government and sell AW on it's 'strategic - logistic development, pro-social teamwork, and of course, world geography' benefits for youth. ♥

We'll never know because China banned gaming except for like 1 hour a day.

Escrito por Dave, 25.09.2021 at 07:44

Escrito por JUGERS2, 25.09.2021 at 07:38

Penalizing the majority for 1 person.

He's asking for an additional option to customize who he receives messages from... I thought you were in favor of MORE customization

Dave, you got me thinking... is this really possible?

https://atwar-game.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=48013#m766677

ps Chess... Brilliant...!

Escrito por JUGERS2, 25.09.2021 at 08:35

Customization means for the individual to choose and let's the default untouched, if you can do that sure i am fine but me not being able to pm a random new player i see because he has to add me friend list, no i am not fine.

That's what he's saying... you're freaking out over nothing

Escrito por JUGERS2, 25.09.2021 at 07:38

Penalizing the majority for 1 person.

He's asking for an additional option to customize who he receives messages from... I thought you were in favor of MORE customization

That's a great idea. It should be easy to implement, too (unlike most things on AW)...

Just to add to this, I play a lot of casual and he's not wrong. But he has the same chance of getting 10 turns in a row. It's not an exaggeration. 10-12 rolls for one player is common. But over the course of a game it averages out.

After reading Dave's novel, I think what happens is the random player is picked and 5 moves or so are executed... more depending on the number of overall moves. In casual games, it's easy to have 50+ moves per turn mid game, and rather than run through 50 iterations, i think it does 5 iterations to save on memory, so you get things like 10 moves of his, 10 moves of yours. Not sure obviously, not a coder, but it's just what i've observed, and i don't notice it as much in the early game when there are only a few moves. Will pay more attention and do a proper bug report if i can get some more concrete data and screen shots...

Good idea!

I'll share one more example. atWar has a big database of registered users -- almost 750K as of this moment. Obviously most of those accounts are inactive at this point. Some will never come back. But a lot of them can and do come back. We saw this happen last year during the big covid spike -- not only did we have new people coming in, we had lots and lots of "old timers" coming back too. There is a huge "reservoir" of potential activity if we could get old players to come back and, most importantly, stick around.

Now, again, I know there are lots of reasons people may have for not sticking around, and the community is just 1 of them. But...

A few days ago I happened to see a conversation in the main lobby chat. There was a player who had just come back to atWar after 2 years, and was asking what was new. Another player -- who I won't name, but he's one of the known toxic people around here -- was going on about how dead the game is, staff is out to get him, mods/admins are corrupt, blah blah blah. Now put yourself in their shoes... if you've just come back after 2 years, and everything you hear is negative, why would you stick around?

The only people who complain about the moderation are, generally speaking, the toxic ones who are always in trouble because of it. The vast majority of AW users approve of the job our moderators do, and some even want us to enforce the rules MORE strictly. (I'm not just making that up, we know it because of the responses we got to our Survey.) The player I saw complaining is one of those guys who barely even plays the game, he just hangs around to complain about how badly he feels he's been treated -- in other words, he's just a drain on the community. He contributes nothing.

If I'm answering the question "what's new in the last 2 years", there are a lot of good updates I can mention: CW betting, the new playoffs system, new strategies, daily login bonuses, earning PC from games, the PC transfer feature, allowing non-premiums to play Promo'd maps for free, not to mention lots of bugs that have been fixed. Now I know what you're thinking, this is all just a drop in the ocean, and you're right -- there are still many other things that we're working on adding, still bugs to fix, etc. But considering how badly atWar had been neglected prior to my arrival, I think it is fair to say there are lots of good things to say about the progress we've made. (Again, I'm not saying things are perfect -- we still have a long way to go -- but there are honestly more reasons for optimism than negativity at this point.)

When old players come back after long period of inactivity, we should welcome them and encourage them.