From the realm board on D'Hara. I've withheld names and expletives. I've invited all these players to join this thread:
"_____ing cheaters have all of the leeway in the world to profit from Mendicant's multies, if they even caught all of them yet. They destroyed Madina, D'Hara, Barca, and Terran, and now that we rebuilt, they are still in a perfect shape to come destroy us again.
Makes me sick. If nothing happens to Aurvandil, I don't know how much longer I can pull myself to play this game. All of our efforts were and are useless, because some people only care about winning. This game has had so many mass cheater problems, most of them lingering for a long time before being found out and many of them only being found out because the cheaters came out to admit it, makes one feel stupid for wasting so much time playing legitimately.
I'm really pissed off with BattleMaster and the people who think that merely locking multi accounts fixes anything or renders any kind of justice whatsoever."
When I asked how many he had:
"IIRC from what I read on the forums there were something like 14.
One of which was in Iashalur by the way (Farahnaz Augusta)."
(That particular multi was part of a rebellion so might be worth investigating that. Come to think of it his rebels were mostly newbies that started in realm)
"That _______ Mendicant finally got account locked? About time. Let's hope something more permanent is done this time. This farce has been going on way to long."
"Yea, Mendicant and a tonload of his multies have finally been locked. According to some, he already made new accounts. I don't have the exact number, about 12-22 in Aurvandil were locked I think, along with some a bit all over the continent. He basically had all of the important titles for himself.
And now those unscrupulous collaborators have absolutely no shame in glorifying Mendicant, naming him their eternal leader, and placing a regent "until his return".
With his 12-22 accounts were a ton of characters on other continents constantly funneling gold for investments in Aurvandil.
Now they have a strong realm they never should have had, with crippled neighbors and a huge army, and they get to bully D'Hara again, because nobody seems to give a ___that they gained all of this through shameless and blatant cheating. A bunch of us have been saying how rotten that realm smelled since the very beginning.
And to think that he's already making new accounts, and that odds are he probably had friends doing the same without getting caught, or multies avoiding the radar, it truly disgusts me, because as far as I'm concerned, Aurvandil is still a cheater's nest. If the GMs don't care to properly prevent such abuse, and then sanction those who profit from it, they may as well just remove the rule altogether and allow everyone to run as many multies as they want. I don't care to play 50 characters, but I'm pissed off that some get to pull of 20 or so accounts fully supporting a realm, for a single player, while all we get is a single character.
I've been cheated against in the past, but never this badly. It was always low-level, and when a stop was put to it, it seriously stopped. But this was massive long-time cheating, with evidence of it resuming right away. Why even try to play fairly and fight for anything when this one douchebag can just plop a dozen characters and do whatever the !@#$ he wants? The whole damn continent couldn't bring him down, and now we are gonna have to face them alone? What's the point? No diplomacy or fighting will achieve anything, and trying is not only pointless, but frustrating as hell because these collaborators are lousy RPers and extremely unpleasant to play with."
"Come to think of it, didn't Glaumring mention on the forums that Asylon has been getting "new people" suddenly?"
"Your telling me! I was one of those who smelled something fishy right from the start. Tarajist's own knight of Panabuk (Reign Beaux, who I notice has NOT had their account locked) was one of those who suddenly showed up, said just enough to get a knighthood and then went silent until it came time for Mendicant's little duchy theft, at which point he turned traitor without a word and was given a prominent position in Aurvandil. I filed Titan reports that went nowhere.
Apparently the same cheaters did it in Fontan too.
I've dealt with cheating before, but yeah, not this blatant. In Mesh our judge (decidedly anti-Tarajist, but whatever, that happens allot) was having an argument with him when suddenly her next reply... came from an entirely different character from another family who was not involved at all. Oops! A few days later both accounts vanished. And then there is the whole Daimon/Blood Cult connection. Sure, legitimate role playing going on there but then when Tarajist figured out the connection... I got a !@#$ing TITAN warning! Absolute bull!@#$. Not to mention the utter tripe the Daimon 'player' (I refuse to call that a GM, they were clearly taking sides and liberties, you should have SEEN the garbage they said in Mesh that was considered 'roleplaying' on their part!). I brought this up with Tom and the Titans and got no single word or explanation. This is when I really figured out the double standard in Battlemaster for cheating and abuses.
All I can do is play legit and hope honour and fair play wins the day... a rather vain hope at times.
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I know in the past Tom has intervened in game breaking circumstances. Usually situations where there's too much peace but this seems like as good a reason to intervene as any.
If there's a designated cheater realm the whole thing needs to get wiped out. In RP say the nobles there were using black magic which backfired killing them all.
