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Have to add:  he is probably maphacking aswell.

These very immature individuals (most likely still living in mama's house) are so frustrated and dissatisfied with their real lives that they flee into this digital world. This world is their life. This is where others do not 'live', where they can feel safe and gain advantage over others. They try to make up for dozens of shortcomings in real-life, be it brainpower(requirement for true gaining gaming-skill?), attention, importance, knowledge or power over others (which mama has?). Any kind of attention 'feeds' them and makes them feel like they are important. Using hacks makes them feel better(adjusting lack of brainpower). Crashing servers makes them feel like having power over others. All shortcomings irl.
We all know this is fake and we think it is very sad for someone to be like that, these 'puppets' however will not view it that way ever. Its their existence thats at stake here, their inner self wont allow for that. We cannot win this discussion ever, any comment just adds to their shortcoming mentioned above and pushes them further into the direction they are already heading.

One of the things we can do is just to keep on laughing about this sadness and hope these guys will get their real-life into hands and manage that to their satisfaction. In my personal opinion it is a sure lack of some brain competence, I just hope for them that the required intelligence is gained as time advances. A alternative approach for us could be to approach them positive, feed them with positive comments and remarks, make them our puppets because thats really what they are even if we do not realize it. The downside: this method is difficult to execute as all would have to work together to turn this negative spiral. I will try it anyway: good job guys! great you use hacks! awesome you can crash servers! your comments are so lovely!

Yes we can ban people without 100% proof. You often cannot be completely sure. But this is not even 10%. Also it can not be applied to any video. In real hacker scenarios things cannot be explained like going straight for that one person walking on the other side of an island far away... No such things happening at all in this video.

I must however agree it remains difficult but we all know that.

I agree with dary. So I will ban Zody. Now he will have to prove his innocence (prove he is unguilty)? it is a joke. Of course I would have to prove Zody is guilty just like it needs to be proven that Drago is guilty here. But everything is explainable as many have agreed. No evidence = not guilty, otherwise we can ban the whole community and they have to come up with proof which of course nobody has.

I feel like I have wasted too many words on this. I like to assume board members here can also think for themselves.

It is common sense to inform the defendant of his accusations.

Then those are really bad evidence.

I have watched the video, the long one of 10 minutes. It does not look like any hacking to me.

*Updated because people do not read whole topic..

Evidence 1 at 0:50
You can see the landingboat on the map. He dives down to check AA, sees them walk at hill instead and drops a bomb.

Evidence 2 at 1:51
Update: Was not lucky. He could see the boat take-off at 1:23 and used his imagination to locate it again.

Evidence 3 starting at 2:46
He can clearly see the guy bailing. Any decent pilot will remember that.

Evidence 4 starting at 3:20
Planes could already be seen from cockpit.

Evidence 5 starting at 3:37
He noticed that his teammate is on to something there.

Evidence 6 starting at 4:54
The landingboat had been visible on the minimap for a while. Also you can see the defgun (on minimap) disappearing and then shortly after appearing again which indicates enemy.

Evidence 7 starting at 6:17
He flies to the carrier for ammo/new plane and noticed the plane as he was just going to dive down to get some quick ammo

Evidence 8 starting at 8:50
At 9:06 he can see the destroyed boat which indicates enemy.

At the end he dives a 2nd time to AA-gun for no reason.
The landingboat he killed in he end was already visible when he bombed AA the 1st time.

*Also consider this situation starting at 8:15
He is just scanning for enemy but not flying towards anyone anywhere. Why would he do that when he knows there is no-one?

Nice initiative but youd also have to explain what it does + the pros and cons of implementing it on the server. The screenshot feature of a players in-game screen and anti-hack work untill 2010 are the main pros.

Hackers sure are also a reason for the decreasing population, they are spoiling the fun for the remaining. I notice an increase of activity?. A 'dont do anything' scenario might also lead to destruction. In the end it always does.

Punkbuster used to be able to permban people and they had to buy a new cdkey if they wanted to play again, something that now doesnt work anymore. This is something that should also be considered. PB would save time, but it wouldnt keep them away. It would only allow much more effective handling.

I dont know how editable punkbuster is? If it is possible to edit it so that the main problems are solved and all it would require was install it, like the serverfix, it wouldnt cause too many problems.

If the above can be fixed, a strategy would have to be defined as to how to implement it. I can understand there are a lot of players too lazy to install punkbuster or to search for it when it is not necessary. But when the popular servers for example create a pact (they work together), all announce the coming change long before and all implement it at the same time, it would create a need for the players to update their game. Besides that, most of the remaining players werent too lazy to find a different way of joining servers, hence I guess they wont be too lazy to do this either.

If PB is editable enough, you might also want to slow down the kick interval and work on a solution for a player to receive a message on his screen (preferably in red, large size) as why and where to download punkuster before the initial kick. Again, it depends on the editability.

I do not know how effective the most actual punkbuster is against the new hacks. What would be most important to have is the ability for administrators to take in-game screenshots again of a player his actual screen. This would take away a lot of research time for admins, be much more effective than recent methods and add trust to players again.

I take the challenge if you allow some time. RL is quite busy atm.

Mister it might be wise to set up this league before posting it and let players actually sign up for their respective countries. When theres prizes, mention them.

I wonder who will decide who does actually play?. Assigning a captain like in the nation cup couple years ago might work but there is no way that bad players will ever come to play in a 4on4 knockout tournament. I suggest to let each nation create their own teams and to allow multiply teams for a nation.

I hope to work for EA one day so I can prove that fixing these issues is worth over a hundred times more than the money that it would cost. A primary focus on the direct costs is ok, but decisions shouldnt be based just on that.

my 2 cents