Alexander

Killin was arrested for hacking and is currently serving time in jail, as such his videos were removed as a sign of good faith hoping for bail. 
He should be free in about 17 years.

Killin was arrested for hacking and is currently serving time in jail, as such his videos were removed as a sign of good faith hoping for bail. 
He should be free in about 17 years.

What exactly does?
 
Events are a fair bit of work but it used to be a part time job for a guy who made them about 6 months upfront. Honestly the majority of it lies in research for us - we can't just 1-2-3 change everything because the current event standards are actually not just random but based on extensive market research etc. 
Main issue right now is honestly that we couldn't simply inherit skilled staff (SM was in maintenance mode when we bought it - they had other jobs already), so we've to figure everything out from scratch and hire as well, so a lot of "we" ends up being "me" trying to juggle maintenance previously done by 4 (3 of which part time, thankfully) people in addition to actual changes that haven't been done in years! 
I am in the hiring process for some staff but having some difficulty choosing! Life sucks sometimes. 😛 On the community side specifically, as that's something I really _really_ don't have time for and it's starting to show >.> 
Basically as I start understanding and fixing some backlaying stuff everything (including hiring - hiring people who have to learn everything on their own is ... difficult!) should become much much much easier. 
E.g. we have to get backups in a much better place, there's a serious risk of losing months of data and having a week of downtime or more if disaster strikes and that's just totally not acceptable for a game like this. I'd like to automate infrastructure so it recovers nicely etc (have you noticed? I already did a fair bit of work on that, though the biggest steps are yet to come!), with this i'd like to make a proper pipeline of SM Dev -> SM RC (semi-public beta) -> SM Live so updates get less risky (there's a pipeline of sorts now, but it honestly has some crucial issues, including that the only real test version doesn't run the game the same way as the live version....). We can streamline support by probably up to 90% by offering simple instructions to disable your own base and reach forget password and making clear what we can/cant help with... There's so much we've planned that will make SM more reliable in the long run or free more of our time for stuff more beneficial to the players.... 
Events are part of that - once we've a bit of experience we can probably automate parts (does a human REALLY need to decide what days you get some random bonus? :P), assuming the small parts actually are fun and make sense, and free up time for actual humans planning larger scaled, more interesting events that don't feel like generic drivel. 
Right now the goal of the upcoming event schedule is just for us to duke out what does/doesn't work and play around a bit. Top priority right now is picking up the pieces Tacticsoft couldn't work on as they had a huge need to show results quickly (which we really don't, we're fine spending a few months making the next 5 years easier). But once we've some experience, as with all things, it'll get better 😃

Yeah uh, if SM ever gets popups like that please warn me, but I think we use decently reliable partners that wouldn't. 
 
I will join the support for MalwareBytes, if you ever worry about having a virus, go install it. It's excellent. The IT guy people pay 200$ to for repairing their virused computer usually just runs MBam from a USB stick problem solved. Terrific program criminally underrated and one of the only *real* anti viruses. Most anti viruses solve viruses for vulnerabilities they also invent, at least, that was the consensus back in the 2000's, could be that was a conspiracy theory but my father believed so and it used to be his job.

Some interesting responses, others a bit harsh .... xD
 
To answer the question, it's a toss up between 3 things:

A proper spaghetti carbonara with guanciale and absolutely no cream is delicious, rich, flavorful and creamy. The rich egg, fat and cheese would grow boring, but the delicious salty guanciale keeps it exciting at all times - which is why you must cut it into bigger chunks than on this picture, and not too many of them. The guanciale serves to keep your pallette awake, not to flavor the entire meal. 
For the vegetarians in this thread, you can probably replace the fat by another type and the guanciale by practically anything else salty. Nuts might honestly work so long as cooked fairly softly. I've made nut-based pasta's before and they work well. For vegans, you're fresh out of options - no egg is no dice.
A proper lasagna bolognese is delicious, sweet and savory with cheesy goodness to boot! 
It's one of those dishes you eat so often of poor quality, you think it has a certain homely, reliable flavor but isn't very special. Until you have a proper one in italy that is and you discover it is an assortment of delicious flavors that differs a bit with every bite as the center is cooked slightly differently from the rest of the lasagna. 
Now, when I make it at home, I lack some italian ingredients. A killer tomato paste is hard to find at home, so is great quality pasta (unless you have space for your own machine, which I do not :(). In fact, even the tomato's used to make a killer tomato paste/bolognese are practically impossible to find here, but you can find a canned one that is extremely good if you live in the USA. I heard nothing but positive things about San Marzano tomatoes in a can, but we don't have those here.
So my trick at home is to use a little bit of sambal, which slightly drowns out the poor quality tomatoes and offers a sweet yet spicy twist to it that works well with lower quality ingredients!

A quality buccatini pomodore is a bit of a national treasure, a very sweet dish with some salty goodness from the grated cheese. The thicker pasta really helps provide a nice bite!
In Pienza, at probably my favorite restaurant ever, they had a local special. A pici (similar to buccatini) with garlic foam, tomato sauce. It was divine and honestly made me beg my companions to try it themselves - best meal I had in my life. I am yet to successfully recreate it but once I've some time and space for a pasta machine, I will. 
 
Now as you may have noticed, I quite like my italian pasta's. I am a somewhat picky eater and I find pasta is provides what I need in addition to being quite delicious. I imagine though some of you may be disappointed to not find any dutch food in here, so I will offer my favorite dutch meal and probably the only one genuinely I love.
Farmer's Kale with sausage and gravy is a a dutch speciality, though I usually choose to eat it without the gravy as its a bit much for me.
It's extremely savory/umami and when piping hot will make you feel fulfilled in ways that are hard to imagine. 
If cooked properly, the mashed potatoes and kale mesh into one soft substance. You don't taste any fibers from the leaves or tomato - there's no unpleasant texture - it's basically just mashed potato texture. It's extremely healthy and easy to make. 
 
 
Hope that answers it for everyone!

Yeah uh, if SM ever gets popups like that please warn me, but I think we use decently reliable partners that wouldn't. 
 
I will join the support for MalwareBytes, if you ever worry about having a virus, go install it. It's excellent. The IT guy people pay 200$ to for repairing their virused computer usually just runs MBam from a USB stick problem solved. Terrific program criminally underrated and one of the only *real* anti viruses. Most anti viruses solve viruses for vulnerabilities they also invent, at least, that was the consensus back in the 2000's, could be that was a conspiracy theory but my father believed so and it used to be his job.

What exactly does?
 
Events are a fair bit of work but it used to be a part time job for a guy who made them about 6 months upfront. Honestly the majority of it lies in research for us - we can't just 1-2-3 change everything because the current event standards are actually not just random but based on extensive market research etc. 
Main issue right now is honestly that we couldn't simply inherit skilled staff (SM was in maintenance mode when we bought it - they had other jobs already), so we've to figure everything out from scratch and hire as well, so a lot of "we" ends up being "me" trying to juggle maintenance previously done by 4 (3 of which part time, thankfully) people in addition to actual changes that haven't been done in years! 
I am in the hiring process for some staff but having some difficulty choosing! Life sucks sometimes. 😛 On the community side specifically, as that's something I really _really_ don't have time for and it's starting to show >.> 
Basically as I start understanding and fixing some backlaying stuff everything (including hiring - hiring people who have to learn everything on their own is ... difficult!) should become much much much easier. 
E.g. we have to get backups in a much better place, there's a serious risk of losing months of data and having a week of downtime or more if disaster strikes and that's just totally not acceptable for a game like this. I'd like to automate infrastructure so it recovers nicely etc (have you noticed? I already did a fair bit of work on that, though the biggest steps are yet to come!), with this i'd like to make a proper pipeline of SM Dev -> SM RC (semi-public beta) -> SM Live so updates get less risky (there's a pipeline of sorts now, but it honestly has some crucial issues, including that the only real test version doesn't run the game the same way as the live version....). We can streamline support by probably up to 90% by offering simple instructions to disable your own base and reach forget password and making clear what we can/cant help with... There's so much we've planned that will make SM more reliable in the long run or free more of our time for stuff more beneficial to the players.... 
Events are part of that - once we've a bit of experience we can probably automate parts (does a human REALLY need to decide what days you get some random bonus? :P), assuming the small parts actually are fun and make sense, and free up time for actual humans planning larger scaled, more interesting events that don't feel like generic drivel. 
Right now the goal of the upcoming event schedule is just for us to duke out what does/doesn't work and play around a bit. Top priority right now is picking up the pieces Tacticsoft couldn't work on as they had a huge need to show results quickly (which we really don't, we're fine spending a few months making the next 5 years easier). But once we've some experience, as with all things, it'll get better 😃

28th feb is the last TS event 🙂

Some interesting responses, others a bit harsh .... xD
 
To answer the question, it's a toss up between 3 things:

A proper spaghetti carbonara with guanciale and absolutely no cream is delicious, rich, flavorful and creamy. The rich egg, fat and cheese would grow boring, but the delicious salty guanciale keeps it exciting at all times - which is why you must cut it into bigger chunks than on this picture, and not too many of them. The guanciale serves to keep your pallette awake, not to flavor the entire meal. 
For the vegetarians in this thread, you can probably replace the fat by another type and the guanciale by practically anything else salty. Nuts might honestly work so long as cooked fairly softly. I've made nut-based pasta's before and they work well. For vegans, you're fresh out of options - no egg is no dice.
A proper lasagna bolognese is delicious, sweet and savory with cheesy goodness to boot! 
It's one of those dishes you eat so often of poor quality, you think it has a certain homely, reliable flavor but isn't very special. Until you have a proper one in italy that is and you discover it is an assortment of delicious flavors that differs a bit with every bite as the center is cooked slightly differently from the rest of the lasagna. 
Now, when I make it at home, I lack some italian ingredients. A killer tomato paste is hard to find at home, so is great quality pasta (unless you have space for your own machine, which I do not :(). In fact, even the tomato's used to make a killer tomato paste/bolognese are practically impossible to find here, but you can find a canned one that is extremely good if you live in the USA. I heard nothing but positive things about San Marzano tomatoes in a can, but we don't have those here.
So my trick at home is to use a little bit of sambal, which slightly drowns out the poor quality tomatoes and offers a sweet yet spicy twist to it that works well with lower quality ingredients!

A quality buccatini pomodore is a bit of a national treasure, a very sweet dish with some salty goodness from the grated cheese. The thicker pasta really helps provide a nice bite!
In Pienza, at probably my favorite restaurant ever, they had a local special. A pici (similar to buccatini) with garlic foam, tomato sauce. It was divine and honestly made me beg my companions to try it themselves - best meal I had in my life. I am yet to successfully recreate it but once I've some time and space for a pasta machine, I will. 
 
Now as you may have noticed, I quite like my italian pasta's. I am a somewhat picky eater and I find pasta is provides what I need in addition to being quite delicious. I imagine though some of you may be disappointed to not find any dutch food in here, so I will offer my favorite dutch meal and probably the only one genuinely I love.
Farmer's Kale with sausage and gravy is a a dutch speciality, though I usually choose to eat it without the gravy as its a bit much for me.
It's extremely savory/umami and when piping hot will make you feel fulfilled in ways that are hard to imagine. 
If cooked properly, the mashed potatoes and kale mesh into one soft substance. You don't taste any fibers from the leaves or tomato - there's no unpleasant texture - it's basically just mashed potato texture. It's extremely healthy and easy to make. 
 
 
Hope that answers it for everyone!

Some interesting responses, others a bit harsh .... xD
 
To answer the question, it's a toss up between 3 things:

A proper spaghetti carbonara with guanciale and absolutely no cream is delicious, rich, flavorful and creamy. The rich egg, fat and cheese would grow boring, but the delicious salty guanciale keeps it exciting at all times - which is why you must cut it into bigger chunks than on this picture, and not too many of them. The guanciale serves to keep your pallette awake, not to flavor the entire meal. 
For the vegetarians in this thread, you can probably replace the fat by another type and the guanciale by practically anything else salty. Nuts might honestly work so long as cooked fairly softly. I've made nut-based pasta's before and they work well. For vegans, you're fresh out of options - no egg is no dice.
A proper lasagna bolognese is delicious, sweet and savory with cheesy goodness to boot! 
It's one of those dishes you eat so often of poor quality, you think it has a certain homely, reliable flavor but isn't very special. Until you have a proper one in italy that is and you discover it is an assortment of delicious flavors that differs a bit with every bite as the center is cooked slightly differently from the rest of the lasagna. 
Now, when I make it at home, I lack some italian ingredients. A killer tomato paste is hard to find at home, so is great quality pasta (unless you have space for your own machine, which I do not :(). In fact, even the tomato's used to make a killer tomato paste/bolognese are practically impossible to find here, but you can find a canned one that is extremely good if you live in the USA. I heard nothing but positive things about San Marzano tomatoes in a can, but we don't have those here.
So my trick at home is to use a little bit of sambal, which slightly drowns out the poor quality tomatoes and offers a sweet yet spicy twist to it that works well with lower quality ingredients!

A quality buccatini pomodore is a bit of a national treasure, a very sweet dish with some salty goodness from the grated cheese. The thicker pasta really helps provide a nice bite!
In Pienza, at probably my favorite restaurant ever, they had a local special. A pici (similar to buccatini) with garlic foam, tomato sauce. It was divine and honestly made me beg my companions to try it themselves - best meal I had in my life. I am yet to successfully recreate it but once I've some time and space for a pasta machine, I will. 
 
Now as you may have noticed, I quite like my italian pasta's. I am a somewhat picky eater and I find pasta is provides what I need in addition to being quite delicious. I imagine though some of you may be disappointed to not find any dutch food in here, so I will offer my favorite dutch meal and probably the only one genuinely I love.
Farmer's Kale with sausage and gravy is a a dutch speciality, though I usually choose to eat it without the gravy as its a bit much for me.
It's extremely savory/umami and when piping hot will make you feel fulfilled in ways that are hard to imagine. 
If cooked properly, the mashed potatoes and kale mesh into one soft substance. You don't taste any fibers from the leaves or tomato - there's no unpleasant texture - it's basically just mashed potato texture. It's extremely healthy and easy to make. 
 
 
Hope that answers it for everyone!

Some interesting responses, others a bit harsh .... xD
 
To answer the question, it's a toss up between 3 things:

A proper spaghetti carbonara with guanciale and absolutely no cream is delicious, rich, flavorful and creamy. The rich egg, fat and cheese would grow boring, but the delicious salty guanciale keeps it exciting at all times - which is why you must cut it into bigger chunks than on this picture, and not too many of them. The guanciale serves to keep your pallette awake, not to flavor the entire meal. 
For the vegetarians in this thread, you can probably replace the fat by another type and the guanciale by practically anything else salty. Nuts might honestly work so long as cooked fairly softly. I've made nut-based pasta's before and they work well. For vegans, you're fresh out of options - no egg is no dice.
A proper lasagna bolognese is delicious, sweet and savory with cheesy goodness to boot! 
It's one of those dishes you eat so often of poor quality, you think it has a certain homely, reliable flavor but isn't very special. Until you have a proper one in italy that is and you discover it is an assortment of delicious flavors that differs a bit with every bite as the center is cooked slightly differently from the rest of the lasagna. 
Now, when I make it at home, I lack some italian ingredients. A killer tomato paste is hard to find at home, so is great quality pasta (unless you have space for your own machine, which I do not :(). In fact, even the tomato's used to make a killer tomato paste/bolognese are practically impossible to find here, but you can find a canned one that is extremely good if you live in the USA. I heard nothing but positive things about San Marzano tomatoes in a can, but we don't have those here.
So my trick at home is to use a little bit of sambal, which slightly drowns out the poor quality tomatoes and offers a sweet yet spicy twist to it that works well with lower quality ingredients!

A quality buccatini pomodore is a bit of a national treasure, a very sweet dish with some salty goodness from the grated cheese. The thicker pasta really helps provide a nice bite!
In Pienza, at probably my favorite restaurant ever, they had a local special. A pici (similar to buccatini) with garlic foam, tomato sauce. It was divine and honestly made me beg my companions to try it themselves - best meal I had in my life. I am yet to successfully recreate it but once I've some time and space for a pasta machine, I will. 
 
Now as you may have noticed, I quite like my italian pasta's. I am a somewhat picky eater and I find pasta is provides what I need in addition to being quite delicious. I imagine though some of you may be disappointed to not find any dutch food in here, so I will offer my favorite dutch meal and probably the only one genuinely I love.
Farmer's Kale with sausage and gravy is a a dutch speciality, though I usually choose to eat it without the gravy as its a bit much for me.
It's extremely savory/umami and when piping hot will make you feel fulfilled in ways that are hard to imagine. 
If cooked properly, the mashed potatoes and kale mesh into one soft substance. You don't taste any fibers from the leaves or tomato - there's no unpleasant texture - it's basically just mashed potato texture. It's extremely healthy and easy to make. 
 
 
Hope that answers it for everyone!

Some interesting responses, others a bit harsh .... xD
 
To answer the question, it's a toss up between 3 things:

A proper spaghetti carbonara with guanciale and absolutely no cream is delicious, rich, flavorful and creamy. The rich egg, fat and cheese would grow boring, but the delicious salty guanciale keeps it exciting at all times - which is why you must cut it into bigger chunks than on this picture, and not too many of them. The guanciale serves to keep your pallette awake, not to flavor the entire meal. 
For the vegetarians in this thread, you can probably replace the fat by another type and the guanciale by practically anything else salty. Nuts might honestly work so long as cooked fairly softly. I've made nut-based pasta's before and they work well. For vegans, you're fresh out of options - no egg is no dice.
A proper lasagna bolognese is delicious, sweet and savory with cheesy goodness to boot! 
It's one of those dishes you eat so often of poor quality, you think it has a certain homely, reliable flavor but isn't very special. Until you have a proper one in italy that is and you discover it is an assortment of delicious flavors that differs a bit with every bite as the center is cooked slightly differently from the rest of the lasagna. 
Now, when I make it at home, I lack some italian ingredients. A killer tomato paste is hard to find at home, so is great quality pasta (unless you have space for your own machine, which I do not :(). In fact, even the tomato's used to make a killer tomato paste/bolognese are practically impossible to find here, but you can find a canned one that is extremely good if you live in the USA. I heard nothing but positive things about San Marzano tomatoes in a can, but we don't have those here.
So my trick at home is to use a little bit of sambal, which slightly drowns out the poor quality tomatoes and offers a sweet yet spicy twist to it that works well with lower quality ingredients!

A quality buccatini pomodore is a bit of a national treasure, a very sweet dish with some salty goodness from the grated cheese. The thicker pasta really helps provide a nice bite!
In Pienza, at probably my favorite restaurant ever, they had a local special. A pici (similar to buccatini) with garlic foam, tomato sauce. It was divine and honestly made me beg my companions to try it themselves - best meal I had in my life. I am yet to successfully recreate it but once I've some time and space for a pasta machine, I will. 
 
Now as you may have noticed, I quite like my italian pasta's. I am a somewhat picky eater and I find pasta is provides what I need in addition to being quite delicious. I imagine though some of you may be disappointed to not find any dutch food in here, so I will offer my favorite dutch meal and probably the only one genuinely I love.
Farmer's Kale with sausage and gravy is a a dutch speciality, though I usually choose to eat it without the gravy as its a bit much for me.
It's extremely savory/umami and when piping hot will make you feel fulfilled in ways that are hard to imagine. 
If cooked properly, the mashed potatoes and kale mesh into one soft substance. You don't taste any fibers from the leaves or tomato - there's no unpleasant texture - it's basically just mashed potato texture. It's extremely healthy and easy to make. 
 
 
Hope that answers it for everyone!

Yeah uh, if SM ever gets popups like that please warn me, but I think we use decently reliable partners that wouldn't. 
 
I will join the support for MalwareBytes, if you ever worry about having a virus, go install it. It's excellent. The IT guy people pay 200$ to for repairing their virused computer usually just runs MBam from a USB stick problem solved. Terrific program criminally underrated and one of the only *real* anti viruses. Most anti viruses solve viruses for vulnerabilities they also invent, at least, that was the consensus back in the 2000's, could be that was a conspiracy theory but my father believed so and it used to be his job.

Yeah uh, if SM ever gets popups like that please warn me, but I think we use decently reliable partners that wouldn't. 
 
I will join the support for MalwareBytes, if you ever worry about having a virus, go install it. It's excellent. The IT guy people pay 200$ to for repairing their virused computer usually just runs MBam from a USB stick problem solved. Terrific program criminally underrated and one of the only *real* anti viruses. Most anti viruses solve viruses for vulnerabilities they also invent, at least, that was the consensus back in the 2000's, could be that was a conspiracy theory but my father believed so and it used to be his job.

Yeah uh, if SM ever gets popups like that please warn me, but I think we use decently reliable partners that wouldn't. 
 
I will join the support for MalwareBytes, if you ever worry about having a virus, go install it. It's excellent. The IT guy people pay 200$ to for repairing their virused computer usually just runs MBam from a USB stick problem solved. Terrific program criminally underrated and one of the only *real* anti viruses. Most anti viruses solve viruses for vulnerabilities they also invent, at least, that was the consensus back in the 2000's, could be that was a conspiracy theory but my father believed so and it used to be his job.

Some interesting responses, others a bit harsh .... xD
 
To answer the question, it's a toss up between 3 things:

A proper spaghetti carbonara with guanciale and absolutely no cream is delicious, rich, flavorful and creamy. The rich egg, fat and cheese would grow boring, but the delicious salty guanciale keeps it exciting at all times - which is why you must cut it into bigger chunks than on this picture, and not too many of them. The guanciale serves to keep your pallette awake, not to flavor the entire meal. 
For the vegetarians in this thread, you can probably replace the fat by another type and the guanciale by practically anything else salty. Nuts might honestly work so long as cooked fairly softly. I've made nut-based pasta's before and they work well. For vegans, you're fresh out of options - no egg is no dice.
A proper lasagna bolognese is delicious, sweet and savory with cheesy goodness to boot! 
It's one of those dishes you eat so often of poor quality, you think it has a certain homely, reliable flavor but isn't very special. Until you have a proper one in italy that is and you discover it is an assortment of delicious flavors that differs a bit with every bite as the center is cooked slightly differently from the rest of the lasagna. 
Now, when I make it at home, I lack some italian ingredients. A killer tomato paste is hard to find at home, so is great quality pasta (unless you have space for your own machine, which I do not :(). In fact, even the tomato's used to make a killer tomato paste/bolognese are practically impossible to find here, but you can find a canned one that is extremely good if you live in the USA. I heard nothing but positive things about San Marzano tomatoes in a can, but we don't have those here.
So my trick at home is to use a little bit of sambal, which slightly drowns out the poor quality tomatoes and offers a sweet yet spicy twist to it that works well with lower quality ingredients!

A quality buccatini pomodore is a bit of a national treasure, a very sweet dish with some salty goodness from the grated cheese. The thicker pasta really helps provide a nice bite!
In Pienza, at probably my favorite restaurant ever, they had a local special. A pici (similar to buccatini) with garlic foam, tomato sauce. It was divine and honestly made me beg my companions to try it themselves - best meal I had in my life. I am yet to successfully recreate it but once I've some time and space for a pasta machine, I will. 
 
Now as you may have noticed, I quite like my italian pasta's. I am a somewhat picky eater and I find pasta is provides what I need in addition to being quite delicious. I imagine though some of you may be disappointed to not find any dutch food in here, so I will offer my favorite dutch meal and probably the only one genuinely I love.
Farmer's Kale with sausage and gravy is a a dutch speciality, though I usually choose to eat it without the gravy as its a bit much for me.
It's extremely savory/umami and when piping hot will make you feel fulfilled in ways that are hard to imagine. 
If cooked properly, the mashed potatoes and kale mesh into one soft substance. You don't taste any fibers from the leaves or tomato - there's no unpleasant texture - it's basically just mashed potato texture. It's extremely healthy and easy to make. 
 
 
Hope that answers it for everyone!

28th feb is the last TS event 🙂

We unbanned a handful (under 1%) of banned cheaters. There's been one or two cases where someone failed to follow our instructions and instead fused the items, meaning they were still auto-banned and I manually unbanned them after (and after taking the time to make sure it's just that). 
 
The difference between you and them Jesper is that you lost hope and joined them for a bit, I feel sympathetic for you as I can tell you spent months trying to reach out to Sarah, I can even tell you wrote to Sarah a few weeks after discovering the cheat offering to tell her about a new cheat but it has a "catch" and then removed it. But that just about echoes everyones experience with Tacticsoft's "anti-cheat" - yet others refrained from cheating and once we took over, enthusiastically started telling us everything they knew, offering to test the methods for us and so on.
Since you requested to solve this in private, i'll continue it there and I can open the topic back up if you want to continue here, but I hope you (and others) understand that while we greatly appreciate any help offered, we can't just give out free passes to everyone helpful in the past and we can't just discard the fact many people kept playing SM fair, no matter how hopeless it seemed. 

If people really feel strongly that there should be an unban wave for accounts that did benefit from cheating, i'll consider it. But please people, ask yourself what'll happen next time there's a critical cheat and it takes us a while, when there's precedence we'll ultimately O.K. it. 

I can actually confirm Jesper did help Sarah find cheaters in the past, though I can’t confirm he did that with LuckyPatcher.
 
Unfortunately he spent a bunch of tokens and coins he cheated, he’s asked us to reset his account prior to doing so, but that’s not something we offer as a service and honestly we probably never will. Benefiting from cheating is gone forever by default, it’s not so convenient as “ dont get caught, enjoy forever, get caught, enjoy for a while and then just have what you used to have” ....
 
Sorry but respected or not, what your fellow players think of you really doesn’t concern me.... 
Testing one cheat, reporting it and leaving the resources untouched is one thing. Cheating hundreds of millions of coins, multiple purchases, spending chunks of it and then asking for an account reset just isn’t happening, the LP hack also isn’t the one you reported, to my knowledge nor is the tabbing one.. 
 

He’s free to bring it up here, really. 
 
Banning policy on our end for better or worse is fairly simple:
If we have evidence, we ban you. If it’s an error, we crawl for you. It’s rare but may happen one day (will, if we ban for long enough). 

If it’s not an error, the calculation for me is simple: Did they benefit from cheating?

If yes, it’ll probably stick permanently. I unban mostly people who just tested it, left the gains untouched and reported it. A small handful, less than 1% of the wave, got unbanned for that reason. 
 
Ultimately I can’t tell the difference between people who were just testing and accidentally spent their gains and people who were cheating and using testing as an excuse - if I cant take it back, the ban will always stick.
The people who contacted me immediately after cheating without delay, worked with me and followed my instructions concerning what to do are the ones who ended up unbanned. 
The current banwave isn’t just based on players reporting each other, that’s misinformation and I already told you that ... The current one I assembled a list of playerID’s based on reports and then manually dug for evidence on each one. The evidence is there, just not as convenient as with the last wave. Hence the scale is much smaller. 🙂
Last one was fully automatic, with manual unbans for those who didn’t benefit. The intent there is fear - people should understand and know they can lose years of progress for just minor cheats, otherwise it becomes a slippery slope where people cheat more and more until they can’t come back from it.
 

Sorry but your thinking is a bit silly. 
“ to help the administration “ - If we want you to “help” we will ask for it. If there’s a reward we’ll offer it. There’s never been a program where you can cheat, contact the admin and then get a get out of jail free card for later.
We do appreciate forwarding methods, but there’s no need to actually take advantage. 
 
Please don’t bring others into it, cheating is against the ToS and universally wrong, no matter how you feel about others or how Sarah conducted her business. If you benefit from a cheat you get the ban, no matter how much of a nice guy you used to be. 
 
If you wish to prevent that, don’t take advantage and contact me immediately, not after you get banned. 
 
Edit: And yes to be clear, if you help the administration, you will still get banned for cheating and treated the same as anyone else if you’re caught for something later. If you follow our instructions and work *with* us, you won’t get banned for following our instructions. If you report something to us immediately after using it and don’t use it to your advantage, we’ll probably go easy on you but no guarantees. But for sure, I want it to be abundantly clear, you can’t get a get out of jail free card. Simply thing: Don’t cheat, report methods to us instead. Thanks folks.

He’s free to bring it up here, really. 
 
Banning policy on our end for better or worse is fairly simple:
If we have evidence, we ban you. If it’s an error, we crawl for you. It’s rare but may happen one day (will, if we ban for long enough). 

If it’s not an error, the calculation for me is simple: Did they benefit from cheating?

If yes, it’ll probably stick permanently. I unban mostly people who just tested it, left the gains untouched and reported it. A small handful, less than 1% of the wave, got unbanned for that reason. 
 
Ultimately I can’t tell the difference between people who were just testing and accidentally spent their gains and people who were cheating and using testing as an excuse - if I cant take it back, the ban will always stick.
The people who contacted me immediately after cheating without delay, worked with me and followed my instructions concerning what to do are the ones who ended up unbanned. 
The current banwave isn’t just based on players reporting each other, that’s misinformation and I already told you that ... The current one I assembled a list of playerID’s based on reports and then manually dug for evidence on each one. The evidence is there, just not as convenient as with the last wave. Hence the scale is much smaller. 🙂
Last one was fully automatic, with manual unbans for those who didn’t benefit. The intent there is fear - people should understand and know they can lose years of progress for just minor cheats, otherwise it becomes a slippery slope where people cheat more and more until they can’t come back from it.
 

Thank you for not cheating, but we do not give get out of jail free cards, that simple. I assure you those who actually work with Gato and talk to us before/during/after cheating don’t end up with their account perm’d over it (though if they didn’t follow instructions properly, sometimes they’re inadvertently caught anyway, if we can find there’s no foul play, we just unban then). We can’t show leniency to people because they were apparently helpful to people who we don’t know and simply lost hope. 
 
I get losing hope, I appreciate people helping. But a lot of people have been helping the game for years and a lot of them despite how bad things got, refrained from cheating. They are the ones who kept the game playable despite the rampant cheats available. Is the message to them really, “You should have just cheated, we’d have understood”? 
 
 
Please note accusing people on these forums is against the rules folks. That Jesper decided to air himself here is his choice, but it doesn’t entitle others to turn this into an accusation thread. Additionally, “I think n once cheated so Y shouldnt be banned for cheating!” Is nihilistic argumentation that would only lead to a full breakdown of the game...

He’s free to bring it up here, really. 
 
Banning policy on our end for better or worse is fairly simple:
If we have evidence, we ban you. If it’s an error, we crawl for you. It’s rare but may happen one day (will, if we ban for long enough). 

If it’s not an error, the calculation for me is simple: Did they benefit from cheating?

If yes, it’ll probably stick permanently. I unban mostly people who just tested it, left the gains untouched and reported it. A small handful, less than 1% of the wave, got unbanned for that reason. 
 
Ultimately I can’t tell the difference between people who were just testing and accidentally spent their gains and people who were cheating and using testing as an excuse - if I cant take it back, the ban will always stick.
The people who contacted me immediately after cheating without delay, worked with me and followed my instructions concerning what to do are the ones who ended up unbanned. 
The current banwave isn’t just based on players reporting each other, that’s misinformation and I already told you that ... The current one I assembled a list of playerID’s based on reports and then manually dug for evidence on each one. The evidence is there, just not as convenient as with the last wave. Hence the scale is much smaller. 🙂
Last one was fully automatic, with manual unbans for those who didn’t benefit. The intent there is fear - people should understand and know they can lose years of progress for just minor cheats, otherwise it becomes a slippery slope where people cheat more and more until they can’t come back from it.
 

Sorry but your thinking is a bit silly. 
“ to help the administration “ - If we want you to “help” we will ask for it. If there’s a reward we’ll offer it. There’s never been a program where you can cheat, contact the admin and then get a get out of jail free card for later.
We do appreciate forwarding methods, but there’s no need to actually take advantage. 
 
Please don’t bring others into it, cheating is against the ToS and universally wrong, no matter how you feel about others or how Sarah conducted her business. If you benefit from a cheat you get the ban, no matter how much of a nice guy you used to be. 
 
If you wish to prevent that, don’t take advantage and contact me immediately, not after you get banned. 
 
Edit: And yes to be clear, if you help the administration, you will still get banned for cheating and treated the same as anyone else if you’re caught for something later. If you follow our instructions and work *with* us, you won’t get banned for following our instructions. If you report something to us immediately after using it and don’t use it to your advantage, we’ll probably go easy on you but no guarantees. But for sure, I want it to be abundantly clear, you can’t get a get out of jail free card. Simply thing: Don’t cheat, report methods to us instead. Thanks folks.