Well guys there has certainly been a lot of evidence and opinions about this incident that the admins could use when investigating the event. Therefore with our usual forum policy that any appeals about people being banned or requesting to be banned are not hosted on the forum publicly but should be private between the admin and player I need to lock this thread before it becomes out of control and ruins the spirit of the championship era.

I will show this forum thread to the admins to help them decide the result of their investigation as I believe some very useful evidence has been submitted here.

However I must lock the topic now and if you have any questions about why I have locked the topic feel free to send me a message.

Thank you for pointing this out to us however in the future it would be best to report it to the admin in game as it is usually dealt with more efficiently.

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on skype earlier this era you said ilona making a colony for the sole purpose of spamming for an alliance is wrong, how is this no different? it is abusing the system and having someone make an account. really dont know why i spend money on this game again.

[7/7/2014 1:02:32 AM] no prisoners: so i can tell a friend to come to server and build me 50 op's to fill up SA?
[7/7/2014 1:03:57 AM] Ilona: the one who built was actively playing since tick 1, and is also located in africa. Who am i to tell him not going for the 50 nukes achievement or whatever he wants?
[7/7/2014 1:04:31 AM] Ilona: to your question: Yes, when they build now, at tick 833, i would see it different
[7/7/2014 1:04:39 AM] no prisoners: lol why
[7/7/2014 1:04:45 AM] no prisoners: doesnt matter
[7/7/2014 1:04:49 AM] no prisoners: ticks
[7/7/2014 1:05:11 AM] no prisoners: and it was 3 pple
[7/7/2014 1:05:15 AM] no prisoners: not 1
[7/7/2014 1:05:41 AM] Ilona: it matters a lot. Same as i ban spammers when they build some ticks ago and start spamming now, but i wouldn't ban a player who was all the time active anyway and decide for spamming now

I'm sure me and a lot of ppl think differently. It's different situation - The colony which they have used is a new account, clearly dropped for the sole purpose of using to move squads. If that colony was right from the beginning, or maybe 100-200 ticks old, it would have been a different case.

Do u really think that colony is going to take any further part in the war in any manner?

How different is it from a case where you get 5-6 friends who do not play bd to create colonies on enemy hive (with fresh accounts), create their own individuals alliances, or maybe join single alliances and just spam the ops and other stuff in the middle of the war - ppl get banned for doing this all the time, within few ticks of doing so.

I am still appalled at the fact, that this is considered fair play by you - when it's not really that hard to figure out it's against the spirit of the game and should not be allowed.

The game mechanics do not need to be changed to stop it. A swift action by the concerned admin (delete the colony/turn it into camp/turn the moving squads back to origin) would have prevented it, and also passed a msg across to the players involved.

you can do your job and use your admin tools to make it camp/return there squads for abusing system. doing nothing is not the best option. obviously it is abusing the game

AFAIK - the colony used by 1v1 was not there for ages and was freshly dropped, and if that's the case - the logic explained by you above is very much applicable.

Even if it was few ticks old, was that colony doing anything for 940+ ticks?

But game mechanics could easily be set to prevent anyone entering a world after tick 500.

This. This is clearly an underhanded misuse of the colony system that should be dealt with. But to hear that an Admin who was a player use the same maneuver and cut slack to an alliance that is helping another to whom she has had past ties to using that same underhanded maneuver? That is an appalling and gross abuse of the colony system. It'd be no better if I go and ask all of my college friends to start dropping colonies for the sake of spamming, jamming, and ioning day in and day out. I can do the exact same thing and get a similar result as 1v1 is receiving because there is nothing you can do about it right? Especially if they create their own alliance and come together, OR if they just so happen to join one of the top 10 and they start sending their squads over? Its pathetic really, especially when you have an Admin that has abused the mechanics before as a player. This is in no way in the spirit of BattleDawn.

I'm sorry but you clearly still have biased feelings towards some of your own playing mates, and I cannot look past it as I've already had testimonials of how you used to cheat back in the day as well as provide unfair benefits to those close someones. I've tried to believe that a player can become an Admin, I really have because its something I've always pondered, but clearly it cannot happen this way because there will always be a hint of bias, no matter what. This is why a player cannot be turned into an Admin as there will ALWAYS be clear cut ties to their former running mates and it clouds their sense of judgement when governing a world in BattleDawn.

Rest assured that while I push to have this abusive mechanic put down, I will begin making a case as well to have you removed as an Admin of the Championship Era, if not, of BD in general as you are too incompetent and compromised from doing your duty as a BattleDawn administrator to keep the gameplay FAIR.

And crying Terms of Service as a weapon will do you little good too. This is clear cut abuse of the game mechanics and you have just let it slide. In my 6-7 years of BattleDawn, not once have I seen such incompetence from Admin affect the game so terribly. Perhaps that is why E3 couldn't/can't get out of the RoFL phase, or maybe why it takes a long time for you to respond to other complaints, but should some of your old teammates contact you about something, it only take a few ticks to respond to their problems.