Well known TUF member AianNick abandoned yesterday following the ban’ of ThorOdin who was AianNick’s alt. According to various sources, AianNick had accused SIN of causing his alt to be banned prior to his abandonment, Duran Shadowfist (who was in global chat at the time) denied that, during the conversation viperone, the coleader of TUF declared he might be departing from illyraid soon as well:
‘[06:50]<viperone> i will be shortly leaving this game to the cheaters’
Not to long after the Illyriad Times published an article about this matter, in the comments listed a ‘letter’ from GM Rikoo, supposedly sent to AianNick, stating the following:
‘From: GM Rikoo [DEVS]
Subject: FW: Investigation of multis
Received: 15 Sep 2016 19:29
Original Message:
I am investigating several complaints, and have been updating with the weekly reports we get.
Before I get too much into it, I will give you a chance to tell me all of the accounts you control so I can mark off some of them. If you don’t want to, that’s fine, but I will just ban the extras and possibly all of them.
By control I mean sitting as well. Thanks.’
GM rikoo had this to say when it was posted in global chat:
‘[20:13]<GM Rikoo> Just a warning: sharing faked IGMs that mention me is not a good idea. But thanks for the wall of red. Lol’
GM Stormcrow said the following when inquired to about the mail:
[01:45]<GM Stormcrow> I don't know whether he sent this email, what it means if he did or did not send it, or anything about it whatsoever. And I don't care tbh.
[01:45]<GM Stormcrow> The simple fact is that a) We want as many people playing Illy as possible
[01:45]<GM Stormcrow> and b) We will ban cheats
[01:46]<GM Stormcrow> We have no interest in banning people from the game if they're abiding by the rules...
[01:46]<GM Stormcrow> And that's about the end of it
As no evidence of its confirmation or denial has been released as of yet, and due to the dev policy of not announcing player bans or their reasons, we cannot truly know if it was faked or not.
Angrim of the Ecrow alliance later stated that the system for banning a multi-accounter is done via a trusted algorithm and not player testimony.
This is the most recent in a string of bans on players involved in wars. The last bans caused the TUF/YARR! war to end in a draw after Ranalos and Rigor.mortis were banned.
Author: Dakota
