If you look at the spreadsheet all 32 say “teamkilling/griefing using multiple account” so looks like it involves some measure of teamkilling people or making their play miserable with a secondary account. That would make it a little more than just “regular” TKs. If someone used an alt to hunt a CC streamer down so their main account wasn’t affected, or stalked someone after their first account was banned, sounds like (or it could be the ground SB scam, and refers to a real player being killed by the bots artying themselves on cap points too).
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1,405,060,000… Fancy sharing some out amongst the well behaved players? XD
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it is going to the black hole just like sl crates
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After the longtime naval RB botting referral scheme was shut down at the end of January the naval botters tried to make a ground SB referral botting scheme work for a while. You can tell it’s the same people because when the naval botters got shut down they created a lot of accounts with a (swear word) in the name as a final goodbye, and you can see a lot of those on this banlist, so they were reused. Almost all the 33,000 banned accounts were created after Feb. 15.
NOTE: Interesting it says the majority of the 33,000 bots banned were “preemptively identified”, meaning they never played a game, apparently?
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Welcome to the naval botting problem
Pretty much. After they finally, after many years, got kicked out of NRB, in their Other Operation, sounds like they just made bots to race to cap points in GSB and then artied themselves on the cap point for score :)
I for one look forward to their Other Other Operation, which I’m sure we’ll see shortly.
didnt knew that SL can be fined in warthunder, lol
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I read that as meaning Gaijin identified them before player reports (but just they way I took it)
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Apparently that’s not what it means (see screenshot). Once they finally got going, Gaijin was batch-banning naval bots based on clear botting behavior, player reports never really mattered there either.
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It’s like Christmas in April. Love to see this. Getting perma banned for teamkilling and griefing is a new one.
Even better if it meant banned before first “real use” / real battle
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Oh yeah, like that Statshark guy who was griefing TEC by crashing his game
I meet them a month ago in air battles
Me and a buddy of mine actually ran into some more this Monday/Tuesday, though they just parked out of spawn and didn’t shoot. In vega’s interestingly
They’re going to keep doing small batches, testing that the defenses against them are still up, forever, I suspect. What they tweak and how long it takes Gaijin to catch them after that tweak is a cat-and-mouse game where they both gain intelligence from each other.
I’m sure they do ongoing penetration testing in all modes, it’s just NRB (like for years) and now GSB in March where they found a hole in defenses and were able to “take over” the mode, or at least a swath of BRs in that mode. The low traffic on those two modes also made their incursions more noticeable/detectable (but also limited the number of player complaints).
Look at the big brain on Jeff over here. The old ‘it wasn’t me who hacked, someone used my account!’.
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This one, this is one I’ve reported a bit & openly targeted one multiple occasions out of spite (9M33 to forwards magazines of destroyer Tigre go brrrrr), It’s glorious to see that they’re now gone.
Best thing to come home to after hours of kitchen operations, a foe that was non legitimate being nuked (befitting background art mods/admins that chose it).
Of course I do think a few are still missing, but this is a glorious start no less, pat on the back for the devs.
You can contact staff including server replay of the matches where the teamkills occurred. I guess this is the only way to establish if it’s intentional or not.
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Good riddance as always, Keep it up!
I know a guy that does
