Appealing a ban for .::Taboo::.

1) Votekicks last only 30 minutes. Did you wait at least 30 minutes to make sure your “ban” is not just a votekick?
Yes, I was informed on the IRC that I was globally banned, and I was also receiving PMs while playing claiming that they saw me using ESP.

2) What is your in-game player name? Please include it in the subject of this topic as well.
.::Taboo::.

3) What server were you playing on when you got banned? Reminder: We can only help you with bans that took place on aloha.pk servers.
If I remember right, it was the Humans vs Zombies server that you guys run.

4) Why were you banned? Lying severely decreases your chances of getting unbanned. If your “little brother” got you banned, tell him to make an appeal, or accept responsibility on his behalf.
I was accused of using ESP by Well (if I remember right) while I was playing. I imagine I was under observation regarding my request for a trusted password (Ironically…). I don’t know what else there is to say other than to assure you that I was not hacking, and I’d like to simply refer to the reasons I gave in my request for a password as justification for my innocence. To be totally honest, I’ve really no clue why it was thought that I was using ESP. Hell, I was playing rather badly at the time…

5) Why should you be unbanned?
Namely because the ban was undeserved, though personally speaking I also find it rather irritating to be banned from the most populated good servers to play on. It basically takes away my reason to play entirely.

6) When were you banned? Best approximate date and time, please.
Assuming my memory is anything reliable (It isn’t), it would have been this past Sunday the 17th or the previous Saturday the 16th, somewhere between 7 and 9pm central time.

Apologies for putting this off for so long; I’ve been rather busy working on my blog and haven’t really had the time to play AoS lately anyway, but now that I’ve the time for the fun I first need to do the dirty work here to clear up this mistake.

Hello Taboo. I was the guard who initially banned you. While I was watching you, I noticed an awful lot of staring at walls and shots having no recoil going on. So, I decided to record you, and concluded you had ESP/Norecoil hacks. I took 3 separate videos, and will break them all down in terms of the moments that caused me to ban you.

VIDEO 1

0:12 - You look to your left where a player on the other side of the wall is walking, and then continue after he moves behind a structure. You then turn to the right and shoot at BeGoNe. Your shot has no recoil whatsoever.

1:40 - You aim in BeGoNe’s direction before you actually have any line of sight whatsoever. You then wait until he passes through your line of sight, staring at the corner he would come around. You then shoot two shots at it, neither have recoil. (The first one does not actually have recoil, it is your moving the mouse to adjust to BeGoNe moving to the right.)

1:55 to the end - You sit on a ledge staring nearly at the exact location of both players. As shown by the minimap, you are looking directly in the direction of the player whom you end up killing second. You continue to aim right at where the path he is taking will lead him to pop out. The first player then walks by and you shoot at him, your shot having no recoil as well. Then, player number two exposes himself, and you fire twice at him, with both shots having no visible recoil.

VIDEO 2

0:28 to 0:34 - There remains only one player left on blue, and surprise, you already know where he is. I pull up the map at 0:28 to show you beelining in his exact direction. He wasn’t AFK either, but you, while not staring directly at him, are staring in his exact direction and nearly exact location, albeit with the height being a bit off. You then proceed to shoot at him and kill him. This shot that you shoot has no recoil as well.

1:06 to 1:21 - You begin to stare at taxhunter through that cube, before he even passes around the corner. At 1:13, BeGoNe (poor guy) rounds the corner. You seem to know already that he is there, and fire at him. This shot has norecoil. You then wait for taxhunter to come out of his hiding spot. As soon as he shows is face, you are already looking at him and kill him. Although the first shot looks slightly weird as if it has recoil (may have just been you adjusting your aim), the second one most certainly does not.

1:26 to end - At 1:26, you begin staring at Bruna through the wall. It could very well be a coincidence, but I have no idea how you knew he was there. He hadn’t shot, and wasn’t moving at the time. In addition, you head off directly in his direction long before this. It’s very unlikely that from 60 blocks away you would happen to stare directly at a player who is standing still.

VIDEO 3

To be honest, this video isn’t much. However, the majority of the video is you using the SMG standing up, and having what looks like norecoil, but to be honest I couldn’t tell because you were waving your gun around a lot. Also, I noticed a very suspicious looking snap at your teammate at 0:22.

To add one more thing, your accuracy on minideck was bordering 80% with rifle, an incredibly uncommon occurrence with 30 kills, especially on a relatively large arena map.

All this is in addition to the fact that later in the game on zombies, a squad of blues was at your spawn, and making no sound whatsoever. They were not in your field of view either, as they were in the water. However, you decide randomly to drop down to EXACTLY where they were and kill all of them.

All of these events happening within a short period of time (about 15 minutes) prompted the admin who banned you and I to confirm you as guilty and permanently ban you. I look forward to hearing your explanation for all of these incredibly suspicious occurrences.

EDIT: After having chatted with you on the IRC, frankly you didn’t help your case, if anything you made it worse. You changed your story multiple times, assumed that my evidence was 100% convincing and condemning despite you not having seen it, and frankly, the fact that you couldn’t be bothered to make this appeal in the first place is a major red flag. Nobody who is banned and innocent is nonchalant about their ban and waits a significant amount of time to appeal.

I was well. I saw mostly the same thing as Charles did, and while I’m willing to concede that there are those who are so good at controlling recoil, it’s close to invisible, I definitely saw ESP. I joined roughly around the second video.

0:22 in the third video is very concerning, and looks like someone who’s (unsuccessfully) trying to be smart and hide an aimbot. Nobody breaks off from shooting to briefly aim at someone three times further away just because the first dude dropped behind a block for a second.

EDIT: wording

Game over, buddy.

I would have banned on the strength of video one. Him camping on that corner like that, not to mention the no recoil of his shots.

.:Taboo:. oh buddy, you best have a great story to tell.

I have already explained myself in IRC, and I have nothing else to say. Think what you will, but I was not hacking.

Well Taboo, unless you have anything else to say, I am going to request a lock on this thread. I have shown convincing evidence to you, explained in thorough detail why I banned you, and your only argument was “I wasn’t hacking”. It requires a lot more than that to convince us to unban you.

Alright, it’s been two weeks and you’ve said absolutely nothing. You hacked and lied about it, therefore you are not getting unbanned.

Requesting lock.