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My Understanding of why HCF is killing
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A brief history of related admin crimes:

1.) RattlerTank kills 4 world police, and is banned by admins for doing this.(Matticus and friends claim he must've hacked to kill them!)

Rattler is unbanned a day or so later only after he himself puts in a large amount of effort demanding evidence, making protests on the reddit etc.(If he hadn't been so vocal he probably would have stayed banned just for outplaying a few guys like matticus and foofed.)

Rattler realized he was associated with the account of a friend and distinct person known as pikaoku. Realizing that the accounts have become associated, Rattler works with the admins to get the accounts manually disassociated. There is some disagreement as to whether this should happen, the argument being "If he did it once we can't prove he wont do it again(meaning logging into a friends account)". Rattler goes in mumble, is told to "I don't give a fuck" by an admin. Finally Rattler gets a reddit message saying "ok the accounts should be disassociated now".

2.) Rattler is in battle and an alt of Pikaoku is pearled, this results in an alt ban for Rattler and he killed and pearled as a result. It turns out the admins never disassociated the accounts after all and the admins were just jerking him around.

ttk2 makes a big speech, "Putting RattlerTank to rest" on why it was inevitable that a criminal like Rattler would go down quickly given the stability of the server civilization.(Even though he got screwed by the admins, by "accident")

A few days later...

3.) Some guys in a group I founded on here known to some as "Baddies" goes and breaks Foofed's vault, freeing 81 criminals, including Rattler & co, completely flying in the face of ttk2 about how the end of Rattler is inevitable.

4.) In the middle of the vault break,(after 7 hours of work on our part, with 2/3 chests broken) all those even vaguely related were banned, because in something like ttk2's words "They didn't meet the minimum of 10 hours to break the vault". I had to point out to ttk2 that we did it completely legit, as the minimum path(which no one else had found for 7 months) was 2 DRO only, and that we spent the appropriate hours to break it.

5.) After ttk2 learns this, he and Tactful change the story to "the logs show a glitching of citadel and too few breaks". They continue to argue that even though we only broke 2 DRO, we cheating and glitched citadel and should stay banned.

6.) They finally unban us an hour later as more world police have time to gather against us, most of us had pulled an all nighter to break the vault and were at work by the time of the unbanning. A brave few logged back in and finished the deed.

After this the vault was broken and 10 hours passed.

7.) Our forces kill and pearl 4 World Police such as nimajneb3, and place them in our massive vault(newly completed). Just a few minutes after this Exultant(who was involved in the battles and retreated in defeat) bans 10-15 of the associated players. He frees the 4 players we pearled by command line, he repearls all 81 of the prisoners we freed, again from command line.

8.) Tactful announced that Exultant did this because we "used X-ray on the vault"(It took them 12 hours to realize, or just exultant getting mad during defeat in combat?). Note First that the unpearling of the players that our side had pearled was completely unrelated to the vault, and also about 8 or more of the players banned had nothing to do with the vault incident, but were involved in the battles against Exultant minutes earlier.

8.)ttk2 makes a post listing all the players banned, and all associated alts, completely destroying several under cover operations against the world police, and getting some pearled as a consequence.

9.) ttk2 makes a post on the reddit saying he doesn't know what to do, because the community is starting to get mad about the abuse.

10.) ttk2 makes another post saying there will be a new formal proceedure for determining whether admins have violated a prime directive by intervening, and suggests a proceeding to "determine whether the actions of the players will stand"(i.e. whether the people we legitimately freed from the vault, and the people we legitmately pearled etc, will be in their legitimate states.)

11.) Pheenixm starts a thread, and I am supposed to argue with him about the legitimacy of the events while admins only watch and judge. The use of world downloader to do exploratory runs on structures was clearly allowed(and highly precedented, as demonstrated by the defense with various links showing players using it casually for such purposes going back 6 months.) by the rules given that the only vaguely related rule was that which prohibits use of a client which allows one to see through the world. What we did could not be seen as seeing through the world, and even if it could it was not real time.( The "real time clause" had been mysteriously removed from the rules without saying anything about it, a day or so after the events, with no other revisions, perhaps to make people forget about it.)

The prosecution knew the rules did not prohibit what we did, so their pointed to precedent, names the "IPartyOnYourDog case", claiming that IPartyOnYourDog was banned for posting a video of himself exploring a downloaded world and x-raying(but of course we did not x-ray). It turned out that IPartyOnYourDog actually posted a video of himself on the live server using nodus x-ray and various other nodus hacks. I pointed out this complete fabrication of a precedent to which Tactful responds "The description given was perfectly accurate".

Tactful then jumps into the trial and begins arguing for the prosecution, even though by the description of the trial he is meant to be a neutral arbitrator. He also says "this is a proceeding about whether you will be banned" he also basically throws away all the arguments and starts saying stuff like "I don't play minecraft." and "I don't care it's cheating. It's cheating. Your argument is irrelevant."(This is after it becomes clear that the prosecution completely fails given the legal codes and precedents.) Note also that the trial is near it's end and Tactful is strongly claiming that the trial is about whether we will be banned, even though we were already "pardoned" and ttk2 had framed the purpose of the trial to specifically be about whether we would get back the in game progress arbitrarily taken from us by Exultant.

12.) Several People are re-banned, again including a number who had nothing to do with the vault situation but including people like ApacheBlitz who posted a video of himself wrecking Exultant.

13.) To my best understanding based on reports of those in game,(I cannot confirm as an eye witness as I am currently banned) after this, some people we had pearled and vaulted almost a week later: shock008, EaglesRock, Masterful, kingr8. These individuals were unpearled from our vault by admins, even though their pearling had no relationship with the (perfectly legal)vault break whatsoever.

I think there is probably more but I am tired of talking about this garbage. It is clear to us by now that admin unfairness and abuse is endemic here.(as long as it is against "griefers") Just as ttk2 pointed out with the banning of RattlerTank that it was for those nondemonstrable subtle cheats that make him run  faster, I would like to point out that it is the subtle admin abuse and intervention. The "accidental" failure to disassociate RattlerTank from Pikaoku. The "accidental" revelation of all of our alts to the public by admins. The accidental mistaken log reading which supposedly proved we glitched citadel to break the vault. The lying about predecents in a public court, etc. etc. The list goes on and on. It is the subtle admin abuse that really gets you. The blatant admin abuse gets called out by the community, but the unrelenting "accidental" and not so subtle deceptions that is followed by walls of text by admins that completely distract from the point is the abuse that really matters.

Anyway that is a brief summary of why HCF is killling/destroying everything now, we ran out of fucks.

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