Quote Originally Posted by wicked-one View Post
As this is nothing new or in surprise, most people in the forums maybe are just concerned that they always get just general reply´s, rather than an official statement on how SE is going to handle a certain issue which comes along a certain Add-on or Plug-in...

We all know the Radar-App is against ToS (and morality, which bothers more people than the ToS)... what people want here is to draw attention to this and maybe get some info´s about how this will be handled in future...
From the get-go, I've been saying that they can't give an inch to the player base. If we (generally speaking) are doing something bad, it has to be stopped and/or made an example out of.

Initially, it was RMT with position and gathering hacks... bans were made public. Okay, that's fine. Then there was the parsers, which is something originally seen as harmless but still against ToS, but SE decided to let that go as long as people are quiet about their using it. Mmmm... walking a thin line there, but all right. Then came the infamous win-trading, which resulted in ZERO penalties, and essentially a go-ahead by Yoshi-P himself. Okay, that basically opened the flood gates and the line has been crossed, it's open season from here on.

A resulting outlook is that SE will overlook everything unless you are botting or position hacking, which is still pretty damn easy to get away with. I have some experience with position hack programs/apps, as I've used/tested those before on various games, including SE ones, and have never had any bans or anything. It's unreasonable to think they will catch everyone that cheats, but they just can't let it be so blatantly acceptable to cheat the system. For the record, I haven't done anything against ToS on this game, so anyone of authority reading this would just be wasting their time checking.