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Requiem:
I'm sure there was a way to get the word out and plead your case. It was long ago, but I don't recall your discord.
I know many people who were banned but found ways to communicate with people in the game.
It just seems odd to me.
Are you saying you are 100% innocent and committed no infractions concerning this game? Pang/Whoever else made it up and lied to everyone because they just wanted to ban you?
You are a seemingly intelligent individual, so it shocks me you just said, "Well, they prevented me from posting; I'm 100% innocent, so I'll just disappear for ten years."
Something doesn't feel right about your story. I don't care, but if that is the narrative you are pushing, I'm a bit hesitant.
When you returned in 202x, did you have to ask to be able to play again? Who permitted you? Or are you still a banned player evading said ban put in place a decade ago?
No I was never banned, this is my origional account. I had server access, of course, valid SSH access with my name on it intended for me to use. Boxcar ran on my hardware and I supported and maintained it.
There is no evidence of me using any of that to do any cheating whatsoever. Obviously I could have, but I also didn't play for that reason - not that there was any rule against me playing, although I did play when I noticed Arsenal had come back and learned he wanted to have another go at LaF. Unlike other admins, I am and always will put LaF first before myself and be loyal to whoever the Don is (be it Hanlong or anyone else).
But then in the set after, in another war, I come back from lunch, hoping to find myself dead because I'm retiring again (after winning the previous round after the war vs MD) and people are messaging me about my country gaining a bunch of troops with no NW changes. I get accused of manipulating the database. Of course I did not, nor had I even utilized my access to the ee server, something that they had been able to confirm by looking at the server logs (no mention for at least the length that they kept logs, probably several weeks).
Pang told me not to post anymore, theatening me, deleting what I did write, so I stopped. LaF decided it was better if I didn't play, so I didn't. That is what they thought was best so that's what I did. Now, ten years later all that is blown over, and no one cares much anymore so I can play again.
And since it's no longer in LaF's best interest if I'm silent about it, there is no reason for me to avoid defending myself. Hell I won the game as realTurtleCrawler not that long ago and no one said a thing.
Here is a message from me to Martian from back then, I provide as evidence that what I've said is true. Pang actually told people I'd admitted to doing it, but it was decided that if he were exposed that he were busy spreading lies as an active admin that it would have been a much bigger scandle than me, inactive admin who came back for a few war sets. You can see I was cut off before even having the oportunity to publicly deny, which was complete bull:
From: Turtle Crawler
May 04, 2012
To: martian
Just for clarification,
I haven't admitted or denied anything related to the current accusations. I started to respond to a bunch of the older ones but was cut off by Pang long before I was able to get to the current stuff.
From: martian
May 04, 2012
To: Turtle Crawler
Ah sorry, it was my understanding that you had. I'll edit.