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Subject: The only "omg I gut EXP banned for NO RAISON" thread

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Posted by: Powerful Tard
alright so playing with 4 guests is boosting? Guilty.

I just wanted to know if that was why i got exp banned. thanks, warning received and lesson learned. haha


no playing with four guests who don't play is boosting.


can you check more deeply, i'm 100% those guests did play some games. blah, but if only takes one game then it doesnt really matter. I can wait, how long is this ban?

  • 10.03.2008 9:15 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: General117
Cut short to quote.


Your Xbox, Your Responsibility.

  • 10.03.2008 9:16 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: Powerful Tard
can you check more deeply, i'm 100% those guests did play some games. blah, but if only takes one game then it doesnt really matter. I can wait, how long is this ban?


Nopeyz, you were boosting 2/3 pages i was just to lazy to link them all.

Ban lasts 2 weeks.

  • 10.03.2008 9:18 AM PDT

Posted by: cookie of chaos
Posted by: Powerful Tard
can you check more deeply, i'm 100% those guests did play some games. blah, but if only takes one game then it doesnt really matter. I can wait, how long is this ban?


Nopeyz, you were boosting 2/3 pages i was just to lazy to link them all.

Ban lasts 2 weeks.


alright thanks, p.s. thanks for checking it up for me and not being a jerk about it.

  • 10.03.2008 9:20 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: Powerful Tard
alright thanks, p.s. thanks for checking it up for me and not being a jerk about it.


No problem, anytime, if you need me for anything you know where to find me :)

  • 10.03.2008 9:23 AM PDT
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Um. Is the language trick ban-worthy now? I'm not 100% sure what the bans relate to. I was kind of planning on doing that for the Yorick achievement.

  • 10.03.2008 9:43 AM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: y0nez
Um. Is the language trick ban-worthy now? I'm not 100% sure what the bans relate to. I was kind of planning on doing that for the Yorick achievement.


Language trick (switching to japanise or chinese) (less used language) is only used to boost for achievements, which some people say isnt bannable but by bungie's standards it is.

The achievements were suppost to be hard, thats why the game doesnt appear much, just try and earn the achievement, it will make you feel better inside than boosting it.

  • 10.03.2008 9:48 AM PDT

I been doing some research about the banhammer system and finding things rather confusing. People that seem to be caught up in some cases only had two or three games or even under 10 games that they got caught up in people boosting for the Achivements.

In some cases when peolpe said they got banned I looked up their gamer history and couldn't really see any boosting. Or in some cases I found that peoples comments on some fourms stat that Bungie shouldn't have put them on Social some of the new achiverments and they do have a point, what did you think might happen when it was on social. People could party up easily and have guests put up in it. I know that by these new rules that they could see them boosting put this is rather a confusion cause...

Link:X360achievements.org

THis link I went on to have a look what people was saying about Bungie new banhammer system and there rather conflicting comments going around on it that leaving things with more questions then answers to the new banhammer system.

Like myself I got banhammered and I have to admit that my gamer history on the 24 of sept looks very convicing that they was boosting matches on there and i had guests that just exploring and couldn't get a hand on a kill. that was around 5 to 6 matches then there the next thing about the banhammer.

There is cracks in it for sure, I got people on my friends list that admitted they boosted and was boosting for sure and got away with it and one of them was laughing at my face and saying that in words I put up nicely as I can... 'You got banned for boosting when you wasn't trying to boost and I boosted and got away with it hahahah.' The words he said was alot more cursing then I like to say on this forum.

I took time to look through pages on the net and fourms before posting this. I took a few hours of my own time for all the Halo players. Good or bad since no one is really perfect.

So this is where is leaves me with the big question...

Is the banhammer auto XP system really working the way it should?

PS: I do not wish to use this to lower my ban till next Friday if my guesses are correct I just want to point out that I am finding things around the net that brings up that big question above. And I still playing Halo 3 even with my XP frozen by the ban having fun and having a great time with friends and others on Squad Battle and even social playlists even I got banned when in some cases I think I shouldn't but in the end what is done is done. It shows that I can still play the best shooting game in the world without getting XP. It just that secondary thing you only get when winning a game and not even bothered about the XP I get. I just love playing the game with those I play against or with on Halo 3 :).

Well take care guys and have fun playing Halo 3 even you got banhammered. In the end it just a game we love to play. don't let the secondary thing called XP get you ticked off :)

As a qoute goes: Winning or losing it just a game. An game we all can have fun playing together :)



  • 10.03.2008 10:10 AM PDT

People wouldn't have to worry about the ban if they did not cheat!!! And its their fault for this entire issue. Look the forums posted in early July stated that people better stop the cheating nonsense, and then when it was clear before tu2 that people are getting the ban....... blam all of these people that got the ban are all upset thinking if they justify the reasons for cheating that bungie may go easy. Bungie is not a democracy!!!!!!!!!! the warning was given people ignored this, so its like real life u get punished by the courts, god, karma, or a real blammed-off dictatorship non the less u did the crime pay the time its that simple play the game for they way it was supposed to be played!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 10.03.2008 10:16 AM PDT

People are playing the game to get achievements because they've been built up so much by the creators of the game. The creators of the game decided to put them into social MM. It IS unfair what they've done. I completely understand by the terms of the ever-so-relentless BANgie banhammer, but this is just stupid. Are people supposed to accidentally get achievements?

  • 10.03.2008 11:01 AM PDT
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no you are supposed to get them without boosting. they aren't hard to get. the toughest thing to get is a legendary map to play on. its not difficult.

  • 10.03.2008 11:10 AM PDT
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can i get some exp for narcing on my friends that do boost?

  • 10.03.2008 11:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: durrck
can i get some exp for narcing on my friends that do boost?


lol no.

  • 10.03.2008 11:37 AM PDT
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I think that there should be a link on the ban page where it says "click here if your banned" and when you do it comes up with the ban puppy holding a poster saying "you got owned" that would be funny :P

  • 10.03.2008 11:51 AM PDT
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Well, I have an exp ban. i was trying to get the new achivement's and was trying for an oddball game with a friend, we played one game with some other guy's who said to join after to find an oddball game so we did. one of them mentioned guest to hurry up the prosecc of it and then him and his friend said they have no more controller's and asked me and my friend. so like a ijit i did, (please note i WAS fully aware of exp boosting but did not know this is the way to do it). every time we had a match he told us one person has to get the all the kills and so it went on and i got the exp ban, not sure if i was the only one cause there was some one wityh a guest. any hoo i didnt know i was doing it but i was doing it so im not trying to get out of it. i know now not to but i think the hammer should be changed to nab all people involved if they are partyed as i got the exp ban yet the person who said get soem guest's in as we dont have any controllers spare did not get the ban to my knowledge. check the games yes its clear we where boosting, my first time offence but it was after the update and i come on bungie.net weekly so i would not of perpsly boosted for the first time just after the update. needless to say i was rather shocked and confused when i got the ban but soon clicked on, when my friend came online he didnt have one wich just confused me abit.

i AM NOT trying to get out of this.

just wanted to know if there was to be any changes to people who are party'ed with booster's?? shishka any info on that matter???

Ash

p.s excuse the grammer, long day.

[Edited on 10.03.2008 12:03 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2008 12:00 PM PDT
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Posted by: CaLLMeEriC
I dont get why you guys try to get unbanned and lie about "never boosting" when Shiska can find out in less than a minute that you are lieing, makes no sense to me.


I don't see why you aren't banned for boosting so many games of Team Objective and H2H to get good stats. Tizoxic couldn't give you good enough stats?

  • 10.03.2008 12:36 PM PDT

Well, I have an exp ban. i was trying to get the new achivement's and was trying for an oddball game with a friend, we played one game with some other guy's who said to join after to find an oddball game so we did. one of them mentioned guest to hurry up the prosecc of it and then him and his friend said they have no more controller's and asked me and my friend. so like a ijit i did, (please note i WAS fully aware of exp boosting but did not know this is the way to do it). every time we had a match he told us one person has to get the all the kills and so it went on and i got the exp ban, not sure if i was the only one cause there was some one wityh a guest. any hoo i didnt know i was doing it but i was doing it so im not trying to get out of it. i know now not to but i think the hammer should be changed to nab all people involved if they are partyed as i got the exp ban yet the person who said get soem guest's in as we dont have any controllers spare did not get the ban to my knowledge. check the games yes its clear we where boosting, my first time offence but it was after the update and i come on bungie.net weekly so i would not of perpsly boosted for the first time just after the update. needless to say i was rather shocked and confused when i got the ban but soon clicked on, when my friend came online he didnt have one wich just confused me abit.

i AM NOT trying to get out of this.

just wanted to know if there was to be any changes to people who are party'ed with booster's?? shishka any info on that matter???

Ash

p.s excuse the grammer, long day.

[Edited on 10.03.2008 12:03 PM PDT]



I understand where you coming from. It happened to me striaght after the oddball match we found. I was playing for real trying to get the oddball kills as well. I got them then the phone rang and I went to answer it saying do what you like to kill me then I found out that since they all was on 23 points and I had to ball they left me alone and when I went to replay I saw they didin't bother... then after one more game on DLC big team which I lost I went to bed to wake up the next day with the banhammer.

So on the 26th I was banhammered for the oddball game now I am 100% sure of which I didn't want to boost I said to them if you get the oddball kill your lucky but each time I try to get the ball I was either gained up on and had to back away or killed then when I did get it I get those three kills a bit too easy then phone and wham. So from my view it was that oddball legendary FFA map that got me the ban.

I am living with that stupid point of answering the phone and moving on. I don't care about the XP at all since it a game and one crash you lose it forever if the main seriver was to crash and the back ups lost.

Also on a note to it, if people want to boost and waste their own lifes on having no fun by just going for stupid XP which has no meaning in real life I would just say let them and let them be that sad little world they call the best. Since people like us are getting hit by the ban hammer because of those few that do the boosting for real and some how always get away with it and laughing in our faces all the time...


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  • 10.03.2008 12:37 PM PDT

This is a quote from SketchFactor, from the TU2 FAQ thread
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=26461843&p ostRepeater1-p=1#26463228:

-----Yeah, "achievement boosting" is kind of lame but honestly it's not really something we can/will punish people for.

Personally, if I'm in a game where people are trying to get me to cooperate and stand there like an idiot and trade melee kills or whatnot, I will just destroy them all. I play to play. :)-----

Seems we the players aren't the only ones who have conflicting viewpoints on this issue.

  • 10.03.2008 12:38 PM PDT

If SketchFactor saying that isn't it conflicting with the XP Banhammer that was made? a Bungie employee saying that would mean that this banhammer is in conflict from the inside out... I think they need to rework it out, there fair too many bugs on this new Banhammer. people that get caught in it are only played against noobs with guests onces and get hit by the hammer...

Now this is what I call stupid on a level I can't believe... and now I am more confused over this banhammer.... what happened to Bungie? with all these rules? I agree on the banhammer for modded maps and such but matchmaking game play? it another story from what I am seeing here.

They really need to work out this banhammer because what if you go in alone and you randomly get met with someone that want to boost and has 3 guests? what happen then? they get ban hammered because they got paired up with that person by a random chance? I heard this happen and it got them ban hammered... you just don't know what going to happen when you see guests if they alive or are they just standing there....

Bungie you really really need to sort out this mess you really made with the new Banhammer system... seriously... people like us are getting banhammered for random joinings or something else that really stupid in some sense.

I am really confused by the banhammer more then ever with all this information coming up with what i found out in my research about it to this...

Bungie fix it please.....

  • 10.03.2008 12:48 PM PDT

Posted by: Die nice 95
what is excatly boosting?

just wanting to ask,



if your not sure what boosting is look here

  • 10.03.2008 1:03 PM PDT

Someone,anyone,please

Well i know after the trouble with the exp i am difficulty getting exp i get some exp when i win but when i win sometimes i dont i should need about 5-10 exp and should be a Master Seargant can it be cleared up

Cheers Luis RH

  • 10.03.2008 1:34 PM PDT

The EXP system is screwy from the XBL update. If you've been banned, you would receive constant reminders.

  • 10.03.2008 2:00 PM PDT
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As I posted in my thread.

"I've been playing halo 3 clean since it got released I've never used any cheat tool or been boosting for exp. But after the xbox live servers went down and I logged on halo 3 the day after. It said my account has been banned for gaining exp. It didn't give me any message why I was banned, but I want bungie too take action and fix their banhammer system."

  • 10.03.2008 3:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: Anxion
As I posted in my thread.

"I've been playing halo 3 clean since it got released I've never used any cheat tool or been boosting for exp. But after the xbox live servers went down and I logged on halo 3 the day after. It said my account has been banned for gaining exp. It didn't give me any message why I was banned, but I want bungie too take action and fix their banhammer system."



just found one since i took interest in your post.. just because you didnt win, doesn't mean you didnt particpate in boosting..sorry : (


http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=757758 803&player=Anxion

  • 10.03.2008 3:11 PM PDT

Where did that ban thread go...

Posted by: iTz chiefy
Posted by: Anxion
As I posted in my thread.

"I've been playing halo 3 clean since it got released I've never used any cheat tool or been boosting for exp. But after the xbox live servers went down and I logged on halo 3 the day after. It said my account has been banned for gaining exp. It didn't give me any message why I was banned, but I want bungie too take action and fix their banhammer system."



just found one since i took interest in your post.. just because you didnt win, doesn't mean you didnt particpate in boosting..sorry : (


http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=757758 803&player=Anxion


No need to be sorry...
he won this boosted game ;)

http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStatsHalo3.aspx?gameid=756040 877&player=Anxion

  • 10.03.2008 3:18 PM PDT