I have a feeling he will still be telling the tale to his grandkids Jokes aside, why do all threads always have to derail because of this? To be honest I think this is a good example of how Bioware used their ban hammer but then the player got on the right track. This is exactly how it is supposed to be. I heard only good on this player and I know he had some stuff before, but people do make mistakes. I do not think Mike needs to explain stuff here. This was a good choice by Devs to give a person another chance. Once the community is against you then its really hard to prove anything, this is the internet after all. What we should be concerned about are those cheaters who arent here on forums helping other players and adding to the discussion. The Top 3 and Gold players who enjoying their flairs, gotten through cheats, silently in the game. At least this player has the character to come back and prove he made a mistake but has changed. I do not see posts from players I cannot name..... Anyway thank you for the update @Mike, those statistics will be welcome and as for the players getting together to cheat, you cant only rely on programmed software here, that really needs to be analyzed.

*looks at leaderboards *checks sentinel/maruader ratings oh look, 2nd spot, guy from Leviathan....

Picture the situation now, the only way to get a 258 MH/OH is to get monumental crystals or crafting mats from Queen HM. Imagine you are a weaker player on Leviathan and the weekly for Monumental Crystal says do Queen HM or 50 ranked matches (i mean points, u know). So what do u do? You cant find a group that can do the queen on HM so you que SR. If 7 players get this idea you will get your SR pop. Now imagine there is an elite player from DM on this server..... "the one-eyed man is king among the blind"

Ok Mr. Facts, here is the statistic from Season 10 where you can see number of pages on Leaderboards per server: SF 98 SS 66 TH 34 Lev 14 DM 134 The if you are Top 3 and you have been playing on TH then you have faced 4 times less players then on DM and 3 times less than on SF. So this is meant by "low population". Sure its a biased figure, but it still proves Meros point.

I think Stubenhocker is already doing that.

Dear Mike, people already provide good feedback so ill leave it at that, but just do not forget one thing: rewards for daily/weekly. This was a source of issues in the past. On one side you can fix matchmaking, class balance, etc but keep in mind that if you overdo it with the rewards for ranked PVP like crafting mats, Unassembled components etc people will que for ranked messing up all that you have worked for. So if you manage to pull all these changes and ranked becomes good again, please also focus on this aspect.

Numbers would indeed be a nice way of showing the work of the Devs. Now, we do not see much, we can only count the names on the leaderboards, but without knowing if it was 1 account or 10 accounts we have no idea if someting was even done.

Guys, lets not make this thread into "those" threads again. We know the PVP community will want to discredit anyone who goes against them and will bring up this stuff. Please keep in mind, its the internet, Photoshop is your friend, you can make toons on other servers with specific names, appearence, make videos etc. This is about wintrading and not naming and shaming.

Its funny to see how people have no clue what went on but they make their own version of the story and write it on the forums as if it were the true story! A repeated Lie becomes the Truth I guess.

Please listen to this person! He is absolutely right!

4000 coms to buy pvp gear and another 16000 coms to upgrade to ranked gear! That was great, fair and also kept you busy for a while till you got the coms! This would be the best way.

I think he has you here

I think that is a very big setback if they reinstated all those cheaters, just because they all wrote to swtor disputes.

Cool! Can you schedule me for a run?

You guys do realize that guilds are already selling this, right?

They almost never comment here, so dont expect that, but they do read, so dont worry. What you mentioned about companions, you know that around 90% of the game population is here for the story, space barbie and such things. Conquest is the aim of many people now so do not expect PVP stuff to come fast. They do bring PVP content, but to fix such things is too much to ask for. At least one can see that you like the game when you still hang around even after being so disappointed

I think he is just trolling you all.

Whats funny is that sooo many PVPers keep saying how ranked in this game is pointless, means nothing, its a shame to have those flairs etc but now you see the famous players playing a few matches to get those few points for the top 3 spot. Even on streams they keep saying its nonsense to play for rating and leaderboards but now you can see it, in the end they go for the top spots. So why? Why do it if it means so little these days?

Ah yeah, I didn't realize that, but I was reading a few other forum posts when I realized that many people actually write that "if you don't like it, leave" and then it came to me, that, why would I leave? They should leave, I am pretty sure there is like 90% nice people in this game and 10% of those bad ones. So why not kick out the 10%? Instead of chasing the 90% away? There were other posts in my thread stating the same but this one was the newest.

So this is really it? I mean do I really have to be the one who goes? I pay for a game and I play it to have fun. Someone else is also paying for the game but he spends his time being mean to other people. They even go above and beyond the limits and harass others. So is that you answer? If I don't like it I should leave? Why? Why wont that other person leave instead? Why is he entitled to stay for being and a** and I have to turn off chat, ignore people or even leave the game? In the real world if you find someone offending you even threatening etc you call the police, layer etc and they handle it. They deal with the person, put him to prison, fine him what ever. You pay taxes, police protects you. So I do not get why I have to be the one doing the compromises here.

The thread is apparently still going (and I am glad that its being discussed) because it is a real issue in the game. As I wrote before I have been ignoring people over and over, but they just keep on appearing. There is no end to it. It was already pointed up that even the "report" and "ignore" function is there to actually replace moderation as the Devs move the control mechanism to players themselves, who actually pay to play the game. That is not very optimal. However, I have to say that recently the insults went a bit down and I have seen a few players in ranked this week using only /me cause they were chat banned. So maybe we are getting somewhere.

It is pretty clear why we have the gear, they simply need to buy time before 6.0 You can see how the adding of content is spread out over a long time period. I mean if you take a look at the stuff we got up to know it is almost stuff worth of 1 expansion. Instead we were slowly getting things added like Flashpoints, warzones and now NiM. They could have really supplied all this at once as a huge package. Anyway, its simply meant to keep us busy till 6.0 and I am fine with that.

I suppose you are one of "those people"

Yeah you and your SMW, I also have Nabukadnezar similar toon who was kicked out of SMW and a friend is Nepochop (similar) toon who got the same treatment. Just cause toon names are similar it doesnt mean its the very same person!

Talk about childish. You're going to leave a game that you find entertaining because you are unable to ignore what some nobody in general chat says? Get over yourself. I have been reporting and ignoring people a few years now. After you have done it for so long you realize that there is no stopping it and people just keep on coming and coming. So what do you do? You simply resign. I have played WoW for years and rarely encountered such player behavior. Yes, sure, but the reaction with electronic equipment such as ipads, playstation etc creates a much bigger aggressive reaction. I mean its my job to work with kids, I have been witness to this for decades so I do know a lot about it.