[unbanned]I'm banned. I am speculating as to why.

[Evil_Steve]

Nickname: Evil_Steve
Date of the ban: 25 January 2008, around Midnight CST
Suspected Reason: Shotgun cheat?
Your IP address: 74.196.107.18

My room-mate (Tex_Dobbs) and I were playing and everything was cool and then suddenly I saw that he got banned for something related to a shotgun and then I was banned immediately afterwards and didn't even see a reason. 

I am thinking that we may have both been using the shotgun at that time and the system auto banned us???
This is kind of a bummer as I would never cheat on any multi player game and I really enjoy playing on this server.  I hope this was an auto ban and not an admin kicking me because he thinks I'm a jackass.

Thanks,
Evil_Steve

[Deaken]

It indeed looks like an admin banned your friend and roommate Tex_Dobbs for abusing the shotgun-no-reload-bug.

Two-shot bug abuse is no-reload sawn-off shotgun bug abuse.
Basically, you fire two shots, switch weapons, and switch back to the shotguns.
It's a bug that lets you fire off multiple rounds without reloading, and we do ban for it.

It is a 3 day ban, so you just have to wait.

[Evil_Steve]

I assure you that we didn't know about this mentioned bug.  I guess I got banned because we were on the same LAN and had the same IP address.  Nobody was cheating or knowingly exploiting any bugs and nobody even mentioned that they suspected such.  I have put in a little bit of time at this server and really enjoyed playing it; especially on the weekends.  I know it doesn't matter if there is one or two less users because there will be someone else to play anyway.  I do think this is unfair...

[Richard]

In what way is it unfair?

Your roommate got caught using a bug, he got banned. You have the same IP, that's your risk.
The ban is not for life, just 3 days. It's weekend, go have fun with friends or something!

[Evil_Steve]

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In what way is it unfair?

[Evil_Steve]

I have played for a while and did not know it was wrong to switch weapons between the shotgun and another weapon; everyone does it.  I didn't know that there was a bug associated with it.  I always have to reload if I have fired shots out of the shotgun even if I come back to it.  I still don't understand how one would enable the no reload bug; I don't know how to avoid this from occurring in the future other than not switching weapons.  I wanted to play this weekend; it's cold these days.  Can you please just lift the ban and I promise we will be more conscious of this bug?

Thanks for your consideration!

[Richard]

The ban is 3 days, no matter what.

Just shooting 4 shots then switch to uzi/tec shoot, then back again isn't considered bug abuse anymore. 2 shot however, is. Shoot once(2 bullets) then switch to another gun and directly back, shoot again » 2 shot. Not allowed.

Now you and your roommate know how to prevent it

See you in 3 days!

[Deaken]

I researched your story and found out it is true. Therefore you will be unbanned and fortunately for your friend he too. I want to ask you and Tex_Dobbs not to use any kind of weapon related bugs.

Deaken