Seven of my thirteen accounts have wiped out. All the units and resource generation are gone and I can no longer make buildings or perform any other actions on the accounts. The most annoying part of all this is that two of the accounts that were banned still had Future token airdrops on them, and those tokens appear to have been deleted.

Presumably, this ban hammer was swung in response to me setting up attack streams on AFK accounts. I was attacking several accounts every 11 minutes with bouncers and locking out everyone else trying to farm those AFK accounts.

The messed up thing is that my accounts didn't gain much benefit from this type of farming. Most of my progress was made legitimately.

Even more messed up is the fact that these bans come in the wake of the @drugwars team already implementing a solution to the problem. Custom JSONs are now encrypted, breaking my script.

When it really comes down to it the @drugwars team created a flawed product that practically forced players to bot if they wanted to get the upper hand. Rather than fix the mechanics of the game they throw out bans to botters like myself who got a bit sloppy. The real cheaters are still out there or they've simply given up because they already got their airdrop and 90% of the prize pool has already bled out.

The reality of this situation is that the @drugwars team is simply punishing botters who didn't separate their activity to dummy accounts. I could have just as easily used new accounts to bot on and these bans would have meant nothing.

@drugwars still continues to be vulnerable to Sybil attack. These bans mean nothing. They are a small hiccup. I can just as easily make 7 new accounts and farm my non-banned accounts and be back where I started in no time.

It would have been nice if I was given some kind of warning. A 3 day suspension of the mentioned accounts would have been nice.

Blessing in Disguise?

Do I continue to dump my time into playing a game whose mortal wounds are being taped up with bandaids? Maybe I'll call it good and move on to better things.

The original purpose of creating a JavaScript interface with @drugwars through the Steem blockchain was to further my knowledge of JavaScript and the Steemit API. Mission accomplished. However, if the @drugwars team didn't want people do bot the game and create their own frontend they should have never been posting the information on a transparent blockchain in the first place (duh).

Conclusion

Seriously though deleting the airdrop that I could have already claimed is way out of line.

You owe me 8000 Future tokens imo.

Thanks in advance.

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