"Partying with someone who is breaking any form of rule to gain a competitive advantage makes you guilty by association. (When found in this situation, leave the party, leave the map, and report the situation in-game or via the forums. Be very cautious about this!) Punishment: The same punishment as the original offender." If "person A" parties with "person b" who bots and has been previously banned, will "person A" be permanently banned as well?
I believe so. Many people have been banned with people who have been in the same party as a botter or glitch abuser.
I would guess if its that kind of botting were you get 2 strikes before getting permanently banned. If "person a" has no previous botting offences or partying with a botter before that then he should get a 7 day ban, even if the botter is getting permanently banned because its his 2nd offence. If you're suposed to get the same punishment as the original offender. If you don't get 2 strikes for being in party with someone who placed an item on their keyboard to bot just because its their 2nd offence. Then I think you get a harsher punishment if you were permanently banned without getting a 7 day ban first.
Well the other hard one is lets say you party with someone random at lets say LMPQ and you all have your own rooms, they use vac or whatever other hack when in their room and no one sees it obv yet you would all suffer the same ban without any knowledge of that person being a hacker. I solo party with randoms all the time; well less often now that I rarely party, but in a general sense.
But then the autoban system will be be triggered when a mob hack is activated, therefore I think your point is invalid. MapleRoyals has a decent autoban system and I'm sure it'd detect hacks when activated. As for partying with the person who is gaining an unfair advantage/botter.. I've always thought if you are partied with them, you'd be banned according to the rule you broke and won't be serving the same length of punishment as the original offender. I would think that each offence is independent for each player, so why would you get a permban when it's your first offence partying with a second offence botter.
Even if the autoban system doesn't pick it up, we won't ban the entire party in that situation because simply the chances are very high that they haven't seen the hacking player until the end of the pq. It would be different of course if you're clearing the same room as the hacker, because at that point you can easily be aware of what's going on.
The concept remains the same, if we catch a player breaking the rules we will investigate if the players he is partied with are or aren't aware of him or her breaking the rules. And if we do find them to be aware, we check if they take advantage of it by staying partied or whether they leave the party and map as they should. So if you play with common sense, you shouldn't have to worry much about situations like these.
Well I don't care much either way, as I said I tend to play solo, I was just putting my two cents in on the discussion. But of course play the game with discretion and be more cautious all around.
