Closed Ban Appeal

Hi MapleRoyals Admin Team,
My name is Brandon and I am the owner of MasqueradeNX who has the following characters: Radnoj, TheBrick, KarlMarksman, FrozenFresh, MiniCosair and ChilliSause.
I was banned around June-2022 and my appeal was looked at by Dasha and Tim at the time.
After a recent event where my friends were speaking to former GM (ign) ‘Saturn’ who recommended that if I believe I had done no wrong then I could try and re-open this appeal and explain myself better with intention to become un-banned.
I would sincerely like to reach out to the team one last time to properly explain myself and offer some points for consideration. Like you, I enjoy coming back to this game with my friends and feeling nostalgic towards a game that we all grew up playing and loving.
To begin, I would like to acknowledge and apologize how I came across in my original response. It was immature and not helpful at all. I don’t want to give any excuses, but my mindset was not well during the post-COVID period, and I should have been more forthcoming and insightful in my responses to the team who were trying to ultimately help me become un-banned.
In the appeal thread I was informed that I was banned on suspicion of real-world trading and was asked to elaborate on the origins of my funds and items.
My initial answer to the question was that I made my wealth by voting and using the points to do Gachapon where I sold the valuable items such as Chaos Scrolls, White Scrolls etc. I also spent a lot of time in the market buying and selling gear for profit and also sold Onyx Apples I got from APQ which I did on my character ‘Radnoj’.
My last response mentioned that before I quit, I bought apples hoping they would increase in price at a later period. The Administrator Tim said my purchase history did not contain onyx apples.
I then got frustrated because I couldn’t remember what happened 2 years ago and just gave up saying I didn’t care if I was banned and was over it.
The truth of the matter is that upon recounting my steps with my friends I realized that I probably did not buy any apples. I certainly did sell apples and gear, but I don’t recall buying apples to sell them later.
When speaking to my friends recently (I can provide their in-game names upon request), they had said that during our early days playing the game I was in Nautilus when another player whom I did not know dropped a single stack of Onyx Apples – less than 100. I recall this happening, but I cannot recall the day it happened on.
I still stand by my statement that I accrued wealth in the game via Gachapon, Buying/Selling Gear on FM, also farming Japanese Maps and Dark Noels in Phantom Forest from Leprechauns and receiving gifts from friends. I did not engage in any real-world-trading. This account had Royal Points on it, and I spent real money so I would never jeopardies the account by paying real money to receive in game currency especially when the consequence is to be perma-banned.
As you can imagine, it can be incredibly challenging to remember minute details from 2 years ago on a game that I ended not playing for such a long time. It would be difficult to give you exact dates as to when I did what, but I can try my best to explain how I got specific items if you would share which items exactly arose suspicion?
I’m incredibly disheartened to be suddenly banned on suspicion of real-world trading and I’m not quite sure what even flagged this in the first place. If you have doubts on the integrity of my character, my friends who are current players are willing to email character references and personal accounts to help support the claim that I did not undertake any nefarious activities whilst playing the game.
I would love a second chance to be able to play with my friends again on this server and hope that you might consider this appeal once more.
Warm Regards,
Brandon