Closed Sh0oK's Ban Appeal for botting.

Discussion in 'Ban Appeal' started by Sh0oK, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. Sh0oK
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    Last thing you did: Aus/Sea Horntail (at 4-5am in the morning my time)
    Why do you think you got banned?: I fell asleep during our HT run preheads. I don't know if I was spamming something (a skill?) or just walking into the (wall?) or what, but I think I was currently fighting on one of the preheads. My arm/hand/head must have pressed some buttons and held them down apparently.
    I truly apologize if this made it look like I was "botting" but I promise you I just now woke about 3 hours later (in front of my computer lol) to find my client dc'd and banned for botting for 7 days. I've never once used any form of robot play and I honestly don't even know what happened. This is a big misunderstanding and I hope you can look and see I wasn't at all consciously any way attempting to bot/engage in robot play.

    There was no benefit/point to whatever I was even doing, as during an HT if I wasn't paying attention I would just die instantly. That's why I'm a bit confused about what even happened. D/sea's results say themselves (Sh0ok 101% fell asleep) because I was talking about being sleepy before the run. Again, I'm very sorry if falling asleep at my keyboard in game, and I will never play again when I'm that sleepy. I understand the rules state you cannot control your account without your presence, but if I'm asleep with my head pressed against the keyboard was I really "controlling" my character or just afk with a button accidentally held down by my head? There was no advantage given in this situation so I hope someone can look at this with my side of view and realize it was just a mistake of playing too sleepy on my end.

    I feel the situation would be much different if I had "fallen asleep" at gs2 spamming heal or whatnot, but I was trying to complete a horntail in the middle of the night/morning and simply dozed off at my desktop. I really don't even know what chance saw me do, most lilley just walking over to one side of the map or something before dying. The D/sea runs are in the middle of the night (4am) for me and I've successfully completed almost every single one, but this time I was a bit too sleepy. Hope this can be overlooked in a rational manner. At 197 there is no way I would purposely risk my account over something like this and I feel like a mistake of falling asleep should be reconsidered as a ban. I hope someone can understand my situation.
    Thank you for your time,
    Maxwell/Sh0oK.


    Ban message when attempting to log in:Account Temporarily Banned 7 days For Botting
    What GM banned you (optional):Chance (who gave the ht rewarp at a later date as I found out reading the thread, which I was still apparently surviving?)
     
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