Just over three weeks have passed since WG extensively tackled rigging. That’s about three weeks the community started with great jubilation, which has now changed into disillusionment. The biggest point of discussion was a CCT, who gave up this position in the meantime. The community was sure there's something wrong, WG however confirmed again and again that they have checked those player several times and nothing would confirm his rigging. But even if the debate about this specific player overshadowed other topics there have been many other small issues which raised doubts on the actions taken by WG.



But let's start at the beginning:

Everyone should have noticed that WGs measures were only directed against T-22 owners. The irony is: Those who have rigged missions but did not accept the reward tank yet will remain completely untouched by these measures. Ironically, this in turn means that those players whose actions have triggered the whole discussion in the forum will get out of the issue at hand without any harm: They neither got a 14 days ban, nor did they lose their progress / their right to the T-22 (You might recall this video). It could be that these people might get the ban once they accept the tank but this would raise other questions. For example: Will WG save the data forever? What happens if someone continues to play and accepts the tank in a year. Will WG check all the old battles / data? What about players who won’t accept the tank after all this? They can still make millions of credits and get loads of boosters as well as female crewmembers without the fear of repercussion.



In the original thread on the subject you could read: "This is also applied retroactively to known cases". Which relates in a very strange way to the point mentioned above: Especially when you consider that this action only affected a small portion of those players who already got a 7 day ban back in November / December 7 for rigging (Not even including all who had a T22 already). Which simply won't fit the statement that "all known cases" have been included.

We believe this confirms again what you might have read between the lines on the forum over the recent weeks. The ban wave was not based on replay proof (otherwise even those players reported via replay would have been banned.)

At this point, it's getting interesting for most people, because if it was not about replays... So what was the proof the bans were based on? Well, that's a good question. WG always claimed "evaluation of internal data". But what does this entail in detail? Sehales wrote that "All the players who have the T-22, were / are checked against the data from our logs, it was checked who was in whose team, etc ...". An interesting approach, but which data is being looked at for real?

This brings us back to our initial and "favorite" topic: Jeff. Because he has a T-22 you would expect that WG would run the same checks against him as well, correct? Not from the information provided we have been told the fact that they could not find anything when they checked his details. ("We didn't find anything for Jeff. We can't proof anything against him, [...]"



I took the liberty and searched vBAddict for replays and was able to find 8 rampage replays for Jeff. Right before he obtained the T-22.

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Links to vBAddict (Please note, for reasons unknown to me vBAddict only stores the damage / kills / etc for the first vehicle.):

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Please keep in mind these are not 8 out of x battles, these are just the 8 battles found on vBAddict. But it comes as a surprise that in 8 out of 8 battles we can find the same platoons within the own or enemy team. This happened on different days as well as within different modes. Though the players change it's easy to see when the two platoons occur within the different teams.



So far this does not invalidate the statement of Sehales, it could be as many assume that Jeff just got some vitamin B (good connections). It could be Jeff is the only one who escaped the system. But with very little effort it's possible to highlight other strange teams. As an example we could select player Überpro_Seba_94 who managed to obtain the T-22 within just 100 games with rental tanks as his first tier 10 tank. But we would easily find something on Vbaddict for him:

In this example we can observe thanks to the steelhunt games how he platoons with former "enemies". We will just ignore the last battle where he just made fun of WG.

So if WG did not check who did drive against whom maybe they just checked who massively matched up against his own clan?



Unfortunately not, as evidence shows: We found 12 players of a clan in the same battle without any platoon. Maybe coincidence maybe trolling but not mission rigging? Wrong!

We could find more details on vBAddict:

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In this example we can observe -- thanks to the steelhunt games -- how he platoons with former "enemies". We will just ignore the last battle where he just made fun of WG.

So if WG did not check who did drive against whom maybe they just checked who massively matched up against his own clan?

Unfortunately not as evidence shows:

We found 12 players of a clan in the same battle without any platoon. Maybe coincidence maybe trolling but not mission rigging? Wrong!

We could find more details on Vbaddict.

It's nice to see how someone managed to get 14k damage while the enemy team repaired themselves for over 5k damage.

Another battle a few minutes later.

Some people might actually start to think, if I can prove these things with external databases, it certainly should be no problem for WG to capture those things within its internal database. So why is it not happening.

Well, that's the one million Euro question. The points mentioned above show that WG has never pulled replays as evidence to verify. At the same time it shows that there may has been no real evaluation of the internal data. What remains? WG just did a sweeping blow and randomly selected 100 names drawn from the list of T-22 owners to calm the "mob". This would also explain why no Rigger was caught who did not own the T-22. If you just go by the names of T-22 owners you can't really unmask those "accomplices"

The sad part: WG announced repeatedly in the discussion about Jeff that they would only ban players if there was clear evidence. By now the questions are: If WG did not use replays or did not evaluate internal data what solid proof exists for the 100 affected players?

Now my question: What do you think? And very important, @Jeff: Did Hundedreck eat the replays? [German for "dog dirt"]

PS: I would like to thank Johnny_Park who helped me to find some of the information and data collected.