Btw you speak very wise stinger yet im banned from your server with an allegelly 2 month old log as proof, logs can be created and twisted you know? What other evidence was used on my case? The word of a person? Or several? Was i even consulted as the defendant of this accusation?
I know, I hear ya. This is the deal folks. The people behind the scenes of TLR affiliated servers are not new at this. We have countless realtime hours invested in knowlegde we have about the way Freelancer works from a server side perspective. Ther are people better at this than me at getting good tools working to monitor the servers for all kinds of activity. It's NOT a perfect science and we do make errors in judgement sometimes.
We also know all the tricks to forgery. But we ARE open to discussion revolving around any gray areas (in other words, we're not blind to extenuating circumstances). But some regulars (not all) have an established reputation as whistle blowers on server anomolies like cheaters/modders/stealers of software. They also know that if they steer us wrong, we'll be less likely to listen to them in the future.
The log referenced above is what it is. To quote one of my favorite singers Jim Groce... "You don't tug on Supermans cap, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask off the 'ol Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim" In a nutshell, that means don't tempt fate then get upset when the walls come crashing down around you. The log itself brought this upon you. Many attempts are made before anyone is banned (which is a matter of policy) but we don't have all day to do that. So we post email addresses all over the place in the hopes that players will contact us if there's a dispute.
With great power comes great responsibility and no one lives that more than the admins of TLR affiliated servers. We're just doing our best to provide the most stable, largest and cheat free server out there.