I've recieved a complaint from a friend of mine, whom I can vouch for, that without any evidence to prove he's using any form of hacking or botting, he's been banned from the Modacity servers in Halo: Custom Edition.

I can personally vouch for this individual, as he and I have played side by side, in person, and I can attest to his skill on the battlefield.

He's an Ace with a Sniper Rifle, and he's one of those few person's who are truly responsible for the "Sniper No Sniping!" quips passed around the servers.

What I want to know is why he was banned without any evidence to back the moderator's convictions? I don't want to sound like a troll or anything, but calling someone a hacker, or a botter, because they're kicking your ass on a server doesn't automatically mean they're botting. It means you need more practice.

There are several metaphors I shall now refer to that are absolutely true in the gaming world.

"There's always something cleverer than yourself" - Merlin in "Excalibur"
"There's always a bigger fish" - Qui-Gon Jin in "Star Wars: THe Phantom Menace"
"There will always be someone smarter, faster, and stronger than you are" - someone in at least half a dozen other films and In real life.


It angers me that the moderators of a series of good servers that I frequent often would be so judgmental and childish about being beaten at a damn video game that they'd ban someone without justification.

I've played Halo for about 10 years now. I've learned how to compensate for lag, aiming ahead of a players current heading in order to get the kill, aiming farther ahead of vehicles in similar fashion to get the kill. It's not rocket science. You have to account for lag, and some people are better at it than others.

The player whom I am speaking of is named, aptly, "inubuttigo", because he pretty much rapes the battlefield when he plays. He earned that nickname, and he uses it well. He's been playing for just about as long as I have.

The one time he ~did~ use a bot was to determine whether or not another player was using one, and it turned out that he was right, but instead of that player getting banned, he got banned. He wasn't even a combatant at the time. He was merely an observer, but that didn't stop the moderator from getting butthurt and banning him from the server, and subsequently from the other servers.

What you don't seem to realize is that not ~every~ person who uses a bot is out to ruin the game for everyone. He hates botters as much as I do. In fact, we hate botters so much that we actively switch teams when we discover a botter, to the botters team to disrupt said botter by tkin' their sorry asses(or trying to, you know how the lack of friendly fire goes) and keeping them from getting any kills and keep them from ruining the game for other players.

I shall re-iterate. We ~HATE~ botters. So much so we actively seek them out and ruin their idea of 'fun' because what ~they~ consider fun, we consider a nuisance and a disgrace to the legitimate gameplay of others. These such persons therefore do not deserve to have 'fun' at ~our~ expense.

SO what I am asking here, is that you find it in your heart to unban his IP, as he has done nothing more than attempt to level the playing field against botters.

P.S.= Why the hell does hardly anyone in these servers speak English anymore? It makes it hard to be a team player when you can't understand what the hell someone is saying.