HWS Police - Report a crime

[TheState]

Server: NA

Type of Offence Committed: Sabotage, griefing, theft of blueprints with malicious intent.

@RexXxuS

You are allowed to capture the blueprints of other players (in PvP) but you may NOT post the blueprints in the public (workshop, Discord, etc.). It is still their intellectual property. You must ask for their permission to do so.

@RexXxuS

However we don’t tolerate sabotage and infiltration to ruin the gameplay of a whole faction. Real life is hard enough in that matter. If clear proof and evidence can be given, we might investigate in that case.

@RexXxuS

Don’t grief! Griefing is considered anything which creates a harassment experience for any player.

Time/Date of offence: April 9 2018, approx 0300 we were alerted that this had occurred.

Player/Faction accused: Ultima133 / RedAlert_007 (discord)

Player Faction reporting: TAW represented by TheState, witnessed by ICE, RoP, ZackeyTNT, OMCRescue, Jinco, Ghost, rockclimber, sclossin, nsnipe, CaptCrabbypants and seen by the entire server.

What happened?
Ultima133 infiltrated TAW 29 days ago with the intent to sabotage the TAW faction. The actions committed by this member are as follows:

• Player was a member of TAW for almost a month while spying on activity (see picture 1)
• Player did not have admin rights so used a multitool to recore and private 1 TAW base and 14 HVs and SVs with the purpose of holding them for ransom (including one garage ship)
• By infiltrating and intentionally sabotaging the TAW faction, Ultima133 directly violated the rule labeled 2 above. Actions were not done in PVP, but rather in PVE using his membership privileges.
• Due to his access and intent, it’s expected that missing materials on the cored base are his doing
• Due to his malicious intent, it’s expected that he will or already has violated rule labeled 1 (stealing/public posting/sharing of blueprints) above as a result of the infiltration. These blueprints were gained through violating the sabotage/infiltration rule.

To summarize, Ultima133 violated the rules regarding sabotage with intent to grief and undermine our faction.

Why did it happen?
Player has a grudge against a TAW member and disagreed (allegedly according to this member) with TAW’s activities on HWS and broke multiple server rules to get “revenge” against him and our faction as a whole. In short, TAW was not a legitimate cause of this.

Evidence: (Screens/Video/logs)

Initial message regarding the base being taken:

Evidence of espionage:

Evidence of griefing:


Above picture referring base taken was specifically targeted for the large valuable resources that it contains, not “just a base”.

Ultima133 acknowledging that he read the rules in an attempt to justify his actions:


The outcome: (Our Verdict, within 24 hours-Check back to see this updated and what action was taken)

Cored X7
http://puu.sh/zZg4P/5f182848b8.png

Video by Ultima showing him physically committing the sabotage:

- YouTube

As can be seen in the video, this player did not have admin rights but was able to improvise by multitooling the blocks. TAW does not claim that any exploits were used, only that the fairplay rules cited above were broken

Screenshots of the above video
http://puu.sh/zZgmQ/b2cd3ec28d.png
http://puu.sh/zZgDE/c8f6f8971d.png
By making statements like this, Ultima133 is claiming that he is able to do what he did due to our recruitment practices. The issue is not with glitches or method, but rather the action itself.

Community Resonse (not related to Ultima but believing that violating rules like this is acceptable):
This was disturbing to me and a lot of people. The belief from a few players that an act like this is okay is appalling. It’s cut and dry in the rules and any player who was in our place instead would not believe that infiltrating and sabotaging is a fair act. Golden rule, I’m surprised more players didn’t condemn this action but rather encouraged it.

http://puu.sh/zZgZa/4a9668286c.png

http://puu.sh/zZh0s/afa416f6e6.png

http://puu.sh/zZh6G/3b961d5908.png

http://puu.sh/zZhb2/0d8e1487b5.png

http://puu.sh/zZhbQ/8351dfb7b3.png

http://puu.sh/zZhdH/59902c2736.png

http://puu.sh/zZhiQ/51c2a1ac0b.png

http://puu.sh/zZhmz/f2159fe0fc.png

http://puu.sh/zZhsi/8542f54b82.png
This particular picture tells me that this rule is not clear enough for the general population of the server. It is not understood that this action was very illegal in regards to server rules.

http://puu.sh/zZhuk/e6340be3ae.png

http://puu.sh/zZhv6/1a1ce847cb.png
In reference to all of the vessels that were sabotaged.

http://puu.sh/zZhBl/eeebbad37b.png

The outcome: Stolen assets returned to original owner by moderator despite no rules being broken - #19 by RexXxuS