Hello everyone involved into this,
after a long internal discussion and investigation here is the TL;DR:
@Ultima133 is temporary banned from the HWS servers and HWS Community for his actions and behavior until 09.08.2103 11:34.
Let me clear some things up why we had to do this.
2 years ago we had the first tryhard sabotage going on, forcing us to think about it and implenting rules to prevent this.
As written in the rules, real life is hard enough to not bring stuff like this into a game where fun should be the main goal for everyone.
So the main point Ultima brings into the table is
That’s it.
With 9 playhours on HWS he had only one goal to achieve at all cost: damage other player.
Bringing old stories into HWS:
09.04.2018 02:43:52 TAW Ultima133™ XPA sends their regards
Now to tackle this smart rule-loophole-Digger he quoting all the time the current rule about sabotage, which was 2 years nice and settled until now:
I don’t go into detail here what the definition of “ruin” + “gameplay” + “whole” could mean. It would be too long.
Ruin = the very moment you did the action you triggered the word “ruin”.
Gameplay = the intel plans TAW had, the main logistic base TAW had and the disabling ships from TAW is triggering the word “gameplay”.
Whole = a whole faction is on HWS declared of all active members. So he affected the whole faction of that very moment hence the word “whole” triggered.
But to prevent exactly these kind of smart-heads we have something so easy and simple, he probably missed it in his evil plan:
We are no high professional skilled english lawyer, trying to prevent any loopholes and creating more rules than any government has in place.
We are here and have this Bottom Line philosophy.
Obviously Ultima didn’t care about it in first place, so he got punished. Simple as that.
While the severity 2 years ago was not that high, that time he not only provided his guilty by himself via a video (thanks for that!) but also broke many other rules along the way.
Such as griefing and any common sense of fair play in the first place like this
Last but not least quoting our rule
Might seems legit, missing the context though of the difference about stealing in terms of taking something and don’t let other people know in the faction (thus inter faction politics) or sabotage, which means a forceful way of breaking in from outside, ruin the whole eco system of a faction and then leaving which breaks another rule of HWS:
So overall the serverity is in this case very high because of a very poorly planned attempt to loophole our HWS rules, justifying to ruin the fun of others and principles of HWS.
And while it wouldn’t be even of a material loss TAW was caused by this, it is about principles and a mindset of Ultima we don’t want here at all.
Closing statement:
Final Judgement: HWS Staff have the final word on the validity and repercussions of any claims following an investigation.