12 people out of the 167 damage members were banned for a length of time dependent on the severity (10 from the main guild) ..
Nitro has determined the severity and length of ban by the ammount of refunds done by that person. One or three redunds seems to equate to 1-3 seasons ban.. More than five seems to be permanent..
We have had 2 people have permenant bans for abusing it.. The rest have used it 1-3 times..and this is why there not banned permenatly.
I'm not condoning the actions of anyone involved but many have been on this game for 4years+ and paid a lot into getting where they are, actually £1000s as they've been here so long.
We all knew of the trick, some chose to use it, others not, the majority didn't until eventually some gave in, out of anger, and did a few in one go because they were fixed out of promo and nitro failed to act on it, yet again... So they claimed their two bought players back for that season. It was the feeling that they pay to play on an equal footing and weren't provided one so why pay.. It became a trend unfortunately, a silent protest of sorts..
They have banned anyone who did this and have permenatly banned any that did it a lot... But that seems to be only two players..
Most are either serving thier ban or paying back the £20/50 they owe. This isn't the massive conspiracy people seem to have taken it for, the players in damage are all there though merit not cheating.. The ineptitude of nitro has left some making hastey decisions that they now regret..
As I've said earlier I don't condone it but I do understand how this has come about..
Inc will be back running in a few weeks minus two teams.. It has 16 unbanned teams (one paid what was due and Soto was banned due to one refund that was legitimate and nitro actually told him to apply for, once he reminded them of this with screen shot he was unbanned instantly, the rest were never banned) though one is going to quit due to nitro removing 400gb when he did one legitimate refund that didn't amount to that.
I will also put to bed the idea of damage having developers in the guild. It doesn't and never has. Sean has been mentioned, I assume you mean Sean Case, mels husband? He quit the game before Christmas and was never a developer or moderator even, though he had fun telling you all he was and watching the sparks. I belive he had very limites access to a small part of the test server and he coded a rugby World Cup tournament that nitro never actually ran.. In fairness to him, he did this for free and for everyone on the game to enjoy.. But him being him had to go on a wind up abiut his power there which a lot seemed to belive.. We have no connection with nitro in damage. If we did do you think we would have had bans??
To say that the strength of damage inc has come from a loophole found in the last 6 months is ludicrous, we have fought for our postion and still will, 15 of us have not been accused and of the ten accused 8 have had less than £50 back in refunds.. Its not mind bending numbers that would have given a massive advantage, our strats, as allways, have given us our advantage and will continue do so..
Ps. Good gc cag, we have played all games except two who has quit in protest as mentioned above.
It was never going to happen for us with the ammount of bans..