Quote Originally Posted by Joker1975 View Post
And here lies the problem with this net. Basically what Bishop and the devs are saying is that "Whitelisted" players were abusing the system and the system also allowed people to "legally" cheat. Similar to what some people here have said about pay to play with the sitting option you have.

So to sum everything up that Bishop and the devs are saying, whitelisted people do not make up the majority or even a big enough percentage of the base players on utopia so they will no longer allow whitelisting. In order to eliminate this form of cheating we are putting in a system that will stop whitelisted players from interacting with each other. If you were not cheating, sorry about your luck but at the end of the day the integrity of the game is more important than the 5% (based off the 337 players whitelisted in the past 30 days) of the players we may potential lose.

There isn't an argument you can use to change their minds because they aren't going to listen. The change is here to stay. They are telling everyone in utopia they are doing something about the cheating problem. It doesn't matter if they catch someone or really stop someone from cheating, this is a method they say will stop cheating so they are doing what they said they would. One of the biggest complaints a large portion of utopia players have had for years is multies using farms and intel provinces. (not that any of this was done before whitelisting) And if they catch someone in this net, all the better.

Bishop has labeled most cheaters as lazy and won't try to circumvent the system, cheaters will give up their cheating ways since they now have to work for it. Most criminals do not plan out their crimes, they simply act on a perceived weakness of their victim or are driven by desperation and act without much thought.

There is apparently some system information they have been tracking on the whitelisted players that suggests a majority of them are xlogging for their whitelisted partner. They can't reveal that information to you or me since it may implicate them in some type of monitoring device they have placed in the cookies or whatever they used to track the whitelisted players.

So to the whitelisted players that were following the rules and only playing your province, you can thank those players that weren't for these countermeasures that the devs and Bishop have implemented.
Joker, I've been playing since mid-2002 I think and trust me, complaints about multis have been going on since then and that was WELL before the whitelist was established. They're just reverting to a system that had just as many issues as the current one, and truth be told, the old system was unjust and thus done away with. If the devs want to repeat the mistakes that others have made, that's fine, but it's a bad idea and will lead to further hemorrhaging of their existing player base. It's pretty simple: I'd rather see 100 cheaters get away with it than 100 innocent players get hit by this foolish idea. I wish the devs would think that way too.