I wasn't addressing you directly par se Fara in my post but you call us moaners well we felt wronged & vented our feelings accordingly.
Yes one of our players laughed killing your CS, that player also offered an apology and has always had great respect for all his enemies. Besides its a war game and having a laugh at bagging a CS is fair play so excuse me for thinking you have taken it abit too much to heart.
Now as for us as moaners; a player uses racist, homophobic language and LB posted the least offensive part in his profile & he was the one banned....excuse me if we feel a little annoyed by this. If you want to read the full mail ask LB on skype im quite sure you will be offended by it as well.
Without getting this post deleted ill try to address why we complained so much. Cobra was hardly your bitter enemy; he spent his time in game supporting other players & spending an inordinate amount of time trying to teach newer players to play whilst helping to build a community feel within the alliance. Loathe or respect him he is a loss to the server and in my opinion he deserved to be treated better.
Can you honestly say he gained a large advantage over players other than his ability to spend large amounts of gold...no perhaps a warning or some form of punishment that did not involve his loss would of been better for all instead of a silly chase for ghost towns that only ruins the game as we all have to spend time fighting over these instead of each other in the near future. I will also state I personally believe he did not break the rules but that's only my personal opinion and is of course not proof. I will say he played from an Imac so using scripts is quite tough on a mac...
Now as for the other player; your damn right we complained and felt highly emotional towards this matter. A real life couple who played the game while in different countries and was something they took great joy in doing together was ruined over something that was not a material advantage over other players.
Witnessing the distress this matter caused ill be honest it took any motivation to play the game away from me & left a deep sense of injustice. She did not speak English as a first language and needed translation from her partner the method of this caused the problem. The nature of the ban and the extreme lengths taken to try to prove her innocence fell on deaf ears and left a great sadness so again excuse our sense of injustice.
The only other ban i can recall is uobeyme who admitted his mistake and started again; fair play for that in my opinion.
The reason I feel injustice and I talk for many long term players is I have known players since delta who have cheated successfully for years now without ever being caught. I am not a "grass" or "snitch" but those who are prepared to put the time in to multi account also put the time into not being caught but well fair play to them. At 70 cities im busy enough, the thought of running two accounts makes me shudder so anyone who wants well im not complaining, the ability gold spam troops is a bigger advantage in my eyes.
Banning without even a warning without conclusive proof is wrong in my eyes. When playing blizzard mmo's for example we are expected to agree to them scanning our system we don't have that here.
Anyway my two cents.
note : if i have broken any forum rules here please notify me & I will correct.