Unban Request - Sperky7933

[sperky7933]

BYOND Key: sperky7933
Total Ban Length: forever
Banning staff member's Key: shenaanigans
Reason of Ban:
Reason for Appeal:

I switched from Windows to Linux because I want to try gaming on it for a year as an experiment. I was using virtualbox previously to run windows 10 to run this game because it doesn't work well with emulators on Linux. Worked well and played a round. I then tried to use virt-manager (a different emulator) and I got this ban message when trying to play on aurora yesterday evening on it. I maybe have an idea as to why this happened, but still I'm like totally flabbergasted. I thought it would solve itself and I would try the game again today on virtualbox on a separate machine and got this again.

If you're curious as to my hypothesis as to how this happened, virt-manager uses KVM, a type of emulator. The networking on KVM uses an IP that connects to the host machine that starts with 10.x.x.x, or something like that. I'm guessing this guy was using a VM to grief on the game and BYOND IP ban also bans these bridge IP's. I'm not sure how or why, but this is probably the craziest shit I've seen in all my years of playing this game. The game works perfectly fine on virtualbox but I'd never do KVM again if this is what happens.

[MattAtlas]

Unbanned, but yes, this is why you don't toy around with VMs, they switch up your CID and you can get caught into a ban net.