Divinity, on 31 July 2012 - 07:47 PM, said:
Yes of course, but this process also takes some time. Considerably more than what was required in 4.1. If this stops the drive by hackers it already does something good.
Keep in mind people could as well register 5 accounts at the same time and switch them after being banned, avoiding the activation delay in this way. But this is where the notoriety comes in. Are they going to play on all those accounts to get a higher 'level' on all of them? I don't think so. So if the cheater is banned and comes back with a newbie account and nearly 0 ingame time, he can easily be blocked again, or the admin could just block any accounts that are newbie accounts. In the end admins will still have to put in some effort to get rid of the most persistent hackers, but it has become a lot more time intensive for the hackers and a lot less time intensive for the admins.