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I know we've told you all not to break the rules, and some of you listen others don't. I want to share with you what I found today and what I did. This is in hopes that you all understand that cheaters never win.
I found a few people whom had been duping eq, I searched the rent files, I searched login times, I found matches and I had no choice. They had duplicated, well almost everything a person would want to duplicate. As such there was no way for me to know which of their eq was legitimate and which was duplicated. So I took it all. Every character they own was summarily stripped of their rent and any objects.
This is a warning to those of you who think you've been getting away with things for so long how could you possibly get caught. Eventually we you will slip up, and someone will be bored and see something odd and report it. And when they do you will not enjoy logging in the next day.
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