I know you dont play anymore, but if by any reason you come back for a round, play hard, and in the end accept a donnation with dirty stats and get banned, i am really sure you will be happy with just a warning to the botters... you say to retire the tough punishment because is just a game, but then you say that is a game where to win you must lose 45 days of your life. so.. i dont get it... if you are going to lose 45 days of your life, why use bot and take the risk? the idea here is just make it fair, try to make people believe that it doesnt worth to use bot.
If you do such a thing like a warning system, i bet that it will be a proud thing for majority of players: "look, i am grounded by crew, i am such a bad ass!!". we must think that this game is played 80% by kids.
but i bet that if you perm ban the main accs of who use bot (or all acc from that player that have any medal/trophy), botters wont like it, and dont think that's fun... and i am not talking about ban players.. they can always do another account and come back
Igogo, people will be wasting their time if they use bot, after all, if they dont, they dont have nothing to worry about right?
About Ryan and other banned people, well i just think that if they play clean, they cannot be banned, if play with bot, ban on main acc... at 2nd time caught with bot, banned player. Player who uses bot every round he plays, just doesnt matter to TC and other players and no one will miss him. However, like i said, the evidence must show without any doubt that the player used bot.
regards