Red Spider

For those that keep talking about IP bans. Banning cheaters by IP sounds like a simple solution, but it's unreliable. Cheaters can easily mask their IP address using a VPN or a proxy service, effectively circumventing the IP ban. The bigger issue is that most IP addresses are shared or dynamic. For example, if a cheater is identified and their account is banned along with their IP address, an innocent sibling using the same IP could also be banned. Now we mistakenly banned an innocent player because someone in their household got the IP banned for cheating. Dynamic IPs complicate this further. Depending on your internet service provider and contract, you might have a dynamic IP. This means each time your router connects to the internet, a different IP address might be assigned. However, this doesn't mean the IP won't be reused. An IP used by a banned cheater could later be assigned to an innocent player later on, who would then be mistakenly banned for using the same IP address. That doesn't mean we don't have other ways to identify returning cheaters.

This won’t hurt one bit.