MafiaMatrix

Dear players,

As you know, we recently had players commit fraud with donation money. In doing so, around $750 of bogus donation money got introduced into the game. We've written this announcement to give you an update about that situation. But first it should be mentioned that after an appeal, Cookie was found innocent: in his case it had merely been an honest mistake with PayPal.

We mentioned last time we would be writing a script to undo some of the damage caused. We're happy to say we finally managed to get the analysis sorted and by the time you're reading this, we've probably executed the recall of the extra donation money that was introduced into the game through the donation money market. Affected players (those who bought DM from the 2 fraudulent players) will receive an event telling how much DM has been subtracted from their account. The amount of money they paid for it with in-game cash has...

Dear players,

We've recently admin-whacked 3 players for committing fraud with donations through PayPal. I won't go into the details, but it's similar to having a checque bounced.

In doing so, these players have introduced around $800 of bogus donation money into the game. Some of that went into donation features, but a large portion of that money has also been sold on the donation money market.

This is a problem for us because we just about break even every month, and having this kind of extra donation money floating around means that people who might otherwise have donated now have less incentive to do so because they bought it from the donation money market instead. In better days, we might have let it slide, but unfortunately we feel we must try and undo these actions the best we can.

Over the weekend we're looking into writing a script that will look at DM sold on the donation money mark...