The fundamental flaw of Combat Tools was the fact that any screenshot / report was considered as 'evidence' and people with grudges (QQ's) against certain players were submitting their "evidence" so that the accused would be blacklisted. Basically it was unmoderated. Many high ranking players appeared on the Top Reported Players list due to many people submitting false reports to the site.
Their signatures, which contained the Top Reported Players, were fairly popular on the forums.
Combat Tools was popular enough that Nexon Europe used the website to find hackers, encouraging their players to submit reports via Combat Tools via an official newspost.
COMBAT ARMS EUROPE encourages all combatants to report hackers and glitchers through the unique cheater report system [referring to Combat-Tools] for faster player and game management.
Nowadays CBL is the successor to this site, featuring actual moderation.
Question of the Post
Did you ever use Combat Tools to report players?
Did you know?
Combat Arms Europe selected seven "special" hack reporters to receive 20,000NX for their "Special" reports on hackers. Their words not mine. (18th March 2009).
CT Creator: Should Combat-Tools return?
ReplyDeleteCombat-Tools was highly moderated on a constant basis. It has screenshots which would show the high kills of the hackers and low deaths (like 50 - 1). And not just once here or there, but almost every game. It also was by unique IP that couldn't be fooled (and it never was).
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