Rain Appeal (Complete)

[Rain]

Hello, I'm here from Exophase where my account was marked as suspicious. Unfortunately, they don't tell you what game you're flagged for when this happens. Luckily I looked through a few other achievement tracker sites and on Steam Hunters it seems I was marked for Clicker Heroes along with a few other games I was invalidated for.

Discord: Rain#9992
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/_561/
Games:

Dust: An Elysian Tail - Played offline, achievements that were unlocked were then synced next time I went online. This happened twice, thus two separate sets of unlock times.

Sonic CD - Game was played normally, before losing internet and then having achievements sync again next time I had internet access. Same issue with Dust: An Elysian Tail.

PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+ - Same deal as the above with having sporadic access to internet that year.

1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby) - SAM'd this one with the rationalization at the time that it was okay since it was permanently unobtainable. Not acceptable.

Fallout 4 - Sporadic internet access again this year, majority of game achievements were synced next time I went online, I then went on to complete the last few achievements I needed online. Note that I had to appeal this through Exophase as well, you can view this thread as confirmation: https://forums.exophase.com/threads/ste ... ous.45484/

The Stanley Parable - Manipulated the internal clock on my computer to earn the time based achievements. I originally used TrueSteamAchievements as my main tracker before moving to Exophase/100Pals and operated under their ruleset, which excluded clock manipulation from cheating: https://truesteamachievements.com/cheatpolicy.aspx

Team Fortress 2 - SAM'd the YouTube achievements to match a TF2 YouTube video of mine that reached 1000 views and rationalized that I "earned" it that way. Obviously not acceptable.

Clicker Heroes (Admittedly can't tell if I'm flagged for this or not on Steam Hunters but thought I'd explain it anyway) - This can be explained by me loading my save from the Newgrounds version, and the discrepancy between the achievement unlock times is attributed to how the Steam version can "miss" certain achievements (particularly the ones with progress bars) if the game save is too far past them. I found that I could correct this by soft resetting and then slowly progressing my save so I could hit those milestones, thus the gaps between certain groups of achievements. You can find further evidence of this by looking at other users with low playtimes that have played Clicker Heroes and noticing their achievements were also unlocked in "sets" despite progression not matching up.

If it were possible to get my account reinstated I'd greatly appreciate it. Note that these were only what I found scrolling through my Steam Hunters profile and using the invalidated filter, I'd be happy to answer more questions in case there are any other games I missed.

[Fabio]

Hey Rain, thanks for creating an appeal about this. Dust, sonic CD, Fallout 4, clicker heroes and Pac man are fine, thanks for the explanation .

That leaves 1..2..3.. KICK IT, Stanley Parable, and TF2. When you have the chance, please go ahead and relock the achievement in KICK IT, as well as the two youtube achievements in TF2. Once you have done this, please reopen each game to make sure nothing automatically unlocks on startup. Let me know if anything does.

For stanley parable, this is not an allowed method, but does not call for a profile ban. If you want to keep this achievement that is perfectly fine, but the game will not count for points on the trackers that invalidate games. If you would like for it to count, the achievements you unlocked with time skipping will need to be relocked. Please do the same as asked for the above two games, with this one.

[Rain]

Done and done, reinstalled and opened the mentioned games and no automatic unlocks. Also I apologize for not mentioning it in my original post as they weren't in the list that Steam Hunters provided me, but resetting my Stanley Parable achievements also reminded me that I manipulated my internal clock for Cave Story+ Happy Birthday Pixel achievement and Psychonaut's Christmas Shopping achievement. Would it be alright if I did the same for these games as well?

[Fabio]

Cave story and psychonauts are both fine, that is actually allowed. The main difference is that stanley parable required not playing for 5 years of time, not just going to a specific date. The clarification on that can be found with rule 9: https://achievementhunting.com/rules#ok-9

Everything else looks fine now, so i'll go ahead and get your profile revalidated! Thanks for your patience with the appeal process.