Darûk's Appeal (Complete)

[Darûk]

Hello.

Discord: Daruk#7777
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002846685
Games:
Clicker Heroes - Thanks to the in-game option, I've uploaded some progress files a while ago to progress & unlock cheevos faster. Thoses files were found on the Internet and weren't from my personal progress... I can assume this has to be considered as cheating. I agree & I assume my mistake.

If I'm right, it's the only game I've "cheated" on.

What can I do to get my profile clean again? I would accept to "remove" the game from my profile, if it's possible. Or to be removed from leaderboards for this game.
But can I be back in other games' leaderboards, please?
(Feel free to ask me any info about another suspicious game (if there's one other game involved), I'll do my best to help you understand this situation).

Thanks a lot for your time!

Best regards.
Darûk.

P.S.: I'm sorry for my definetely not-perfect english. I hope you understood my explanations anyway.

[Darûk]

In order to help, I'll add as much info as possible about other games that may seems suspicious on my profile.

AdVenture Capitalist : I completed it a while ago, when it was possible to change to clock of the pc to fast travel through time and being able to speedrun the game. It was a well-known strat and my unlock timestamp will prove this.
Age of Empires II 2013 : I build a macro for getting all the "win X games with each civ". For the campaign cheevos, there's a known bug allowing you to use in-game codes to go to next chapter until the final episode of the campaign. On the last chapter, using codes wont unlock the cheevo but you just have to win any game after beating the campaign and the cheevos for all the previous campaign will pop. (that's why I can have the same timestamp for the last campaign I completed - once I learnt this trick).
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition : Same as AoE2 except the bug on campaign doesnt exist. So I just played the final chapter of each campaign with in-game codes and it works.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive : Just played on many boosting session on dedicated workshop maps/MP sessions to quicken the unlocks.
Counter-Strike: Source : Same as CSGO
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition : Almost the same trick as AoM, in-game codes allows you to fast complete each level until the final chapter of each campaign and the final chapter as to completed normally to get each cheevo.
Factorio : I joined some online session that allows me to get plenty of cheevos. When you didnt have to play a sufficient % of the server life to be able to unlock. Now, it doesnt work this way anymore.
FTL: Faster Than Light : Did all the in-gamp cheevos before they were added to steam (except the last 3 I unlocked after the add to steam).
Garry's Mod : I joined a MP session with the "wrong" Garry in order to get the hardest cheevo. Definetely not the only hunter to do this. All the most known worlswide cheevos hunters were in this same session (or the others sessions a few days before/after mine).
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition : Farmed MP with a friend
PAYDAY 2 : Boosted with some friends. Some games have the same timestamp due to the bunch of cheevos adds by devs. These cheevos were retroactive so once you start the game after this add. Plenty of cheevo unlock at the same time.
Quake Live : Boosted session & in-game console allowed me to get some cheevos easily.
Team Fortress 2 : A lot of MP boosting session
The Stanley Parable : I just changed to clock time to get the 5 years cheevos & some launch option to get the unachievable cheevo.
Titan Quest Anniversary Edition : I played this game between 1 and 2k hours before it lands on steam (approx as many hours as CSGO on my account I guess). I was able to get my saves back in Steam. So I unlocked tons of cheevos thanks to those saves.

I hope this helps.
Thanks again.

[Fabio]

Hey Daruk, thanks for creating an appeal about this, let's see if we an figure out the problem here. Regarding age of empires and age of mythology, can you please describe the macro used for this?

[Darûk]

Hi. Thank you very much for answering my appeal.

I'll do my best to discribe the macro I made for completing all the "win X times with Y civilization" achievements in both AoE & AoM.
First, I created a personalized scenario to easily win a game in a few seconds (1 enemy villager surrounded by 8 castles of me). Once started, this scenario is ended in less than 5-7 seconds (victory music included).
And this victory counts as 1 win with the picked civ (and also counts as 1 victory against my enemy civ).

The trivial macro I made was just to press F10 (menu shortcut) and select restart scenario. If I'm right, a click with the mouse was also involved in this macro (at one specific point of the screen, if I'm right it was the "restart" button, but not sure at all, sorry).
It was many years ago... very sorry if I don't remember perfectly.

Anyway, repeting this macro automatically every 5 to 7 seconds (dont remember the exact and optimal timing I mesured). The 100 wins can be achieved in less than 10 minutes. Then, I changed my civ and repeat the process.

I also remember creating another scenario, with 7 bunch of 8 castles surronding an isolated villager. Just to be able to farm the "win X times AGAINST Y civ" a bit faster. Because I was able to get a win againt 7 civ at once in a 5-seconds game.

I hope this helps.
Feel free to ask me for any more details. I'll give them as much as I can remember them...

Thanks again.

[Darûk]

I'm sorry, I also forgot to mention "Civilization V" as a potential suspicious game to your eyes I guess in my profile.
Indeed, it may seems weird I unlocked every "win a game with X" achievement every few seconds.
There is an easy trick to know with this game : you're able to win a game with any civ in 1 turn just playing a 3v1 custom game (you : allied with 2 bots vs 1 bot solo) and custom settings : a "score victory" after "1 turn".
This way, I was able to simply pass my first turn and victory popped after the bots' turns. So is the associated cheevo depending of the civ I played.

I hope this helps in case of civ V a suspicious game.
Thanks again.

[Fabio]

The only thing i can think of having caused your ban is an automatic ban due to having an AStats ban. I have now invalidated adventure capitalist and clicker heroes since these two methods are not allowed, but these will not cause a ban. I've gone ahead and updated your profile and you are no longer banned. If any other issues pop up, please let us know!