This is from ex-forum,has very good analisis of FD actions against cheaters,this guy brought near 30 accounts!!!!!....
"With over 60
With over 60 warning on my side on something like 30 accounts, I might be able to give you peeps some insight.
First of all, you need to realize that FD reaction could almost be considered random. They do not react the same for the same detection on similar account, with infraction done for the same amount of time during the same day. It varies and there is not 1 path they follow every time.
Most of the time, it will look like this :
1st infraction (if minor and not done in open with proof):
1 or 3 day shadow ban 95% of the time. Treat to remove credits, but it doesn't happen about 50% of the time.
Received a perma shadow ban once on 1st infraction.
2nd infraction (minor):
3-7 day shadow ban or perma shadow ban. Credits removal (from +/-20% up to 100%, ship sometimes included and other time not)
3rd infraction (minor, if you were not yet perma)
perma shadow. Credits wipe (usually 75-100%) or CMDR wipe
1st infraction (Major or video in open):
3 day shadow up to perma shadow. Treat to remove credits up (0-100% removed) up to CMDR wipe. Had some occurence where FD forced a name change to something chameful so we had to endure it to keep credits or do a CMDR wipe and lose all.
2nd infraction (Major)
7 day shadow or perma shadow. Often a CMDR wipe, but sometimes only moved back to 1000CR.
Now, minor infraction might go from game mecanism abuse (without even using any lua or cheat) to some seemingly low use of cheat engine (from their POV). During test, some shield hack were sometime enough to trigger this, while other time even if leaving a conda with turrets and 200t of fuel and some worthy cargo in a H-Res site for days didn't trigger it. Random at it's better.
Major infraction are usually Frontier spot your account using CE earning a big amount of credits in a medium timeframe with low downtime (afk turrets mostly). They usually respond to this more heavily as on top on knowing you used some hack to improve your game experience, they know you abused the game further by trying to make credits without playing the game at all. Combine this with using exploit like mode switching civil war, breaking the BGS, will most likely lead to the fastest way to get a CMDR wipe. Once again, their action seems somewhat random as often having 3 CMDR doing the exact same thing will not be dealt with the same way and sometimes 1 even go unspotted/undealt with.
These random possibilities is what we call FD protection to hide their detection method.
Account total ban have only occured on some exceptional case, and we know most of you wouldn't be able to receive this. Unless your CMDR is named Logoffsky or you'er testing some hack that haven't been publicly released and that only a few crazy peep would test.
on my side on something like 30 accounts, I might be able to give you peeps some insight.
First of all, you need to realize that FD reaction could almost be considered random. They do not react the same for the same detection on similar account, with infraction done for the same amount of time during the same day. It varies and there is not 1 path they follow every time.
Most of the time, it will look like this :
1st infraction (if minor and not done in open with proof):
1 or 3 day shadow ban 95% of the time. Treat to remove credits, but it doesn't happen about 50% of the time.
Received a perma shadow ban once on 1st infraction.
2nd infraction (minor):
3-7 day shadow ban or perma shadow ban. Credits removal (from +/-20% up to 100%, ship sometimes included and other time not)
3rd infraction (minor, if you were not yet perma)
perma shadow. Credits wipe (usually 75-100%) or CMDR wipe
1st infraction (Major or video in open):
3 day shadow up to perma shadow. Treat to remove credits up (0-100% removed) up to CMDR wipe. Had some occurence where FD forced a name change to something chameful so we had to endure it to keep credits or do a CMDR wipe and lose all.
2nd infraction (Major)
7 day shadow or perma shadow. Often a CMDR wipe, but sometimes only moved back to 1000CR.
Now, minor infraction might go from game mecanism abuse (without even using any lua or cheat) to some seemingly low use of cheat engine (from their POV). During test, some shield hack were sometime enough to trigger this, while other time even if leaving a conda with turrets and 200t of fuel and some worthy cargo in a H-Res site for days didn't trigger it. Random at it's better.
Major infraction are usually Frontier spot your account using CE earning a big amount of credits in a medium timeframe with low downtime (afk turrets mostly). They usually respond to this more heavily as on top on knowing you used some hack to improve your game experience, they know you abused the game further by trying to make credits without playing the game at all. Combine this with using exploit like mode switching civil war, breaking the BGS, will most likely lead to the fastest way to get a CMDR wipe. Once again, their action seems somewhat random as often having 3 CMDR doing the exact same thing will not be dealt with the same way and sometimes 1 even go unspotted/undealt with.
These random possibilities is what we call FD protection to hide their detection method.
Account total ban have only occured on some exceptional case, and we know most of you wouldn't be able to receive this. Unless your CMDR is named Logoffsky or you'er testing some hack that haven't been publicly released and that only a few crazy peep would test."
