What does permanent ban mean? What is a permanent ban? What mods are considered prohibited?

A permanent ban is the most severe punishment not only in World of Tanks, but in any other game. Blocking a player’s account forever is unlikely to please anyone, but at the same time, it is issued for a reason, but only for the most serious violations of the concluded agreement and the rules of the game. At the same time, many people who receive a permanent ban sometimes sincerely do not understand why they received such a block.

That is why it will be useful for everyone to learn basic information about the features of such a blocking.

What it is?

A permanent ban is an indefinite block, that is, a punishment that does not provide for the possibility of further unbanning. It is issued for the most serious violations, so there is practically no risk of receiving it for an ordinary player, and there is no need to worry about it.

Among all existing species This blocking, for obvious reasons, is the most serious and significant. And not only for the reason that it is indefinite, but also because in the vast majority of cases such bans are peremptory. WoT accounts cannot be returned.

In other words, having received a ban for a week for some minor actions, you can still somehow challenge it through support, but with a permanent ban, often no one will even consider your proposal. There is only one reason for this - such a decision in the vast majority of cases is carefully thought out and weighed in advance.

Account transfer

WoT accounts can only belong to a specific person, and transferring them into the wrong hands is strictly prohibited. In fact, there are situations that even after the message “I am the owner’s brother” you can get blocked. After all, this already indicates that the account was transferred into the wrong hands.

It is worth noting the fact that such a block in the vast majority of cases is issued after entering any messages in chats that are monitored by moderators and administration representatives. And at the same time, there are a lot of “black markets” where accounts are exchanged and sold regularly with minimal risk of getting blocked.

The same applies to the sale of clans, since such messages can also often be found in the game chat.

Data exfiltration

Permanent bans in World of Tanks are periodically issued to various scammers who try to lure data from other users by any means. Even for a simple message “tell me your username/password” you can be banned for quite a long period of time, not to mention the fact that some even try to threaten users with violence real life or in some other way (hacking of mail, account, etc.).

The administration, not only in WoT, but also in almost any other game, regularly points out that moderators or any representatives of the project management will never need users’ personal data, so they should not be disclosed to anyone in any case.

Insults

In general, there is a lot of controversy about whether people can be permanently banned for any kind of insults. In fact, such situations happen from time to time, but they mainly relate exclusively to those cases when a player actively and publicly tries to humiliate or severely insult the administration or management of the project as a whole.

This is quite natural, because every person has feelings, and, receiving some negative statements addressed to them, some administrator may react too harshly in response and give an eternal ban. However, it is worth noting that this case is one of those in which it is still possible (but not a guarantee) to return your account back - it is enough to make a sincere apology to the administration through the Support Service.

Cheating

The most common reason today for players to be permanently banned. Recently, specifically for World of Tanks, various programmers have been releasing a huge number of different cheats, providing a significant advantage over ordinary players. It is quite natural that the use of such programs for people who play honestly is an extremely unpleasant phenomenon, so in most cases the administration punishes this with a permanent ban.

It is worth noting that cheating is mainly detected by the system in a semi-automatic mode, so filing any appeals or other attempts to return your account are often completely pointless.

In this case, it makes no difference whether you used cheats to obtain any combat advantages (increased damage, money or vision through walls, etc.) or simply activated a bot that entered battles and played instead of you - the system recognizes everything types of programs and is regularly updated, so you can get a sudden block at any time.

Inappropriate Behavior

Of course, this is a fairly broad concept, which includes not very significant offenses, for which you may not even receive any punishment in principle, but there are also things for which you are banned forever.

In particular, this applies to the propaganda of Nazism or any terrorist organizations. An example is the recent blocking of a large number of players who were members of one of the largest clans, who on May 9 decided to line up their tanks in the shape of a swastika and distribute this photo on the Internet.

It happens that an account is blocked for some reason... Let's look at these points and the possibilities of unblocking an account.

• The first and most common type of ban is blocking the in-game chat, this means that you insulted your allies in battle or used obscene language. The scale and terms of punishment here are progressive, depending on the frequency of getting into a given ban, and VG uses an in-game complaint system for the ban, created for the convenience of players. And yes, the developers know whether you expressed yourself in battle or not, because... I have personal experience with this issue, where I was provided with screenshots from battles almost a month ago. The more often you use foul language in battle, the longer you will sit in the “bath”.
• The second and no less common type of blocking is teamkill (teamdamage) - fire at allies in battle. When shooting at allies, you are awarded penalty points when they gain a certain number - the player’s account first acquires a blue nickname color, and then is blocked (right in battle), in total you can “impunity” inflict damage on an ally 2 times, but remember, if you set an ally on fire, every HP taken from him will be protected to you as damage that you personally inflicted (even if you didn’t want it). 1 time - ban for an hour, after which the period increases exponentially, 3 hours, a day, a week, a month, and finally a permanent block. If you “suddenly” become light blue in battle, then you need to be extremely careful, because any ramming of an allied tank by you will lead to account blocking, and you will also be blocked for flooding an ally if you were the last one to contact his hull. The exception is art - for her, in this type of ban they did big discount(3 destroyed allies - and you are in the ban). Removing the blue color of your nickname, you can shoot and destroy enemy tanks, just leave the game, and rest for a week - it won’t do anything, you need to “wash away” the sin in battle, only after a certain amount of damage to the enemy, your nickname will turn back to white colors.
• ban for unsportsmanlike behavior in battle, propping and pushing an ally, is punished in the same way as for teamkill
• A ban for bot breeding may exist, but this is not certain, because it is not known for certain whether VG is fighting this type of violation, but it periodically reports on the work done)))
• and the most terrible and categorical type of blocking is a ban for using Prohibited Modifications (ZP - they are also CHEATS)!!! (prohibited in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries). The first time you receive a warning with a suggestion in the form of blocking your account for 7 days, if you continue to use the ZP, you will be permanently banned. without the possibility of recovery. List of ZP - cheats here, unfortunately, wargaming has removed its own topics from the official forum, so the link is only to third party resource. And yes, the fight against cheaters is underway, I know personal experience, because in 2016 I used a script - automatic fire extinguishing, and even got a 7-day ban for it, so think about it, is it worth risking your account?
• and lastly, if you think that you have been unfairly banned, the only place where you have the opportunity to appeal the punishment and remove the block from your account is the User Support Center (USC), on the website https://worldoftanks.ru/ they are located in the upper left corner Support.

Don't break the rules of the game!!!

What is a permanent ban? and got the best answer

Answer from Sei chewa™[guru]
Ban (banish, exile,) (banana, bath, Account Blocking Forever) - blocking an account for a certain or indefinite period. In this case, the account owner cannot post messages, and often cannot view the resource on which he received a ban.
Only a moderator or resource administrator can award a ban to a user.
Permanent (eternal, permanent) ban - a ban forever (on some forums it is a ban for 30 years, and on some, give them free rein and the engine is normal, for 999999, 1024 and the like, it all depends on the capabilities of the forum engine (which, by the way, , usually a variable storing time has nothing more than an int type limiting it to more than 2 billion seconds from the moment of January 1, 1970, that is, it does not allow setting time intervals of more than a hundred years).

Answer from Nikulin Nikita[newbie]
This is a permanent ban. You won't be unbanned. A ban is an exception, an expulsion. In games they ban by GuID, or by IP (possibly both). In some normal projects, they ban the name of your computer (generally something from system parameters- with licensed Windows - a very serious problem).

Answer from Spaschenkov's novel[newbie]
just play tanks and that's it

Answer from Danya EnVyUs[active]
You can ban by serial number, that is, the (hard drive) is banned and you won’t be able to log in if you use another laptop/computer or buy a new hard drive

Answer from 3 answers[guru]

Hello! Here is a selection of topics with answers to your question: What is a permanent ban?

Most likely, you are already aware that after today (October 15), and most likely it will be on Monday, October 17 (since no one works on weekends), Wargaming is preparing a large-scale ban of accounts for using prohibited modifications. We found several different versions of what was happening: from World of Tanks warnings, then permanent bans absolutely all accounts using cheats. Let's figure it out together.

How many times have accounts been checked for prohibited mods:

So, recent news about the bath World accounts of Tanks has become really numerous and it’s time to weed out some of the fakes that were invented by schoolchildren who came home from classes.

A micro update came out a couple of days ago

"On October 11, one of the game's micro-updates added an informer to the client. In the wot_9.16.11312_9.16.11080_client.wgpkg file you can find the account.def file. It contains the following information:

Autobahn time. Warning level. Clan ID. Session tracking. Python logs.
So, if you used cheats after the 11th, then you will be banned. If not, delete them until the situation becomes clearer."

January fake.

Check for cheating when entering the game

“There is an insider from reliable sources that the system will work for about 5 days. The system is automatic, when entering the client it will check the player against a previously collected database of cheaters, which was leaked.
Today a patch was rolled out in connection with this, so if anyone is afraid for their account, don’t log into the game for N days (there is no exact information on when they will turn it off)"

most likely fake.

What do the developers say on this topic?

Comment by Foton64rus

Wait official announcement, soon, but for now no comments, don’t stress yourself out.

Comment from the creator of one of the "cheat builds"

Over the last 3 micropatches, we have not found any files that would track players or look for anything autonomously on the part of WG.

European WoT sources (German)

The first wave will not affect everyone; they will ban you for a period of time from 14 to 30 days, no more. Yes, this will be a “demonstration performance”. Approximate "circulation" 10-50 thousand.

First wave of bans November 29

On November 29, 2016, some players received a ban upon entering the game. Violation: use of cheats (prohibited mods). Duration 1 week.

What to do if you are banned? Nothing. All you can do is wait and not use such mods in the future.

Are more bans expected in WOT? Yes. The next event that the developers will check is “”. Read the whole truth in a special one.

Second wave of bans January 5, 2017

The developers continued the fight against cheaters in WOT. On January 5, 2017, unexpectedly for everyone, cheaters received bans.

How many were banned in the second wave in the RU region?

• 1618 people was banned permanently (forever). These players have already received a warning and a 7-day ban. But this did not stop them and the cheats were reused. Accounts are lost;
• Received a warning ban for 7 days 33,087 accounts.

What are the ban statistics in other regions?

• NA (US) - 479 for 7 days and 19 permanent;
• EU - 5300 for 7 days and 181 permanent;
• ASIA - 207 for 7 days and 13 permanent.

What mods got you banned?
Most likely due to the assembly of mods.

Third wave of bans March 13, 2017

It has become known about a new, third wave of bans in World of Tanks. How many accounts were killed this time?

• 17,988 player accounts received initial account blocking;
• 5,742 accounts received permanent blocking for repeated violations.

Fourth wave of bans May 4, 2017

• 18,871 player accounts received initial account blocking;
• 5,453 accounts received permanent blocking for repeated violations;
• 3 supertesters also received a ban.

Moderators urge you not to break the rules of the game.

Fifth wave of bans July 6, 2017

• 8,757 players received a warning;
• 3579 players are permanently banned.

Players who violated the rules were also punished.

Sixth wave of bans September 28, 2017

• 13,124 players received their first and last warning;
• 3185 accounts were blocked indefinitely

WG promises to continue to monitor violators (this is not the last wave of bans).

Seventh wave of bans November 29, 2017

• Warned: 13,391 accounts for using ZM (prohibited mods);
• Forever: 2937 for repeat violation.

Eighth wave of bans February 28, 2018

Restrictions received 60 226 accounts for using prohibited programs and were permanently blocked 5 156 accounts for repeated violations.

Eleventh wave of bans February 6, 2019

- We checked ALL players who took part in “Soldiers of Fortune”, including those who were not included in the “Walk of Fame” (played less than 5 battles).

Based on the results of the inspection, sanctions were applied to 22,643 players(total players participated: 222,411 - WE note) who used prohibited modifications (ZM).
As a result, the tank was removed from the prize zone 4,563 accounts, and in general, the Walk of Fame moved to 19,776 positions.

Twelfth wave of bans February 20, 2019

2 weeks ago Wargaming banned only clan players, but today they ban others too. Everything is the same as always, a warning (blocking) for 7 days or a permanent ban.

What mods are considered prohibited?

There is always a list of prohibited mods on the forum.

Let us remind you that we recently published a story about someone who used banned mods for 8 months in a row and is not worried that he will be banned.