i was banned with no warning for it the other day, when in the heat of battle i picked wrong weapon
You sound like a victim when you were banned for 1 hour, which
was your warning, after
exploiting a known bug in a strategus battle. It was a light punishment, just keeping you ot the rest of the strat battle you had cheated in.
If EU3 ain't different from other EU servers, you're lying to admins. Trust me, that's never a good idea. I just came from EU 1, and I tested it out. The
only way to use a long spear on horseback is to spawn with it. You can't hold a pike as infantry and climb a horse, nor pick up a long spear while on horseback. That means you're lying and that you willingly spawned with a long spear on horseback, and I saw you attacking enemy lancers with it in the strat battle, which shows you were willingly exploiting a bug in a strat battle. An extremely cheap move.
I deal with bans quite differently than other admins. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'll put you in the ground. If I see you exploiting the same bug later on, we're talking a long time-out, not days, weeks. Play by the rules, and there will be no problem.