I suggest you to have a look at the number of players using this tool compared to the amount players the different factions have.
The only factions which rly use this tool (according to numbers) would be wolves or soa.
I cant speak for the other people, but i myself turned it off after 2 days. It was interesting to see how this tool works and what you can do with it, I think its a very good idea to add this to strategus as a regular function. From what i know developers were informed about this programm and also appreciate the idea of adding it to strategus.
Some basic info about it:
You roughly see what your faction members see, you can see an enemy armies, but you cant see number count, crates or status (heavy, shiny, etc...)
The idea is of implementing this into strat, so different factions can make agreements, so its basicly like a diplomacy menu as many of us know it from total war (declaring war, trade agreements, sharing vision, etc) but this is not working yet afaik, since that programm is in a very early stage.
You also can give them commands, which basicly means you send them a PM with orders which they see when they log in next time.
As you see its not nearly as good as the method the people that got banned used - sharing account info so one person can control traders, armies or even a whole, even if we would use this tool we would be depending on the members activity since they need to log into strat to actually move around. An alternative would be sending them pms on the crpg page, which actually has the same effect.
Now to my favorite bit, some more specific replies for Thovex:
The first time i got to know this programm was about 1 1/2 months ago, so we did not have any access to it last strategus, and just checking the amount of gold some factions had its obvious which factions cheated and which not, also i find it hard to believe that people that were cheating this strat havent done it last strat, and the other way round. Just so you know, i'm not addressing nords or drz with this, i trust the developers judgement&actions, personally i always regarded nords as one of the few not cheating parts of UIF, and im a bit surprised/happy that drz is "clean" too.
Also we actually did not want to go into a cba to counter UIF, we tried to go neutral in the beginning of strat 4 but people made it pretty clear to us that they will attack us on sight and wont allow us to be neutral. Therefore we actually tried to ally with the nords, but then they declared war on us, so it wasnt rly us pushing them into UIF, they have chosen it themselves.
In addition we always aimed for splitting up again once this war is over since we dont want to become completely like UIF (if you fight one evil too long you turn into it).
Ps:
please start some drama, forum is getting boring
