Epicmafia

Reason for Luke's ban

deletedalmost 7 years

Gold trophy winner of round 675, Luke, was just banned and out of the interest of transparency I'm writing this thread to show you why.

He was deleting games using mod powers that we think were given to him by lailai. Before this, the user K/Cam managed to use an exploit to steal a Survivor lobby trophy that he did not earn:

https://epicmafia.com/topic/86291

He was also previously disqualified from round 594 when it was found that his points didn't add up correctly with the games that he had played and that games were also disappearing in his favor:

https://epicmafia.com/round/594

First it was found that Luke had been kudos farming in a lobby he owned called Oblivion, but after further review a few things stuck out.

Notice that the game list isn’t multiple pages and consists of only two player games including both Cam and K. This means that if this list were accurate then they would be the only players with games in this lobby. Yet upon viewing the Top Scorers list there is an alt of his named coffeeandtealover. This means that he had deleted the games so that they wouldn't show in his lobby and had also deleted all other accounts that were on the top scorer’s leaderboard, thus making his K an Cam accounts not show despite having points. For reference, this is the top scorer list for Survivor lobby:

https://i.imgur.com/Vwjyqix.png

He had to have deleted at LEAST that many accounts to have K and Cam show.

The more heinous part, also relating to how he managed to steal a trophy from Survivor lobby, is that he was able to delete games. No one other than site moderators can delete games. This means he has exploited the site in some way to gain access to site moderator tools.

Moving on from there, I checked the lobbies that were owned and used by his alt coffeeandtealover

https://i.imgur.com/dhv9WYx.png

Those are all lobbies owned by him and filled with accounts linked to him. If you want to view more of his lobbies, he owns the rounds 573 through 584 (just that we know of) and you can verify this by clicking below and changing the round number link to anything between those two.

https://epicmafia.com/round/573

Now look at the lobbies that Luke and his alts play in.

https://i.imgur.com/lp6SM2e.png

https://i.imgur.com/XGN6T9E.png

https://i.imgur.com/7XvgZHK.png

Shortly after he was caught he also tried to delete all the evidence as well. This picture was taken shortly after the investigation was started:

https://i.imgur.com/ebxd4Rp.png

and here is a link to that game now

https://epicmafia.com/game/6332626/review

For added supplement, here are two pastebins that were used during the investigation:

https://pastebin.com/a0yFJMBY

https://pastebin.com/TJi37QrT

Special thanks to The for assistance, he's the real MVP here

Jeff

almost 7 years

I’m Vilden’s favorite gay.

dzanek1143

almost 7 years

Wait, so point-farming on other lobbies is bannable?

MisterPresident

almost 7 years

I thought lailai couldn't have gotten any more shady than previously thought but I guess there was even more stuff lol

deletedalmost 7 years

Sadly, we actually only discovered this after it was too late and he had already received the trophy, so it was a collective fault if anything.

vilden

almost 7 years

for such hard evidence and a well laid out thread, him keeping the trophy means one of your mod pals protected him btw

vilden

almost 7 years

was always suspect of Hester

deletedalmost 7 years

Apropos says

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340673/review

his alt strawberryyogurt suicided day 1 because Luke was confirmed mafia via the carol

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6347759/review

he's multi-accounting as Hester

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6344237/review

he suicided on his alt Rox when town was about to mislynch (Luke was town too and had GY vision)

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340746/review

multi-accounting as Roxanceca

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340701/review

multi-accounting as strawberryyogurtt

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340632/review

multi-accounting as strawberryyogurtt

suspicious but not confirmed:

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6340679/review

previously mentioned accounted viliml

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6347838/review

misterblake suspected as being his account, note same avatar as blake

---https://epicmafia.com/game/6347474/review

blake vegs n1 this game conveniently when mafia doesnt do what luke wants them to

(all the suicides/vegs from his other alts have been conveniently timed too)

He 100% cheated and here's the proof

There's also a lot of other findings within the thread as well.

vilden

almost 7 years

and its quite clear he cheated on top of it. just look at other players who farm kudos (or trophies in custom lobbies). these are people like sammie. idk maybe luke is samme

deletedalmost 7 years

He wasn't actually modded nor is it confirmed that he was using mod powers to delete games (though it is extremely likely)

Right now our suspicion is that he was friends with lailai who temporarily modded and unmodded him without force logging him out so that he could still access moderator controls

here's an account I suspect was an alt of Luke's he used to cheat to help himself trophy

https://epicmafia.com/user/395488#/

notice the game history with huge time disparities

here's a game almost a year old with Hester (his confirmed alt) and lailai both in it

https://epicmafia.com/game/5730843/review

vilden

almost 7 years

1- He was deleting games using mod powers

2- Luke had been kudos farming

how does a gay guy like this get modded to begin with

deletedalmost 7 years

nanita's right

MisterPresident

almost 7 years

Oops it looks like almost every single round for an indefinite amount of time so I guess we should just reset the website back to at least 2010

matt

almost 7 years

hester/livmoore etc. were all annoying and the desire to lynch them every single game was too high for comfort.

i personally felt like luke/ikigai was becoming somewhat like me in how i play. they picked up some of my mannerisms etc.