Hey I am troubled by a few things here, just to let you know I am/was a diehard ava player and was found amongst the top 100 ranked players during my time... least some of it... I dont say this for any reason other than to express my love of the game along with my experience and lastly my concern.
Hackers are the cancer of the gaming community, everyone knows this and just like cancer they will very simply destroy a game faster than most would imagine. I am the type of person to play more when I lose to get better, I dont take losing to someone good as a bad thing, but an oppurtunity to have a basis to weigh my skill against and learn from. Fairness in competetive games is more important than anything, if you took out 90% of the maps, weapons, items, admin run events, special anythings, etc., and everyone was running around with pistols and knives because those were the only things that could pass clean without hacks and/or the only things that got coded because every **** employee of the entire game/company spent every waking moment tracking down and eliminating hackers/possibility of hacks... it would be 200% worth it. My point being that if video proof is nowhere near as solid as the proof that you can find yourselves scanning logs and serverside data etc.
I bring this up because I know there will always be hacks in games. but I noticed a huge increase in the amount after the acquisition and am concerned with your tenacity and sternness as far as hacking is concerned. Hacks got patched out in a matter of days usually, and seeing them were rather rare to begin with, think to yourselves how many you see now in a 1 hour session of AVA. My aim is not to criticize but a hopeful request for reassurance to the existence of my favorite game. Combat Arms is a joke, theres a million things to buy but hackers every game, they are flocked to in fact because benefits they provide to teammates... Its a dead game. AVA in terms of quality and cleanness could at one time easily be weighed against ANY game on ANY platform not just free games either. I dont know what it will take but I offer my services... I will study server data and player logs and tracking bots or w/e it is that is needed, I would even pay you to let me do this, or do something... spend $50 on a copy of 1 of 2 games I would ever consider playing seriously besides AVA just for pleasure of hack free servers? Id rather stay here...