I was banned as long as a bunch of friends of mine who heard about the exploit in the CE refund glitch. Personally, im not gonna say im not sad about it, but at the same time oh well. But in my opinion they could've gone a lot of different ways to punish exploiters. I mean i know they have their reasons and its right to ban the exploiters including myself, but permanent ban? really? they couldve easily instantly shut down the server, or gave a less time reminder on server going down to fix it instead of saying something like " server will be shut down in 45minutes, to fix a major or urgent CE bug." By stating that there was a CE bug and that in 45minutes, they will shut down server to fix, thats basically telling everyone playing spiral knights that knew or had friends that knew about the glitch, "attention players, you have 45minutes to choose whether or not you want to abuse this glitch that refunds CE instantly as much as possible in 45minutes."
They obviously realized their mistakes right after that first message cause when it was the 30minute mark message, they changed it and instead of saying directly that it was a CE glitch, they just said and "urgent fix"
I know for typing this that a lot of people will "troll" me or hate on my but i dont care, say what you want, do what you want, i honestly could careless, but just saying this cause i really find it dumb how they handled this, and obviously people will say that they handled it right, but everyone has opinions, not everyone will agree with everyone.
So thts the exact reason... Lucky me I wasn't on because I would have got carried away probably. Sorry to gear this.