Please don't ban Aimbotters and Cheaters.

I like this. They give us grief...why not give it back to them?

If you can't put them in the spotlight of shame IRL, then do it virtually. I agree with OP. Make them feel so bad that when they try to make a new account they'll be reminded of the heartwrenching experience of being outcasts.

It would be hilarious.

My morals are too high to use something which gives me the advantage over another player.

Post all their personal information on a public wall of shame. Try and get the scum fired, ruin their careers. Hopefully they will be ridiculed by everyone they know. That's what we used to do in the old counter-strike days. It was great.

I love this.... PLEASE implement this somehow SoE.

Reminds me of when a company leaked a fake version of their game and used it to identify those who had pirated it; the fake version had some deliberate faults built in and the pirates went on the forum to complain.

Hackers are easy to spot theyre the ones who cry most loudly and frequently that other people are cheating ironically enough.

As for gas lighting them as others have said you need to keep it subtle so they dont realize they've been caught such as having a second k/d ratio that gets set to 1:1 when their account gets flagged and the higher their k/d gets the more of their bullets get "dropped" and the more their hp is decreased server side.

If their k/d drops below 1:1 then nothing odd happens anymore. Removes the advantage they have in firefights while still letting them contribute in normal unhacking ways.

I would just have their characters permanently transformed into a tree... or rock
Requires less empoyees less time and less scripting

I am not able to understand position of SOE with this problem with hackers like 00000000000000000000000(Ok, now he came to the Miller from Briggs, fraction TR, even 6 BR, nice work! you got him.). They make a bad reputation of the game. You know such examples like situation with DayZ and WarZ. While you guys trying to fix balance and create new continents, these childrens with auto aim robbing your company by this style of playing.

I know a lot of people including me who really start to think about question whether to pay for this game or not.

Uh, don't you realize that trees are the most powerful thing in the game?
Why would you reward hackers by giving them invulnerability and the ability to kill everything that they touch!?!

You forget that almost all of those hackers are probably kids who got a hold of mommy/daddy's credit card and bought hacks. they don't know anything about how to hack.

Best thread since launch

Chic.
Cruel but fair.
And the charge of one of the 10 murders. As well as 9 of the 10 killed at lower statistics KDR.

I still think it would be more effective to pay them a visit at home. Just send two big guys in suits and break a couple of bones in their hands. It hurts like hell, takes quite some time to heal and it's pretty darn hard to play a FPS with both hands in plaster.

Ya their called GM's something every MMO should have....something PS2, GUESS WHAT??
....doesn't have.

I would include a wall of shame for high class hackers like:

outiftleaders
high rank players

once you done that you get rid of 1/3 of cheaters who cheat because they want skill but have no skill. Still the problem with the 12 year old wankers who cheat because its they think its funny.

On the other side I never understood why SOE can´t sue the developers or the websides who are destributing those hacks

This is a beautiful idea.
Don't ban them because they will be back in 10 seconds. Make them miserable so they don't want to hack!

Cut out their knee-caps and make them SHUFFLE!!!
Sorry... had to do it... before you ask, yes there is something wrong with me, and no i don't know what it is.

If it is possible to identify unique computers.. wouldn't it be possible to really ban them and actually have the server refuse connections from that specific machine?

I would force them into a 4th faction that has guns with horrible horrible accuracy, black and white striped/solid orange prison clothing, and an air deployment to a random location every time they die. (No drop pod, just falling from the air at a new location every time they die as if from a Galaxy)

The players will receive much satisfaction from killing them.

Perhaps this could be limited to accounts that actually paid some amount of money.