Well I was banned today with the Reason "Using Illegal Mods"
A little backstory: During the afternoon, I sent a message to Irethena, asking if using a mapping program like JourneyMap to make a street and building map of the minetown spawn area and market was illegal. JourneyMap has a feature that allows the mapping of the caves contained in a chunk, this feature can be turned off. I also asked if using this feature was illegal, the answer was yes. Someone named "Gangplank" messaged me saying I was whitelisted and that they could see if I was cheating. Before I could get his IGN, and reply, I was banned for cheating.
All I really wanted to do was make a map of the area, label it and send it to Sawine and maybe have it posted here for people to use with navigation of the city. I had no intentions of using it to cheat.
However, recently I also started using the Soartex texture pack, along with Optifine (a mod used to enable HD texture packs and extra visual settings). I downloaded an incompatible version of the mod that caused some areas to randomly become transparent, while others remained normal. I used this texture hole to find caves in my town (Zhutown) and explore them. I will admit that this was an extremely irresponsible action and that it could truthfully be related to xray cheating.
I still am not sure if I was banned for using the Chunk Map feature, or for using transparent error in Optifine. I sincerely hope that you will accept this appeal, taking into account that I have been a long time member in good standing. I have owned a successful town for quite a while now, and had plans to open a produce shop after I had finished the mapping project. This is my first offense and I never had any intentions to cheat or ruin my reputation as a member.
A little backstory: During the afternoon, I sent a message to Irethena, asking if using a mapping program like JourneyMap to make a street and building map of the minetown spawn area and market was illegal. JourneyMap has a feature that allows the mapping of the caves contained in a chunk, this feature can be turned off. I also asked if using this feature was illegal, the answer was yes. Someone named "Gangplank" messaged me saying I was whitelisted and that they could see if I was cheating. Before I could get his IGN, and reply, I was banned for cheating.
All I really wanted to do was make a map of the area, label it and send it to Sawine and maybe have it posted here for people to use with navigation of the city. I had no intentions of using it to cheat.
However, recently I also started using the Soartex texture pack, along with Optifine (a mod used to enable HD texture packs and extra visual settings). I downloaded an incompatible version of the mod that caused some areas to randomly become transparent, while others remained normal. I used this texture hole to find caves in my town (Zhutown) and explore them. I will admit that this was an extremely irresponsible action and that it could truthfully be related to xray cheating.
I still am not sure if I was banned for using the Chunk Map feature, or for using transparent error in Optifine. I sincerely hope that you will accept this appeal, taking into account that I have been a long time member in good standing. I have owned a successful town for quite a while now, and had plans to open a produce shop after I had finished the mapping project. This is my first offense and I never had any intentions to cheat or ruin my reputation as a member.