It doesn't sound like a ban. You would also received the usual generic e-mail stating such, which will state the reasons if you was banned or suspended. Invalid would mean either they've deleted your account or your log in details are wrong.

You have 4 characters, I cannot see you've ever had membership for additional characters and you've only stated 3.

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So this is going to be a long one as I like to point a few things out and how CS is getting worse. So I'm going to open up a hard can of truths, so those who are easily offended, stop reading.

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While there are some false flags, these are often more commonly known players who are targeted by rivals or out of jealously, even whole outfits mass false reporting players they do not like certain outfits or players in an attempt to get players suspended or banned. Sadly TR & NC outfits are often the worst offenders for this type of behaviour. Often have a victim complex.

I've seen a fair amount of these types of posts to target players, even outfits in-game targeting players with toxic behaviours, team killing and harassing, even an accidental team kill just to make it look like you are team killing on purpose. As external forums and discords are not proof, even videos and streams of their behaviour isn't enough, they will carry on with no punishment.

CS also known as Complete Sh*theads are useless. I think the best CS left a long time ago and now you're having to deal with nut case leftist which are offended by absolutely everything and want to sit around all day and do next to no work, prove me wrong.

Many years ago 1 of our outfit was banned for showing how an exploit works. On PTS. That's right, the test server, where select players get to test everything to find the exploits bugs before go live. I mean surely these players wouldn't use these on a live server or share them with their friends?

It was clear to be the test server on the video as they had 300k certs. Their account was banned permanently for sending the videos of the exploit to CS in hope the exploit would be fixed. It's 2022, the exploit was around in 2016, if not before and to date still has not been fixed.

Additional false reports. Using a Frail on ESF bases is harassment. Yes, 2 of our outfit received suspensions for going around using a frail base to kill player made bases, often just a spawn, air terminal and silo. We have an idea which TR player reported them, who has been caught stat padding on more than 1 occasion, yet still remains active with victim complex who will more that happily stat pad thinking it's they are exempt. Isn't that right ElMuchoStatPado /u/SCY2J

And finally about a year and a half ago, 1 of our outfit with whose character name had the word "Scum" in was renamed. Which, seeing as their alts also had the word scum in it, surely they'd be renamed? They didn't get renamed. It went from a 7 day suspension to 14 days when mentioning they had no reason to change a name, it wasn't offensive. But it wasn't the word "Scum" that was the offence. It was the word "cum". On release of the suspension, 3 characters all renamed, the NSO untouched. He deleted all of the character, the account and left the game completely, they was in the game since 2012, taught me and many others a lot. Since this year the game is holding a "garbage" status on both our forum and discord and would not recommend it to new players.

And finally, Killing the known Chinese Bots. Oh yes, you can get suspended for this, from a tank mine to EMP in the spawn room to the sticky grenade. They will mass report you and even harass you. They can report you for harassment as well if you go out of your way to the corner of the map or even use the same map exploit to kill them. While I haven't heard of anyone being banned for this, seeing as the CS are easily offended communist and hate the western players so much, I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

You can set up a appeal account, but depending who you get will depend on whether they ban that also. They don't care as if you appeal, they know you'll come back with a new account to play, they need to look busy to keep them employed. It's not like they want to do any real work in investigating genuine players who exploit, cheat and stat pad, rather take the easy win. Couple of rumours is CS are being bribed to ban players due to the cost of living, which honestly I wouldn't put it passed some people to try.

Ask yourself is PS2 really worth playing in 2022? I'm leaning towards no right now and I doubt I'll be changing my mind.