What the fuck?

Seems reasonably accurate and maybe he was mad(?), we apologise if he feels like we stole his project however that was not our intention. We wanted to avoid data being destroyed at all costs.

Couple of things to add
- His access was taken away *after* he posted a way to bypass tzac.
- There was evidence he was deliberately not banning cheaters (although there may be justifiable reasons for this according to a formed COD2 admin)
- I tried to contact out to him, even calling and having declined calls back in February (I think)
- Tomislav made TZAC not work by pointing the domain away from YCN at some random point (deliberately) with no communication before any of this happened.

We were always willing to get Tomislav back on board however he was away for like 6 months before we even got a message from him.

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just google it

:D

Are you a chaplja customer or what? The guy was SHITTING on the whole ET scene all the time, only reason for him to make something was profit.

There are a lot of guys who help this game just for the love of the game, not for profit (for ex. ohurcool, merlinator, nowadays chilax)

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Retrospectively don't you think you were a little narrow minded and naive by thinking he wouldn't ever code cheats again? Selling cheats is wayyyy more profitable than developing a good anticheat (and probably even needs less maintainance).

btw did u know that selling drugs is wayyyy more profitable than having real job?

Killerboy could probably answer that question better than me, since I wasn't even an admin back when SLAC was first introduced.

I guess it wasn't entirely unexpected to see chaplja go back to coding cheats, especially after a few rather unsettling conversations I had with him. But the really fucked up part is that he didn't even bother to officially close TZAC first and instead just disappeared while still getting paid for it. In fact, one could argue that this was actually his plan all along, to get sympathy from others for being "bullied out of his own project" so that he could more easily sell cheats to them.

Anyway, believe what you want. None of this is going to change, and no one is going to change their opinions on the matter. It did take place over a year ago, after all.

I used to talk to chaps daily for many months/years, so I can say that I know/knew chaplja pretty damn well before this shitstorm happened when I retired.

Was I naive and narrow minded? Yes, possibly, but PunkBuster left us no choice after dropping their support, there was no other viable anti-cheat, apart from possibly the ESL one, but I was part of the CB team and no way in hell was the community interested in joining ESL, especially after they dropped ET support as well. I had to choose the lesser of 2 evils, take a risk and increase the chances of ET surviving for a few more years due to having a decent anti-cheat, or do nothing about it and watch the game I fought for for 5+ years die?

Luckily I took that decision and I feel that I have made the right choice, I gave ET a few more decent years and in the meantime I might have bought some time for ohurcool to continue what I had been working for. I always knew there was a possibility he might still have been coding cheats, (everyone knew how paranoid I could be) or would randomly stop the anti-cheat etc but I used to talk to chaplja every single day, I know almost every reason behind his decision. He was always transparent and honest, he always had a valid reason for doing something, but for what happened to TZAC I do now know the whole story so I cannot talk about it, I tried to contact chaplja through facebook (that's where we used to talk when I stopped using IRC) but he had removed it some months before.

If I had to guess I would say that he probably got buttfucked by some croatian authorities or some other org, tried to hide out from the legal problems for a few months, came back, and decided it he has enough and took it against his own anti-cheat. (something I never expect chaplja would do since he always said he would delete every line of code before he would share or show his code to anyone or code cheats against his own anti-cheat.) Something happened, and nobody will ever know except chaplja himself what the real reason was, I still give him the benefit of the doubt, but I definitely do not condone the actions Marcus and ohurcool took after he vanished for all those months, they had the same choice I had to face, watch your own game die or take a risk and take an action? They chose the same option I did.

I still hope from week to week that Tomislav will speak to me again, I think he can trust me that I am an objective person, considering that was my line of work when I was cheatbuster for all those years, I am a trustable/respected member of the community and he could relay information on what really happened to me, but my guess is he won't, since he always hated logging on this site because he got insta banned everytime or rekt by community comments and after what has happened I'm sure he'll never even bother creating an account ever again.

I still thank him for all he has done and I'm grateful for it because I know he did his best and he is/was a kind honest transparent man.