You’re thinking like a regular player, or like a dedicated admin. Funcom’s admins are unlikely to be the former, and they’re most definitely not the latter. They’re people who receive a bunch of reports from players on a server they don’t play on, and once those reports convince them they should spend time investigating, they have to go and spend the minimum necessary time to investigate whether they should wipe and suspend you. The key word there being “minimum”, because there’s more then a thousand official servers and a bunch of other reports to work on. Oh, and it’s most likely just their job, not their hobby or passion.
So the question you should ask yourself is: what’s stopping you from putting the gates back on? Someone gets pissed off at you and tells you in chat they reported you, you take the gates off for a while to make sure the admins don’t see them, then later put them back on again. It wouldn’t surprise me if Funcom admin’s didn’t want to deal with the hassle and just decided that gate frame is enough to act upon.
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