About the "Ban Wave" I call it the "BAN HAMMER" and yes it does happen from time to time, normally about a year and a half apart from eachother, no one knows when its coming. HOWEVER, with the new update coming out you can make a safe bet as a gambling man that it will be shortly after the update to glory days. Its not done by gameguard though, its done over the course of a week or so when the GM get off thier lazy asses and actually log onto the server, invisible to you, run around with the ban hammer bonking people. It happens. It was the cause of me quitting for 2 years back in the day when I lost my 85 train, and about 5 bil, (which back in the day was a lot)