Regarding the exploit.

[Rylund]

Considering this is literally the first rule in the ruleset along with it being common sense to not abuse exploits I feel like the punishment is fair. People who abused the exploit knowingly took a risk and hence they should accept any repercussions that follow. If I had abused the exploit knowingly and got off with a 1-month ban and a wipe I'd honestly be pretty happy.

While you say they could have wiped the money and let people keep the inventory, that is true but at the same time, they could've bought items with the exploited money. 
Personally, I would probably have gone back in time and followed their money flow and remove the exploited money, perhaps a bit more to have some form of negative impact. But the ban would probably have been longer than a 1-month ban if that had been done.


See it as a new start, now you have something to play for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As you can see many of the players that got banned have worked a lot to have that inv value. My 30mil inv was completely legit as confirmed by the admin that caught me for exploiting. I think it's a wrong move regarding the number of players the server will lose from this. Because I know that personally I will never return to start all over again and neither will most of the guys that got banned.

But why would you abuse an exploit if you have plenty of money in the first place? You knew that you could end up getting caught at some point and that consequences would follow if you were caught.

What did you expect to get out of abusing an exploit?