GamersFirst CTO and COO Bjorn "TechMech" Book-Larsson has been writing all of the entries for the APB: Reloaded dev blog since it kicked off in November 2010, and he now feels it's time to let some of the other team members chime in on the game's development.

In the latest entry, Johann aka "Aphadon" focuses on dealing with cheaters in the game. Aphadon was previously a Living City / AI Engineer for Realtime Worlds before the studio shut down, and now he's the engineer in charge of anti-hack and anti-cheat detection for APB: Reloaded. He discusses the technicalities of using PunkBuster to detect aimbots, and then shares the team's proposed banning policy:

"If a player is positively identified as running a known aimbot, he/she will be immediately kicked from the district and a notification message will be sent to all other players in that district. The cheater’s account and PC will be immediately banned for a period of time, during which the person will not be able to play using that account on any computer. If an aimbot is detected a second time, the account and computer will immediately be permanently banned, all monies paid will be forfeited and any upgrades or customizations will be revoked."

Book-Larsson ends the entry by emphasizing that the team takes game cheating extremely seriously. Read the entire blog entry for more details.