Hello my friends,
Let's not "forgive" EA on how they operate. What we can see about clubs and players must be a little part of what EA's game operators can see; if it wouldn't be so, it would be totally impossible to make any control.
In this case, we should call EA an amatorial society, not a serious game provider (let's name this bolded phrase "rule 1", as I will recall it later).
In the game I operated I had a tool that availed me to control every single "breath" -"fart" would be the correct word. Will I receive a warning?- of every single player and/or club: every trade, attack, improvement, change, entry or exit, EVERYTHING. And I was availed to check all of those things for everyday till 6 months before.
It wasn't one EA game, that provider was (and still is) not big as EA is, so you should think they had less room to make things works: false, that system worked very well as there were new hackers/cheaters everyday, but their game life was very short.
Every player has his own ID. We just can see our own one, it's a privacy matter, but for sure EA can see and trace all of its.
Are you sending a screenshot of a club? Of course EA can see who were in that club at that moment, see players ID, trace and control those ID and see their actual clubs, their actual names, what they did. If not possible, back to "rule 1".
Checking a player and/or a club can be a long thing, but it's game operator's work. And works uses to be payed.
Aren't EA paying their game operators so that these operators aren't enticed on their work? back to "rule 1".
Aren't EA having enough game operators so that these operators can't manage this work? back to "rule 1".
Aren't EA giving the right tools to help their game operators keeping a clean game? back to "rule 1".
It's hard for me to believe that a giant like EA can't manage those things. I'm not a believer of conspiracy theories (see: they avail it 'cause they make more money in this way or similar ones). And I fully respect EA, I'm playing EA games since I was a boy and I'd refuse to think I gotta back to "rule 1". But the truth is that for everyone hacker/cheater banned on one day, you'll find ten new ones the next day. The only exception of "rule 1" and/or conspiracy theories that comes in my mind is that they still haven't found a way to easely embed those players. And it would be even more sad, 'cause we'll have to live this situation without knowing if an end will come one day; or leave the game; or become ourselves hackers/cheaters too.