Start IP and Hardware banning cheaters, It's the only way we get rid of them for ANY amount of time.
As it stands, if a cheater gets banned, all he has to do is log out of one account and log into another, and he's back at cheating on the seas.
I know some of you will say "But they'll just Cycle their IP and Hardware IDs",
However, you don't IP/HW ban someone permanently, as there's no way to currently permaban someone,
you do it to make them take LONGER to get back to harassing ACTUAL players.
think about it like this, logging out of one account and into another takes all of 3 minutes.
Cycling your IP address takes like 10, and changing hardware IDs takes another 10.
We can take this even further by monitoring what steam IDs are connected to what xbox live accounts,
because if you buy the game through steam, you have an infinite supply of free accounts.
But if rare started banning Steam IDs, that would force cheaters to actually PAY $3 for gamepass to get back into the servers, after resetting their IP and Hardware IDs and Swapping accounts, theoretically locking them out of the servers for hours at a time.
Is that all? Nope! we can take it EVEN FURTHER.
Rare can lock them out by their WALLET, take the game off of gamepass, and then cheaters will need to pay FULL PRICE to get back into the game every time they get banned, on top of switching accounts and cycling their IP and Hardware IDs.
that $30 dollar price tag doesn't seem like a lot, but it will add up quick, as 10 accounts is $300 spent, on top of the $100 cheat menu subscription, no one in their right mind is going to dump $400 a month into a game just to harass random strangers on the internet with cheats, instead of having HUNDREDS of cheaters like we do today, we'd only have 3-4 rich kids cheating at any given time.
This is another great solution, because not only will it lock cheaters out on a monthly basis, but it will also make rare a LOT more money, that they can then put towards fixing all the game-breaking glitches in game, this is the solution all of sea of thieves' problems!
