MajMal's idea was the best I've heard: Flag sploiters as targetable in public areas. A tangible punishment that still allows them to access the game, and is reversible in time. Fuck, it could even be worked into a bounty hunter system as a PvP expansion. Most of the exploits come down to a matter of which way customers want to enjoy the game. Why should Turbine deny themselves access to that potential revenue?

It'd be funny for about 30 mins and then you wouldn't bother logging in again.
You'd get grief killed everywhere and could never get to wherever you were trying to go.
You'd likely just give it up as a bad joke and leave anyway.

They lose the access to the forums and get labeled Banned  Cheater on forum profiles, yes.

But they also lose their playing account, including all associated playing accounts, and those accounts are still searchable in-game, via-PM, on factions lists, where they are publicly labeled "Banned Cheater" meaning that it lives on, as long the game lives on.

For instance when someone thinks, hey I wonder how my old lancemate Frank the Ferret in the FRR is doing? and then looks him up? it will still list Frank but it will also list that he is "Banned Cheater".  So merc groups will have any busted cheaters listed publicly on their forums and in game musters.

Pretty big step away from the "never speak of cheating" rules they had and that Turbine still has.

See the difference from what you are suggesting is a win-win? You may think it's a hoot and start a new pilot on a new account, but you will have to drop cash (lots in MWO), build up pilot ranks (same), and all your old dropping buddies might not be keen to have you around anymore.

Russ Bullock owner and chief pilot of PGI is a terrible human being, barely passable coder, incompetent businessman, transparently dishonest PR man, but in spite of all those flaws he has Balls the size of watermelons, he just doesn't give a fuck, or thought to future consequences.

The fact that he has made a insane amount of money in the past three years even while his company has been publicly shamed and roasted by it's customer base for failing again and again practically guarantees he feels free to act like this.

Personally I don't know how I feel about the Public posting and shaming of cheaters, in MWO or DDO. But I am very interested in the process and how different kinds of companies handle it.

And PGI and Turbine are in the same field and have the same type of niche costumer base yet are so different, which makes it really interesting. 

That depends - can you hit back? If you can do damage in return, it might actually prompt a number of good players to exploit!

That depends - can you hit back? If you can do damage in return, it might actually prompt a number of good players to exploit!

I'm not Cordovan

Do you find it offensive to be called Cordovan?

And having been here since yesterday, you were able to form this opinion in one day?

I didn't say your Cordovan, because I don't believe you are.
But you are familiar with the Vault, and I don't your hear just to chew the fat with the boyz.

Off the top of my head I recalled at least a couple different threads over the past few months where various posters have accused others of being Cordovan.

Query: if the number of people complaining about cheaters is fewer than the number of people cheating, what do you do?

Blah blah blah

Haven't you heard? Cordo owns 95% of all new Vault accounts, according to vaulties.