Sounds like you received a 1-year ban. After working for iEra for ~6 months, I can tell you that 1-year bans are not handed out lightly. Those are saved for cases when there is hard evidence that a player has been caught stealing accounts. Feel free to PM me in-game and I can check your ban history, but 1-year bans are typically handed out by higher-level staff who have experience in these cases and don't ban for that long without hard evidence. You are saying that all you did was say, "I'm going to hack." But staff members are trained to ignore such things. Most players don't even know what actual "hacking" is, and saying "I'm going to hack" is the equivalent of saying, "I'm going to send RoboCop to your house with a pizza."--definitely not happening. Although...if you figure out how to send RoboCop to my house with pizza, I will be eternally grateful.