Anticheats are essential for any competitive game, so if id doesnt dedicate enough resources to QL for having anticheat, someone somewhere along the line is beyond retarded.

That said, recent happenings show that they are in fact working on a "kind of" anticheat, although it's too early to tell really how effective it is.

People are getting banned, but Syncerror refuses to provide details so, unsurprisingly EVERYONE is playing the "wrongly accused" card.

In principe yes; however, if id were to allocate continous resources to developing and maintaining an anticheat, game development (or what's left of it) would grind to a halt; it's even likely that they would need to hire even more people with the right expertise to do that, and do it well.

Not going to happen ofc; they may have made an anticheat that detects current cheats so they can massively ban cheaters at once, speculating that this move will make other wannabe cheaters think twice before cheating. I'm pretty sure though that a few days later new cheats have been developed that can't be detected by id.

Now this cat and mouse game is clearly not in favor of id - they spend months developing an anticheat and all their efforts are rendered useless a couple of days later.

tl;dr: play with your friends.

id providing details is hardly something they need, or should do

id's best attempt came in the form of PunkBuster. To expect anything better, after 14 years of the release of Quake III Arena, you'd be a fool. I was delighted to see powertoggler and others banned recently, but it doesn't make up for the amount of bullshit people have been going through. You said it yourself, It is essential for any competitive game. Tell me, exactly how competitive is QuakeLive lately? In my opinion, id should really take a step back and look at Blizzard's success regarding anti-cheat and proper skill matching.

go fuck yourself

Cheating in SCII, and how Blizzard can stop it
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=343377

GM maphackers are growing
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=340614

Maphacker invited to WCS USA Qualifiers @ MLG
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=342704

Well, you seem like a well adjusted individual. Get some anger management you dolt. You cannot even begin to compare the differences in anti-cheat effort between Blizzard and id. They identify recorded macros easily and will ban somebody for using them. Unlike Quake, you can't just pirate it and make a new account. Once you lose your account you need to kick yourself. Map hacking is relatively uncommon. The chances of running into a cheater on the ladder are slim. Perhaps one out of a thousand. Much higher chances in QuakeLive. You say that map hacking is growing in Grandmaster. Do you know what I have to say about that? That affects the absolute top tier players in the game. There are pros who aren't even Grandmaster. By the way, funny how you left out the criticism of the tier system. It's the best I've ever seen.

no u

i play cod4 competively and trust me
every anticheat is bypassable (TZAC, UAC, ESL Wire, EAC etc.) all useless, theres no point in one

maybe you're just getting owned