SolvedHelp me understand how bans work?

Okay so I'm having a hard time understanding how these steam bans work now.

I have 4 Arma 3 steam accounts

1, My main steam account with all my games since 2004 (Non hacking account)

2, used for scripting aka "hacking"

3, spare

4, spare


So I got an admin ban on a server on account #2 which I understand is also an IP ban, so I use a VPN since I have a staticIP (ISP out of new IPs cannot get a new one...)

So new IP, new steam account and bam when I join I still get the ban message from the previous steam account/different IP

I checked in the menu to see if the player ID is different and indeed it is.

So how does this work? Are bans now tied to PC hardware somehow? How can they know?

Thanks.

You probably forgot to change your name or something like that, either that or the server auto bans VPNs, that is possible.

New IP + New player profile + New steam account + new copy of arma 3 + Family sharing off = Clean key