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DaleCooper84's avatar
2 years ago

What about a cheaters report button?

Frankly, I'm tired of finding myself faced with teams of cheaters with Magnetism at level 20 (and all the other disasters at level 1 perhaps) and not being able to escape from a war without even being able to report them (strangely they are all teams with non-Latin fonts). Is it so complicated for EA to put a damn button to report cheaters? And don't say that you can send the report from the form, it's useless and inconvenient, and no one checks it!)

10 Replies

  • DaleCooper84's avatar
    DaleCooper84
    2 years ago

    95% of cheaters use non latin fonts in city and team names… it’s a bit difficult to report players with non latin fonts if you use a latin font keyboard on tablet. We need something else.

  • DaleCooper84's avatar
    DaleCooper84
    2 years ago

    This form (which I attach, with the relative translation of the fields on the side) is ridiculous and redundant to fill out. As I mentioned before, 95% of cheaters use Cyrillic characters or ideograms, which makes it impossible to report cheaters from a keyboard that uses Latin characters. EA is probably in bad faith, but if it actually wanted to block cheaters, it should create a button to report cheaters simply by clicking on the profile of the "indicted" user, without much sophistry.

  • alifie1's avatar
    alifie1
    Seasoned Hotshot
    2 years ago

    Instead of city name I would fill in my observation -  “non Latin  characters”. Filling level  and population will  help to identify the city. Instead of the club name you can fill  club hashtag #…, if club name uses non Latin characters.

  • Or let us use cheater player Id in the report instead city name. But a simple button to use against cheater player will be simple to use, in particular against teams full of cheaters (instead of sending 8/10 or more reports). EA, it’s too difficult to preserve honest gaming?

  • So basically anyone who can copy and paste their name in a different font is a cheater? LOL

    Seriously though I hear ya.

    In Design Challenge there is an easy 1 tap report button for offensive entries, for example if they have road doodled something offensive in their entry.

    However, going by what I am reading on fan pages I think there would be more legitimate players reported rather than the real cheaters if it was that simple to do.

    The hoops ya have to currently jump through to report a player or a team full of them is to me these days just not worth the hassle due to the lack of response from EA though.

    If someone is throwing money at the game to buy cards for weapons, then EA is not gonna bite the hands that feed them are they?

    How are they getting enough keys though? Keys have to be earned right? I'm always low on gold keys lol

    I've seen cities with level 20 on just about every weapon but how they do it I dunno, especially those that are less than 2 years old  (they give that away sometimes in their city description)

    My highest level weapon is at 12 and I have been working on that since wars started!

    Something does have to be done to stop the cheats, the sooner the better.

  • DaleCooper84's avatar
    DaleCooper84
    2 years ago

    The problem is not using different fonts (maybe you don’t have understand the problem which I explaned before) but you cannot report a cheater that use cirillic or chinese characters because the actual form provided by EA sucks…

    An entire team with players with low levels that have Magnetism at level 20 and other disasters at level 1, is formed by cheaters. If also they have an average score of 250k or more, they are cheaters…

  • GrumpyBedlam's avatar
    GrumpyBedlam
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    I understood but made light of it.

    EA don't seem to do much, even when the evidence is handed to them on a plate.

  • Our Club gets repeated requests to join from 'players' using Chinese characters.  They all have the same basic details ... Level 30, no population and apparently members o a Club inn Chinese characters.  HOW can we stop them?

  • m652i346ez0m's avatar
    m652i346ez0m
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago

    Do what I did get out of the club and join a no war club. Problem solved.

    simples

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