Can we get an update on cheating?
In the aftermath of the videos showing how easy it is to cheat in this game, it would be reassuring to have some kind of update from CG. What is being done? Is it working at all? Community confiden...
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"evoluza;c-1932913" wrote:"StarSon;c-1932908" wrote:"Erebus2017;c-1932901" wrote:"StarSon;c-1932894" wrote:"Kyno;c-1932886" wrote:"tj5270;c-1932882" wrote:"Bulldog1205;c-1932877" wrote:"Ultra;c-1932874" wrote:"Bulldog1205;c-1932834" wrote:I don't think defensive replays are a reasonable ask. You've got millions of players in Grand Arena, each doing multiple battles, from as low as 0 battles to 8+, some sending junk teams doing 0 damage so that one team can have a defensive score of 80 or something for reddit karma"Monel;c-1932822" wrote:
The problem with a program like that is there is no stopping it unless you find a way to block the program all together. All a cheater needs to do is create a new account after being banned and they can cheat their way right back to the top.
Adding defensive replays would stop the biggest part of it. While there could be subtle cheating line improving damage by 10% of something that people might not notice, it still means everything is right out in the open. Blatant cheating in PvP would disappear instantly.
Each video needs to be compressed and stored on the server and its very costly on space
I’d settle for a text recap. Team used, damage done by characters on both sides, time elapsed, maybe total number of attacks/turns for each toon.
Thanks for exposing this and bringing up solutions to the problem. Anything is better then nothing, and Cg has provided nothing to really put a halt to what is happening. I think it may be more costly, but the other side is to take down ANYTHING pvp related, as it has the potential to just be exploited and cheated on.
That is absolutely not true. Let's leave the baseless accusations out of this.
It may not be true, but it is not a baseless accusation. Bulldog spent two months proving their automated tools don't work at all. That's basis for claiming that "they are doing nothing."
It's more accurate to say that the actions they have taken have not had the desired impact of identifying and mitigating cheating in the game. Bulldog's experiment is proof positive that there are some fairly serious flaws in the anti-cheating solution implementation.
We have zero proof that there is any effort, though. So, sure, it's possible that they implemented the stuff they said and it just doesn't work. It's also possible they just nope'd right out of actually doing anything, and hoped no one would notice.
I could mention that you also have zero proof of anything.
I mean, we have proof that any tools they implemented don't work.
"Liath;c-1932916" wrote:
If you don't believe their posts about what they're doing there's nothing that would satisfy you.
I'm being optimistic today, remember? If they had something to show for it, I could believe them. And, in fact, until this video, I honestly did believe they did what they said. I may not be giving them my money any more but I am still playing, and I will definitely stop playing if I ever get to the point you think I'm at.
It's just that, as with so many other things, this is such an easy problem to fix. But as the years drag by, I find it increasingly difficult to believe that they care to fix them.
