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SWGOH-Klys
New Novice
3 months ago

Cheater Identified - No Other Reporting Options

Hello folks! I've been playing for just about a year, and our young fleet shard has been plagued by this cheater on and off for 10 months now. Those in our shard chat were able to report him in game, but with no way of consistently drawing developer attention to the offending account they seem to be back at it with a completely under-developed account hitting #1 in Squad and Fleet arenas daily! Also one-manning all GAC battles with an amazing success rate, and looks to have been soloing HSith raid for smaller guilds with no characters able to actually do it. Hoping this article gets the attention it deserves to lockdown accounts like this that have some pretty obvious signs of using something illegal to progress in the game. Account info and some screenshots below to demonstrate their exploits. I love this game, and so do the folks in our fleet shard. Please prevent accounts like this from causing issues for those of us that are willing to put time and money into a game we love!
Name: TinMan
Allycode: 656126467
SWGOH.gg: https://swgoh.gg/p/656126467/

Appreciate any and all attention to this, and look forward to the great things to come for this game!

  • cocopuff_denki's avatar
    cocopuff_denki
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    One of my guildmates is in this shard, and it is an insult to the time and in some cases money that people have invested into 7 star Executor or Profundity fleets to see a 6 star Endurance stealing payouts. Another round of the "ban hammer" is in order. And if you look at the roster, there's no money going into it. 

  • winterwolves's avatar
    winterwolves
    Rising Scout
    3 months ago

    If nothing else, this is a great example of what to look for in a GAC history to spot a cheater.

    • One unit.
    • 6 second battles. 
    • Health gone with all protection untouched.

    Check, check and check. Not even vaguely trying to hide it.

  • Whatelse73's avatar
    Whatelse73
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 months ago

    Good luck but cheaters are probably back to being lower on the priority list than fixing the break room junk drawer.  Their priority is selling garbage to players and not even making sure it works right, or the game works right before they do.

    Plus, certain cheaters will just get a "break" for a couple weeks and come right back, depending on how much they spend.

    • SWGOH-Klys's avatar
      SWGOH-Klys
      New Novice
      2 months ago

      True, but this account isn’t a spender by the looks of it.

  • SWGOH-Klys's avatar
    SWGOH-Klys
    New Novice
    2 months ago

    Anything else we can do besides report him a billion times between anyone willing to do so? I feel there should be a more effective way for the player base to communicate this if images and account info aren’t enough to attract CG’s eye to it in these forums.

    • winterwolves's avatar
      winterwolves
      Rising Scout
      2 months ago

      They can't reply to this thread. You have named another player, and linked to their information, which some law systems may interpret as being their personal (private) information.

      In many countries there are privacy laws, so companies cannot discuss anything about another customer with anyone at all, without their (the person being talked about) permission. Regardless of a cheat accusation or anything, they cannot legally enter into any discussion with you about any other customer.

      You can notify (which even them acknowledging the notification may be on shaky privacy ground, so they don't), but they can't let you know what's going on in the specific case.

      Bans happen. They seem to do them in batches where they scan for specific things. Every now and again a wave of "Why was I banned?!!?" Threads pop up in a big group, and looking at most of them, gac cheats, characters unlocked with g1 requirements, unfeasably big raid scores etc can be seen in those player's histories.

      On the old forum there was always a cg employee to tag, but I could never remember if it was Leviathan or something else starting with L... can't think of it now either, but no one thought they did anything anyway because they never replied to them (as they can't).

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