It's long past time CG puts an end to cheating

How can it be "EASILY coded?" Feel free to explain at a high level.

"Lor_San_Teka;c-2360315" wrote:
How can it be "EASILY coded?" Feel free to explain at a high level.

Other mobile games with smaller budgets seem more capable of accomplishing anti-cheating measures than CG. Are you suggesting a program to detect cheating is impossible for CG to accomplish? Given the bugs in the game atm you might have an argument, but incompetence isn't an excuse to continue to reward cheaters and punish honest players who never see compensation for the cheater stealing rewards from them.

"InyakSolomon88;c-2360320" wrote:

"Lor_San_Teka;c-2360315" wrote:
How can it be "EASILY coded?" Feel free to explain at a high level.

Other mobile games with smaller budgets seem more capable of accomplishing anti-cheating measures than CG. Are you suggesting a program to detect cheating is impossible for CG to accomplish? Given the bugs in the game atm you might have an argument, but incompetence isn't an excuse to continue to reward cheaters and punish honest players who never see compensation for the cheater stealing rewards from them.

I'm taking issue with the phrasing that it can be "easily coded" as gamers who say things like this have zero idea how these programs / games function at a very basic level. Or how the packages (APK) work for "mobile" apps.

"InyakSolomon88;c-2360320" wrote:

"Lor_San_Teka;c-2360315" wrote:
How can it be "EASILY coded?" Feel free to explain at a high level.

Other mobile games with smaller budgets seem more capable of accomplishing anti-cheating measures than CG. Are you suggesting a program to detect cheating is impossible for CG to accomplish? Given the bugs in the game atm you might have an argument, but incompetence isn't an excuse to continue to reward cheaters and punish honest players who never see compensation for the cheater stealing rewards from them.

What mobile games with smaller budgets are doing better anti-cheating measures

They obviously have code that can detect certain things about battles, such as damage output, from Feats. I’m not sure how similar it could be for GAC, but it at least used to have feats too. Shouldn’t be too hard to find the max damage a character can do and if they’re exceeding it look more closely at the teams.

Regardless if it's easy or not, for a game that's made over a billion dollars, not investing some of that money back into developing anti-cheat is disrespectful to the honest players, both FTP and money spenders.

1) enhance client to capture battle logs and send when required by server e.g. if that account is flagged as suspicious
• units alive at battle start with their health, protection, TM & ability cooldown states
• RNG seed value for the battle (software RNG is actually a complex number sequence generator so using the same seed value with the same RNG implementation will result in the same number sequence)
• sequential list of actions: character, ability used, target(s)
2) develop a server-side battle simulator which can replay the logs and find flaws which would indicate a hacked client

Well having worked as a developer for a long time there are numerous ways they could go about it. Their priority should be securing the client side battles... they could also do some research on the tools that are being used to accomplish cheating in conjunction and see where they can tighten their own code up. They may possibly be able to decompile any of these tools though I would suspect they already know exactly how things are being manipulated and why.

It may be that the easiest way to clean it up would be to send communication back to the servers during battles. They know the rules of their game and what would be outside the bounds of possibility or suspicious. This may not catch smart cheaters though which is why securing their own client code might be more important in catching all cheats. They could have the server drive attacks if they wanted to. It might be more network overhead but is it worth it to clean cheating up in the game? With any server communication this obviously means airplane mode might take a hit... but why not give a message to the player at the end of battles to ask if they want to forfeit or confirm the end of the battle? Players have been using airplane mode for years to get around a constraint of the system that CG obviously deem fair play so why not just let the player confirm at the end of the battle?

The bottom line is that they can clean cheating up if they really had an interest.

"Ultra;c-2360324" wrote:

"InyakSolomon88;c-2360320" wrote:

"Lor_San_Teka;c-2360315" wrote:
How can it be "EASILY coded?" Feel free to explain at a high level.

Other mobile games with smaller budgets seem more capable of accomplishing anti-cheating measures than CG. Are you suggesting a program to detect cheating is impossible for CG to accomplish? Given the bugs in the game atm you might have an argument, but incompetence isn't an excuse to continue to reward cheaters and punish honest players who never see compensation for the cheater stealing rewards from them.

What mobile games with smaller budgets are doing better anti-cheating measures

Agree with your question but it raises another. What on earth is CG doing with their game to limit cheating? We've seen extreme examples by other community members and have asked for this to be addressed and it's just crickets from CG. The resulting sentiment is either they don't care or can't do anything about it. Is that fair? Not sure but until it's addressed, that's what we're left with and these posts will continue.

"Ultra;c-2360324" wrote:

"InyakSolomon88;c-2360320" wrote:

"Lor_San_Teka;c-2360315" wrote:
How can it be "EASILY coded?" Feel free to explain at a high level.

Other mobile games with smaller budgets seem more capable of accomplishing anti-cheating measures than CG. Are you suggesting a program to detect cheating is impossible for CG to accomplish? Given the bugs in the game atm you might have an argument, but incompetence isn't an excuse to continue to reward cheaters and punish honest players who never see compensation for the cheater stealing rewards from them.

What mobile games with smaller budgets are doing better anti-cheating measures

It's very reminiscent of early 90s computer wars.

"Macs don't get nailed with all the viruses that PCs do!"

"Because Macs are 1% of the market, and don't run on Enterprise."