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The new end date will be May 1st.
How many docks does it take for players to stop modding in AW Seasons?
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Pretty ridiculous when you have blatant cheaters on the same accounts for 11 seasons now and nothing has happened.
It's not like it's brand new people/alliances that do this sort of stuff. Take a look at every docking list for the last 10 seasons,....a lot of repeat offenders in there with the same people.
We're done.
The logic behind not awarding wins to cheated alliances is solid, whether players agree with that logic doesn’t matter. At a minimum, players should be eligible for some sort of compensation when cheated in competitive game modes. For example, an alliance that loses to opponents that mod X amount of times could have their season points total adjusted to only include the number of wars they completed against opponents who didn’t use mods. This adjusted leaderboard points total could then be used outside of actual season-end leaderboard rankings like Kabam did a few season ago with MNG. Lastly, Kabam could also require developers to actually play MCOC so they could analyze data more accurately when implementing mod detection protocol.
The question is, how do you know nothing has been done?
The current AW Seasons leaderboards shows 2 alliances that have modded every war this season in top 5 master rankings. Players have been submitting support tickets that include video evidence of modding about 1 of those alliances for more than 2 months. That alliance has had 1 AW season dock and 0 member account bans. This is common knowledge for top war alliances because players keep track of modding alliances’ members through last login shown as well as modding alliances member changes to see if any bans have happened.
That's the frustration being voiced (and the actual topic) in this thread.
When you play a game for 4 years, 4 to 8 or more hours a day, and especially at high levels... You have an intimate knowledge of what is possible and what is not possible in this game. It's not mysticism or science, it simply is game knowledge.
When you (and a few hundred others with the same game knowledge that regularly communicate with each other) play against one of 3 particular alliances season after season, you see all you need to see.
When you (and a few hundred others) monitor these 3 alliances over the course of several seasons, you also see when action has been taken and when action has not been taken. You know the signs, you know the blowback. None of it is there.
When you (and a few hundred others) see a pattern of behavior that isn't stopping because of temporary bans or points docks, when you see the methods used starting to spread, when you see players bouncing to other alliances to repeat the process... You see exactly what's happening.
This thread isn't about guesswork, it's not baseless allegations, it's not crying over losses or lack of rewards. It's high level, knowledgeable, long-term players LITERALLY begging kabam to up their game FOR THE GAME ITSELF.
It's players trying to properly use the reporting protocol as designed to beg kabam to take appropriate action. And it's players telling kabam that those reporting protocols and the system of checks in place as of now have simply failed.
No one is asking for a hand-written letter laying out information that shouldn't be laid out. The only thing anyone wants is to know they're heard, know that Kabam is taking this extremely seriously, and know that Kabam is putting a laser focus on an issue that has been ongoing (by the same group of cheaters) for at least 3 seasons. That's all. Then, everyone can sit back and wait, allow kabam to do their thing.
So, we're waiting.
Automated mod detection is not working in their case for some reason, they have to be manually reviewed by someone @Kabam Miike. Please don’t wait until end of season.
The fact of the matter is the cheating has gotten out of control and it’s not fair to the alliances to lose out on 50k points for the win (times the multiplier) when the opponent modded.
Who cares if they would have won anyway? That argument makes zero sense. As numerous people have explained already, in literally EVERY competition mode except for kabam’a weird theory, the person who was cheated out of the win, gets declared the winner.
You saw it in this last year’s Kentucky derby. Horse disqualified and the second place declared the winner. The disqualified horse was the odds-on favorite to win and the horse that ended up getting declared the winner was a long shot. If the Kentucky derby followed kabam’s logic, there would not have been a winner at all. It’s just nonsensical.
When you were in elementary school playing tetherball and the other person touched the rope, you won. It wasn’t declared a tie bc maybe you still would have lost.
What should happen is that the modding ally should lose all points (not just the win bonus) from the war and the ally cheated against should be given the win bonus. That way the modding ally gets zero benefit from their cheating. The ally modded against gets the points they rightfully earned plus are declared the “winner” by forfeit.
This is really the only fair outcome.
Winning is the same greedy motivation that compels people to cheat. Winning without earning it. Giving the Win without earning it is the same thing, without breaking rules.
Was the Kentucky derby runner-up not declared the winner?
When someone used the rope in tetherball, was the other person not declared the winner?
If you want to discuss the topic, great. If you can't do it without getting personal, talk to someone else.