How to protect yourself against cheaters?
Earth_Rick_c137
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How do you protect yourself against cheaters? What if you are an open alliance and some creep joins up, makes a move or two, and then gets the whole alliance disciplined? Anyone actually read the terms of service and know what is considered cheating? Is someone buying an account cheating, what about account sharing?
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I'd say close the alliance. Open alliances generally attract more of the nefarious end users anyways. It makes it more work on your officers and on the leader to manage the functions (recruiting, kicking, etc.) within the alliance, but it safeguards you somewhat from just anyone joining.
There are multiple things here that need to be clarified:
1. The penalty for hacking the game is serious and could get the guilty user banned. Yes, if done during a war or during AQ it could also affect the rest of the alliance.
2. The penalty for account sharing is considered serious too. In instances where account sharing has been used to win wars Kabam has considered it cheating and has disqualified wins which again affects the whole alliance.
3. Buying and selling accounts is breaking Kabam's terms of service. Someone caught doing that would most likely be banned if I had to guess. Not sure how it would affect the alliance as a whole though.
The real kick in the teeth is we don't know who the perp was, and Kabam refuses to give us anything to go on. It could still be someone in the alliance. We have been tracking all of the most recent members that we have kicked for suspicious activity and they all seem to have joined up with other alliances. Frankly, we're baffled and don't know how to move forward. Some of our most trusted senior officers want to take a "cross your fingers" approach and hope we don't get screwed again.
We have gone to great lengths already to protect ourselves and yet we get screwed. This latest sanction has set us back months.
It's one war when you can run 3 per week. That is not a huge setback and is not something that will affect you for months. I'd suggest if you are unsure of who the perp is in this instance run 1 or 2 BGs with just those that you know and trust to start with. And look for suspicious action in other areas to continue to make cuts.
Not laughing at you, laughing at how gloomy you are reacting to this situation.
Let's do the math here. A war victory gets you roughly 50 points. 3 wars per week over 8 weeks is 24 total wars. Yes, it sucks losing the points and the rating for one war, but you have a lot of time left to work your way up. What tier are you currently? I'm guessing at best you are tier 12, maybe tier 13 or 14. If that is the case they moving up will be easy. There is very little separation among those tiers.
That would sort things out I think
It sucks, but it probably hasn't set you back months. If you can legitimately compete at your original tier, dropping you two or more tiers means you will be fighting much weaker competition. You should start winning at a higher rate, and that higher rate of wins will come with a 50k point bonus you wouldn't have gotten with the higher multiplier but more frequent losses. Eventually you should climb back to the original tier, and while the point loss is substantial, its probably less than it first appears because of the counter-action of winning more wars. It won't completely make up the loss in season points, but it will soften it a bit.
Say they have the rol or lol only champions and other titles that they shouldn't have at their rating and level that's a good indicator that they're cheating.
If they blow through linked nodes in aq and aw and kill the bosses of both in high tiers of both with low champions without taking damage then that's a good indicator that they're hacking and need to be removed imeditenly.
If you opponents kill high bosses that still have 4+ nodes up with weak champions then you need to report them.
If people ask for your account information don't give it to them, if they ask your alliance for it get rid of them they can't get into your account any other ways.
If you do these or close or make your alliance by request only you won't have any issues with hackers and can protect your alliance.
Open or closed doesn't matter if you are full. And if you kick a guy and a low guy joins you can always boot him too. We are by request but it doesn't matter much
Money trumps skills and roster's anyday..they could just be big spenders and could buy things that's useful when questing (revives, boosts, etc..) some do may be cheating but in some instances thats not the case