Ashrem
Oh Wise One
But you are touting simplistic methods of catching cheating that will only catch dumb cheaters.First, that's a bit of a jump. Saying that cheaters here are unsophisticated does not imply I think that we should give preferential treatment to classes of cheaters
So, you aren't saying there are more than one class of cheater, except that there's a class you care about and a class you don't care about.The complaint here is about people that are using 25-50 alternate accounts.
This is a time based game. So, a slightly more sophisticated but popular way of cheating would be to use a bot to collect your gold sooner or build you more supplies... stupid stuff like that. While, unfair... it doesn't allow that player to jump hundreds of ranking points per day! And I've also stated I don't care about people with one or two push accounts.
I don't have to defend it, the game isn't my job. What I'm doing over and over again despite the efforts of others to paint it as something else, is saying that things are not black and white, and that almost any question that begins with "Why don't they just..." is failing to take into account that there are a variety of confounding factors. It doesn't matter if it's which cheating in a game to act against, or choosing whom to prosecute for pirating movies, or choosing who to pull over and harass for a broken tail-light; every time anyone gets treated differently for a similar action, there's a chance they will feel treated unfairly. That may manifest as anything from a Facebook post to a lawsuit.Read above I AGREED with you that ousting by Inno shouldn't occur. You're defending inaction.
Or maybe I'm a little above average at pattern recognition and spotting flaws in both game-play and arguments. One of the places my mind goes is "maybe the obvious push account is operated by developers for some non-obvious test, or to see if people will contact them and ask about the best way to cheat so they can keep an eye on them.You're either in the know of some form of cheating that I am not... or you're getting caught up on me implying that people using push accounts are unsophisticated and we're saying the same thing. If it's the former, please let me know so i can get mad as heck about it also.
Here:I don't understand what you're saying here. I didn't imply there was a limited application of spreadsheets.
Perhaps I misread that? It seems to me to imply that people who aren't in a fellowship together couldn't be using a spreadsheet to track their KP exchanges, whether it is with their own accounts, their room-mate who also plays (and maybe is too busy to do more than log in and dump their kp while tech-locked), or a complete strangers who they've befriended in game.Most people have all their alts in different fellowships from their main account (because their main account's fellowship doesn't want a bunch of 9k ranking players in chapter 3) so there would be no spreadsheet to fall back on.
I'm not suggesting any alternatives. I'm simply saying repeatedly that it's never as easy as forum participants like to think. We don't know whether they've taken any action or not, we only know that if any action has been taken, it is not satisfactory to the players that care. Maybe they sent a horrible person a notice and got back a perfectly reasonable explanation, which they are not sharing because it's nobody else's business. Maybe they asked a player to test a mechanic. Maybe they have someone doing it to see how players respond to a particular circumstance. Maybe the scientists for whom our entire universe is simply a computer simulation injected it to get a laugh on a boring weekend. Maybe someone who is confined to their bed by a terminal illness is horribly bored and depressed and wants to see how long it takes them to get kicked out of the game.I'm not sure what alternative you are suggesting.
Out of
Catch some
Catch none
Catch all
Are you saying that since catching all is not possible we should stick with catching none?