None. They wouldn't have the time to get a lawyer because they had a life.
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My question is when the captcha screen comes up... do you have a time limit? I leave mine on all day. I would hate to be accused because I was working and did not input the letters right away. A bot would need to be shut down and that would constitute closing the dialogue box.
i heard each time u have to enter the captcha evony gives u a gift 10k of each resources ROFL.
now if u dare give 1 amulet out evony for each time we have to put in the captcha i bet it will reduce alot of complains :p:rofl:
what about those of us that go afk for hours at a time, or have multi accounts and leave the game running when they go to the store ect.. has evony thought of this? will it just stop game play untill the code thing is put in? or will it log you out and just be annoying and pop up when your doing camp attacks grrrrr this is going to annoy me
ahhhhh another hair brained evony idea been a while since i seen 1 of them guess we were due for 1. think the last 1 i really remember was when they decided to actually say on the forums that they would not ban botters so now because they backed down on there original word and now realise they never should have decided to fix it by screwing every 1 over YAY!!!! :cheer::cheer::cheer:
come on every one 3 cheers for evony
you stop trolling and trying to argue with everyone....
as far as all this goes its only in testing botters will get around it faster then most can do the captchas evony needs to rethink this one the intial one apon login id be game for but ppls poor vision and disabilities will always make it a hassle right now i think Lag is by far a bigger issue then botters weither you like them or not we all deal with Lag one way or another if they fix that i will be humbled we will always be dealing with botting its a online PvP there will always be a way around something thiers bigger issues that need to be handled
<11:51>[lordft840]: ya its on 2257 and ss60 and guys have allready found a way around it
<11:51>[lordft840]: SS*
<11:52>[ashes]: i say ban the botters for good
<11:52>[Annoyer]: to meny peeps play the game and leave because others use botts.
<11:52>[SexyK]: around what?
<11:52>[Lcifer]: that is very true
<11:52>To [lordft840]: whats 2257
<11:52>[SirGrump]: its not a level playing field when others use BOTS
<11:52>[lordft840]: this id just a token they will tell the nonbotters look we tested it its unworkable we will go back to old way of catching them
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Hi,
I came out of holiday mode temporarily last night to help defend against attackers who teleported into our state.
There was a period of approximately 15 minutes last night where you could do nothing. Everything paused on SS57: alliance chat, world chat, the ability to do anything, everything. The latency was about 15 minutes, which is far worse than the delays we've experienced up till now.
Is there any explanation for why this happened?
As for the rest of the evening the responsiveness of the system was acceptable, albeit that hundreds of accounts are currently in holiday-mode.
BTW, if I remember correctly, I only had to respond to captcha once last night during about 7 hours. This isn't too bad when compared with the past weekend's implementation. The image was also spaced out better. Were improvements made, or was I just lucky?
Note, I too won't be buying more coins for a while until I see sustained improvement (last bought coins around Easter, prior to the lag getting out of hand). But having said that I do still have a few 100 coins on the account. I actually bought my first excalibur in about three months last night. Right now my coins are being used for holidaying the account.
Regards,
ObelixMMIX
Maybe you could make some sort of argument why you're opposed to this other than Mr. Horse from Ren & Stimpy:
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DELETED .... because you not worth the effort NEKO... ill give you 20 bux if you go play on the freeway though.
If i lose a battle because a stupid cap screen pops up when I am trying to open or close my gates or move troop etc I am NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY
next version of the bots gonna come out using decapcha it will cost about $1.39-$2.00 for 1000 captcha's enetered by humans.
and once again botters gonna win. without being bothered by those captcha'a while normal players may get them in middle of the attacks defense.
another EPIC_FAIL.
And what happens when evony's famous lag makes inputting the captcha code impossible? Answers on a postcard addressed to yet another dumb evony brainwave, never neverland.
STOP WITH STUPID IDEA's!!! Evony.
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Nobody will bot, coz they hate 24/7 farming
just cut the food comsumption half!!
Since I stay logged on all day while at work with the browser minimized and check it when I can, what will happen if I don't see the popup ? I can't keep the browser maximized all day, I only view it when the Boss isn't around.
So, people should be allowed to think they are "hiding" their internet activities from their bosses while they are supposed to be working?
Also, I answered you previously...
Punkbuster will only work with games that are installer based. This is a web browser, no-install-needed (other than Adobe Flash) game.
Cared about what? Their customers? Right, they've never cared about their customers, but they've always cared about money, and they've always put it before their players.
Anyone who actually thinks this was intended to force botters out of the game has fallen foul of the delusional propoganda Evony are spouting. This will lead to more people spending money and that's all it's ever about with Evony.
lol, the botters will find a way around this, they always do, i know they do cause im friends with the programmers ;). i never used surprisingly enough though, 1 n a half years of evony aswell. have quit though.
I don't bot, but I am in an alliance with a lot of botters. They're not bad people, but most of them don't have the time to pour into the game to stay level with those who do.
Seems fair enough, no?
I am very tolerant of botters... Why? Not because I have friends who bot, or bot myself. It's because I'm a human being, who wants to enjoy the game. Will I enjoy the game if all I do is complain and whine about botters? No, I will learn to loathe the game, and probably end up quitting.
All the anti-botters here need to take a step back and really think this through. Just because Evony says it will fix the lag problems and make botters go away, doesn't mean it will. Anyone with half a minute of experience in servers or technical development will tell you this will not do anything but make the lag worse.
As a fellow non-botter to non-botters, I seriously urge you to think this through and stop telling Evony they've done a good job. This will affect us more than it will botters. We will have to put the numbers in manually, whilst the botters, with the always adapting bots, will just enter them automatically.
I learnt to code Captchas in 1997, that's how old they are. They will not fix anything, and Evony are fully aware of that. All they are doing is giving lipservice to the vocal minority who constantly spams them begging for bannings. What's the direct result of you believing the propoganda they post? You feel happier with them, you feel like your server's on more of an even playing field, so you go and buy a package thinking you can enjoy yourself more. Evony have really thought this through.
How do I combat bots? I think attacks through, plan out my assaults, and then execute them. If anything people using bots has made this game more challenging. Now I actually have to think of combat and plan how to take down somebody with more troops than me. Remove that element and we'll be stuck with an era of boring Archer rainbows again.
All the people on here just shouting "HAHA BYE BYE BOTTERS" are the immature people who form the minority on this subject. I'm educated, intelligent, know how to play the game inside out and I don't bot. I will be sad to see botters go, and it's even sadder that the so-called "high horses" here think this will stop botters.
It won't. Evony have you right where they want you, and it's hilarious that so many people are taking what they say for gospel. In three years of running their business, what suddenly makes their customer service or reps reliable? Just a week ago the same people taking in every word for truth were complaining to Evony about this, that, or the other. The fact is Evony has many flaws in its game, and to top it off their customer service is dreadful.
But they say something you want to hear, and suddenly they can't put a foot wrong.
I think I'd rather play with the botters than you.
Interesting how quickly everyone comes down with dyslexia and color blindness, myopia, glaucoma and broken finger syndrome as soon as the anti-bot device started.
Oddly the game never seemed cause these people suffering prior to this moment in time...
The game didn't ask you to enter five illegible, multicoloured, grainy letters at any point. Stop being ignorant, those people play this game, and have every right to enjoy it like you. How do you know it didn't cause problems before, anyway? Just because Evony didn't do anything about it? That's hardly a reliable way of knowing. Evony doesn't do a lot of things about most stuff, it's just there's no need to pay lipservice to the small minority who may have submit problems.
So i"ll have to allow pop ups on this game that is known to install some pretty nasty spy ware on its tool bar alone?
Why should evony players put their personal security at risk?
Why should evony players allow such access to their personal or work computers by disabling basic security features that keep our personal information safe?
Why do we need to put ourselves at risk mainly because you cant come up with a better solution?
I can see lawsuits happening left and right
And i'll be one of them for being forced to disable the basic security feature "block pop ups" on my personal and work computers at the first sign of any security related issues that arise from this new feature.
It isn't about having to cheat to be decent for the majority of them. It's about having to cheat to have the time to even play the game. Your point of view is caked in ignorance... And it might be "Oh Well" for you, but Evony have always been about the money. What makes you think that's suddenly different? Because they said something you wanted to hear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Faunus
It's pathetic how easily they have you wrapped around their little finger. Read my previous posts, I re-iterate that I don't bot, but this attitude has to stop. Evony have introduced a horrendous feature that will ONLY interfere with legitimate players. The bots will have a way around it in days, if that. So the bots will continue to bot and automatically punch the numbers in, and the non-botters like you and me will be stuck with putting this number in every couple of hours.
How is that an improvement? Come down from your high horse and give this some thought, please. You are only encouraging Evony to implement this on every server.
all the complaints and evonies track record tells me 1 thing this will come across every server so now instead of attacking to break up the monotonous farming we will have captcha entering :duh: oh how fun it will be
Dont you guys think youre giving evony to much power, allowing them to think they control what happens in this game instead of understanding those of us paying for this game are the ones with the real power if we would just choose to use it.
1-if evony bans an account based on a captcha, even if it is a bot, they cant prove in any way it is one. Since people do tend to watch movies and do other things while playing evony and could very well miss a few of them. So ban me and watch how quickly I charge back 10k Ive spent over the last year. Watch how fast evony sends me an email to resolve the issue or else. lol, Watch as I tell evony to unban my account and I will and watch as they do exactly what I tell them to do. Everyone who pays for this game has allot more power then you think. But you wont use it. Hell if its not baned you then youll wait and whine and do nothing til it affects you personally.
Get together and show evony who has the power, if even 10% of the people playing evony did full charge backs it would hit evony so hard they couldnt afford to not listen to us. As one we tell them to remove the captcha and find a better way to catch botters that doesnt affect everyone else who doesnt bot. You will catch more then just botters and allot of innocent people will get punished because your program has no way of knowing if its someone who cant see well,. or they walked out of the room for a smoke and got distracted or a million other reasons. How stupid are you to believe this is the answer to catching botters.
Im sure youll catch a few botters but at the same time youll ruin innocent peoples games and lose more players over the bad lag, constant enteruptions in game play causing people to lose heros and armys they would never have lost had it not been for your silliness. So you wanna catch botters so you claim, I dont believe you do. We all know evony has test servers. Why arent you using them instead of wrecking a real server for testing. This is just plain getting to be to much for to many people.
How many people have you actually approached and asked, player to player, why they bot? The vast majority of people will tell you it's because the time required to put into the game is time they don't have to spare.
It's only the few that unfortunately ruin it for everyone else by botting from 10 accounts and porting around with a city with millions of everything in. They are and always will be the exception.
Consider me ignorant all you want, but at least step back and think this through. I do not want to see this implemented because it will affect me, as a non botter, and every other non botter. It won't make the slightest difference to botters. So now we will be stuck having to put this number in, and we will be stuck with the bots.
The reason for them botting really is not the relevant point, do you care more about arguing semantics on the forums than the game you are actually playing and about to have ruined even more?
And for all these people who think Evony can't be charged back all their coins, watch the news, because they can, and will. Evony have broken the terms of service everyone up to introducing this captcha registered and spend money to, by implementing a game changing feature without previous warning.
Your view is caked in blind devotion to those that cheat. The hero worship of those that do cheat. Its the only explanation to how passionately you arguing and throwing out half truths on the boards here. You more then likely sit on waiting for these so called big guns to come on and pander to them.
Besides I hear this number one complaint of have to, no you you don't. The game is a game of tactical and strategical play. Like a real life government you have to balance and plan for what you have. Botting takes all that away and is nothing more then a pander to egos inflated. Oh look at me I am so good I have such a huge army worship me.
An so called programmers you know and the rest that will get around this. The end game will be the industry number one Captchas will be set, one that all this time has never been broken.
So do me and the rest a favor, quit bending over backwards with such blind devotion, wipe your face, it has a brown spot on it and just be quiet.
Wouldn't having the time to play make them "decent"?
Why is it, exactly, that you feel that "their" time is of more value than mine?
Should people that put in more time and effort be punished for their time and effort by "normalizing" the rewards of time spent to be the same as not spending time and having a machine do it instead?
Would this paradigm work if it was applied to a sport such as baseball, basketball, hockey, etc? Should teams that do not have time to practice be artificially boosted in the stats?
People that "do not have time" should either play within the time constraints that they have and not feel like they're entitled to the same things that people that put more time into the game have, or they should simply not play.
But of course, everything that is in the TOS is the god honest truth and can't be challenged in court, because Evony is always right.
Fact is, if Evony doesn't deliver its service like promised, at the very least the unused coins can and must be refunded. It's a breach of contract and no matter what Evony put in the TOS, it still will be.
I disagree , 50 % fix , 50% interferance yes people will still bot.... maybe we ALL will since its not gonna get us kicked (i thought they were kiking botters) I'm tempted ... just waiting to see how this unfolds. was planning on coining pretty heavy on na36 , but now..... i'm scared lol
N00b-player alert. Sooo obvious that you don't play the game as an expert player and you don't do any timing or last second actions whatsoever.
If I want to close my gates on scout bombs coming in one second after a mech wave and the captcha pops up seconds before the mech wave lands, who's gonna replace my lost troops? You?
If I want to time in a phract wave as a surprise at the last second and 10 seconds before a captcha pops up, who's gonna replace the needlessly lost troops and the countless minutes I have to spend setting up everything right again? You?