Yes, believe it or not people pay for programs to solve Captchas it's quite depressing.
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Actually, I know people that can create a program from scratch to beat it. It's not hard. However I live and breathe in the programming world; my friends, my husband, everyone besides blood family that I know are involved in web or program development.
It does not take much to write a bot for evony (I have seen the code to most of these bots, took a few days to decrypt the files, but I was curious on the communication). I actually lost everything on 155 and was forced to reset and quit due to a botter and swore I would beat the bots. My account always gets bugged (I must log in via facebook, not 160.evony.com) therefore I don't even have the choice to bot.
Instead I spend what little spare time I have to keep up with bots or try to beat them by myself without the help of multiple players.
Interesting indeed...evony creates a game for people to play, people use programs to play
the game, evony uses programs to catch the program users, now people use programs to catch the programs that catch the programs...
Am i the only one that sees the insanity of this??????
i'm pretty sure that if botters wanna play they will find a way around this, prolly quicker than me having to enter it every hour, reguardless were up to another hour now and still the servers down, this denotes free cents not just free upkeep if we even recieve that
Captcha actually does have an effect. Many bots are not able to crack it at all, and are completely defeated by it. Others are unable to solve it most of the time or the bot is caught by the Captcha and is flagged to be suspended/banned.
In fact, Captcha is quite effective, although I will agree that it is not 100% successful in preventing all bots/third-party programs.
And how is ti that 160 is the onyl server apparently having such issues? botters are on other servers even captcha is on other servers, guess copying the coding from a server thats not even up yet didn't work either, we need more information here or some sort of update
i see it why play the game if your just gonna bot it defeats the point of a game its like if i were to play call of duty and have a computer doing all the shoting an i sit back and take a nap so wtf is the point in the bs just ruins the game for everyone thats sits down spends there tim and plays it i chose not to sleep i nap 3 to 4 hours and play 6 to 8 hours then nap again and repeat lol i have been up for 24 hours yet again 3ird time this week
Hi can evony read this and offer the members on 160 how they can get there money back please cos every one i know has spent decent money on the server and with the introduction off captcha and the lagg its totally unplayable since day 1 and i do feel weve all been ripped off.
Of course Captcha has effect. Like I said, it's easy to create a simple bot. Simple bots are not the ones breaking the captcha and there are several more simple bots than there are complex ones.
However, the excuse "Bots are causing the lag" is an exaggeration at best. From my experience as a former programmer with a game several years prior to evony with the same population just about, it seems there is a structural issue with the database. Simple problems like using the wrong table types or data types. They can cause a lot of lag issues and considering there was a delay in things like the war reports, it makes perfect sense.
Yet another server ruined because Evony has no other way of fixing there mistakes and take blame for themselves. Server 160 will soon be a dead zone thanks to Evony and 162 will gain new members, These new members will coin lag will come they will complain and most will quit. People its time to show Evony that we do matter stand up to them and dont go to 162 let there game fall apart because in the end they ruined it not us
Evony does not have a very good track record when it comes to handling problems but this is by far the worst I have ever seen without any compensation.
They say this is regular maintenance but regular maintenance gives 15 min warning and references server 160. Not a 2 min warning referencing server 163.
They got people quitting left and right and don't seem to care. Be nice to be a fly on the wall and know what is really going on here cuz it is hard to believe what they are telling us.
I have been around since 2009 and imo the game was a lot more fun when people actually played the game DarkDragen.
do evony care if they kill the server?
Why is it that everytime there is a thread about the poor server 160 it gets closed without any answers? We pay to play and I think it's our right to know what's going on and why Evony wants us to rather quit that server? They make it unplayable with the lag,m then that captcha no one can get right 1st time because of the retard that wrote that strange excuses called letters.
I really don't wanna be rude, but please guys, give us what we pay for? You remind me of a scaly car salesman after I bought a car from him and now dont wanna fix the problems. Be honest and tell us what's going on !!!!!!
7:23 a.m. Update: In the continuing saga of server 160 maintenance, we’re having trouble correcting the hardware issue on the server and our tech team thinks they will need another hour to correct it. I know its frustrating for those who are waiting to play, but our goal is noble. We want to get this server performing as best we can. We’ll continue to keep you updated here.
that is there latest update LOL evony are the biggest joke im done with this game gonna get a chargeback like many other people on this server
I'd like to know too. More importantly I'd like to know how to de-connect my emails between two servers. I have remedies for 160, but that would affect another server I play as well.
Bottom line, starting a server under the guise of one apporach, then totally changing the game play in the middle is a major change/problem. Who many new accts are started on servers with captcha? Only way to find that out would be to sue Evony and conduct discovery. Not worth $1m to find out you're probably right in assuming NONE.
Playing Evony is like buying fireworks - sure are fun to light off, but at the end of the day all you've really done is burn your money.
so for all the aggravation and troubale everyone that signs in withen 1 hour after maintenence is done gets 1000 cents right lol it would make it worth it i would be an awsomeconsulation prize
3/7/2012
7:23 a.m. Update: In the continuing saga of server 160 maintenance, we’re having trouble correcting the hardware issue on the server and our tech team thinks they will need another hour to correct it. I know its frustrating for those who are waiting to play, but our goal is noble. We want to get this server performing as best we can. We’ll continue to keep you updated here.
6:24 a.m. Update: Testing on the server flagged a potential problem that we need to fix, so we’re going to need to extend the maintenance for about 1 more hour. Sorry for the delay. We’ll get the server up again as soon its ready.
5:34 a.m. Update: We’re taking down s160 for its regular daily maintenance. As part of this maintenance, we’re going to do an analysis on the server performance, so we’ll be extending this normal maintenance by about 1 hour. Thanks!
3/6/2012
7:28 p.m. Update: The server is online and our initial indicators show that performance is significantly better. We’ll continue to monitor this server over the coming hours and days and optimize as necessary.
5:39 p.m. Update: We’re once again seeing stress and very high load on the server. This appears to be the result of some players using unauthorized third party software and gumming up the works for everyone else. We’re going to take the server down briefly to enable Captcha. We expect this to take about an hour.
8:07 a.m. Update: The server is online once again! We’ve upgraded the server hardware and players should now experience overall increased performance! Thanks for your patience, and we’re sorry the maintenance took longer than expected.
6:00 a.m. Update: The upgrade is complete and the server is in final testing. I’ll post again when the server is online and accepting players.
5:22 a.m. Update: We need to extend the maintenance by about another hour to work on an issue that came up during the upgrade. We’re sorry for the delay and we’ll continue to keep you in the loop here.
Just read this and it seems like something written purposefully for a comedy show.
none of this matters now anyway. you guys will still play. you guys will still spend. as long as you are all on here complaining, they know you are hooked. Yes, I am an evony addict, and am actively looking to change that. I suggest to you all that you do the same. stop "coining" at all. if you need to have that edge, think of the botters excuse for that too, its the same. But once they start losing money hanover fist instead of making it that way, maybe, just maybe. they will fix the problem. and Dawnseeker, if you, of all people really cared to fix a problem, you'd have answered the respectful mail instead of coming in here to give silly stupid responses to so few of the posts here.
good news everyone it seems Evonys brilliant employess need yet another hour to try and fix server 160
so if i went to my paypal and recalled all the money from evony what would happen to my account?
also would i be able to play evony n another account again?