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Duh. We're waiting for a response to what they do know how to do, and why they choose to do or not do it. Fang is right, but he's not in a position to answer for the company. They avoid that as much as possible, choosing to let the moderators handle us. Then they tie their hands. At least it seems that way.
Don't get your hopes up, Jimbo...
btw, notice how many posts DemonHero or (whatever his name was) had?
It was a toon. Someone felt the need to stick up for Brightfang, and do it in a manner that looks remarkably like Brightfang's normal typing patterns.
(Ok, I know. I know. Don't even start. Brightfang did not create a toon just to defend himself. But someone did.)
This whole argument is retarded.
As I have said before, every game has its cheats and Evony is no exemption. Whinging and whining on forums won't change this fact, nor will it stop the cheats. You will never prevent cheating unless you stand behind someone and smack them across the back of the head each time they try. If it's not this game it will be another. If its not this account it will be another.
Every person who has EVER in any game bought currency (plat, gold whatever) from third party sellers are CHEATS - if you can't achieve what you need to achieve in a game without buying items or currency outside of the game....how do you think THAT affected those games and the rest of the player base?
See the hypocrisy here? I bet many of the whiners and whingers are people who have done just that in other games, bought items or currency from third parties.
Anyone who has ever shared their account details in other games have breached the EULA's of those games, yet I bet many people have done it. It too, is considered cheating, i.e. gaining an unfair advantage.
Evony developers themselves (from what I have been led to believe) have gained the money to create THIS game from the profits of cheaters in other games....but who cares if they have? It is the way of on-line gaming really, isn't it.
There is only a small percentage of any population (on-line gaming population, welfare recipient population, tax-paying population etc etc) who will always - ALWAYS do the right thing. Some statistics put this around 15% as an average. There is another group within these populations - somewhere around the same statistical percentage of hard-core individuals that will do the wrong thing despite knowing the consequences of their actions in advance. The remaining 70% are in a group where they will do mostly the right thing, but will be tempted to (and probably) do the wrong thing if they think they won't get caught.
At the end of the day, if you can't cope with the thought of people cheating or doing the wrong thing, you may need to re-consider your desire to play on-line games. Whilst ever you interact with others - face-to-face, or online - you WILL be exposed to people who cheat. End of story. If you can't deal with that fact, play a single player game.......just make sure you don't use those cheat codes for extra food, gold or other resources that you got from googling.... or we will all smell the hypocrisy from here.................................
This is not a players ethics arguement. This is a developer ethics arguement.
So, one more time.
Why does EVONY allow the cheating to continue when the ability is there to stop it?
I am not interested in a lesson on why people look to exploit advantages. I care why EVONY allows some exploitation and not others. Stay focused people.
Because they want that 70% to play the game. That was his point. The only way to prevent cheating en mass is to stop some people or some things to keep that feeling of you might get caught. So that 70% lingers between maybe trying a second account, maybe running a bot once or twice, but they still play the game and don't impact it much negatively and therefore you don't end up playing player vs. npc.
As for the person that says they haven't banned anyone, maybe they haven't but just putting the idea out there is enough to keep that 70% semi-inline with what the devs want.
Its like the speedlimit. Yes most people break it, yes some people never break it, yes some people always break it. The percent of people police actually stop for it is no where near the amount that do and doesn't stop anyone from trying. But after seeing someone pulled over you tend to slow down a bit. After seeing a cop sitting on the side of the road, even if he never moves, you tend to slow down.
p.s I understand you are saying make it impossible and then there are no cheaters. But people are cheating because they are bored, tired, unsatisfied, don't have the time. The reason some games allow third parties to sell their currency is so those people don't stop paying..i mean playing. :p