
Originally Posted by
Troops
Anyone with any computer sense saw this game then after deciding that it was a cool game, thought "wow people could write programs to play this game for them" They thought "I wonder what evony does to prevent that from happening" They went to this site the ONE and ONLY official site, and after finding not much information at all as to how cheating is deterred in the main pages they went to the forums. Being the studious people that these computer savvy people are they utilized the "search" function and searchd for terms like "cheating" "b o t s" "multi-account" They found that the only good information from the evony representatives was that there was some "clandestine" methods that they would not disclose that they could use to detect automated programs and multi-accounters and that when they were found they would be dealt with. They also found many people starting threads that accused evony of suspending their accounts or taking other disciplinary action against them even though they insisted they had not cheated or broken any item on the terms of service or game rules. Upon hearing from both sides, these computer savvy people made the choice that they could not trust either side and that they must TEST the theory, or that they must move on as it is not worth their time. Alas many moved on as it really wasn't worth their time playing a game that could easily be cheated and the clandestine methodology to cheating detection was not worth the time to test. As more and more of these computer savvy users went through this process, eventually one person got caught up in it thinking "how the hell do they think they can catch all the cheaters by simply looking at the server-side data?" "THEY CAN'T!" he thought.
He set out not to prove evony wrong but to prove himself right. He setup simple automated accounts and multiple accounts on the same ip address as being a computer savvy individual he knew how to access the internet from an unlimited number of unique IP addresses. He made sure that the automated program ran as regularly as possible to trigger any code that would sense regularity. He ensured that the multiple accounts from the same IP logged in very close to one another regularly and they had plenty of military contact both in trading resources and in giving cities to each other. He then sat back and waited for the trap to spring thinking "I'd really get into this game and spend some serious money when evony proves to me that the money invested isn't wasted playing a game that others can 'automate to dominate'"
Then he waited. . . . .
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