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Thread: Captchas Now Testing on ss57 and ss60

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mati2 View Post
    Typical Evony response. There is nothing wrong with our product, if there is a problem, it must be the customer.
    I have a 19 inch CRT set at 1280x1024 resolution, which is about normal for this size of monitor, and I didn't find the captcha to be too small. I did find the letters fuzzy and difficult to read, but it was not too small.

    That said, I don't have a higher resolution to test with, so Evony might consider testing on a larger monitor with a very high resolution to make sure that the window size scales properly with increasing resolutions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hardbodyactiv View Post
    Best idea I heard since I started playing over 1.5 years ago. Get rid of bots and if people want to quit because they can't cheat any more...well don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out....but perhaps Evony should also roll out the no farming idea from Age II into Age I.

    Well at least a 125K mech attack is finally going to mean something here!
    if you can maintain that without a bot, you need to try match.com or something and try and find some sort of social life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morgan le Fay View Post
    It's great that something is at last being done about those pesky bots. This way also means fewer people will be banned too, which works out best for both players and Evony.

    Good work!
    Players accounts would not be banned if evony just allowed the botting. Just make your own, Evony. Just leave out defense features and leave the building, researching, troop building, farming ect.. Maybe this way people will stop using the other bots and use yours so they do not have to worry about hiding lol. Of course make it a free program because your coiners will still be paying and you will attract new ones, which their money could be used for the production of this program. Keep your loyal fans and make them happy by just simply allowing bots or make one of your own for us. You see we are unhappy with the captchas and the decision to eliminate botting. For you guys who are against botting try one out for a bit and see how you like it then.

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    Without bots its going to make those instant hero's that much more valuable

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    i agree put it on the new servers only.. putting it on stable servers is bad bad karma i know i dont want to sit here and type in blurry bs ever so often i want to watch my birdie...
    It looks real cute.. a few cities in a general area... then... you get spotted by snipers...
    meet the cat named evony: the notorious catdog.. he will talk to you on skype.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    Players with experiences like yours are a big reason we did this. No one likes losing to a cheater.

    We do care about earning income, but we're willing to sacrifice some short-term income because in the long term, a better game environment is better for the players and us.
    You didn't consider a server full of cheaters, like us on SS57. You can't embrace the way your game has evolved at all. That most of you work as volunteers is telling, you wish to preserve some kind of false integrity. As I mentioned on another forum, you still don't differentiate between those who can buy chests, and those who cant... which means the difference in medals and promotions. Sure, someone can earn them the hard way.. but now they are so far behind the person who bought them. Your true colors are pretty clear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thantium View Post
    Ok lets stop some of this sillyness on what the captcha is and is not.

    You can also see that there are no squiggly lines as some people are complaining about. I am not saying they have not seen the captcha on the server, but they have not seen the captcha on the server. ;-)
    That image you posted was a "best case scenario" image. It was the best out of the ones that I have seen posted.

    So, let's not claim things are better than what they really are, ok? You want people to settle down, but in order for them to do that, you need to stop making very biased claims based on best case scenarios.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarcusBrightleaf View Post
    Bravo, Evony!

    Blaming the lag problems caused by your shoddy server equipment on the bots you want to remove from the game is a stroke of genious. Unfortunately anybody with a minute of experience in the technical field knows how false this is.

    This is psuedo-propoganda at the very most, and is a very poor attempt at fixing bots. You know full well it will not, however it will keep the portion of your customer base threatening to leave over the botting quiet and make them think you care; most importantly, it will keep them spending coins.

    What a shame you've had to ruin the game for two servers to pull this publicity stunt off, though.



    You think wrong.



    It won't be.



    There's at least five mainstream bots that are free.



    If botting is such an enormous problem that it overwhelms the servers, how could it be the minority causing it? It is easy to think that, and nobody blames you, this is a very clever way of Evony basically fobbing everyone demanding mass bannings off by making them think they're doing something about it.

    Unfortunately people who understand how security, captchas, coding, etc works, know that this will fix absolutely nothing.

    The issues lie in the fundementals of the game. The game is poorly designed, and it only encourages people to bot. If you take away the botters, you will still have people willing to throw $30k into a new server in the space of a few hours just to be the first with instant pults. These are as game breaking as bots apparently are.

    Just to reiterate, by the way, botting is not causing this lag. Evony's poor hardware is what causes it.

    Anyone who works in the field will tell you the same thing.
    Actually I contend such, you really done nothing but state a errant false half truth. Really people get a life, its sad so many cheaters need to whine that something is finally being done.

    Having been at another online game admin, I can argue all day long with such silly statements. But since I tired, going to quit this no where argument.

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    I find it amusing that Dawnseeker hinted they will be 'watching' players.

    So you are logging every query that is processed by every player at every second on every server so you can read through them? If so, I'm pretty sure, being an expert in server management and all, that that might have ever a slight amount to do with your lag problems. Why do the attack reports always take so long to load? Oh, because there's one created for every NPC hit and that takes quite a lot of load...

    And for the hell of it let's say you are logging everything, you're then going to hire hundreds of technicians capable of making sense of these server logs to read through them and spot any discrepancies? That sure would cost a lot in wages.

    And I certainly hope you haven't even considered an autobanner, because you know as well as I do it will ban hundreds of legitimate, innocent players who show any signs or patterns of this "strange" behaviour.

    This propoganda is pathetic. It's the only word for it. What little faith I had left in you as a business has gone.

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    Please remember as well that Dawnseeker is probably only an Evony employee by volunteer, and as such only represents Evony as he/she sees fit too.

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