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Thread: Captchas Now Testing on ss57 and ss60

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    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    just registered to post on here and it took 2 attempts to get through the captcha lol

    at least indicate if letters like 's' are capitals, and make 'g' not look like '9'!!

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    in principle i dont have a problem with the captcha, if it is done right, but all claims of "even playing field" are rubbish. so advantage goes from botters who spend money to unemployed people who can stay on evony 18hrs day and farm like mad, running multiple accounts. same problem, different people doing it.

    given evony has removed external links to age 1, they clearly just waiting to close the servers down and just run age 2. this will speed it up.

    Short term they will have a run on packages to get vestas to support larger armies.

    either way the honest player with a job that doesnt allow playing evony during work hours is gonna get massively creamed.

    not seeing any improvement or change there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thantium View Post
    Sure

    Player population has dropped by the exact amount forecasted based on our estimates of bot use, which is not as large as some people thought.

    Lots of great feedback via CS tickets surprisingly

    Lots of requests asking to have it put on other older servers

    The success rate on answering the captcha by the second try is around 99% I think.

    Latency (lag) has been greatly reduced on both ss57/60


    I will say that so far it looks promising, as for adding it to other existing servers that has not been decided, nor has keeping it in place on these two servers 100% decided. We are still monitoring and planning some tweaks to the system, and we are constantly monitoring and evaluating this system.
    Player population hasn't dropped in respect to the Captcha, not fully anyway. Many Many players are waiting to see if this becomes permanent before leaving Evony.

    There is always some great feedback and negative feedback to most new features. Though I expect negative far outways the possitive - and more then the 7 to 1 rule.

    See more requests in the forums asking if it will be put on old servers - most do not want it.

    Five 9's on Captcha second try - Wow guess I'm going to the eye doctor cause my 20/20 eyes are not that good.

    Of course lag has been reduced - less people playing (in holiday or quitting) equal's less load on servers. So that basically shows that you allow for too many accounts on a server.

    Whether or not it stays on the servers 100% is why you haven't dropped more players - they are sticking it out to see what happens. They don't want to quit and find out you drop the captcha tomorrow or next week. Once it's known it is here to stay - they will leave.

    Just my thoughts based on what I am hearing on the server/skype.

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    Quote Originally Posted by plant.one View Post
    PS - ss57 is lagging awfully right now.. i LOVE the spinny clock.
    That simply can't be true.

    Didn't you hear? Captcha has eliminated all bots. All NPCs are full 24-7 now. There's no lag whatsoever.

    </sarcasm>

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    Quote Originally Posted by FoShizzle View Post
    Will the captchas stop people from sharing their logons and letting their alliance babysit their accounts 100% of the time? What about stopping people from using multiple accounts on the same server? I'm just curious because it seems to me that account sitting is actually worse for game play than botting. I can beat a bot; kill troops, loot resources...I've yet to beat a sitter/pilot.

    Also, you think that this will clear up your npcs? What about the guys using 10+ accounts for farming? They'll still logon each of the 10 and send out their farmers by hand, meaning those npc fields will still be getting hit and they'll still be generating billions of food to feed their massive armies on their main accounts.

    Bottom line is, nothing significant changes.

    It cracks me up how people are so focused on the "botters" but ignore everything else. Sorry guys, I think the people sharing their logons with their mates to avoid ever losing a town are the ones ruining the game. It IS a war game afterall, and that methodology renders WAR obsolete, directly opposed to the entire intent of the game!

    Perfect post. Exactly on target. +rep for you.

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    I have read almost every page on this subject and feel since my idea of just agreeing to kick myself in the sac every hr did not take hold , cuz I can do it when I am ok to do it. Let's look at the big issues :

    1 Coiners week 2 of server attack hero is at 700
    2 Bots were made to lvl up Hero's faster to compete with coiners.
    3 Well if we can do this on one let's make multi accounts to do same to feed main
    4.Evony takes too long to clear inactive players out so we can all make multi accts and not use them for room to port around once state gets full.
    5.Now handicapped people and unemployed are targeted because they can play 18hrs a day
    6. Evony really needs to work on who they hire to represent them
    7.It is ridiculous for anyone to actually think in any way shape or form captcha's r going to do anything positive for this game.
    8. Evony is built on waiting , builds , troops , new cities and now cuz there just was not enough waiting : now we wait for captcha's

    ok well I have had my say we all know new bot's will come out welcome to the virtual reality age .

    So again I think we should all just sign an agreement to kick ourselves in the sac ( females u have to think of your own deal , as I do not want to appear as a woman hater ) Least then would be when we choose too not when u choose to ruin my gameplay

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    Quote Originally Posted by neko_lord View Post
    Speaking to you as an individual, you are lambasting Thantium for his "wide paintbrush", but I do not see you speaking out against the people using their own wide paintbrushes and making inflammatory / derogatory statements about people who dislike botting / cheaters. If you want to speak out about people making those kinds of sweeping statements, at least have the integrity to call out both sides of the issue on it.
    Seriously, neko, do you have some quotes of mine? I'm not saying you have no point, but I seriously don't know what you are talking about. My comments against Thantium's post were spot on--nobody in power moderating a forum should be insinuating an opinion about the validity of people's posts based on how many posts they've logged. It's simply bad ethics.

    Are you sure you're not confusing me with someone else? Please quote me and point out where your concerns are, and I will address them.

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    Yesterday I had my first captcha

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    guys, no point complaining about captcha, i doubt it even has any relation to "improving the game".

    with all external links going direct to age 2, age 1 is on its last legs. bots and coiners are all thats keeping it going.

    evony bosses have have seen the potential cash flow from killing the bots with respect to the vestas needed to maitain those large armies.

    its a business decision, evony IS just a business after all.

    EITHER mega coiners will spend more to keep permanent vestas OR they will quit.

    if evony WANTED age 1 to survive, it would still have external links.

    Age 2 is established, thats their money tree now. Captcha is clever business decision to maximise income in the games last years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ophy View Post
    i like capcha works , i do agree in certain difficulty with readn cple em 9~g, o~0, i~1~l [now to see how many pkges we can accumulate]. i do enjoy farmn again full runs are nice n the bot generated spam well nice to see the personal touch on timing return hehehe makes defending so much easier minus the timing of popup but ill live with it fer the full farm runs anyday =) ty dave n dawn n thatium good work almost feels like when i started level playing field again n finally less lag .
    k now gettn redundant had 6 capchas in past hour lil ridiculous how can ya camp atcks wit popups interrupting tryn to kill someone n cant as efficiently with this ... yesterday had just 2 now 6 in past hour wtf ....n evony was doing so good i like but wtf seriously

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