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  1. #501

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    Quote Originally Posted by darkopia View Post
    can you explain the issue with captcha? I've never played a server that used captcha so I don't know how it destroys it.
    A little box with tiny, unreadable characters pops up at the most inopportune times, and you have to enter the correct sequence to be able to get back into your game. If you get it wrong (and you will, since I, 1 and i all look alike, as do 0 and O) you have to keep entering until you get one right.

    You *can* click the box off, but that just delays it for a few minutes. Keep doing it, and you'll get them every couple of minutes.

    Good luck with that when you're trying to defend or attack (or farm, or do anything that requires timing or any amount of patience)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    I know this is frustrating and we're definitely hearing what you're saying. We're doing everything we can to get the server performance to acceptable levels. We think Captcha will help. We're taking the server down now to enable Captcha, and we expect it will take about an hour.
    i think you will kill the server, have you heard in world chat, everyone will leave. ;-(

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    Well guys, this forum is a controlled entity of Evony - they can mod you and cut you out at any time. They can do the same on Facebook and Twitter and whatever other social media they are trying to use. So it's simple: modify your support level and dont be afraid to voice your free speech rights in an effective way in an uncontrolled area - taking in mind not to slander in the process.

    First DaveMata -a Product Manager for Evony has the gall to tell me that there is no lag and it's my internet connection/service. Then this. Just proves that the several thousands of dollars I have unfortunately spent on this game were all for naught in building 'great accounts' - it was all a dream world, save the real money. The fact is that the response shows how inept and unprofessional product management of Evony is - look at the track record and what is happening elsewhere: no problems on much larger and more heavily played servers. They went on the cheap and are again because it's about MONEY, captcha allows them to spend less money to fix, because it will reduce play. No way around it - even Dawnseekers post indicated it "we are putting on Captcha to reduce strain on server due to bots and multi-accounts". So what if there were live players on - they dont know who is live and who is machined. So get serious here - which way is it. We know, its about THE MONEY.
    Rodrick VII
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    Quote Originally Posted by GoDzRuLeZ View Post
    Dawnseeker,can you please tell,how is the refund thingy working?
    What refund thingy? Evony won't refund you. You have to do a charge back or a dispute with PayPal. Then Evony will holiday your account until you pay back the money they think you owe them.
    You can curse me and attack me, But at the end of the day I will stand Victorious over my Enemies. Your failure to prepare for Battle , does not make me Dishonorable. Your rants do me more good than harm. Speak my name and more will learn to fear me. I am Payne , I am Suffering, I am the last woman standing in a sea of smoking city's.

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    Although I do appreciate Dawnseeker and his efforts to keep us updated on the status of s160 (and he has, in my opinion, been the only Evony rep to ever do so in a timely manner regarding any issue for any server), I do not think that installing captcha will help anything.

    It does NOT stop botting, as there are now bots that are equipped to solve captchas and yes, many are using them and paying the fee to do so. It will not stop the lag, as evidenced by other servers where captcha was installed (my personal experience being ss61). The lag was worse there after captcha was installed so I left the server and a very good account there.

    What captcha WILL do is interrupt parts of the game where there can be NO interruptions: timing attack waves, working the gates if your defending an attacker who has doorstepped you 1 mile away and you need to open and close gates just right on certain waves, interrupting farming, interrupting if you are capping a NPC10 (we all know if there is too much of a gap in the waves to one it will regenerate and kill subsequent waves), not to mention the annoyance it causes when it pops up anywhere from every 2 to 3 minutes, or 30 mins, or hour. It is random. If I log on after this current maintenance and indeed see captcha on the server, I am leaving the server right then.

    So many other servers have many many more accounts and botters than this server, and they run just fine.

    Perhaps by installing captcha, half of s160 will quit, therefore reducing the lag since the player rate is reduced by 50%. Then it will be quiet, boring, and lag free for the remaining few. A war game with no one to kill, gotta be tons of fun right?

  6. #506

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sotalia View Post
    A little box with tiny, unreadable characters pops up at the most inopportune times, and you have to enter the correct sequence to be able to get back into your game. If you get it wrong (and you will, since I, 1 and i all look alike, as do 0 and O) you have to keep entering until you get one right.

    You *can* click the box off, but that just delays it for a few minutes. Keep doing it, and you'll get them every couple of minutes.

    Good luck with that when you're trying to defend or attack (or farm, or do anything that requires timing or any amount of patience)
    Ok I know what a captcha is and how it works, just didn't know how it affected the gameplay. Thanx for your response that sounds like a pain in the azz

  7. #507

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    Quote Originally Posted by SunnyG View Post
    Although I do appreciate Dawnseeker and his efforts to keep us updated on the status of s160 (and he has, in my opinion, been the only Evony rep to ever do so in a timely manner regarding any issue for any server), I do not think that installing captcha will help anything.

    It does NOT stop botting, as there are now bots that are equipped to solve captchas and yes, many are using them and paying the fee to do so. It will not stop the lag, as evidenced by other servers where captcha was installed (my personal experience being ss61). The lag was worse there after captcha was installed so I left the server and a very good account there.

    What captcha WILL do is interrupt parts of the game where there can be NO interruptions: timing attack waves, working the gates if your defending an attacker who has doorstepped you 1 mile away and you need to open and close gates just right on certain waves, interrupting farming, interrupting if you are capping a NPC10 (we all know if there is too much of a gap in the waves to one it will regenerate and kill subsequent waves), not to mention the annoyance it causes when it pops up anywhere from every 2 to 3 minutes, or 30 mins, or hour. It is random. If I log on after this current maintenance and indeed see captcha on the server, I am leaving the server right then.

    So many other servers have many many more accounts and botters than this server, and they run just fine.

    Perhaps by installing captcha, half of s160 will quit, therefore reducing the lag since the player rate is reduced by 50%. Then it will be quiet, boring, and lag free for the remaining few. A war game with no one to kill, gotta be tons of fun right?
    I'll give ya props on Dawnseeker - and the rest is dead on.

    Just wish I hadn't pzzed away $500 on this server - easily. The old bait and switch about to be installed on us.
    Rodrick VII
    aka "Pig Killer"

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    Dawn,

    You say " we listen" this is a insult look a the responses here are you listening to those? I don't think so, if I ran my company this way I would be broke.

    I will be seeking compensation for this and I am not talking about your packages, I will start by getting my money back, when you took my money to play it was under the guise the game would function and not have inhibitive game play and lag.

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    i heard Evony stopped chargeback, just, off a friend, so were screwed there.

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    I LOVE THIS! NO MORE BOTTING! hahahahaha

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