FREE solution to eliminate cheaters/hackers. Yes or No.

[Bomb Bloke]

The tell is actually whether a person can hit the hokeys at 0.1 sec intervals consistently 100% of the time while running around toggling specials/casting spells (I mean at the same instant), and oh I don't know, trying to repeatedly drink potions when they have run out (while casting remove curse at the same time) or have customized messages (different from the UOA message) telling them they have run out of a certain potion. That would be a dead give-away.

The UOA/Voldemort messages a player sees don't have anything to do with the server, so the server can't detect them. The client can, but presumably if the client was made to check for odd messages, then the Voldemort program would be made to prevent the check.

(Though it does strike me that a lot of bans could be handed out before this was discovered. I dunno though, can UOA display custom messages for other events? If so, the idea is moot).

Re the "0.1 sec intervals consistently 100% of the time", unfortunately no one can do this - regardless of their methods - due to lag.

 

[Gellor]

Please. 11 years is exaggerating. I would say the last 2-3 years it REALLY has gone downhill. They USED TO take care of crap like this, back when their was credible UO employees, who knew how to do their job properly.

2-3 years? *looks for BS flag raising smiley* 11 years isn't exaggerating by much. MAYBE by a year or two.

EA hasn't done anything serious about cheaters in a VERY long time. And when they do "attack" cheaters it is over the most ******** things that don't effect game play for the most part... such as the two or three quivers that could/were bugged. Yup, lets ban players for having those even though it is a 5 minute DB query to get rid of them all.

I know some people who exploited the heck out of the BOD for iron bug to the tune of several hundred million ingots. Guess what? Not one touched.

All they have done is these once every two year BS public stunts of "look, we pulled 500M gold out by banning cheaters".

Scripters? They have no answer to them. They sure haven't banned them. Short of hoisting a flag saying "I'm a scripter", EA doesn't touch them.... never mind the fact that they have 18 secures on their house steps with 7.5M stones in each *eek*

Speed hackers? Still no answer for these either. I run a fairly robust system and have a very good connection to the servers. And yet I see people in Hawaii running circles around me.

To further that, EA hamstrings their GMs. A GM is not allowed to do anything but answer pages. He can't do anything that is proactive... such as camp popular scripting places while not answering calls. I was told that point blank when I went through the GM process 6-7 years ago.

Fixing bugs? Yeah right. If a bug gets fixed in 2 months, it is almost an act of god. Heck, it darn near takes an act of congress to get a bug addressed within a year.

Yet, for all its flaws, I still prefer UO

 

[Orthus]

I have to agree with the "They don't care" crowd. I've paged 3 times in the past 5 days on the same scripting miner. How can I tell he's scripting? He recalls from one spot in the cave to another less than a screen away. If I park my pack horse on the spot, he stands within sight of me casting recall repeatedly (4 times I think it was) then switches to the next spot in his sequence. His char can see my pack horse on his spot. He could easily walk the 20 steps to where it is. Yet, he still casts recall X number of times before switching. The sequence repeats every 3 minutes or so. No response when I ask him if he's scripting. No response to the ore ele I was fighting that, when I invised, tagged him. GM's have done nothing (to date) to him.

 

[Orthus]

Here's a suggestion I made elsewhere for a player run anti-scripting system:
http://vboards.stratics.com/showpost.php?p=1177676&postcount=62

Change "griefing the scripter" to "send a report to a GM" and I think this is a reasonable system.

 

[mr.blackmage]

Free? We already paid... A $2/mo increase? like 5 years ago now? More? That's at least 1/2 a million extra they've made, which they said they would spend on improved service, is that not correct? It's pretty obvious that the service has gone down hill.

 

[Scratch]

I would much rather deal with the loser, cheaters in game than all the fn dread warhorse pvper's. I dont care if dude scoots off my screen, I do care that his dread horse can kill me in secs, on or off screen.

 

[Speaking the Truth]

I would much rather deal with the loser, cheaters in game than all the fn dread warhorse pvper's. I dont care if dude scoots off my screen, I do care that his dread horse can kill me in secs, on or off screen.

You're bad, theres many ways around a dread horse, start by playing a mage more, and crying on the boards less.

 

[Dragonchilde]

Here's a suggestion I made elsewhere for a player run anti-scripting system:
http://vboards.stratics.com/showpost.php?p=1177676&postcount=62

Change "griefing the scripter" to "send a report to a GM" and I think this is a reasonable system.

Just to note (and this is more in response to your other topic) it is not physical harassment to block recall spots.

EA database answer

I have been known to place crates on all but one of a scripter's recall spots, then report him to the GMs. This has never failed to get them removed thus far. (I've done it several times for script farmers in Despise) By blocking all but one...they stand there and cast recall endlessly, until they make the one jump to their house to dump leather. Even the biggest dumbass of a GM has to admit they're scripting then.

 

[ColterDC]

Speed hackers? Still no answer for these either. I run a fairly robust system and have a very good connection to the servers. And yet I see people in Hawaii running circles around me.

Geeh...I wonder which speedhacking pancake you're referring to there.

 

[Gellor]

Geeh...I wonder which speedhacking pancake you're referring to there.

Actually, the Hawaii example was back in the days from my time on Napa.

But fill in Hawaii with any cross USA or off US continent location that isn't sitting in EA's west coast server location and pick your pod racer of choice... the "excuse" will always be "I run a $50k computer system on a fiber optic line directly connected to EA's server"... funny how there seems to be 10+ people on a given shard that have that same excuse:loser:

 

[ColterDC]

What's even more hilarious is when these people tell you that they're running that "50k computer system on a fiber optic line".

Yet they don't have a job, car or house of their own and have trouble coming up with the $13 a month sub fees...

 

[Orthus]

Just to note (and this is more in response to your other topic) it is not physical harassment to block recall spots.

EA database answer

I have been known to place crates on all but one of a scripter's recall spots, then report him to the GMs. This has never failed to get them removed thus far. (I've done it several times for script farmers in Despise) By blocking all but one...they stand there and cast recall endlessly, until they make the one jump to their house to dump leather. Even the biggest dumbass of a GM has to admit they're scripting then.

Gotta craft me some crates ;-)