They block INC while in EE or ASW from outside hits. I think blocking INC while "temp banned" is the answer in this. Notice how most of these happen during large OsW's... An account can be open for a few days even if they're actively discussing the ban (KaW/Banee's). Shoot, I'm sure ZAFT 0'd both players within an hour or two...
@--F-- Your concerns are valid. However, the logs provided simply provide a small sample of the information we used to make the severe decision to ban. In fact, we had attempted to contact the user for over an hour prior to the ban via PM, startup notice popups and game notices. Guess what? There was no response as the bot continued to blindly operate automatically. In fact, aside from the pixel tracking information, the timing consistency of actions, as well as the sequence of actions was identical. Again, the logs provided is only a small sample to give everyone an idea of our process. These users aren't 'temp banned'. They're permanently banned. There is no reason to block hits on them as they have definitively violated the ToS.
@ultwarrior Not sure who you're referring to, but the most common case for iPhone users being banned is for device id faking and illegal alts (i.e. creating accounts for devices you don't own). It is quite easy to catch and identify these users.
@ Admin : Many banned accounts in various cases, are/were eventually unbanned after a certain period of time. Is this "permanent ban" going to be like that too? After say 6 months of penitent remorse by poppa/momma?
Legion:A Permanent Ban is Permanent in the past they may have found themselves at fault,This is not the case.The devs know they broke the ToS
@ KaW Admin Thanks for the quick response and the extra information provided. However, my point is, there is no 100% accurate analytic. Sorry to say that, but believing so is arrogant. I saw that kind of notification for explanation once as well. Again, not replying in time is only another "assumption". I am not sure how this work on PC, but the regular notification is a red circle with a number in there. Hopefully, if the players clean their messages from time to time , the notification is bigger to them; otherwise, changing the number to 100 to 101 is not going to help much. Sorry if I am wrong about your notification method. After that, it is the ban screen.... I guess most of us concern is the stripping from certain players after the inconvenience timing of banning. So, please reconsider my suggestion about blocking incoming. Perm ban or not, the purpose of banning is to stop cheaters, not to create another farm for other players. Thanks for listening again.
@--F-- Sorry, but your reasoning isn't valid in this case. Agreed, a pure analytics system isn't fool proof (at no point did we ever say the analytics system we use to detect suspicious accounts is), which is why we do a manual investigation once suspicious accounts are identified. We were watching a mirror of the user's game screen as their bot was playing. Their notices/PM's were not being cleared out. They logged in, ignored the startup notice warning, proceeded to click through unclickable parts of the UI in an identical manner multiple times during the course of our monitoring period. Sorry, but your excuse of 'not watching the screen' is not possible. We forced the logout to occur and in this event, if there was an individual present at the computer, the action of relogging in (after noticing the log out event) would result in them seeing the warnings and startup notices posted.
Wow! Did you just give the community TWO inactive farms with Trillions of Gold in it. I'm just blown off my feet. Well the community may please learn to milk the two poor souls by keeping spies or troops down n around 20% to keep the gold rolling in for literally months. (Talk to players who play Future Wars: Patriots at War, on how to keep a kingdom open at max payout with minimum losses)
enough already! Obviously they were ******* botting. As much as I enjoy reading the method behind tracking down cheaters.. Why are you beating a dead horse? I'm pretty sire the people who DEVELOPED the game know a lot more than you do when it comes to detecting the difference between a bot and a human.
Btw poppa had 4t out after strip and momma had 5t. Or vise versa. I dont remember which.. Its on their walls
They have been told before right? Fair enough if its their first time. Everyone needs to be shocked and realise that they should never of done it, and given a second chance. But if you've been warned before, then too bad. It'll happen one way or another.
My friend almost got banned for biting when he wasn't because he was getting so many items on the phases :lol: