8:17 AM
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Seasonal hunts are, unfortunately, are the times of year when Support staff come across the most cheaters. Let's face it - they are the most opportunistic times of the year for cheating. The more accounts you have, the more eggs you get. Here are a lot of the things that cheaters do during hunts...
--> Create more than one account. This is an easy spotted feature of the seasonal cheater. They have more than one account in order to be able to have an extra 48 hour hunt. How do we tell? Pretty simple, really. Wait until the hunt is over, then we are able to check egg transfers. It isn't hard to spot - numerous transfers of eggs, all going into one account, and no profit to the sending accounts.
--> Use Autoclickers/autorefreshers. These are something that a lot of users will consider using during their time on the site. It is also an offence that users think we cannot detect - and those who are banned because of it claim that we have no proof. In fact, we do. Every egg that any user picks up around the site is logged individually. We can see for how long a user is picking eggs up for. Let's take an unnamed case of a banned user - I will show YOU the information we found, and you can make your own informed decision.
1. Eggs were picked up without ANY breaks for an entire 48 hours, with only two six hour breaks - presumably for sleeping when the computer was turned off. (So they didn't need any toilet breaks... or to eat... or to nip out to the shop.... for a full 2 days.)
2. One hundred and fifty eggs plus were picked up in one 48 hour sitting. Compare that to any user who legitimately hunted without cheating and using these programs. I believe that the highest number of eggs found without cheating was around 55. It is impossible for any user to find so many eggs without using an autoclicker.
What do you think? Perhaps this will allow users to see how the evidence stacks up like this - and how no matter how a user cheats, we are able to detect it easily.
The lesson here?
Don't do it. You'll get to keep your account and all the eggs you find. Is an extra batch of iluvu eggs that will be worth about 500k each by the middle of the hunt week really worth risking your account over? I know I wouldn't.
Comments are completely welcome and I will gladly answer questions.
--> Use Autoclickers/autorefreshers. These are something that a lot of users will consider using during their time on the site. It is also an offence that users think we cannot detect - and those who are banned because of it claim that we have no proof. In fact, we do. Every egg that any user picks up around the site is logged individually. We can see for how long a user is picking eggs up for. Let's take an unnamed case of a banned user - I will show YOU the information we found, and you can make your own informed decision.
1. Eggs were picked up without ANY breaks for an entire 48 hours, with only two six hour breaks - presumably for sleeping when the computer was turned off. (So they didn't need any toilet breaks... or to eat... or to nip out to the shop.... for a full 2 days.)
2. One hundred and fifty eggs plus were picked up in one 48 hour sitting. Compare that to any user who legitimately hunted without cheating and using these programs. I believe that the highest number of eggs found without cheating was around 55. It is impossible for any user to find so many eggs without using an autoclicker.
What do you think? Perhaps this will allow users to see how the evidence stacks up like this - and how no matter how a user cheats, we are able to detect it easily.
The lesson here?
Don't do it. You'll get to keep your account and all the eggs you find. Is an extra batch of iluvu eggs that will be worth about 500k each by the middle of the hunt week really worth risking your account over? I know I wouldn't.
Comments are completely welcome and I will gladly answer questions.
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I just know that *someone* will feign ignorance of "auto-clickers" when they probably used a browser add-on, and know perfectly well that using the one that auto-refreshes is CHEATING. Resorting to nit-picking semantics is a sure sign that someone knows they've done something wrong and got busted legitimately. (My kids used to do it when they were around 12 or 13 years old.) XD
ReplyDeletei had no idea there was such thing as an auto refresher geez... how do they possibly work right?
ReplyDeleteSo, its possible for a person to use an auto clicker without being caught by regulating its useage? Like they use it to find 40 and stop instead of 150?
ReplyDeleteWhat if the auto refreshers aren't able to pick up anything, so the user has to sit there and stare at the page and actually look for the seasonal egg? If this is done, and no program is used to pick up the egg then why is that considered cheating. You just don't click the refresh button yourself but you have to do everything else.
ReplyDeleteI asked broken and she said that it puts extra load on the servers and because it can be programmed to pick up eggs it would just be unfair to allow it.
ReplyDelete-Tryst :)
Thanks for answering that, Tryst. =) Using an auto-refresher also makes random events happen more often, giving an unfair advantage to finding items and random TU.
ReplyDeleteAs for using an auto-clicker and regulating it at 40 rather than 150, no, you won't get away with it. The pattern of an auto-clicker is nearly always unmistakable.
Maybe this time of year would be good for reposting this information? Newer users might not go back this far. ♥
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