Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

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Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But let's run with that plan of waiting to see how bad the cheating is before you address it. Just one other simple question then: how are you going to know whether you have a cheating problem or not?

Again, the whole core problem is that these cheaters aren't detectable.

People are social creatures. In my opinion, we'll know very quickly because those who brag are loud and bolsterous. Just the other day I had someone come in my stream and say "Yeah, I fucking cheat. I'm going to be using it here too as I did on P99." and while I have no way of verifying they did, I'm going to put people like that under higher scrutiny, and their guildmembers will also put them under higher scrutiny if they know the risk if them getting banned or their guild disbanded over a few rotten eggs.

Personally, I'd take direct admissions with enough context to remove someone, outside of the other detections - provided we have enough facts to act on. That doesn't mean you'll be banned for saying 'im 12 and what is this' for being underage, it means that there's context and some sort of legitimacy to the claim that results in the action.

This is exactly how P99 operates right now, by the way - the fear is prevalent for getting banned, and it only took Rogean & co a few banwaves before people shaped up and subsequently accused him of malware claims as a last-ditch effort to get people to stop playing, because 'if they can't, no one else should be able to'.

There's a human psychology element to this, of course. But also, P99 can't detect SEQ any more than Quarm would be able to, in theory that you're describing.

They can, though, for stuff running local like MySEQ. And they have banned for that here, I'd assume.