AGS has given slap on the wrist temp bans for duping before. Instead of a perma ban consider the following.
Before renabling wealth transfer/trading. Collect the account names of those who abused the duping trophies. Leave their items, gold, gear in-tact. And forcibly transfer them to a new server.
Do not maintain this server, let in languish, and prevent new players from creating characters on it. No chargebacks because people can still play the game, and your duping population is confined on one server.
Other games have used this tactic with great success. Hell it can even be used as a test for mass transfers, if something breaks with it, then oh well some dupers character is lost in the abyss.
This tactic sounds like it would require significant development to ensure those players had to stay on that prison server.
Easier to just ban them all permanently.
Half of the problems weâre having are due to not banning enough people, and being too lenient with the temp bans. If, from the first day, they had been strict on cheating of this seriousness gaining a permanent ban, it would have had a deterrent effect. But now, no one thinks theyâll get more than a 24 hour ban.
No. Perma ban them, every one of them! PERMABAN EVERY CHEATER. Because I have not exploited once, but now after reading hundreds of comments / threads that people who duped millions of gold got 24 hour âBREAKSâ still have everything, i feel inclined to start exploiting myself just to keep up with the jones.
Correct, but I am sure the Britainâs and Australians care about Britain and Australia. AlsoâŚCrumpets are pretty great and how can you not look at a dingo and smile. They eat babies!
Ban them forever on every piece of hardware ID available, name, age, country, numerical code.
Iâve made my gold through hard work and hours of farming, ofcourse I hate when someone exploits the game. If itâs clever usage of game mechanics yes, but not an abuse.
If i remember well, this was implemented by a mecha-shooter game.
Cheaters detected by their anti-cheat system and reported players were flagged as cheaters, and instead being banned, they were queued with other cheaters.
Lots of FPS games do this.
You know hacker lobbies?
They isolate hackers to playing with other hackers. Hackers are happy, most are stupid and donât realize it so the rest of the player base is happy because Hackers arenât making new accounts to get around their bans.
This isnât some rare thing, almost every single popular FPS game on the market out now and coming out uses this system, battle royales especially matched made server games with no community servers or server choices.
Do I have to name popular FPS games for you to be specific?
Or even better, make a server just for them, nothing but desert on it.
Put milions of nodes on that server and once they reach 9,999,999 Orichalcum mined, they are able to play on a normal realm.
Plot twist: Make them available to only mine 5 nodes per day.