complaints

I'm changing up how cheaters are dealt with. In the past, I've created individual threads for cheaters and left them open for comments. This gives too much undeserved attention to these players though.

Going forward, I'm going to add their name to this thread which will be closed for comments. This thread won't be stickied either. The point of it is just to serve as a record of what happened. After that it should sink to the bottom where it belongs.

Player: mara 1
Number of associated bots also locked/reset: 88
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Ville
Number of associated bots also locked/reset: 157
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Node9
Number of associated bots also locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Ville
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 4
Reason: Banned player

Player: Ville
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 2
Reason: Banned player

Player: Alan
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 24
Reason: Banned player

Player: Xplode / Flo
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 148
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Antisocial / Desloratadine
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 8
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Alan
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 2
Reason: Banned player

Player: Ville
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 60
Reason: Banned player

Player: seffy69
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Alan
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 3
Reason: Banned player

Player: El Hefe / trkimrki
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 345
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Registration
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 14
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Gaberham
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 9
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: CosmicRaven0001
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Bonza
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: s1d4g
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: PsychoCosby
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 9
Reason: Hate/harassment

Note too that this wasn't an active player. I didn't know what else to call them besides their most commonly used bot. It was someone that made a bunch of troll bots to just sit in the online list and harass people or spread hateful messages.

Player: Qjojo2
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 2
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: louishieu
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: mara142
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 787
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: kyffer123
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: ironaddict
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Riggson / Maed
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 56
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Osh (<Iron Tyrants> clan)
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 857
Reason: Autoclicking

Player: Osh
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 84
Reason: Banned player

Player: Ville
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 21
Reason: Autoclicking / banned player

Player: Alan
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 43
Reason: Cheating

Note: I want to acknowledge that once I reached out to Alan regarding this matter, he was transparent about his use of a script. He shared it for analysis, and I appreciate his cooperation in helping to strengthen the game's integrity measures going forward.

Player: Aldin / Chriseps
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 887
Reason: Cheating

Edit: 897 -> 887 after receiving some bmails from players.

Player: Alan
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 1
Reason: Banned player

Player: Aldin / Chriseps
Number of associated bots locked: 2
Reason: Banned player

Player: Skipper
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 2
Reason: Cheating / banned player

Player: Skipper
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 4
Reason: Cheating / banned player

Player: qp0
Number of associated bots locked/reset: 3
Reason: Cheating

Player: Aldin / Chriseps
Number of associated bots locked: 262 (edit #1: 384, edit #2: 363)
Reason: Banned player

Note #1: Only 1-2 of these bots had been active recently. The rest were missed in the original ban wave.

Note #2: This came to light because a potential buyer of some of these bots checked with me about the bots, which led me to take a closer look. Buyers beware! There are almost surely even more bots like this lurking out there.