Duping, Exploiting, Cheating, Real Money Transfer Detection

Duping, or duplicating items in massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), has significantly harmed many up and coming games, some to a point that they never recovered.
Especially games where you cross region servers trough node-lines can be vulnerable to such exploits.
Please implement early warning systems so that you can swiftly detect and react to such exploits.

My suggestion:
Please add a hidden value to each character/account that calculates the overall account worth of all owned items.
Track this number and flag considerable fluctuations or abnormal behavior for further inspection.
There is alot of automated logging that can be done to help detecting exploits/dupes/cheats this way.
This will also be benificial for catching real money traders.

The nature of this game will attract RMT and the cheating that comes with it.
Please dont overlook this threat.

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Finnley

Simplest logic examples:
does your inventory value double to the exact digit,
do you loot the exact same value over and over,

Noaani

Intrepid have said that they have fairly robust systems in place in this regard.

They have also said (rightly, imo), that the details of what those systems are will not be made public.

DeadlyDave

Even the wealthiest of gaming companies either can't find a solution to these duping exploits or they allow it.
I hope Intrepid have an answer to keep this game cheat free.

abc0815

DeadlyDave wrote: »

Even the wealthiest of gaming companies either can't find a solution to these duping exploits or they allow it.
I hope Intrepid have an answer to keep this game cheat free.

Its a continues battle that costs money. And some game designs make it easier (or more profitable).
And you have to care about your virtual world as much as the Player do which i think is rarely the case.

Finnley

bump, cant be more relevant with the current ongoing duping issue.

Novacadian

Could not a hash system, similar to proof of work cryoto, solve this problem? A script could then be left running checking for duplicates in such hashes in item records. If a somewhat less intensive proof of work formula were used to generate the needed hashes then it would be less resource dependent while still remaining too difficult for cheaters to create. The obvious downside is the computer resources needed to keep up with item creation yet to be able to solve this problem may be well worth this cost. Although another matter for discussion such a solution would open the door for an NFT item ownership system in the future.

royharrington

C'est une préoccupation légitime, et c'est bien que vous la souleviez si tôt. La duplication et le RMT ont anéanti plus d'un MMO prometteur. Un indicateur de valeur de compte pourrait certainement servir de signal d'alarme, notamment pour repérer les pics soudains qui ne correspondent pas aux habitudes de jeu normales. Cependant, à lui seul, il ne devrait pas déclencher d'actions automatiques. Les faux positifs représenteraient un risque réel pour les récompenses liées au commerce, à l'artisanat ou aux guerres de nœuds.

Utilisé conjointement avec les journaux de création d'objets, l'historique des échanges et le suivi comportemental temporel, cet indicateur pourrait se révéler très efficace. La détection précoce est plus importante que les sanctions sévères. Les joueurs qui choisissent BDMbet casino accèdent à une plateforme conçue pour un divertissement constant. Détecter rapidement les exploits limite les dégâts et protège l'économie. Compte tenu de la conception du jeu et de ses systèmes axés sur les joueurs, une surveillance rigoureuse dès le premier jour semble essentielle.

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