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Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
Cheaters Island
nanfoodle
Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
Okay so the game is being delayed. Let's take a look back at what really slowed us down over the past couple months. Was it that the development of the game? No not at all
Coming back from Christmas break Intrepid Studios spent the next several weeks dealing with all the cheaters and all that they had done going over the data. And it didn't end there either.
They've been trying to compensate for what the cheaters have done and trying to balance things out for those 90% of the players that just want to play a game.
They are literally stealing development time away from this game. And the sad thing is only a few of them maybe a few hundred from what we see from the reports from Intrepid Studios. What should we do?
The game Grand Theft Auto had a wonderful way of dealing with cheaters. It was called cheaters Island. All the cheaters were banished to cheaters Island and they were left there to do all the cheating and exploiting that they wanted to without interfering with all the regular players that just wanted to play the game.
In my opinion I believe that there should be a cheater server. If you are a cheater caught exploiting you should be transferred your character and your ability to log in only to the cheaters server. Let them exploit let them figure out all the ways that you can mess up the game. Who would they be hurting? Just the other exploiters. Let the rest of us test this game like we will be playing the game at lunch fairly working together or against each other lol.
Coming back from Christmas break Intrepid Studios spent the next several weeks dealing with all the cheaters and all that they had done going over the data. And it didn't end there either.
They've been trying to compensate for what the cheaters have done and trying to balance things out for those 90% of the players that just want to play a game.
They are literally stealing development time away from this game. And the sad thing is only a few of them maybe a few hundred from what we see from the reports from Intrepid Studios. What should we do?
The game Grand Theft Auto had a wonderful way of dealing with cheaters. It was called cheaters Island. All the cheaters were banished to cheaters Island and they were left there to do all the cheating and exploiting that they wanted to without interfering with all the regular players that just wanted to play the game.
In my opinion I believe that there should be a cheater server. If you are a cheater caught exploiting you should be transferred your character and your ability to log in only to the cheaters server. Let them exploit let them figure out all the ways that you can mess up the game. Who would they be hurting? Just the other exploiters. Let the rest of us test this game like we will be playing the game at lunch fairly working together or against each other lol.
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A “Cheaters Island” server sounds funny and oddly satisfying, but I think Intrepid is more likely to go with strict bans or hardware bans, especially since this is an MMORPG where server integrity and the economy are super sensitive.
Still, I totally agree with the core idea: cheaters shouldn’t get to slow down progress or ruin the experience for the majority who are here to test and play fairly. If anything, this whole situation just proves how important it is to catch exploits early in Alpha so they don’t blow up post-launch.
Let’s hope all this cleanup leads to stronger systems in the long run. Cheaters Island or not, I’m ready for a cleaner Phase 3.
Fact is, it was only a handful of people working on the things you listed.