Greetings, if you are looking here, it means you are fed up with the Colony hacks. I hope that Krin sees this and attempts to follow my proposition, as i KNOW it would reduce hacking to a bare minimum.
1: Have administrators. I understand why this may be improbable seeing as it's a free game, but it really is a necessity. Somebody who can be told "xyz is cheating by doing this." All games within the past 1 hour are recorded and the admin can observe the game and determine whether or not that person is cheating. If so, one time caught cheating results in an account closure. New problem "hackers can just make a new account...or play as guest..." refer to steps 2+3.
2: Link Colony accounts to an email address. When you insert your name and password, also require an email address. ONCE AN EMAIL HAS BEEN USED, MAKE IT UNABLE TO LINK TO A NEW ACCOUNT. That means, one email: one account. If people want to hack, they have to keep on making email accounts which is both time consuming and boring.
3: The guest problem: Eliminate guests. What is the purpose of a guest? To allow new players to experience online play? If a person wants to try online play, they should only need to insert a username, create a password, email address, and they can play...nobody enjoys playing with a guest, it's a risk to have on your team, they either don't know what a bank is, are rank 10's in hiding, or hackers. Get rid of them.
Feel free to comment upon whether you think this is a good or bad idea, or whether it will even work. Personally, I think it would vastly reduce the hacking going on, but I also understand it would be difficult to get admins.
If you've ever played a game like Colony weather it be on a PC or on a Console, you would no that no matter what you do someone is eventually going to hack.
Krin may update the game, but a person will come along and hack the Multiplayer.
The only real option in my book, is to add a report button (for users) or shut down Multiplayer completely. It's the only real way to get rid of these threads, and those hackers.
boy is firetail right...i used to be a hacker until i relised how much they sucked. now i fully support anti hacking n i mean it anyway krin the anti-hack is working just get hackers to make a mistake and make units too fast n wath them get kicked(ruining ppls fun in multiplayer by hacking isnt right) colny ftw(hackers u suk)
Yah i think the anti'hack idea is pretty good, I just never put that much thought into it. But i say the best thing on the list is probably moderators because they're like internet mantainance except for a game. I'm not sure about the no guset idea because that could be kind of cruel. The e-mail idea is good also so you can get both updates and warnings if you hacked in the game. Also Firetail i agree if you completely erased multiplayer mode you would take away the main fun from colony, otherwise there would just be campain and quickplay for you to play all day with the computer which, as you obviously might think, is absolutely and extremely boring.
This is so simple. Moderators. Moderators, recording, and IP Bans.
I played a game that used to have tons of hackers but what the game makers did was give responsible, trustworthy, and fair players moderator status. This status allows Moderators to ban players by types commands such as:
That's one example. They type that command, in-game, game room, or lobby, and they are instantly banned. Hackers of course, would get a one week ban for their first offense, and for their second offense, one year. I doubt anyone would still want to play after a year if they hacked.
They encouraged regular players to record as many hackers as possible using screen-recording devices such as Hypercam 3 and Camstudio.
I disagree with you on the mandatory e-mail list. Most players are 12 and under with no e-mail address. It should not be based on e-mail account, because some siblings share e-mail accounts and might want to play the same game, only to find out they can't because of their other sibling. What should really happen, is it should ban their IP, so no computer in the entire house can play the game, nor can the banned account be used on any other computer.
These are not new ideas, all of which have been implemented and work fine. I think Moderators would get a little reward.
Hey you aren't talking about something I have experienced: a few days ago I was kicked out of a game because I was SUSPICIOUS of hacking! You know, they can' do that, it goes against my rights!
"Everybody is innoccent until proven otherwise"
I understand hackers are a pain in the ass, but what they can't do is to start to behave like dictators.
