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not as precious as it once was
š¢as you said, t took weeks of planning, maxed out stores of flight items and fuel with lots in coming supplies throughout the week and RSI by the time you had finished. It's simply not sustainable week in, week out.
The vast majority of those players moving mega numbers are taking advantage of "bugs" (the term is used loosely by G! and essentially refers to a combination of their lack of interest and shite coding. I'm aware of a bug that will reduce the bulk of the limitations you might expect to move those sorts of figures regularly (I do not use it and it's a rare situation for me that that I also refuse to share it). It's still time consuming and cumbersome and based on recent patterns, I'm positive that they've found another method. Some players stats jump way too quickly (eg. millions within hours of the weekly reset) for them not to have found some way to break the game code and choose whatever numbers they desire.
Quite some time ago, there was abug that allowed players to add PEBs to their launches without the item being removed from their stores. It made a mockery of launches and Gold/fuel gathering was simply process work rather than planning and gathering enough resources. G! were quite clever and modified the code so that each PEB (in fact, all launch fuel items) had something akin to a unique tag attached it. It would have been resource heavy for the servers because launches are one of the few aspects of the game that are 100% live and every single action taken during launces is synced to the server in real time. As each item was used, the "tag" was referenced to the server database and could only ever be used once. Any attempts to try and bypass the system would actually result in the player losing an additional item when they counter reset and they tried to another of those items.
As stated before, the bandwidth to track it all would have gone through the roof when the fix was implemented, but it proves that they can put measures in place if they really want to. In the past, i would have suggested that tagging flight items would would have significantly impacted the cheaters but the anout of data being transferred would impact data transfer speeds for everyone. It wouldn't be quite as simple as I've described because there are other factors at play in what they're doing and a work around wouldn't take long to discover (it appears that it already has been
). The point is, that there are many ways that G! could sort these issues out IF they wanted to and were prepared to invest the resources in the coding department. I cant see that happening anytime in the near future as the company was decimated, losing the bulk of their employees and having to deal with logistical chaos when Putin started killing people. My guess is that G! are working harder than ever with a skeleton crew of staff and they're entire focus is on simply keeping the game going. The battle at the top of the alliance table involves a tiny percentage of the people playing the game and would have a far smaller financial impact than they would have been experiencing if they couldn't keep the rest of the game running smoothly to retain the players they still had. In the early days of the war, the game was riddled with problems and most players believed that the game was unlikely to survive. They've managed to perform miracles to just get it running smoothly and the level of generosiity with bonuses and freebies to players, in recent times, would appear to indicate the desperate lengths they've gone to just trying to stop players abandoning the game. Their focus woould be 100% aligned with trying to generate income and stay afloat so resolving these sorts of issues are a long way down their list of things to do.Good luck with the court case
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Brian D
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