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Overzealous anti-cheat system

#1 User is offline   xtremeqg Icon

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Posted 13 April 2010 - 02:16 AM

It seems the anti-cheat system is quite a bit overzealous... It uses "transaction ID"s to see if someone is doing multiple things at once... I ran into this a few times "cheating" by control+click-ing some operations in firefox (yes, tabbed browsing. which is something any modern browser can do). Apparently this is considered cheating. For example, you just uploaded a few crawlers and want to set them to active mode... instead of reloading the page X times, I tried to simply put each activation in a tab... not allowed apparently. Yet, buying multiple things at once via tabs is allowed so this transaction system is not applied everywhere.
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Posted 14 April 2010 - 04:02 AM

theres a spot at the top to click to set all active. I agree the system is a bit overboard, but you play long enough you develop workarounds... swap hard drive out in one tab, then in next tab click offensive programs THEN upload your cracker..... Its a pain for me though when I have 20 old security programs uploaded and I want to delete them all to make room for new ones....

oh and if you want to use back button when hacking, it's 4 or 5 pages backwards.... you can start from the page you select cracker and pw breaker etc from - unless you re-upload your cracker in which case you have to start from the hack/message choice.
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Posted 16 April 2010 - 09:47 AM

Yes, unfortunately, we had to add very draconian measures to keep cheating to a minimum. One of the side effects was the inability to use tabs. Not that they really existed much back when we developed this game... ;)
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