You know damn well blizz these ppl who’re on 24/7 grinding more then 300k a day are Obviously Account sharing! You can easily check the top brackets, I’d say as far as 8+ to see if there has been multiple log in attempts at various locations or hell… just more then one in an area time stamp that wouldn’t be possible to be the same account owner! Check in to it blizz! The top grinders on pvp right now are Not robots! I’ve put these ppl on my friends list and they’re on 24/7 I’ve had others add that play on off peak hours to confirm and they’re NEVER logging out besides briefly! IE: to toss the grind to another person so the original person can sleep! Plz check in to this!
You can still tell. Individual computers leave a fingerprint on the server. So if you are using a VPN that fingerprint will still be the same. So if it’s FFAXII on one IP, then switches to another IP and has XIVTAF you know they’re sharing and not a VPN.
Also, with friends you can tell if they log out in one location and appear in another in a diffferent state in a matter of minutes or hours that’s another sign.
I think it’s more about Blizzard not having the time to deal with this stuff (AKA they want profits and don’t want to reinvest in staff to enforce).
Yes, but I don’t know damn well that ANYONE is on 24/7.
You pretend that you “know” this. Is there an addon that tells you how many hours another player had been logged on? If not, you are simply making it up – pulling it from thin air.
You know what I see a lot in the forums? Posts that say “anyone who is doing better than ME must be cheating!”
This is exactly how Jokerd got world first 60 and is pull 250k honor a day. During grinds like this he cuts streaming hours to bare minimum for a reason. He also only streamed his audio during certain points while leveling and didnt set up a cam until after he hit 60.
He is also toxic asf and has ninja’d and quit multiple MC raids on my server and laughed about it while live streaming. Ofc staysafe didnt seem to care and actually said it was a good thing due to the fact that Jokers is in his guild. (according to joker who is still in )
I think you’re right. If every subscriber paid $500/mo, then Blizzard could afford to hire and train a huge number of human investigators to track down every example of possible cheating that A MILLION players notice.
But not when subscriptions are $15/mo. Blizzard would take a massive loss if they even TRIED doing that. Don’t expect $500/mo service when you pay $15/mo.
All they need to do is verify the top 10 or something. If it is found that all of the top 10 are cheating in some way and get banned then there will be a next top 10. Eventually it will be incredibly discouraging to attempt to place so highly by cheating.
You mean the top 10 honor-earners for that week? That limits the work, since that is calculated automatically. Good idea.
Then they need to have enough of a detailed record of those accounts to figure out if they were cheating. If they already have that, then it’s a plan. If not, maybe they can add a little tracking (to all accounts) that gives that info.
They (or you, or anyone) may think account sharing is happening, but proving it is another matter. How do you prove it if someone is playing on your machine at your house while you are asleep? Telepathy? Phone them up and yell “wake up, I have questions!”??
Can you sustain this for weeks at a time…? People are referring to those that literally are online 99.99% of the time grinding AV honor.
This makes another point, maybe it’s something blizz could use in identifying bots at least. Is the scorecard in AV for this player that never logs constantly 0 killing blows, 0 deaths, and 0 honor kills? Pretty good indication of a bot if we’re talking about top 10.
I was actually considering buying a laptop just so I can take it to work with me and have my account online in AV fishing all day. How do you verify that a person isnt doing something similar?
To me the very first thing that should be looked at is contribution. If you did not even remove 1 HP from a LT/Commander you shouldnt get Honor from any of them. While this makes it tough for people that play defense to get honor it means they are now required to go out and at least attack Galv or the LT’s to get any bonus honor. This would remove the incentive for people to go sit and fish the entire game and collect honor.
Yeah, a couple lines of code to check that people arent online 24 hours a day for more than 48 hours at a time without breaks isnt too much to ask of a company bringing in over 1 million a month.
We just play better and/or more than you do. Though to be fair, I’m not playing 24/7, so maybe I’m not the kind of person you’re talking about. That said, I’m WS2 currently, so…
