What I don't understand is how can players get away with using the signature cheat in GBG? How can that player's guildmates let it happen? It's one thing to use it in GvG where there are no individual rewards (other than ranking points) but in GBG? Perhaps very small guilds where everyone cheats? I just don't get it.
Someone looking through the logs on higher level fight averages . They put it in what is known as a log parser that would compare all fight signatures of their logs and if any are identical then they cheated , sounds really complicated right ? Solarwinds even makes an automated version that will automatically do everything for them and autoflag all accounts that have 1 or more identical fight signatures and you can even set it up to suspend the account until Inno looks at it manually. The will is definitely not there because a modicum of networking knowledge with logfile experience (most, if not all System Admins) makes this about 1 days work,
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a fight signature?
Every time you click an active auto battle button the client (game on your device) signs the fight with a unique "serial number". One click = 1 number. What the cheater does is known as injection where they just take the first signature and put it back into the Java Script loop and the server (Inno) picks it up and sees it as the button being clicked. This as you can surmise vastly increases your apparent fighting speed because there is no window to wait for and no button or mouse movement to slow it down. The signature of each fight is recorded in your accounts log file and would show for instance Fight 394234538 , Fight 234532935 , Fight 930254931 if you aren't cheating. If you are cheating then Fight 324598761 , Fight 324598761 , Fight 324598761 would typically be in your log file. The log parser would compare Fight signatures and if you have the same signature on two back to back fights then you cheated and can safely be discarded by Inno to leave the rest of us to play in peace. No I will not tell you how because it ruins the game for everyone.
How?
Better yet, have a 66% cap on SCs making it impossible to fight attrition free all day.
In one of the guilds we swapped with this season the player suspected of using that cheat is hailed as a hero by many in his guild for his fight count.
That players do it doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is that the guild doesn't punish it. In a swap scenario, the cheater is taking fights away from his guildmates, no one else.In one of the guilds we swapped with this season the player suspected of using that cheat is hailed as a hero by many in his guild for his fight count.
That guild would swap very slowly without this player. They don't have a very deep pool of fighters.
Well, that just ain't right but it is another reason that justifies INNO's plan to eliminate zero attrition.
Agree with everything said here, and would like to add that it will also limit advantage from using bots. Bots are killing any online game and every way to limit their effectiveness is a clear win for honest players.
IN very active guild the tiles are being taken very quickly and the most powerful players get most of fight due to speed from high A/D. Equally active players with lower A/D get less fights because they have to replenish troops more frequently. This change will give them more opportunity to fight.
