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Originally Posted by loramin
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All I'm asking is this.
I'm a ShowEQ user: I play the game and look indistinguishable from a normal user, but I cheat and see what mobs are up when I enter a zone.
How will you (or the rest of the Quarm staff) catch me? It seems like a straightforward and fair question to ask, and you don't have to provide all the secret tricks being used to catch cheaters, I'm just looking for a simple/general explanation.
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The following realistic options exist outside of being invasive. Going into detail on any of these would make it fairly easy to bypass any protections:
1) Clientside detection / prevention. Invasive measures could be taken in the future if cheating becomes a problem / pervasive.
2) Serverside manipulation of the client with data provided to it.
3) Manual observation in combination with the above.
These are the measures P99 has taken and we'll be doing similar measures. Though, subjectively more or less effective in some cases.
The biggest deterrence (ie; the above covers detection/prevention, see:
https://technology.riotgames.com/new...ach-anti-cheat) that EQ has is its insane time commitment.
There is only so much damage one person can do in a limited period of time, and the risks of being banned and actively caught outweigh the benefit of cheating in almost every case.