Hardware Ban everyone who breaking the rules such as botting

[honest vortex]

its gonna affect the player count but it would make the game and the community better. it's better to have 100 legitimate player than 1000 bots

since IP ban is not effective then this must be the only way

[cursive crag]

Hardware bans can be spoofed easily aswell

I feel you but spoofing hardware id is really not that hard , also supposing the most they'd add will be a mac addy ban

[honest vortex]

ya u're right but in this cases for me personally, we cant prevent 100% cheating in the game, but i think its all bout adding extra layer to the protection. i know u can easily downloaded free spoofer but some casuals would be too lazy and gave up

it wont stop the hardcore bot farms but atleast it filters out some

[earnest wedge]

My suggestion opinion, new account cant be TRADE or DROP item after level 20 or more, they cant supply to main account item worth for sale in pwe for easy earn byte, market is chaos for now GEMS and BYTE COIN easy for people use bot at PC, this not FAIR for all player, admin or Dev cant be fix this methode? i support to buy gems VIP and byte for real money in store and then i play this game not competitive with bot afk more than easly they got. as you can fix Dev? or Admin! #1485998050764918929

[cursive crag]

• the thing is they run multiple steam instances of the game under all diffrent accounts.. since a standalone account is linked to your steam they dont even need to create a account thru pw (steam accs are dirt cheap to buy in mass too)

[honest vortex]

ikr, this proves theres another loophole that devs need to work on. they shall add friction to account creating, maybe like having steam guard enabled or something, but the hardware bans are to punish the "physical" device, stricter rules for making account would kill the bots

imo, the real root of the problem is the RMT players. They're trying to make IRL money from the game even though it's strictly illegal/against TOS, and thats why they make these bot farms

[honest vortex]

another suggestion

any unverified account (Subject) cant enter nether unless they're verified

ill wrap my suggestion here,

the player experience should look like this
Creating Account - Must Verified their account or They cant do anything (Drop,trade, nether, mining, and fishing), if they're on steam then Steam Guard must be enabled - Play the game - if they got caught cheating - Hardware ban

[blissful saffron]

good suggestion

[fleet trench]

I feel like the way to go is by introducing an anti-cheat that boots wih the game, because you can spoof your brains out and change any part of your PC's information as a hacker

IP ban? vpn.
Device ban? TMAC. (change mac address)
System ban? spoof it.
Hardware ban? spoof it.

[honest vortex]

do they have the budget tho? xD

[fleet trench]

the devs for an anticheat? defo not easy and would take time/money but would be the most effective by a landslide

the hackers to spoof? yeah its dirt cheap