Slitherine

I think the server is sending emails when watching replays of ended games. I received two in a row today.

Tks

This is supposed to have been fixed so we'll recheck it.

I get the same message. I assumed it was because FoG had crashed mid turn a couple of times.

FoG does quit periodically and gives me a "driver" error.
using Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1

Yes if you crash mid turn and have to download again you will get this message.

Question for Iain. If you run the game in Windowed mode, you can exit the game normally by pressing the X in the upper right corner of the window. You can then restart the game and re-download the turn and cheat if you wish - the turn will not be saved to server if you exit in this way. And you're not killing the process as you would by using Ctrl-Alt-Del or using Task Manager; you're exiting normally. Will this method also be detected and trigger a warning email? Your previous posts suggest that it's killing the process rather than a normal exit that is the trigger.

Thanks,

Tim

Yes, the system is detecting also this kind of behaviour

Basically there is no way to replay a turn that we wont know about. However and whatever you do we'll know about it, track and report it.

iainmcneil wrote:Basically there is no way to replay a turn that we wont know about. However and whatever you do we'll know about it, track and report it.

Never say never...

Some how all this attention to potential "cheating" seems awfully obsessive and if anything, seems to me likely to scare more people away from the game by what it implies about the opponents you're likely to face than having apparently "ironclad" measures to prevent cheating is likely to gain.

Chris

batesmotel wrote:
Some how all this attention to potential "cheating" seems awfully obsessive and if anything, seems to me likely to scare more people away from the game by what it implies about the opponents ...
Chris

Spot on.

hidde wrote:

batesmotel wrote:
Some how all this attention to potential "cheating" seems awfully obsessive and if anything, seems to me likely to scare more people away from the game by what it implies about the opponents ...
Chris

Spot on.

I don't think it's obsessive at all. It's perfectly reasonable to take reasonable safeguards against cheating. All serious games have some sort of refereeing. Slitherine's actions are limited and unobtrusive. Most of the noise on this thread comes from the fact that there was a bug or two in the system initially, but it's pretty quiet now.

Tim

TJD wrote:

hidde wrote:

batesmotel wrote:
Some how all this attention to potential "cheating" seems awfully obsessive and if anything, seems to me likely to scare more people away from the game by what it implies about the opponents ...
Chris

Spot on.

I don't think it's obsessive at all. It's perfectly reasonable to take reasonable safeguards against cheating. All serious games have some sort of refereeing. Slitherine's actions are limited and unobtrusive. Most of the noise on this thread comes from the fact that there was a bug or two in the system initially, but it's pretty quiet now.

Tim

Agreed.

I got the "multiple downloads" email again yesterday. And as far as I know, my game didn't crash nor did I cheat. It's possibly the "reviewing a game that's already ended" thing, but I'm not sure, since I just noticed it today and don't remember what I was doing at the time.

I got it again today. It was possibly a crash yesterday - would it take 24 hours? Otherwise it was just normal saving a game for further attention later that did it

I have mobile broadband and it does sort of "go to sleep" quite often causing me to get an error message when trying to send a turn. The remedy is to disconnect and reconnect the internet connection. A tip if you get the connection error message is to make sure you don't press cancel. If you do, you'll exit the game and your turn will have to be replayed. So, only press the re-send (or re-try) button and when the connection is back on track it should send okay. I think I've only had to replay a move a couple of times out of many thousands of turns (and that was a while ago before I knew not to press cancel).

Also, I was thinking that the turn where cheating might be most profitable is the first turn for the player who goes second. Might it not be possible for the second player to see how the first player has deployed, quit their turn and then replay it, redeploying their troops to effectively counter their opponent? If so, then I think Slitherine should pay extra attention to game re-downloads for this first turn.

Actually the anti cheating system sucks.

All turns are important. The last ones too.

I hope the new version fix this somehow. If not FOG it's not going to last long on my PC.

Hi Tech support,

I too have been getting this annoying message together with threat now that I won't be able to use server any more :0(

I use the game on iPad and have had some issues with 3G disconnections from the server but it seems to be behaving well recently.

I wouldn't want to lose ability for multiplayer.

Can you confirm that all ok please ?

Many thanks.

Before you are banned you'll be contacted by an admin but please try to resolve the connection issues or we may have to ban you. The problem is it allows an unfair advantage even if it is down to a connection issues.

Hi, I had a power shut down because of a black out. And didnt receive any email when I had to re download. Is this working ok?

tks!!

Yep - it tracks all behaviour so if its one incidenet out of many turns it wont hit the warning level.