"Trying to cheat?"

[DukeoftheHill]

Didn't know leaving an idle game open to idle while my computer is idle and I'm sleeping was somehow "cheating"

What an awful braindead development choice. You just took the idle out of your idle game. Its like if Gears of War 6 were to release, come out with a patch 2 weeks later that makes it exclusively play in first person, then still call it a third person shooter.

Absolutely hilarious, I'm so happy I never spent any money supporting this game. I was really on the fence about it but I know now that I made the right decision since apparently game design is not a strong point of the dev

[Crotalus]

Publicado originalmente por ATHF黑DUKE OF NEW YORK笨:

Publicado originalmente por (Jaden):

I wouldn't even play this without cheat detection.. Or, I'd cheat, beat the game, then uninstall.

Imagine being so backwards that if the dev didn't force you to not cheat in a game you'd just ruin your own good time and do it anyhow out of compulsive autism

I never once tried to cheat the game, just wanted to idle while I slept. ♥♥♥♥ game ♥♥♥♥ dev ♥♥♥♥ shills defending terrible design choices everywheree

Oh so angry

[DarkCecil]

Publicado originalmente por Crotalus:

Publicado originalmente por ATHF黑DUKE OF NEW YORK笨:

Imagine being so backwards that if the dev didn't force you to not cheat in a game you'd just ruin your own good time and do it anyhow out of compulsive autism

I never once tried to cheat the game, just wanted to idle while I slept. ♥♥♥♥ game ♥♥♥♥ dev ♥♥♥♥ shills defending terrible design choices everywheree

Oh so angry

I know, I just hate it when these devs force us to play their games at gunpoint! Such a dismal world we live in.

[F]

Publicado originalmente por TheyAria:

It’s just a bug with your computer going into sleep mode while the game is open.

The message addresses a previous exploit where players could advance their system time to rake in rewards.

This message being displayed during otherwise normal gameplay is not an intentional design choice. And it doesn’t actually effect anything except for the lost time when your system is asleep.

You lose your daily reward if you leave your game open, but your computer goes to sleep before midnight

[25hz]

Publicado originalmente por ATHF黑DUKE OF NEW YORK笨:

But we can't just let the cheaters of a single player game cheat and advance the time on their system BECAUSE THEN THEY WON'T SPEND MONEY ON GEMS. AH THE REAL ROOT OF THE PROBLEM. THE REAL REASON WE NEED TO PATCH OUT CHEATERS, THE DEVELOPERS GREED

10/10 game to abandon and not give the greedy dev anything for

So 1st, imagine a dev being interested in getting paid for coding a piece of software . . . You're not much of a thinker, are you?

2nd, did you read the dev talking about his plan to add clans/guilds and leaderboards? Nope. Yeah, no way a cheater would screw that up. You go on and rage though. Demonstrate your towering intellect and keen critical thinking skills . . .

[Finley Chromodoria]

you really got your panties in a bind over an idle game didn't you?

[Mike9090]

It's funny how you're so mad when you didn't even lose anything. Some other guy said it doesn't affect your game negatively by taking anything away from you, it just doesn't give you stuff after it notices your time change because your pc went in sleeping mode. Just get over it and play the game, or uninstall it. I doubt people will miss you from here if you're just going to get angry for nothing.

[AccidentReport]

I'm sorry...is this person complaining about a minor bug in a free game to address an exploit and then moaning about the dev being in it for nothing but money by selling a few supporter packs and gems that are in no way forced upon people and by not buying do not take away from the game in the slightest? Yeah, terrible. These stupid people working hard to make games and then trying to make money off them. Just awful

[FatherGuido]

He should probably pay anyway. He clearly enjoys being outraged at things, and I'd say he's getting his money's worth here.

[Get-Command]

Clearly not happy with their onw life choices. Sad man.

[Hiroko]

Publicado originalmente por Willustrator:

you really got your panties in a bind over an idle game didn't you?

"25hz has Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game Dec 29, 2020 @ 12:19am"
"Willustrator has Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game 17 hours ago"

How did you even necro this thread? Im on steam and it only goes back to Jan 4th atm.

[ds132742]

Publicado originalmente por ATHF黑DUKE OF NEW YORK笨:

But we can't just let the cheaters of a single player game cheat and advance the time on their system BECAUSE THEN THEY WON'T SPEND MONEY ON GEMS. AH THE REAL ROOT OF THE PROBLEM. THE REAL REASON WE NEED TO PATCH OUT CHEATERS, THE DEVELOPERS GREED

10/10 game to abandon and not give the greedy dev anything for

so your main complaint is you can't cheat and your trying (desperately) to get the dev to change their game that was free so you don't have to wait as long
why not alt tab and watch a movie or even better do your schoolwork

[DaChiefOfOwnage]

I think if people want to cheat in a single player game they can go ahead.
They are only robbing themselves of the experience. Those kinds of people would not pay the dev for his microtransactions anyway, so there is no loss to the dev for allowing them to cheat their game.

So in a sense, yes - the design to implement anti cheat in an idle game is IMO a stupid move and the only discernible reason I can think of is because a dev would want to extract as much microtransaction revenue as possible. (Not saying it's good or bad, but objectively that is why).

The comparison to cookie clicker is a good one - you can effectively cheat on cookie clicker and the game even recognises you doing so. However you are not prevented from making progress this way. You can make octodecillions of cookies by cheating, the dev gives you that choice. However it defeats the entire point of the game - literally the only reason why you play an idle game in the first place (more incremental progress and numbers go up yay) so you are just destroying your own experience and making your own time pointless since you are not achieving anything.

So TL;DR anti cheat in an idle game is stupid because the cheater is already cheating themselves out of their own time. And implementing anti cheat just because you are worried of losing a 0.001% chance of the cheater actually spending a dollar, is a bit absurd.

[Will]

for those of you that think this dev is greedy you are sorely mistaken, buy gems gets you almost nothing and when you unlock the blc rewards you get 112 a day and nothing is worth buying, he didn't and isn't designing the game for profit. please dont slander him/her for making a fun idle game

[Solar93]

i just read the replys... STAP FIGHTING

[cboath11]

There is an Idle game called NGU Idle. It started off on Kongregate several years ago, its also here on Steam now. It has stuff you can buy with real money and he has never prevented any kind of cheating at all. There are forums for scripters, time jumpers, boters etc. His game became so successful that he was able to quit the job he had when he had started the game as he was making WAY more money from his idle game.

So preventing cheating in a single player idle game is not always necessary to make a living. Though it is a valid design decision.