Hackers are appearing! Tips to avoid getting bankrupted

[JamesMCL44]

Seen hackers:
- xaloramia
- A11Even

Tips to avoid:
a) Do not start the game in "open" mode - open mode by default will give all joining players ALL permissions, meaning they can buy stuff without asking. Keep buying empty boxes will make you bankrupted.

b) If you still opted for "open" mode - make sure you hit that top left button to remove ALL permission for new joining players. Without any permissions, there are less chance to have things messed up.

c) Still recommended not to start in "open" mode - at least 2 players, those listed above had joined and cheated in money to your account. If not in open mode, they cannot join in the first place.

To Dev:
Please kindly prioritize to block the cheating as this really killed the gameplay.

[Mitch]

There is hundred's of hacker's in the game. There is quite literally no way to avoid it on a open lobby due to the game having 0 anticheat. Best thing to do is join the SMT discord- we moderate and ban hacker's there, so the looking-for-group channels are <mostly> save when you set it to Only Friends and provide the code.

Another note- there is cheat's to bypass permissions aswell, so those also will not save you.

[JamesMCL44]

at least shortlisting the known hackers for now, its better than nothing

[JamesMCL44]

Originally posted by Mitch:

There is hundred's of hacker's in the game. There is quite literally no way to avoid it on a open lobby due to the game having 0 anticheat. Best thing to do is join the SMT discord- we moderate and ban hacker's there, so the looking-for-group channels are <mostly> save when you set it to Only Friends and provide the code.

Another note- there is cheat's to bypass permissions aswell, so those also will not save you.

That "SMT discord" is fan-based and there is no official dc for SMT atm, so going there doesn't help much if the devs does not respond on it.
tbh, I think it is really irresponsible to mention that/your server as "SMT discord" which confused people from joining and then all around the dc server saying there is no direct connection with the devs. It is at most a "SMT Community Discord".

Anyway, that is a non-official server, not sure how do you "ban hackers from there".

[Mitch]

Originally posted by JamesMCL44:

Originally posted by Mitch:

There is hundred's of hacker's in the game. There is quite literally no way to avoid it on a open lobby due to the game having 0 anticheat. Best thing to do is join the SMT discord- we moderate and ban hacker's there, so the looking-for-group channels are <mostly> save when you set it to Only Friends and provide the code.

Another note- there is cheat's to bypass permissions aswell, so those also will not save you.

That "SMT discord" is fan-based and there is no official dc for SMT atm, so going there doesn't help much if the devs does not respond on it.
tbh, I think it is really irresponsible to mention that/your server as "SMT discord" which confused people from joining and then all around the dc server saying there is no direct connection with the devs. It is at most a "SMT Community Discord".

Anyway, that is a non-official server, not sure how do you "ban hackers from there".

No where did I state it was official- simply that it was indeed a SMT discord. We have channels on the server that people regularly post code's to throughout the day from all over the world- people report hacker's that join their lobby from this and we remove them?

And the entire discord server itself is plastered with "Unofficial" - but were also approaching almost 10,000 members and are home to the speedrunning, modding, and wiki member bases aswell as moderators of the Thunderstore, Nexus, and (hopefully soon™) CurseForge

The issue with trying to shortlist the hacker's is that so many actively join lobbies and leave and simply never return to the game due to hacking and getting bored. The only real solution is moderation over who joins entirely- or the developer add's an anticheat sadly.