Will the cheaters ever be stopped?

[Your Momma]

Region lock for Asia when?

[BlackBart]

A couple of points

What cheats are you seeing?
The Asian user base is huge, it's not going to be region locked.
Some of the best players are from that region.

[karmington]

Originally posted by Your Momma:

Region lock for Asia when?

We are not aware of proper cheats as such, though they could of course theoretically exist.

Currently a known issue is that China has more desync issues due to geographical distance from servers, which may cause glitchy behaviours. This problem is under investigation.

[Your Momma]

Just today I had "desync issues" with a Chinese. Of course, the "decync issues" only benefited him. As always. Of course, the "desync issues" only ever happen to me when I play against Chinese users (even though I also play from Asia) and of course only they get the advantage.
But yeah, cheats exist only "theoretically" and you are "not aware" of any. All is well.

[karmington]

Originally posted by Your Momma:

Just today I had "desync issues" with a Chinese. Of course, the "decync issues" only benefited him. As always. Of course, the "desync issues" only ever happen to me when I play against Chinese users (even though I also play from Asia) and of course only they get the advantage.
But yeah, cheats exist only "theoretically" and you are "not aware" of any. All is well.

No, all is not well - we are aware of problems and are dedicating dev resources to handling these situations better.

[uncleed]

Originally posted by karmington:

Originally posted by Your Momma:

Region lock for Asia when?

We are not aware of proper cheats as such, though they could of course theoretically exist.

"Not aware"
Gotta love this kind of gaslighting.

When I predict multiple cards in a row from the opponent (my personal record was 5), I just know they are cheating, mixing and matching their cards, and making "random" draws work all of a sudden not randomly.

Chances are the desync happens for the far east cheaters simply because of the strain from distance AND forcing results combined; cheaters closer to home don't have to deal with the latency to make the same alterations.

[romy]

Originally posted by uncleed:

When I predict multiple cards in a row from the opponent (my personal record was 5), I just know they are cheating, mixing and matching their cards, and making "random" draws work all of a sudden not randomly.

lol what ? if you predict what your opponent has in deck/hand (which is pretty basic by the way), why are you failing to adapt and counter ? and why are you calling cheater when you knew beforehand what your opponent had and he played those very cards you predicted ?

that makes no sense lol

[GirthQQuakes]

Originally posted by karmington:

We are not aware of proper cheats as such, though they could of course theoretically exist.

Currently a known issue is that China has more desync issues due to geographical distance from servers, which may cause glitchy behaviours. This problem is under investigation.

I'm running into players using a bot or auto clicker to farm gold, on a regular basis. Twice this morning. I've reported it, hopefully something is done.

Really takes away from enjoying your game. Whats the point of playing if the other guy isn't even there and is just using an auto clicker like this?

Update: After reporting this player I received an email saying he has been permanently banned. Excellent! Thank you!

[Your Momma]

I had a game against a Chinese character username who was drawing cards during my turn, playing invisible units and playing cards from nations that cannot possibly be in his deck. I assume a disingenuous "desync issues/glitchy behaviours" lie for an excuse is coming, but you might as well save it. The simple fact is that Chinese (character username) cheaters are ruining your game and eventually you will have to face that.

[zikesp]

I reached 2k hours of playing, never seen a cheater. Besides 85% of my playtime is vs Asian players (I play very early in the morning, Central Europe time). So I'm very lucky or someone is whining.

[Garuda]

Originally posted by zikesp:

I reached 2k hours of playing, never seen a cheater. Besides 85% of my playtime is vs Asian players (I play very early in the morning, Central Europe time). So I'm very lucky or someone is whining.

Though I cannot compete with your 2k hours (I only have 1.1k) I must fully agree to the rest of your post! I never encountered any cheater regardless of his nickname!

[Garuda]

Originally posted by N457Y_5P3(U1470R:

You have to deal with it. For me, when I see chinese nickname, I leave fight before it starts. I don't want to check if it's a cheater or not, it's a waste of my time...

Must be nice to have a simple political mindset!

[Your Momma]

The game is absolutely overrun with Chinese cheaters. Just now I had one play cards from 4, FOUR nations in a deck. FOUR, with three of them elites. Absolute shame. Shame on them and shame on the devs.

[Giack]

Originally posted by Your Momma:

The game is absolutely overrun with Chinese cheaters. Just now I had one play cards from 4, FOUR nations in a deck. FOUR, with three of them elites. Absolute shame. Shame on them and shame on the devs.

Just as some of the other people in this post have stated, I've also played many hours and not encountered a cheater. I've been comprehensively beaten many, many times and I've cursed my opponents luck in drawing the perfect card when they needed it most, but the kind of cheating you say you've been the victim of, I haven't seen. That's not to say that it doesn't exist, but you seem to encounter it all the time because you're constantly complaining about this. Can you post some screenshots, or videos or something to send to the developers (and the community) so we can all the see the type of cheating you always run into?

[Your Momma]

A photo will prove nothing though. I’ll have to film every game. Maybe I will: the strange draws, “sync problems” and “connectivity issues” have been extremely suspicious lately.
I encountered these in 3 out of 13 games today, all 3 of them against Chinese, all of them to my detriment. You gotta see the pattern eventually.

[wolfypagan74]

Originally posted by karmington:

Originally posted by Your Momma:

Region lock for Asia when?

We are not aware of proper cheats as such, though they could of course theoretically exist.

Currently a known issue is that China has more desync issues due to geographical distance from servers, which may cause glitchy behaviours. This problem is under investigation.

I find it very odd when I play US Research... I seem to get booted and conveniently lose my turn! Just happened last match... This is a horrible and ridiculous glitch and as you indicate may not be so "innocent"! Please fix it!