Hi Developers.... ever thought of EASY ANTI CHEAT for Ultima Online ?
To my understanding, more and more games are using this Anti Cheat Software to stop players from cheating....
Have you ever thought about it for Ultima Online so as to finally get rid of all of the scripters, botters, AFKers and illegal Third Party Programs users etc. etc. for good ?
Just a thought....
Have you ever thought about it for Ultima Online so as to finally get rid of all of the scripters, botters, AFKers and illegal Third Party Programs users etc. etc. for good ?
Just a thought....
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From scripting to AFK farming to using unapproved Third Party Programs not to mention various hacks like speed hacks and so forth, it looks to me that Ultima Online is quite flooded by cheats, hacks and what not...
The fact the more and more games seem to be using it, perhaps might suggest that it might seem to work in games to curb down the number of players cheating ?
And then what ?
Individual reporting of cheats require individual attention and thus, manpower and resources be invested in handling all of those reports.
Anti-cheat software which instead deals with the issue automatically, much reduces the amount of manpower and resources needed to be invested in dealing with it.
Sure, false positives would indeed require individual attention yet, those false positives would be a FRACTION of the total cheats dealt with by the Anti-Cheat software.
If you tell me that with Punkbuster the amount of false positives was so high that Ultima Online lacked the manpower and resources to deal with them, I do not see how, players reporting suspected Cheats could in any way be a lower number as those false positives but, I would imagine, that they would be a way much larger number as those Punkbuster's false positives...
Therefore, if Ultima Online lacked the manpower and resources to investigate, individually those Punkbuster's false positives, I fail to see "how" Ultima Online could instead have the manpower and resources to investigate players' reports of "suspected" Cheatings fro fellow players....
So, I ask you again, a player reports a suspected Cheat from a fellow player..... and then what ?
It would be much better with the implementation of a sound and effective Anti-Cheat Software which, I understand, many Game Companies are using for their games to tackle cheating in them, it would at least deal with most cases automatically, and only the false positives, a much lower number as the total cheats dealt with, would then need to be addressed on an individual basis.
That is at least how I see it.
If they are there, players use them and everything is fine and dandy, why not equalize then the players' base and actually change Ultima Online's TOS and consider all of those Third Party Programs as legal to use by all players?
I mean,to my opinion, EITHER, OR.......
Either they are considered illegal, but THEN those players using them as given no quarters and be found and banned, OR, if this is not possible, change the TOS of the game, and tell to all of the players that they can use them to their hearts' content, thus equalizing the players base....
But having "some" players use them because they disregard what the TOS says, and "some other" players not use them because they respect the TOS, only creates an inequality among players playing the game.
So, as I said, it should be EITHER, OR.
Either they are maintained illegal, but then something is ACTIVELY done about them, like using Anti-Cheat software to track down those players using them, OR the TOS needs to get changed and ALL players be informed that they can use them with no worries, any longer.
@Mesanna , @Kyronix ?
Is there a modern game that allow 3rd party programs to access the games data stream as was popular when UO was written 20 years ago? I'm not a programer but I know enough to see the difficulty (impossibility) of letting one program free access and then blocking the next unapproved one.
The few modern online games I know it's use the unmodified client we provide or nothing. If you don't like the basic client here is a link to our store for skins and helpers.
Why dismiss it even before making sure whether or not it could be a good addition for Ultima Online, to finally get rid of the cheating in it ?
The method they use is for us to police ourselves. Whether you like it or not.
I find it hard to beleive that the devs are not able to check these signatures and notice that there are alot of players using alot of non-authorized programs with other kind of signature and that these players are able to log-in the official IP servers just like nothing with various non official clients.
Zero protection like if I wanted tomorrow I could create my own UO client and log on the OSI official servers with it ? Make no sense
I hate cheating just as much as the next person but I WILL NOT give any program unlimited access to my computer that has the ability to take snap shots of what ever it wants.
https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-two-new-free-services
We are talking, to my understanding, about games with really a LOT of players, like Fortnite and a whole lot of others....
And they are becoming more and more that use Easy Anti Cheat..... why all of these MILLIONS of players are playing all those games then, if I may ask ?