It's over and finally publicly confirmed: the cheater clients have permanently and forever won

As we're all aware, the Broadsword devs, @Mesanna ;@Kyronix ;@Bleak & Co. had devised and executed a plan that whitelisted legal clients, while 'detecting' illegal clients.

They had cheat client users dead to rights: a perfect opportunity curb 98% of cheating by flagging everyone that logged in and then disconnected for using illegal clients. Later they could use this flag to issue their standard 24/48/72/perma ban. Despite a few rumors circulating on various discords no one seems to be able to confirm this happening... widespread anyway.

Instead, they decided to throw them a softball and issue a kick from the game every few minutes, allegedly due to some sort of packet mismatch. If it was truly a war on 3rd party programs they would not have been offered such a softball response. It would appear to me that they were too coward to go further when they had the perfect opportunity. This 'war' ended up being more of a, 'sucker punch then RUN' situation. Sad.

I honestly don't think they try again, unless they are more aggressive with their 'punishment'. At least I wouldn't as whatever Dev time they spent doing this was undone in less than 72h. 

Congratulations, it's over and finally publicly confirmed: the cheater clients have permanently and forever won. 

I think it's time to pack it up legitimate players. It's clear we're not wanted. Will be interesting seeing 20 ToT sampire bots trying to sell their items to everyone else that's running 20 ToT bot sampires. It's the direction the game is going.

Oh, and it surely didn't help they made it so obvious they did something. Damn, be more subtle next time. Gather a list, check it twice, THEN pounce.

Lastly, they can't remove or block third-party programs that allow players to make infinite scripts, bots, and many other things. People don't play anymore, they just activate automation and go to another game.

cansirus said:

Lastly, they can't remove or block third-party programs that allow players to make infinite scripts, bots, and many other things. People don't play anymore, they just activate automation and go to another game.

Not really a discussion for here, but those clients are infinitely more powerful than the standard CC with a program. They have built in functions that the classic client doesn't, therefore, the assistant programs cannot access. In fact the two main programs aren't being actively developed anymore from what I've read, both are dead. This is why you saw the cheating disappear at the ToTs the morning they put in the patch, no one uses those programs anymore, just the clients.. This is also why this was never a problem >10 years ago. They didn't exist. I could go in to more details but probably not allowed on the forum. I've lurked a lot on these discords in the last week... you learn a lot about how broken AF they are.

Skett said:

I keep getting disconnected

sure glad I dont do the ToT events Id die a lot more do to the dc all the time

what ever they did It didn't last to stop the other client from working so why not fix or revert back the patch so we dont keep getting dc all day

 

 

I haven't gotten disconnected since it was live and I've had 1 classic, 1 EC, and 1 classic w/ej logged in while I'm working all day (afk, idle, luna bank). Not sure what you're doing wrong.

However, if it's really an issue, yea probably better off reverting the change since either way it's done nothing to stop the clients.

While I commend you on your mind reading skills, being fully in formed on what the devs are thinking without them saying a word on the topic, I believe this thread to be surplus to requirements, there being already a number of threads on similar vein.