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Over 8500 AP in less than a day?????
RMorr50912
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C'mon man! How the heck can anybody legitimately score 8500+ AP in less than 24 hours???? That's double the next closest player! Is that even legitimately possible in the time even if you spend real money?
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Weekend match at an average of 25 AP earn, it would take
I call Bull **** if it happened during the week.
FYI, my highest Win Streak for an entire weekend I think was 275, when I was laid up in bed with nothing else to do.
If it were Victory Points (VPs), you'd be right, but Assassin Points (APs) would be 3 + 5 + 7 + 10 + 15 + 20 = 60 for the first 6 wins plus (8500 - 60) points/25 points per win = 6 + 337.6, so 344 straight wins would yield 8510 APs. Don't get me wrong, that's still a lot of matches, and a very unlikely streak. At 3 energy points/hour, 345 energy would take 115 hours to acquire, or 4.8 days without missing any plays, which would be a long time to go without more than probably 50 minutes of sleep at a time.
Obviously that can't be done without buying or hacking a lot of gold to buy energy, and why would anyone spend so much to build up such a ridiculous margin of victory -- it simply doesn't pass any reasonable "smell test".
It absolutely doesn't add up and GLU should look into it, hell it is there money they are loosing. It takes the fun of competition away from the rest of us and steers us to stop playing.
Having said that, I think GLU is reminding us too often that their game is about how much money they can get from us and it's a little naive for us to think how much 'free' stuff people offer.
Simple,they are Glu game tester. They can gain 1964k AP or VP if needed
Just focus on yr rank
It is more than possible even in 8 hours a day, but is it probable that it's legit? Maybe, maybe not.
The problem GLU has is looking at the player history to determine what and when a possible hack was used. If all hacks start with robbing the game of counterfeit virtual currency, then sure they can just look at the history of how the top players received their first set of currency. But, if there are hacks that you can use intermittently throughout the game, then GLU would have to look at every currency transaction; including bought currency, free currency, and earned currency. GLU can only look into our accounts, but they can't look into our individual game on our local device that connects to their servers.
The other thing to consider is that some players were able to 'legitimately exploit' a game glitch that offered them the option to buy energy with game cash. Something like 1 energy for 1 game cash. It wouldn't have taken that long to legitimately gain 1 million game cash to convert that into 1 million energy bars. Somewhat 'endless' energy + level powered Tesla/Heavy weapons + 8 hours of game play = 12000AP.
A few ques that do make it more obvious to spot a hack:
Same player gaining the exact same high score over and over again.
Continuously and consistently gaining points for 96 hours straight, without breaks.
And the most obvious, having a lot of gold without a gold purchase history.
Oh yeah I am! That's the fun part! But you can't just say winners are cheaters because they outperform the competition; especially when people continue to spend more money trying to compete with said 'cheaters'. Bottom line, if you want GLU to look for cheaters you have to find a way that it makes sense for GLU to look for them.
I have gone over this thread and others about hack/mods and will be reporting my findings (and yours) to the dev team to be looked into.
IF this glitch affected a number of people it's possible they could have purchased hundreds if not thousands of full energy refills. I myself have also looked at the availability of hacks to get infinite gold in this game and it appears something may exist. Most of the downloads ask for those questionable surveys to complete the process.
I hope that Glu spends the time and effort to make this game fair for all players. This includes reporting working hacks and workarounds for gold that legitimate players spend a lot of money and time attaining.
I have spoken with the team and yes it is possible for this to happen. We have confirmed that we have a number of players that play a whole lot of matches per day that can get to this point.
There is no confirmation on any actual hack/mod being used here.
If everything is legit and GLU has hit their perfect scenario of 30 players paying thousands of dollars on this game, then great for GLU. A few clients paying great money, sounds perfect! Although less players paying to play probably means less fun for the players that pay the most to compete, and less players using the forum; might work in GLU's favor due to the increase in complaints posted. I guess we will see what happens.
If you're in customer service you might want to check out the poem by Martin Niemöller "First they came ..."
I understand that the points are possible but the real question is if the gold they are using are bought legally or added via a hack? Should be really easy to check, or... but I guess GLU doesn't want to address this.
I'm pretty sure there is no way the same people are in top 10 every week if they have to pay real money for the gold they used.
One BITE at a time!
If I am being cheated by a third party (e.g. hackers) based on GLU's negligence then it is GLU's responsibility to stop it with immediate effect. As we are speaking of only 20-30 known 'suspects' it should be rather easy for GLU to look into their account activities and simply ban them from playing due to breach of contract. After all, these folks have downloaded the game at one pint and agreed to the terms and conditions. Opinions?
So far, the only 'out of the box' possibility would be to say that by hacking, it infers an employment agreement between the hacker and GLU to work collaboratively on adding features to the software.; But that's kind of like a graffiti artist breaking into a home, spray painting the walls, and then trying to sue the home owner for their artistic addition that was never agreed on to administer. It doesn't matter if the home owner knowingly left their front door unlocked, it's still breaking and entering.
However, if you were able to win that argument and use the premise of intellectual property being a form of biological property, you might be able to use the legal precedent of GMO farmers suing surrounding farmers for 'stealing' their patented 'annual non-seed producing' GMO seed; even though 'nature did it', you might have a case. In my opinion, the GMO issue is kind of like modifying a virus strain in your body, 'verbally' spreading it, and suing everyone that caught your cold without permission.