Hack reduction suggestion

Adrianre66

Well I'm sure there are countless threads already posted about this, including a prior suggestion I had given a few months ago which wasnt implemented, I thought I would just voice my suggestion.

Firstly, everyone knows the hacking situation isnt improving but is drastically increasing in this short period of time. While some say to use a different anti cheat detector other than xtrap (which would be ideal), I'm sure you guys have your hands tied for some reason or other.

I ain't shortselling the effort of the support team on reviewing hacks, but to be honest it is ineffective. I'm sure the support staff has the job cut out for them and have a head count of a fraction to the amount of hacking reports they receive in a day.( Legitimate reports, duplicates and false accusations).

Though my suggestion isn't the ideal suggestion I would like to recommend a suggestion to change your registration process.

Let's be honest, a hacker banned (probably takes a lot of months to firstly get banned) will make a new account in 10 seconds. Your registerarion process is damn user friendly and in this case I feel that is the downfall.

In other cf versions, there is mandatory phone number verification required along with an email verification requirement. This is not the case here.

Though this idea may seem trivial, I feel the chances of people registering accounts with multiple cell phones will be limited, as compared to say registering email accounts.

Other suggestions would possibly be to lengthen the registerarion process, with prove I'm a human verification processes. These might seem trivial but again might work.

The way I see it right now is that the game has cancer and is slowly dieing. There is a difference between a few hackers and multiple hacks used by a single person. Any new user would just leave immediately. Only the old users are keeping you guys afloat right now and that also is on a decreasing scale.

I do hope this is implemented, and I hope that there is some anti cheat update or a new vendor is being considered, since the current one is a joke.

~Void

winnnetou

+1 one those are not bad ideas, maybe it would help with new accounts that are haking.

iAnarchy

I like the idea of a phone verification process for all new accounts. It might not make an impact in the short term, but I think in the long term it'll make creating new accounts for the soul purpose of hacking, harder.

fl0rians

Thats a good idea. It will also keep away some players who dont want to enter private data but thats way better than start playing and immidatly quit because of hackes. Nobody will buy zp if they always get killed by hackes, so z8s profit should also increase.

thesuper850

+1 i believe this should work since everyone will have a limited number of accounts they can have .

Adrianre66

iAnarchy wrote: »

I like the idea of a phone verification process for all new accounts. It might not make an impact in the short term, but I think in the long term it'll make creating new accounts for the soul purpose of hacking, harder.

Thanks for the positive feedback. I'm still waiting for a Mod or GM response on this matter. I reckon that this might be a temporary fix, but I'm sure it will help is reducing the wave of hackers to some extent in the long run. In addition it is not a complex matter to implement IMO.

~Void