Binoufle
Messenger
I'm wondering if there is any motivation on Inno's side to prevent the attack bots.
What I mean by attack bot is when you have one incoming for the last 4 minutes, and all of a sudden you get 12 attack notifications in your phone in less than one minute, and in the game, just a single attack at the exact same second.
This is pretty easy to do! Call the server API, it gives you back the landing time. If it's not what you want, cancel, re-send. That's it. You can do that 20 times in a minute! Which will defeat the purpose of the ant-timer.
A human player can most probably try 3 or 4 times, MAXIMUM. So 12 times...
Be we should be careful to not call everyone a botter! Having 2 attacks timed at the same second is perfectly doable manually. Use one LS, one bireme, one slow trans, plus sirens, that gives you options to try 40 or 50 times! But not within few seconds.
One very easy way to block the attack bots is to prevent an attack to be recalled in the first 3 seconds. It still gives the player the chance to try to time that 2 or 3 times manually, but botter will not be able anymore to time 20 attacks and 20 supports all at the same second. And it will make the game more faire.
Personally, US110 is the last grepolis server I will play until something is done against that. Because it just kills the interest (and the fairness) of the game.
What I mean by attack bot is when you have one incoming for the last 4 minutes, and all of a sudden you get 12 attack notifications in your phone in less than one minute, and in the game, just a single attack at the exact same second.
This is pretty easy to do! Call the server API, it gives you back the landing time. If it's not what you want, cancel, re-send. That's it. You can do that 20 times in a minute! Which will defeat the purpose of the ant-timer.
A human player can most probably try 3 or 4 times, MAXIMUM. So 12 times...
Be we should be careful to not call everyone a botter! Having 2 attacks timed at the same second is perfectly doable manually. Use one LS, one bireme, one slow trans, plus sirens, that gives you options to try 40 or 50 times! But not within few seconds.
One very easy way to block the attack bots is to prevent an attack to be recalled in the first 3 seconds. It still gives the player the chance to try to time that 2 or 3 times manually, but botter will not be able anymore to time 20 attacks and 20 supports all at the same second. And it will make the game more faire.
Personally, US110 is the last grepolis server I will play until something is done against that. Because it just kills the interest (and the fairness) of the game.