test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Please implement captchas in gateway instead of removing leadership management
crimpatul
Member Posts: 197
Please implement captchas in gateway instead of removing leadership management
The way to combat gateway botting is implementing captchas, not removing a great customer service (do leadership tasks form anywhere at anytime).
The way to combat gateway botting is implementing captchas, not removing a great customer service (do leadership tasks form anywhere at anytime).
0
Comments
+1 this would be better.
I am mad as hell and i'm not gonna take this anymore!
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
Ask google engineers why they use it.
And botters can still farm leadership from in-game, so this move hampers legitimate players more than it will bots, anyway...
"Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?" -Tony Stark
Official NW_Legit_Community Forums
Crafting in the gateways is the most entertaining thing in this game for me now.
Here is an example
Botters who are using gateway will simply change formats and start using "IN-GAME" bots creating in-game lag, I foresee Protectors Enclave being lag swamped worse than Spinward rise was at the start of Mod 6.
This is not an effective temporary or permanent fix!
This is a tough deal and it's gonna take the AD market a while to rebound.
I think a capcha system has problems. Do you require it whenever someone logs into leadership? Do you require it at log in (which if there's 50 characters on an account it makes very little difference even with a forced re-log).
Crucially they need something in game as well as on gateway as botting is rife in game.
Hell having people enter their user name and password is such a great security system we have to do it every time we want to play, why not have an automatic log out after about an hour and make people have to sign back in?
Something... Anything except taking away the one equalizer people who don't have hours and hours to spend playing to make some astral diamonds that will at least give them a fighting chance with those enhanced OP opponents in so many places...
Then if there was still a problem, by all means go nuclear nuts on everyone, but at least try the least offensive path first...
Why do I feel inclined to plead "pleeeeese" here?
Dude you posted this like 10 times now in other posts....we get it.
Additionally I'm guessing you have sharp vision and hearing. Not everyone does. For some people like me Captchas can be a frustrating problem though admittedly some are far easier to use than others. The wrong type of Captcha renders a site basically unusable for some people.
Captchas are contrary to the current internet accessibility trend and some day soon sites might be sued for using them.
Other games seem to have managed to deal with botters on the server end instead of punishing players. Maybe the devs should hire some of the people who accomplished that. A legitimate problems for development companies is botters count as part of their player base. If they do something to remove them they have to report a big drop in player base on legally required financial documents. But in the long term it'd probably be better to bite that bullet than lose a ton of legitimate, zen shop patronizing players.
Bots don't even need to worry about breathing air. Do the DEVs or supporters think this will hinder them at all? They will adjust them to do leadership in-game and go on about their daily life while people stuck at work... or asleep are simply screwed.
If I were to throw out ideas of why they did this, I'd say there's probably someone in mid to top level management who's like "oh wow, these numbers are super embarrassing. Quick, do something so it looks like we're not just sitting on our thumbs" and then they decided "Well, if the problem is the Gateway and most games don't even have a gateway, let's just !@#$ with the gateway!"
And so they did.
Personally, I'm not convinced there's a financial incentive for top level management to actually invest the resources into the game necessary to make it fun and playable. At this rate, I can't help but think Neverwinter has just become another way for Wizards to advertise Dungeons and Dragons. But if that's true, then whatever licensing deal they've got going on is probably backfiring, because nothing has turned me off of figuring out the state of the Forgotten Realms in 5E more than seeing how inconsistently Neverwinter has applied.