07-19-2019, 04:02 PM
Up until a year or so ago my main hobby was mod coding for Unreal engine. I've gotten to code a bunch of stuff for it including several anticheats, some of which ID you without letting you know that you were flagged. This lets the admin decide what to do before you even realize you were noticed. One overwhelming surprise for me was the vast amount of people who cheat. I regularly told clan leaders that approached me for help that they were going to be very surprised at how bad the problem really was and that they better put some thought into how it was going to go. If they *really* wanted to clean up their servers they were for sure going to lose players and some of those were going to be long-time clan members. My guess is the very same conversations are happening with the CoC devs.
Because of the attack playback system we know that there are server-side demos created for each game. It's a forgone conclusion that these feed into a stat tracking system that is used internally to monitor game balance, etc. It would be trivial for them to skim off the top 5% of obvious botters in the amount of time it would take to script the button that does the auto ban. Because they haven't it tells me that they very likely just aren't going to do this, probably for financial reasons.
I'm reasonably sure this is just them posturing. I'm glad that ClashFarmer uses anti-detection algorithms but in the end you can't hide from the spreadsheet. It would take no time at all to sort the tables by playtime and see the botters clearly in the data. Stats nerds like myself live for this sortation lol. I'd guess they make up a good portion of upper level players too. We spend money on bots and probably also spend money on the monthly CoC plan so that you maximize your return on the amount of time you are playing.
There's no way they are going to sweep across the player base and remove a ton of people who are paying for the monthly plan. Company shareholders don't give a shit about botters, they want maximum profit and if you impact that by trying to 'clean up' the game you are not going to make them happy. By all accounts the player base is shrinking now anyway so that's another reason you won't see anything.
TL/DR: There might be some token banning of certain accounts but my position is that you won't see mass banning for a number of reasons. We as mostly quiet, non-streaming botters who just want to play around are never going to come up on the radar to be noticed. Keep doing what you are doing.
Because of the attack playback system we know that there are server-side demos created for each game. It's a forgone conclusion that these feed into a stat tracking system that is used internally to monitor game balance, etc. It would be trivial for them to skim off the top 5% of obvious botters in the amount of time it would take to script the button that does the auto ban. Because they haven't it tells me that they very likely just aren't going to do this, probably for financial reasons.
I'm reasonably sure this is just them posturing. I'm glad that ClashFarmer uses anti-detection algorithms but in the end you can't hide from the spreadsheet. It would take no time at all to sort the tables by playtime and see the botters clearly in the data. Stats nerds like myself live for this sortation lol. I'd guess they make up a good portion of upper level players too. We spend money on bots and probably also spend money on the monthly CoC plan so that you maximize your return on the amount of time you are playing.
There's no way they are going to sweep across the player base and remove a ton of people who are paying for the monthly plan. Company shareholders don't give a shit about botters, they want maximum profit and if you impact that by trying to 'clean up' the game you are not going to make them happy. By all accounts the player base is shrinking now anyway so that's another reason you won't see anything.
TL/DR: There might be some token banning of certain accounts but my position is that you won't see mass banning for a number of reasons. We as mostly quiet, non-streaming botters who just want to play around are never going to come up on the radar to be noticed. Keep doing what you are doing.