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EQ TLP 2024 Teek (Random loot) & Tormax (Traditional) #neckbeardnostalgia
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Zaide
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The first wave of anti-cheat is in. There is an automated system that boots and blocks people detected warping under certain circumstances.
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Yeah some claim the horrendous lag early on Aradune was the result of them testing some kind of anti cheat, not sure if true or just a conspiracy theory.
The conspiracy theorists have been on a pretty good run of being right the last few years though.
The conspiracy theorists have been on a pretty good run of being right the last few years though.
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Its already been busted in our testing. It was implemented so fucking lazy that cothing people directly under an agro mob will get them "blocked". Not to mention once you realize how its being detected the work around is literally effortless. This changes nothing sadly.
This team literally cannot do anything right.
Arbitrary
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Rajaah
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Oh cool, I assume you can also use it to port to LDON camps. That actually is pretty useful, especially early on.
Nope. Doesn't port you to any LDoN camps until LDoN is out, however if you choose one of the gates zones it will punt you to the evac/succor point of the zone you are in.
Works as a vendor too but has a 20 hour cooldown.
Works as a vendor too but has a 20 hour cooldown.
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Kirun
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Until I hear word of perma-bans, none of this shit really moves the needle for me.
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Tuco
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war+dru is pretty easy to fit into any group that has two slots and is easy to make a new group. You'll be fine.
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Korzax Stonehammer
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Ritley
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They could just pay someone a pittance and pretty easily find the majority of warpers just by watching. Let the automated system flag and then have someone monitor and you could take care of 95% of the worst cases pretty much immediately.
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Korzax Stonehammer
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'Sounds expensive, how about we spend nothing and hope for the best.' - Darkpaw Games
When A.I. is free and open source, we may see some monitoring.
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DickTrickle
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AI isn't some magical monolithic MacGuffin you can plug in anywhere and it just magically works, even if it was free and open source.
It would almost certainly take way more time, effort, and expense than hiring someone to follow people around.
Sieger
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This info is a little out of date. 3-4 years ago they did seem to be pretty reserved with real bannings, but now that I've been running a live guild since 2021 I see a lot more of the big picture.
EQ Live is a lot different than TLP--Live has a lot of interminable grinds (leveling up evolving items, farming a huge number of augs, AA, etc), and since most live players box, they end up doing these grinds on multiple characters. For this reason using MQ for automation is very, very common on live. Using it for old TLP hacks like warp / far taunt etc is much less common--there is little real reason to risk that on live, where raid content is all instanced, and all the group content is pretty easy to get a camp for, with liberal pickzone thresholds etc.
There have been a lot of players with regular, credit card subbed accounts who have been hit in the periodic banwaves that started around late 2021, and once your account gets tagged a few of those in a row you eventually get permabanned. About 75% of permabans I know of where people in my guild have lost characters get reversed if you email them promising not to do it again etc, but about 25% they won't ever budge on.
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