Hey folks,
just wanted to share my thoughts on this, since it's still possible to cheat at pvp, but it's much harder than before. Nontheless, it's possible, so people might exploit it one day.
All you need is a mediocre but active 2nd account to take advantage of the endless attack possibility. Some ironite is necessary too.
If both things are available you have to play PVP with the 2nd account till you meet the main account.
When this is done, we can attack our main account endlessly an loose every time. The main account will gain 12 points with every hold.
This is only possible for a period of 3 hours, because of the list refresh. After that our 2nd account will be so low in points that we won't find him again till he grinds his way up again. 4 more fights through revenges are possible but that's it. Nontheless this could be used for a quick saturday rush to grab the highest rewards.
If we have enough ironite we can refill and attack as often we can in 180 minutes, since the fights are extremly fast. 100 fights for 270 ironite should be easy possible in 3 hours. If we exploit this we could push the main account for 1200 points in that peroid. For the saturday this could be enough to climb into the division you like.
Conclusion: the endless attacks are still hurting the game and open the doors for creative cheaters.
Counter strategies:
1. Most obvious one: some kind of daily limitation on the attacks on one player could to prevent people from exploiting such leaks.
2. Some monitoring of certain patterns could prevent this too
3. if the lists would refresh every 30-60 minutes the cheater wouldn't have enough time to claim too many points
4. a certain limit of daily sow refills could solve the problem
5. EDIT: limit the possible attacks in the list to once or twice
Please note guys:
Since the last thread went a little out of control with accusations and offenses from certain members, i want to say it loud andclear:
I don't want to accuse anyone and i would also like to ask you not to do it. I honestly think all the top guys earned their rewards due to hard work and smart investments in sow refills, so for me there are no suspects here. My thinking behind revealing this is just to make the system more safe and the game more fair for everyone.
Curious about your thoughts :-)