I have to tell you I'm not missing them at all. Wheat is flying off my shelf like crazy!
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I have to tell you I'm not missing them at all. Wheat is flying off my shelf like crazy!
It's the best part of update day. The boys aren't updated. Everyone is on manual. You might even find Bem and sem in the newspaper for the next couple days. Enjoy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Njoylife10
Yes it throws them off for while :)
Good riddance! Not missing them at all :smirk:
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Originally Posted by Njoylife10
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Originally Posted by Tiaxotrax
It is absolutely the best. This is what the DD could be like all the time if it weren't for those automated harvesters. Punks! :mad::p:smirk:
Tiaxotrax, is this what usually happens after every update. I was hoping SC had found a powerful new solution to the problem, but it could be a matter of the bots not updating yet? :( Well, I guess I'll enjoy it while I can. Thanks for the heads up about this possibly being a temporary state of affairs.
Am I right in thinking that as well as clogging up the DD with wheat they also swipe all the LEM, SEM & BEM before we get a look in? I know they closed that refresh loop hole in the DD but wasn't sure if the bots still swipe from it
It does give a much better understanding of the bot problem.
It definitely does put a new perspective on how many might be out there. I've found more bem, sem, lem today as well....feel like I'm rolling in the dough!
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I'm so loving it! :o
I don't know how they could swipe up specific items up faster than it appears on an ad....but the shear number of wheat ads going up would out number the few bem sem lem ads going up. to the point that it's a drop of water in the ocean.
Here's a thought. supercell could do a maintenance that would require downloading a new version of hayday. before they do the maintenance. look at all the farms that are wheating and doing ads every 5 mins on the dot. (I can't think there would be many players that could maintain doing the same task every 5 mins for hours upon hours days upon days. but to be fair I'm sure somewhere someone has no life.) anywho. take all the farms that are selling and advertising every 5 minutes. do the update and then compare to all the farms that are suddednly NOT selling every 5 minutes. log the IP addresses and flag them put an RSS ban on all the possible offenders. (bots will make new farms, real players will complain and get reinstated.) but of the bots that make new farms SC will have the IP addresses and assuming they are running from a computer that IP address is not likely to change. so those farms should ping the radar quickly. at which point they can be shut down even quicker. each time the botters started a new round they'd only be digging themselves in deeper. Basicly, SC would be giving them enough rope not only to hang themselves but to hang the entire hydra every single head at one time. It would be somewhat slow as I'm sure SC wouldn't want to be updating the build just to catch bots they would want to coordinate new features as well. so it would take time to phase them all out. and i'm sure you'd never get every single one after all bots are a plague on popular gaming. it's almost a sign of how good your game is that people put that much effort into circumventing the rules. and no matter how much SC improves the bots would probably improve as well.
Sorry got off on a tangent.
anyway after a few updates (probably 3) then SC would be able to start detecting a distinct pattern and know where to start blocking access from. after all if the bots are selling 20k wheat a day and a drop happens every 72 wheat or less depending on level. they have to be producing at least 250 various BEM SEM LEM MEM axes saws every day multiplied by each wheat selling bot. those items have to go somewhere so SC would be able to track down kingpin accounts and shut those down as well. Thus taking out the websites that are profiting off SC's hard work as well as the bots that are plaguing the day to day play of real players.
Oh the reasoning for why they'd look at the last hour or so of activity before the update was pushed out and then the activity after the update is because if a player was manually doing the advertising he or she would quickly grab the update, and go right back to wheating again and so would most likely continue with a minimal down time assuming he or she was doing it by had and staring at the screen swiiiiiiipe harvest, swiiiippe plant tap sell tap sell tap sell.......swipe harvest swipe plant and so on. where as the bot would be stuck till it's owner got the new version, then figured out how to get it setup, then turned it back on set the cruise control to maximum.