Simple solution for spies

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Originally Posted by wolpak

Why would you have to stop recruiting during war? That is silly, especially for the always warring clans. Making arbitrary rules that may hurt some when a simple solution would resolve 98% of cases.

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Recruit from global and recruit by invites only, not too hard. Spying is a part of every WAR game. There is no reason to change something that shouldnt be changed.

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Originally Posted by wolpak

Make all traps and teslas only viewable by those in the war. If you aren't in the war, big deal. Now, anyone who joins cannot see the hidden stuff.

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Not a good idea. There are many clans (mine being one) where it is desirable for the rest of the clan to see those things.

Spies are not a problem that needs solving. they are part of the game. If one player is outsmarting another then the other player needs to get smarter.

Just don't let anyone in during war if you are that concerned about spies.

or let them in and show them decoy bases. they did give you that ability with the base editor. (guys that like to spy have been here crying about how that ruins spying for them)

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Originally Posted by Slaskio

Recruit from global and recruit by invites only, not too hard. Spying is a part of every WAR game. There is no reason to change something that shouldnt be changed.

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Yup, this one small simple fix is one of those things that should be changed. That's the only change. Not doing any other suggested change since there is no reason to go any further or be more elaborate or complicated about it. Glad you agree. :cool:

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

Yup, this one small simple fix is one of those things that should be changed. That's the only change. Not doing any other suggested change since there is no reason to go any further or be more elaborate or complicated about it. Glad you agree. :cool:

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Oh i see what you did there XD

But seriously. Show me a WAR game that doesnt have spying. Its just part of the game and should stay that way.

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Originally Posted by WarrenJames

Been thinking of maybe having a message in the clan profile to have people say a key word in those invites to prove they actually read it. Would be a good quality control check. But it won't of course stop smart spies.

I'm just miffed by the oversimplified answer of "lol close clan, (implied 'you fool') lol", since they miss the entire point of the argument and pretentiously pass it off as a useless suggestion.

Thankfully, Closed or not, you can actively invite people in, but that passive recruitment of people asking to join can be just as important. If you war constantly, and constantly have your clan closed because of some spy threat that may or may not happen, that just hurts you as a clan. I'm not so much against spying, as I am of people borderline exploiting the system, with only 'Close Clan' or 'Invite Only and hope no one in your large clan hits accept mistakenly', all because someone wants to circumvent the block in seeing traps and CC troops.

It is a simple fix, and all Supercell has to do is code in something to stop the wrong people from seeing stuff they aren't supposed to. They have the code, they know what authorization info is needed, they know what data can be checked. It isn't hard for the system to enforce. The fact that it is so ridiculously simple to code in there, from my understanding of computer programing, and yet have people be so ignorant (or stupid) to say "No (implied 'you moron') just close the clan", is just infuriating. If it wasn't for the fact that I knew that they actually meant it, which personally I think is sad in it's own right, I would swear they were trolling.

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Yea I get that I personally don't have that problem. I think we had one guy try to spy on us and we actually knew he was a spy cause he was on the war roster. long story short we let him and let him watch as we beat the other clan senseless. Think we had the full 60 stars in 3 hours....sigh lol wish we could do that again but anyway yea it would be nice but there are counters to this other than closing the clan.

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Originally Posted by Slaskio

Oh i see what you did there XD

But seriously. Show me a WAR game that doesnt have spying. Its just part of the game and should stay that way.

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I get your point on spying (and got it several times before from others), but this is a simplified base-attack game. Spying is a level of detail Supercell didn't exactly intend on having in CoC, and we know Supercell wants to keep things simple as reasonably possible. This is not one of those complex (and frick'n awesome) Sid Meier's games, where you have war, politics, technology race, and of course spying.

As I said, I'm more against the use of the exploit than anything else. I wouldn't be pitching a fit if spying was actually taken into account in-game. If it was taken into account, I wouldn't feel less robbed of possible clan recuits being blocked, since there would also be purpose built anti-spying methods for the purpose built spying feature. Right now, people claim that 'spying is a part of war' citing the 'current countermeasures' of Invite Only or Closing the clan as if they were propose built for stopping people from spying, and many would agree (I would think) that is not the case.

That's my issue. I don't want to make this analogue, but it is almost like terrorism (almost, but not. No rants on this concept please). You have the threat of someone doing an an action, and your only counter actions are to limit and gimp yourself. That is a problem for real life, but this game is not real life, it is a game. A fun game where everyone has stereotypical appearances matching thier job, with insane master Builders with Thor's second hammer of Construct Anything.

Yeah, good idea. Should be implemented into the game.