Still plenty of cheaters!

[Daredevil211]

That would be idea if you leave whilst in war then you forfeit attacks very good

[Jimati]

They need to disallow players leaving clans. That'll resolve other issues like hopping while limiting burner accounts. The only thing it would limit are level 1 clans, but the pros outweigh the cons.

I don't think disallowing players from leaving is the answer. I often go donate troops to my feeder clan.

I'm still curious why the 24hr cool down can't be applied to visiting someone's home base? That would stop it, right? Or I know some have mentioned a percent change for home base. Maybe more than 10% change, then a 24hr cool down. Meaning, if you moved a couple traps it wouldn't lock.

[Anarchos]

They need to disallow players leaving clans. That'll resolve other issues like hopping while limiting burner accounts. The only thing it would limit are level 1 clans, but the pros outweigh the cons.

Preventing leaving would not stop modding. You can still screenshot an opponents base, and have burner accounts in a second clan that you could work from. They leave their main account to go to a burner because it's easier and cuts out that middle step. Stopping them from leaving would just add one more step to their modding.

[nstar612]

Indeed, Alex.
The discussion here seem to revolve around an 'easy' -for serious cheaters- workaround of the bans. Doesn't seem far fetched that no direct link is needed between the legit th11 and the cheating accounts. We see some legit th11 3-stars and some weirdly accurate ones sometimes in our wars. After the years of modding, the bans, the burners, the escalation continues.
I just took a more chill approach to wars and don't care anymore; yet some in my clan are still competitive enough to wonder about all this continuous cheating, and are looking forward to more actions.
We will continue to report whenever we can prove something, which is becoming very hard, to support.

In absence of a perfect solution, you do what you can to curb cheaters. Let's face it, like many other games, SC will never come up with a perfect solution to get rid of them once and for all. You do what you can to without ruining the game for others. The longer you wait, the more people will stop taking wars seriously.

[mpeters82]

im surprised the cheaters havent improve their cheating tools yet. This unlimited practice cant still be done offline?

Once a player attacks a base, he will be in attack view/interface. The moment it happens, all the data has been sent from the server to your phone already. Said data includes all the building placed, the hidden stuff, etc.

Theoretically speaking, if the data sent from a server to your phone passes through another device, then that other device can record all the hidden stuff, and buildings placed. Once you have that data, you dont even need to be online anymore. All you need is a simulator that can use the acquired data to give you the same village you want to practice on. You can practice forever. You can use the other device to even simulate all kinds of attacks til it gets a 3star result.

Thankfully, the cheaters havent been able to produce such a tool. I just want you guys to know how vulnerable to cheats this game is.

Seems I've read before that the attacks are server-side to prevent this kind of abuse. The base data doesn't actually get sent to your device. All you see is the result.
It used to be that you could just drop a troop and get all the trap locations, but I don't think that's possible anymore. Could be wrong, though.

[Krudler02]

The more I think about this and read this thread, the more disgusted I am that a great feature like Friendly Challenge is being abused like this.

I can't help but wonder what it must be like on the developer end to come up with new ideas for the game (like FC for instance) and then have to debate how viable it is because of how people might abuse it.

[mpeters82]

The more I think about this and read this thread, the more disgusted I am that a great feature like Friendly Challenge is being abused like this.

I can't help but wonder what it must be like on the developer end to come up with new ideas for the game (like FC for instance) and then have to debate how viable it is because of how people might abuse it.

They're not using FC. The 24 hour lockout prevents that. They're using a mod.

[Krudler02]

They're not using FC. The 24 hour lockout prevents that. They're using a mod.

Perhaps I didn't read close enough then. I thought the TH3 in the other clan was using the FC feature in some capacity.

Either way, the entire thing is still pretty disgusting.

[devilsrevengeclan]

I guess I don't get the point of this whole cheat process. It takes quite a bit of work to redesign a base, set up a burner acct., practice to win and go through all this to avoid being banned. It's also amazing to me that these guys are doing this each time to win a single war. That's a lot of effort just to pad a statistic in a mobile game. I could understand it if there was real money to be gained by doing this but not for bragging rights or whatever other joy these modders feel they achieve.

Mod programs copy bases with a touch of a button -
Burner practices against base
Burner records attack with program till its a 3
Main account replays the attack with screen control program, its all automatic.
Bot programs create low level accounts automatically.

[Tomius]

After some thinking, I might have a solution for this burner/cheating issue :
As of now, it looks like all of the game data exists somewhere on your device, once you download coc. Those 3rd party apps somehow have access to this data. That´s why it is possible as a th 3 to use th 11 troops with those cheats.
If, on a first install, you would only download the data necessary for a th 1, and then, each time your leveling up the th would be complete, the game would restart and download the additional content for the new th level, burner accounts could only have access to content corresponding to their th level.
No more th 11 troops with a th3...
Of course you could still gem all the way up to th 11, but that would be quiet costly.
I bet only very few people would be willing to shell out 80 bucks per war. ...
any downsides on this one ?