Still plenty of cheaters!

[Jimati]

That's what I thought at first, too, but it appears not.

So to throw some gasoline on the fire, maybe one approach here is to get rid of the 24 hour cooldown and let everyone practice? Yes, it still gives an advantage to the more dedicated, but isn't that always the case whether or not they break the rules? Speaking for myself, I would have no complaint if they shut down the current loopholes and stopped the modders cold — I would be happy to see it. But I am of the opinion that any game where you have the opportunity to scout your opponent for hours before attacking is going to be vulnerable to attack in some manner. Leveling the playing field by removing or reducing the FC cooldown seems more attractive to me than depriving us of the ability to choose our war targets, which would be lost if we lose the ability to scout.

Removing is a bad idea IMO. There would be way too many perfect wars if everyone got to practice. Again, the simplest answer is applying the 24hr cooldown to changes made to active home base as well. The modders rely on "visiting" a base in order to practice. If I make a new base and set it as my home base, it can immediately be sandboxed. However, someone had to wait 24hrs before they could even visit my home base, then how could they practice? The war would be over.

[NGS8Blood]

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 ?

I guess, but it'd be incredibly awkward at the start, having to download more stuff every day or two, and it would annoy gemmers, and they're SCs main customers

[NGS8Blood]

Removing is a bad idea IMO. There would be way too many perfect wars if everyone got to practice. Again, the simplest answer is applying the 24hr cooldown to changes made to active home base as well. The modders rely on "visiting" a base in order to practice. If I make a new base and set it as my home base, it can immediately be sandboxed. However, someone had to wait 24hrs before they could even visit my home base, then how could they practice? The war would be over.

Agreed. DO NOT remove 24 hour cooldown. That is mad. As far as I can see priorities are:
a) Ban burners quicker so they can do nothing.
b) Create a 24-hour timer on visiting home bases.
c) If they really don't wanna do either of those, do what Tomius suggested, which is also kinda mad, and would remove the super casuals, but soon enough this game is just gonna be the hardcore war players anyway. Might work tho.

[Krudler02]

I actually laughed out loud in disbelief, reading that they don't need to even tap their screen. If this is true, it's obscene. I had always kind of resolved in my own little reality that even with the ability to practice, there was still at least a chance for them to mess up on the deployment of the actual attack. I didn't realize there was basically an 'auto-win' function to it, if in fact that is true....

This thread has been incredibly enlightening.

[NGS8Blood]

I actually laughed out loud in disbelief, reading that they don't need to even tap their screen. If this is true, it's obscene. I had always kind of resolved in my own little reality that even with the ability to practice, there was still at least a chance for them to mess up on the deployment of the actual attack. I didn't realize there was basically an 'auto-win' function to it, if in fact that is true....

This thread has been incredibly enlightening.

Agree completely. It is obscene. It is madness. I just hope in the next update SC does something to stop this, and to make war fair engineering-wise too. Though some of them obvs don't know this stuff, coz they modded our th11s for ages, and came back to clan to hit 11v11 for a mass bowler 2* 66% lol!

[Jimati]

I actually laughed out loud in disbelief, reading that they don't need to even tap their screen. If this is true, it's obscene. I had always kind of resolved in my own little reality that even with the ability to practice, there was still at least a chance for them to mess up on the deployment of the actual attack. I didn't realize there was basically an 'auto-win' function to it, if in fact that is true....

This thread has been incredibly enlightening.

They still practice on their own, but every attempt is recorded. So, when an attempt is successful, they go live and hit "Play", and the screen taps are replayed exactly as the time you 3 starred it in practice.

[Darmanation]

this reminds me of when modding was just getting started. you'd see a modding clan here and there, but it wasn't wide spread. by the time it got to SC's attention they were out of control. this out of control growth just continued for literally years while SC did next to nothing about it. (by the way if you're curious about modding solutions - there are several real world examples where other companies plagued by the same bunny factory resolved this issue once and for all, google it - they even got the bunny factory to release an apology)

The problem is that once we stomp this way out the devs of the cheating app will find a new way.

Google it like mentioned above and you will find proof that it is possible to stop it at its source. Might be a permanent solution?

[NGS8Blood]

The problem is that once we stop this way out the devs of the cheating app will find a new way.

Google it like mentioned above and you will find proof that it is possible to stop it at its source. Might be a permanent solution?

Would be if they can argue that through with the mod devs...

[forever10]

Wasn't aware that they don't even need to do a live attack now. Seems like modders are steps ahead of SC at this stage. Wouldn't screen control program be considered a third-party app that violates ToS?

What screen control program has to do with ToS?

[NGS8Blood]

What screen control program has to do with ToS?

If it interacts with the game, replicating etc, would that not class as a TPA?