Since there are a lot of questions and discussion around recent events here is some follow up information in one place instead of spread out answers in multiple threads.
Around 20 players were temp banned for the exploit ...
It is very good that you are starting to do something.
Although I am a new player, it's hard to decide on a more serious step in investing funds in this game,
which let's remember belongs to the RCE genre, so trust in the platform provider should be a priority for you guys.
Before installing the game I flipped through more than 300 pages of company documents, game history, etc.
Everything looks like an orderly concept, but as is always the case there are human factor problems,
and since you are planning an engine change soon, which may attract potential depositors, you'd better clean everything up beforehand.
Because you have no real beta testers and rely on us players.
I suggest and hope that you will submit this concept to the office at Monday's meeting.
Creation of a permanent thread in the "Dev's Corner" section, open to comments from players.
Where the moderating person will be not someone from the forum team, but direct key-man in the production processes.
In such a post we players can publish existing problems in the game, bug's, exploits, etc.
So you can temporarily suspend a mission or event within 24 hours. Pull the plug, simple.
We the players will at least be aware not to touch the activity for a while.
I think that the player who first informs about the exploit should be rewarded in some form,
in proportion to the funds saved by the company in percentage terms.
On the other hand, those who use exploit should not be banned from the game, it is enough to block the possibility of active participation in the game processes (Hunting, Mining, Craft), trading(transferring) for their avatar and to make the possibility of withdrawal from the game system at first for 3 months, then 6 months, 9 months, a year, and then a permament ban.
This is the RCE environment, the lack of opportunity to catch opportunities in a constantly running business is a good enough motivator to stop.
Personally, I myself do not understand the lack of respect for the invested funds and time by some people.
For me it is just stupid to lose a lot of money in the style of criminal mind.
A simple example I came across recently was completing a mission using the transformation of sweat into crates.
In the mission description it clearly says that you need to manufacture aka craft.
From my perspective, this is simply an error of the counter hooked up to the chat system.
So as an old-school gamer, and also having held positions in the gaming industry in the past, a red light immediately went on for me.
"Don't do it you can lose everything".
Unfortunately, as you yourself understand and can read it here in the post(+ its easy to find on outside pages how things are rolled), for too long you have allowed a certain group to degenerate thinking about the game and company.
Therefore, I recommend the second case. Create a "mother" and its crew.
Probably being in business you know this term if not ask the first better logistics company what it is about, as its same thing.
For such a game, 4 people are enough, who can act independently,
similar to an outside company. Where "Mother" confides only to "Dad", read CEO.
This can help you with the unfortunately sizable problams that came after the golden era,
and the beginning was to pay "Observers and Sustainers" in the form of items generated in the system of game.
You will understand.
The last part is just a question.
Have you really not guessed or even observed non-human activity during so many years at various events and instances?
For me, it is a feat to press a "F" key for 3 to 4 hours.
Of course, I have reached perfection, I have snacks, drinks and I start after the toilet check.
But come on, you can't go beyond that time. Each of us has to sleep, some of us have private lives and work.
So as you understand. You can't play 24/7.
Simply counting the activity, collection points, should alert the office that a robot has been detected.
There was an event recently where I watched(Twitch) and supported one player,
keeping my fingers crossed for his win.
He dedicated 10 hours a day to completing the task,
of course he had to take a toilet break from time to time, but he even had dinner brought to his room.
And he had to sleep for +5 hours. I remember that he gave his all.
He lost by a big number of points which, for me, can only be explained in two ways.
A robot or 3 people taking turns playing on one account.
I hope that you will sort out all the matters before UE5, and who knows,
maybe my blockade will be lifted and I will gladly pay more than my monthly accepted*for the situation you are in, limit.
I wish You, the MindArk team and the new CEO a nice but busy month.
Soon, half a year will pass and we all need to focus on getting this year off to a flying next year start.
WolfStar
