Cheating

[Verin]

It become a big problem, 3 games in a row ive had players online using the "speedhack" namely the "tomatoes" aswell as a few other random players. They seem to build and research twice as fast and its ruining the game. There is no point in playing against a cheater.
Cant we add a little anti-cheat in there?

Thoughts?

[lav_coyote25]

if you know who the cheaters are - refuse to play them.

[Buginator]

There are tons of topics about 'cheating', and they all boil down to the same thing.
Only play with people you know, and use 'master' builds for MP games.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7862
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7834
... the list goes on

[Zarel]

i heard something about a cheater blacklist, but i dont know how credible that is. maybe google it?

We don't have an official cheater blacklist, because it's difficult to say for sure whether or not someone is cheating.

[NoQ]

and also if someone is on the list or not

[Verin]

Master builds?

[BunkerBlaster]

Master builds?

Master builds are a snapshot of trunk.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7692
In this one you will need to forward the port yourself if you want to host. (fixed for next Master / snapshot)

[cybersphinx]

Actually master builds are a snapshot of master, which is the git equivalent to trunk (just to be nitpicking).

[Verin]

I don't have to port forward thanks to the router I use, The problem is nobody else seems to use these. so what is the point?

[BunkerBlaster]

The problem is nobody else seems to use these. so what is the point?

The game being open source makes it difficult obviously to make it cheat free because the source is out there for everyone to see. The Master build has some improvements that does not allow some of the cheats that ver 2.3.7 does so its a huge improvement. Before the game was open source there were cheaters. So we only played with select groups of friends, which was a big benefit of having clans. We new who we were playing with.

To answer your question the point is if you want to play a cheat free game you should be trying the Master build, and play with friends.