Official statement of cheating on PBW.

Lupusman · #1 April 13th, 2002, 02:35 AM

How do we know that this same cheater did not just create a new user name? Perhaps toning down the cheat a little so as not to be noticed.

disabled · #2 April 13th, 2002, 07:23 AM

I would guess they blocked the IP and are devising a way to ID suspected cheaters.

Schwarzbart · #3 April 13th, 2002, 10:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Hadrian Aventine:
I would guess they blocked the IP and are devising a way to ID suspected cheaters.

Most People dont have a fixed IP so block an IP wont work, perhaps you even block other players.

Resident Alien 2 · #4 April 14th, 2002, 01:13 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Schwarzbart:

Most People dont have a fixed IP so block an IP wont work, perhaps you even block other players.

That would be possible in some cases. Anybody who has a cable modem/DLS usually keeps the same IP. Mine hasn't changed in months and months. And the IP is included in the e-mail headers so you could exclude there. Probably not worth the effort, I don't believe there are all that many cheaters around.

Schwarzbart · #5 April 14th, 2002, 01:56 AM

*Lol* DSL in Germany is disconectet every 24 h so you get a new IP at Last every day.

disabled · #6 April 13th, 2002, 05:25 PM

Hmm.. True on that. A more complex route to block IP's would to create an 'allowed Users list' with whole IP ranges blocked off because of cheaters and Users also in that range would be granted access.

There is no 100% way to block a cheaters besides finding them and pounding them into a pulp.

Rich04 · #7 April 14th, 2002, 03:34 AM

A sad state.

There is a growing sense of paranoia it seems over on PBW.

A person whom I know would never cheat in in a game was recently accused by his main opponent whom is also the host. This is very self serving.

Futher rather than find out from the player what was up. He went straight to admin and complained.

With all the talk here on this topic, I guess things will get worse before they get better.