Captcha Patch

[shapesifter13]

Hey Townies!

We are adding a simple question system for new users to help combat the bot problem. Players will not be able to chat until the question is answered. If you fail this captcha too many times it will result in a suspension. If you see a bot or scripter in game report them for spam, even if they aren't spamming. Any user that gets 3 reports for spam will be sent a captcha to verify them as a human.

We are also making a change to the ignore command to help users fight against these users. Ignoring a player now ignores their whispers as well.

Happy Hanging!

[Meandrina]

does ignore work in dead chat now too?

[KarlBowers]

Hmm... That's good news. But what if the owner of the bot is watching the game die while his bot is doing its stuff? Like bot owner watching game then people reported the bot then bot owner answered the catpcha then bot continued its job. Remember that one person can report a player once.

[Kyosji]

Server crashed earlier today, and when I got back into a game i was hit for my first captcha request. The statement took me a while to understand what you wanted, as the grammar was horrible. It was something like "The opposite of noisy you are" Some Yoda sounding statement. Once I realize a comma was supposed to be after noisy, but again, there would be multiple answers to a question like that. Wasn't sure if the captcha took multiple answers, or if it was supposed to be exact.

Anyways, even after I was forced to enter my captcha (Which I assume most people had to cause the server crashed), the game was filled with bots, all chatting and spam whispering.

I really don't think this system is working since the crash.

[Yottawatts]

Hey Townies!

We are adding a simple question system for new users to help combat the bot problem. Players will not be able to chat until the question is answered. If you fail this captcha too many times it will result in a suspension. If you see a bot or scripter in game report them for spam, even if they aren't spamming. Any user that gets 3 reports for spam will be sent a captcha to verify them as a human.

We are also making a change to the ignore command to help users fight against these users. Ignoring a player now ignores their whispers as well.

Happy Hanging!

Still quiet a few bots. Mostly in casual and ranked practice.

I think it would be more effective to:
1)Have to answer a capcha anytime you are reported(once)
2)The capcha comes if you are reporting for any violation.

This seems like it would be more effective and even if a regular player is reported, i wouldn’t mind answering a capcha before every match to see the bots go.

If it would be possible even new players should do a capcha before they can join a game. This would stop new bot accounts.

Also: Block account creation from known bad emailsites (10minuteemail) and having to verify your account before you can play.


Thank you
-Yotta

[shapesifter13]

These users have have found an exploit to avoid the captcha, we are working on shoring up this hole currently. Until they found this hole there were little to no bots. The little that were there would spam until they were reported, then would stop.

[brunoblitzdog]

The game is almost unplayable 6 or 7 bots in one game. nothing is working to stop it.