6 and 7 Star Darth Vader
January 7, 2016 10:02PM
edited January 2016
Greetings Heroes,
As some of you have noticed, there have been a number of players with a 6 or 7 star Darth Vader. This raised some flags with us since the highest star Darth Vader a player could obtain currently is 5, and that is only if all achievements are completed that are in the game.
There was an exploit that players were using to obtain extra Darth Vader shards, thus allowing them to Promote him to 6 or 7 stars. This exploit has already been fixed and will no longer allow extra Darth Vader shards to be obtained through the method that was used.
We have decided to not ban these players, but will be taking additional action in the near future with these accounts.
As a temporary solution, all 6 and 7 star Darth Vader characters will be lowered in power for all players so that they are the same as a 5 star version. So if you come across a 6 or 7 star Darth Vader in Arena or Galactic War, know that they only have the stats of a 5 star version. Once we are able to take the additional action referenced above, we will back out this temporary change to the 6 and 7 star versions of Vader.
We take cheating and abuse of exploits very seriously because it upsets the balance of the game and can give certain players an unfair advantage against the rest of the community who are playing by the rules.
Thanks.
As some of you have noticed, there have been a number of players with a 6 or 7 star Darth Vader. This raised some flags with us since the highest star Darth Vader a player could obtain currently is 5, and that is only if all achievements are completed that are in the game.
There was an exploit that players were using to obtain extra Darth Vader shards, thus allowing them to Promote him to 6 or 7 stars. This exploit has already been fixed and will no longer allow extra Darth Vader shards to be obtained through the method that was used.
We have decided to not ban these players, but will be taking additional action in the near future with these accounts.
As a temporary solution, all 6 and 7 star Darth Vader characters will be lowered in power for all players so that they are the same as a 5 star version. So if you come across a 6 or 7 star Darth Vader in Arena or Galactic War, know that they only have the stats of a 5 star version. Once we are able to take the additional action referenced above, we will back out this temporary change to the 6 and 7 star versions of Vader.
We take cheating and abuse of exploits very seriously because it upsets the balance of the game and can give certain players an unfair advantage against the rest of the community who are playing by the rules.
Thanks.
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I appreciate the update. I hope you will tell us what action you have taken. This is important, because serious penalties for cheating are the only real way to show that cheating is taken seriously.
I must admit that I am disappointed that these players have not been banned. I've played other games where cheaters were only given mild punishments, and the results were very bad.
Or are you dropping their Vaders down to 4 or 5 star?
Seems strange to leave these people with 6 or 7 star characters, that once you change back the data they got a killer character.
For now, we are doing what I mentioned above. This is not the final action being done.
Man, I miss playing MMO's where Blizzard could just ban someone and you can't screw over the developer.
There should be an additional penalty to their other characters, crystal/credit supply, and shard count to compensate for this. Otherwise they win even if their Vader is completely stripped.
My guess is that it is the fastest way to neutralize the cheating. Since nobody should have more than 5* they can quickly change some stats and neuter the 6* and 7* Vaders, then they have more time to deal with this more thoroughly later on.
That makes sense. I just hope the "additional action" is to not let those players keep a character that none of us are capable of obtaining at this point in the game.
They obviously knew what they were doing was wrong and unintended. Unfortunately EA let the abusers off extremely easy... I hope in the future a slap on the wrist isn't their go-to punishment.
Well, I'm sure they knew what they were doing. And, I'm sure if you knew how to do it you would've done it too. Don't get too **** over the "cheaters", I say just take the extra stars away and that it. They didn't alter the game in anyway.
Do this and the message sent is "if an exploit shows up you might as well use it because at worst, you'll end up where you were before you did it". Not wise.
Which is probably why they aren't outright banning them. I agree exploiting a game glitch is different than altering game code to your advantage. But they shouldn't get to keep a 6 or 7* Vader that they never should have been able to obtain in the first place, if they did get to keep them then it certainly doesn't discourage future exploits. Although I don't think it would be possible to determine what items/characters/etc they got as a result of having a high starred player none of us non-exploiters were able to build.
I think it isn't a glitch, it is a cheat. The devs just dont want to talk about it cause there might be many more problems to come if others player have a clue on how this game can be cheated.
It's not Free for those who pay, and they pay enough to keep the game going dor everybody.
I hope they crush them hard. Not ban them, because of the refunds. Something more appropiated like not getting any rewards from arena or GW for a month would be nice.
That is a really loose interpretation of cheating. My personal belief is that using a "glitch" to accelerate your progress in a game is a cheat. You are cheating the intended behavior.
Also, happy to see you devs taking action. Hats off to ya.