Idea: Reward System for Verified Hacker Reports in Sea of Thieves

  • Ahoy!

    To help make the Sea of Thieves a safer and fairer place for all players, I’d like to propose a system that rewards players who consistently and accurately report hackers or cheaters with sufficient evidence.

    How it would work:

    When a player reports another for cheating (with appropriate proof such as video clips or multiple corroborating reports), and the report leads to verified action from Rare (e.g. a ban), that report is marked as "successful."

    Players who accumulate a certain number of verified reports (e.g. 3, 5, 10, etc.) could unlock exclusive cosmetic rewards – things like special ship skins, clothing, or titles that reflect their contribution to keeping the seas safe.

    These rewards could be purely cosmetic to preserve balance, but they would serve as visible recognition for players who take the time to help maintain the integrity of the game.

    Why this matters:

    This system would actively encourage more players to report bad behavior rather than ignore it.

    It would reward the community’s efforts to support the devs in identifying and removing cheaters.

    It creates a sense of shared responsibility, making the seas feel more cooperative and secure.

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  • If there is a reward for reporting. People will cooperate with hackers.
    Hackers only need to launch cheating software. Register a bunch of accounts.
    And then intentionally recorded and reported by you.

    Successfully reported 100 hackers to give me a set of ship cosmetics?
    OK. Hackers only need to register 100 accounts.
    It may even appear. Hackers sell them.
    Hacker: "Hey, do you want this ship's cosmetics? Give me $100 and I will find you through cheating methods. Then let you record a video of me using cheating

  • Watch support be absolutely flooded with false reports with people trying to game the system for rewards. No. Bad idea and I hope Rare never consider this.

  • @tesiccl Maybe that is true, but I saw enough players that didn't bother to report a player because it doesn't matter what they do. I think there is always a good side and a bad side to this. And the cosmetics is maybe only a title or something small, so nothing special

  • @mr-spx-ss I get that, but I think you can do that with everything.... Also with hourglass that people get boosted with alt accounts hacking. So I think you will keep the same problem every time.

  • @stonygringo-nl This is specifically to do with hacking though. There would be paid services where hackers just spool up a bunch of junk accounts and it would honestly probably increase cheating since people would want the cosmetic

  • The reward for reporting a cheater is hopefully one less cheater or improvements to the detection algorithm so that more of them get caught.

    Anything more than that is just inviting more problems.

  • I think it should be more of a compensation system.
    Those who gained win rep gained from being boosted by cheaters - these hourglass rep gains from matches where there was a crewmate clearly cheating should be wiped.
    And those who lost due to the match against confirmed opponent cheaters - they should be compensated with ~1 allegiance level per match vs. cheater.

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