Hacking/Cheating

  • Hello dear rare team, hello dear reader.

    So at first I have nestle 600h in sot (sea of thieves) and I Play this game for over 2 years now.

    So I guess we all are aware of the increasing rate of hackers/ cheaters in hourglass as well as in the normal lobbys.

    After I watched over 6 videos of people using cheats or as they call it exploits I came to the conclusion that sot needs an anticheat.
    I wrapped my head around it and thought what could be useful what could be useless and I came to the conclusion that the current report a player system is not bad but not useful either. If u get matched with a cheater that uses the fly hack to tp a keg on ur ship u can not see their Name. So report a player is a function that shows every players name that are currently in the lobby. So my first idea is that if u get matched in hg (hourglass) u only can report the player that u matched with and not the whole lobby.

    My second thought is about the anticheat or an future anticheat idea. In many games its common to use an live cheat tracker, thats means as soon as a aimbot/ fly hack/ fast ladder/ invincibility hack is detected the player gets automatically banned.

    Here comes the second problem the alt accounts or second accounts. As soon as a player gets banned they can easily create a new account and continue their hacking/cheating. My idea is that those guys at first get permanently banned, second get a ip or hardware ban. Third this may be hard to accomplish but I am not sure if it’s possible. But get a microsoft or xbox live ban with their account.

    Those were my ideas as same as a list of the problem we currently have in sot.
    Be respectful and not toxic even tho its hard sometimes.

    And rare team I hope u guys read that.

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  • @conciseonln said in Hacking/Cheating:

    @conciseonln

    My bad be respectful and NOT toxic.

    You know you can edit the post, right? :p
    Click the wheel icon.

  • Waits by anchor

  • @tesiccl

    Ppl played a lot of HG this weekend apparently lol

  • @pithyrumble it’s always a seafarer forum account with 1 post ;)

  • @pithyrumble

    yip but thats not only a issue since this weekend. :D

  • @tesiccl

    I never posted something here bc I didnt knew you can post something here. But I have a lot of ideas and stuff.
    So even if u think I m not serious about that I can say I am :D

    and those are just ideas. If they dont read it or do something about its unfortunate but I cant do something about that besides posting my ideas.

  • @conciseonln I’m poking fun, not at you apologies ^^

    Pithy is a bit of a stirrer so I’m indulging.

  • @tesiccl

    All good dont worry but instead of making fun of me I would like you people to give me feedback and those kind of things that are normally common in forums.

  • After I watched over 6 videos of people using cheats or as they call it exploits I came to the conclusion that sot needs an anticheat.

    You and every other post that has been made in the last 24hours about cheats and mods being used ingame.

  • @burnbacon

    Okay? But I am not flaming or hating.

    Instead I give serious solutions and ideas. So at least take this thread a bit more serious please.

    Thank you and have a great day!

  • @conciseonln there’s a good chance this post will be locked because Rare have made their thoughts known regarding the cheating situation and adding another post into the sea of requests for anti cheat does nothing. They are well aware, and they’ll be working in the background but no official statement will be made by Rare as to not give the developers of the software a heads up.

    As said in this post at the bottom: https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/159187/game-has-no-future-without-anti-cheat/1

  • @tesiccl

    Okay thank you!

    But even if it get locked up I tried so I can be happy with that.

    Still thank you!

  • @conciseonln exactly! Safe travels on the seas!

  • As put by another of our staff:

    Ahoy!

    The best way players can bring these bad actors to our attention is by raising a support request here. This helps us assess numbers, categorise issues and develop solutions accordingly.

    Rallying people on the Forums does not do this. While sentiment can get fed back, reports help us assess player impact and numbers, this is what we need to support us in our work against those spoiling the experience of others on the seas.

    When reporting players please make sure to include as much detail as possible as well as video evidence to help us find solutions.

    As links have been provided to both our support site where these problems can be reported, and to our response as a studio to the problems we know our players are facing, I will be dropping anchor here.

    Thank you.

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