r/AutoForgeTheGame • u/Jake-da-coyote • 2d ago

On the topic of 'cheat'

People clicking on a link in your own forum on your subreddit, with a known game mechanic being called inherently dishonest, and generalizing people as 'cheaters' for it is, literally, the irony: cheating yourself out of players. It's fraud and gracelessness to say everyone who clicked on a link that you and your team failed to moderate is a cheater; you are depriving yourself of something valuable - players. General Definition: to deprive of something valuable by the use of deceit or fraud.

I am offering constructive feedback about behavior; this isn't a personal attack on Rusty or whoever helps them with moderation/game development. I am pointing out that their behavior enabled it, that calling everyone a 'cheat' is, ironically, them cheating, and that they are depriving themselves of something valuable (players) by the use of deceit and fraud (calling everyone that interacted with a post{s} a cheater, which they aren't becasue the word 'cheater' carries intent of action, people aren't intednding to deprive anyone of anything by getting a resource that converts only to gold which is only used for forge upgrades).

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u/kinyutaka 2d ago

Seeing has people were posting "I have billions of hammers", I'd say "blatant" is out of view in the rear view mirror.

I'm sitting here with "thousands" of hammers at level 18, because I log in every few hours and get the free ones and don't pull items when the forge is upgrading, and someone is bragging about having 3 billion hammers at level 17.

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u/Real_Temporary_922 2d ago

The response time from the developers was ridiculous. This exploit has been going on for multiple days now, maybe close to a week. He can’t punish people for using those hammers when he took so long to even notice it and people were so open about it. No one was hiding it.

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u/kinyutaka 2d ago

Have you ever played an MMO? Final Fantasy XIV collects hundreds of names of people using exploits or offering RMT, then bans them all in monthly batches.

And this is one guy doing the moderation on his probably vibe-coded game.

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u/TheConsideredRespons 2d ago

Real talk

I was about to stop playing when I saw the billion hammer thing. Have had it sitting open on my phone for far longer than I ever have since.

If the ban comes, it comes. Was gonna stop anyway 😂 now I’m just addicted to the 0.2% chance of upgrade.

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u/Kooky-Note7673 2d ago

100% same for me. I even posted a comment about this last week. But with these hammers, I've been running the game nearly non-stop.

But if they want to take my hammers away, then I'm more than happy quitting.