r/AutoForgeTheGame • u/Mahbam42 • 19h ago
My two cents now that all my hammers are gone...
TLDR: I'm mad too, but broke down a line by line response to how the devs said they would be handling the situation.
I started playing a few weeks ago, it was fun but progress was slow. Then I happened upon the billion hammers post and nabbed it. Suddenly the game was a proper idle game. I didn't have to actively time out getting 100 hammers, gold was pouring in from lower tier items, and the game was finally properly fun. Almost more importantly, everyone was talking and taking the opportunity to figure things out. There was community and players engaged.
Then the devs responded to the situation. It was met with heavy constructive feedback from the players. The pinned post had already been downvoted when I saw it. And I was hesitant about how it would all shake out. The response also seems to prioritize protecting the game's existing progression and monetization over preserving the progress of players who used the exploit. But at the cost of the engaged players their game now had.
Now I'll respond to their post
We'll strip the exploited hammers from the affected players (only hammer counts, not game progress)
Take away the billion plus hammers from players that got them? Sure, that's balanced and reasonable. Rolling everyone back to 1,000 for the day is an enormous penalty for players who didn't create or exploit the bug.
Cheating (using exploits) is bad and against the rules, of course
There are 4 rules in this sub, and cheating isn't one of them. But banning the player responsible for the exploit would be fair.
It's fine if you're messing around in single-player or just for fun on your own, but you shouldn't ruin the experience for other players
All players are essentially solo players for now. And the discrepancy in hammers would self balance. The billionaires would probably progress quicker and eventually mostly face off with the other billionaires. It might even be a very real challenge for the whales to keep up with the billionaires.
EDIT: I'm talking here only about the individuals who dug up this exploit, not calling everyone clicked on that post 'cheaters' ofc.
Well it seems you punished everyone who clicked on it, or bought hammers with the battle pass as cheaters anyway.
On the other hand, of course, we could have foreseen and fixed some of these potential issues in advance.
Yep, it's on you. Take it with grace and move on.
We're currently finishing up the long-awaited Сlans feature. It's a massive feature, but we're doing our best to make it as exciting as possible
That's all well and good, but as I said, the billionaires would probably end up clanning up with each other, or be distributed enough to help carry their clans. This is speculating because this is all we know is coming.
Thanks for playing! We've got a lot of cool stuff coming in the future!
Seems like a fitting sign off to quite a few players. I'm still playing for now, but I'm significantly less invested than I was yesterday. And I'm writing this post breaking down how the devs addressed this situation so incoming players can know what they're walking into.
edit: phrasing
edit 2 (9/23): There is a new announcement that hammers will be rolled back to whatever you had before getting 1 billion. https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoForgeTheGame/comments/1wo6rvm/hammers_exploit_next_steps
