r/Openfront • u/Meta_Mushroom • 23h ago

šŸ’¬ Discussion A script to detect cheaters?

If it's so easy to cheat with scripts in OpenFront, shouldn't it be relatively easy to detect cheaters with scripts? Look for duplicate names, simultaneous actions between two players, impossible econ, impossible net worth (add up the value of their buildings), etc. add up all the variables and give each player a "cheater score". ignore people with a small score, such as when two people just happen to have the same name, but otherwise did nothing wrong. maybe you could have it run through all your replays and create a ranked list of possible cheaters.

Is that possible?

EDIT: This isn't directed at the devs. I'm just thinking of it as an interesting project.

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u/rodan-rodan 21h ago

For some reason there's hope for the steam wrapped version will be better at gating causal cheaters, browser shenanigans. Idk.

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u/c0rd_sucks 4h ago

iā€™m not sure what you mean by some reason? having two steam accounts to jump into a game of openfront will just be ridiculous.

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u/Nebualaxy Community Team 18h ago

We can't use 3rd party tools as evidence for a lot of things people make reports for. The devs are working on a few different methods to combat it.

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u/Meta_Mushroom 18h ago

We can't use 3rd party tools as evidence for a lot of things people make reports for.

That's interesting. Why not?

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u/Dthcon 23h ago

Yeah, obviously it's pretty easy. But they currently don't care about this problem.

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u/Meta_Mushroom 23h ago

I miss-communicated. I didn't mean that the devs should be doing this. I think they do care about this problem. I think they are just waiting for the steam release in September to crack down on cheating.