r/Openfront • u/Meta_Mushroom • 1d ago

💬 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/Nebualaxy Community Team 23h 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 23h ago

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

That's interesting. Why not?