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KerrAvon
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@larry That’s an interesting post on cheaters. I thought you’d be done with this – cheater burn out – but you’re now thinking up other angles.

I think cheating in the arena kind of works like game theory. In this case the consequences of cheating are very low, so cheating is common.

I still put a lot of the blame on the cheaters themselves. They have to know that other EPIC players have put a lot of effort (as they themselves have done) into this game to develop and advance their bird teams. So they must realise they are really irritating other players. Sure, there is variation within a population for a willingness of individuals to cheat. But I think, put simply, the people cheating in this game are people of poor moral character. But so long as there are no real consequences for them, they will go on cheating.

Rovio have removed the timezone objective reset cheat method and they have addressed the hacked bird teams. As far as I am aware, hacked teams are not showing up as opponents. I do wonder if those who created the hacked teams are still able to battle in the arena, or if their bird teams are prevented from fighting.

But as you say, they have not addressed the other cheating method that we are aware of for resetting objectives or players who hack the scores. This does rest with Rovio. They are the only ones who can change the game to stop these cheating methods.

Something they could also do is to work on some consequences for the cheaters. A number of ABN contributors have mentioned that it would be easy to identify arena scores that could not be achieved under normal playing conditions. Why not identify these scores and act. I also think there should be a big “I” for “information” on Terence’s head in the arena nest, so that people know to look for information here. And on the information page there could be a tab that lets people know that the arena is a cheat free zone and the consequence is your game account is frozen or reset or something similar. Of course, they could word it nicely.