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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 397.2 hrs on record (358.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 26 Jul, 2024 @ 1:33pm
Updated: 3 Aug, 2024 @ 7:41am

Early Access Review
After a couple hundred hours of playing this game, I have found if you like grinding in the game in an unhealthy amount, you are deemed as a bot. Especially by players that are not even real admins. For all I know they are a 3rd party discord admin who think they are an actual in game admins themselves. If these players find it that another fellow player is suspicious of cheating, they should have an admin determine that instead of following players across servers, making it look like you are being stalked...

I definitely would recommend an in-game report feature. This would mitigate a lot of the self policing in the community, which puts an unrealistic amount of fear for people who legitimately like playing the game in a fair way. It should be the admins of the game determining a fellow gamer is cheating.

It's just unacceptable behavior for the devs to condone very gate keeping / witch hunting behavior AND encourage it. This is going to deter players in the long run if you have vigilante players doing things that they might think is right, but absolutely wrong.

Like this game is great. It's nice and simple for players to collect stuff and have a good time. But my conscious tells me not to recommend this because if you are an avid mmo enjoyer, you will regret playing due to suspicions.

I have been told NOT to place this review, but it just doesn't feel right not letting others know that this CAN happen to you as well. I will continue to play this game and change my review if they start implementing better ways for all this policing of cheaters that is not happening to the right people.

EDIT (8/3): They added a block feature that makes it so the people you do have blocked can not see which world you are on. Great start, but still can have stalker issues and witch hunters. A step in the right direction, but still need mutual friend function. Currently the system allows you to add people one sided and see where people are... With a bit more adjustments, this game can definitely feel just about right.
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Developer response:
Keros  [developer] Posted: 30 Jul, 2024 @ 12:47pm
All of our bot bans have been investigated by a dedicated hidden administrator. We do not just walk up to a player and immediately ban, we attempt to first move the player and ensure there is no auto-clicker at play. If someone is using an auto-clicker then we move them a couple tiles to determine whether or not they will follow the same path.

A player grinding will react rather quickly to an event like that, especially since none of the skills are afk-able in the sense that you can walk away for minutes at a time. The whole banning process goes through the whole development team and we give plenty of chances for the player to prove they're not a bot.

We are pretty confident in our ability to prevent false-positives, as all of our bans have video evidence to back them up. If you wish to challenge our decision feel free to contact any of the administrators with an appeal.
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