I'm bendin' the rules I have set about cheating but guys
The situation is dead serious.
Taiko hackers have been proliferating and most of them haven't been banned yet. Multi-screeners' case will be put aside for now, it's not as easily provable as hacking.
Seriously, in a few days, we got told of a ton of cheaters getting banned. But ! It takes hell of time to get one banned, not only because it is hard to prove it, but actually I don't think hardcore and casual taiko players care that much. I'm not asking you to report every foul play you notice, but only obvious foul plays (oh, hi SS on big black standard diff and with hardrock on) that are known to be impossible to mankind (oh, hi 100% SS fullmod on chipscape standard diff) or just too weird considering playcount of the player. (oh, hi SS HRHD chipscape taiko diff in <10 tries while the player has not even 200 TOTAL.)
With more actions taken, we will prove to hackers that Taiko mode will not be a safe place to cheat anymore. If they cheat, it's mainly because other hacks have not been done yet - standard and taiko are released atm afaik - but since Standard has been extremely dangerous for now, and being caught hacking makes the cheater banned instantly no matter what is the mouse movement type (aimbot or Timewarp hack), Taiko has been considered as a "safe place" for them.
It's not only up to me to decide who cheat and who does not, it's up to us all. We may be a dislocated group from time to time, it is now time WE agree with each other for this.
Here, double-screeners are another case of cheating, but not hacking. It's using the game's small bugs or using special hardware that makes easy to HDFL stuff without much memorization of the chart. These people are not concerned by the above speech, as this is extremely difficult to detect these. Thanks for considering this.
I'll also ask not to put any names. If I have done that on the top of the post, it's because this guy has been somehow known for this kind of foul play in #taiko. Even people outside Taiko community are convinced of it. If you're convinced that a player X or Y cheats, please use !report <username> cheating, and if you can, provide examples. Luckily, he will get banned very soon. You must be 100% sure of your action, though.
I want to have these rankings as clean as possible. I know this is impossible to get that 100% clean, but please, we have to try to get it the cleanest possible. Would you want a top 50 full of hackers ?
Regards.
~_Gezo_
PS : To anyone who has powers out there, please tell me if this post is out of place, but don't delete it. It HAS to stay here until people get conscious about this scourge.
The situation is dead serious.
Taiko hackers have been proliferating and most of them haven't been banned yet. Multi-screeners' case will be put aside for now, it's not as easily provable as hacking.
Seriously, in a few days, we got told of a ton of cheaters getting banned. But ! It takes hell of time to get one banned, not only because it is hard to prove it, but actually I don't think hardcore and casual taiko players care that much. I'm not asking you to report every foul play you notice, but only obvious foul plays (oh, hi SS on big black standard diff and with hardrock on) that are known to be impossible to mankind (oh, hi 100% SS fullmod on chipscape standard diff) or just too weird considering playcount of the player. (oh, hi SS HRHD chipscape taiko diff in <10 tries while the player has not even 200 TOTAL.)
With more actions taken, we will prove to hackers that Taiko mode will not be a safe place to cheat anymore. If they cheat, it's mainly because other hacks have not been done yet - standard and taiko are released atm afaik - but since Standard has been extremely dangerous for now, and being caught hacking makes the cheater banned instantly no matter what is the mouse movement type (aimbot or Timewarp hack), Taiko has been considered as a "safe place" for them.
It's not only up to me to decide who cheat and who does not, it's up to us all. We may be a dislocated group from time to time, it is now time WE agree with each other for this.
Here, double-screeners are another case of cheating, but not hacking. It's using the game's small bugs or using special hardware that makes easy to HDFL stuff without much memorization of the chart. These people are not concerned by the above speech, as this is extremely difficult to detect these. Thanks for considering this.
I'll also ask not to put any names. If I have done that on the top of the post, it's because this guy has been somehow known for this kind of foul play in #taiko. Even people outside Taiko community are convinced of it. If you're convinced that a player X or Y cheats, please use !report <username> cheating, and if you can, provide examples. Luckily, he will get banned very soon. You must be 100% sure of your action, though.
I want to have these rankings as clean as possible. I know this is impossible to get that 100% clean, but please, we have to try to get it the cleanest possible. Would you want a top 50 full of hackers ?
Regards.
~_Gezo_
PS : To anyone who has powers out there, please tell me if this post is out of place, but don't delete it. It HAS to stay here until people get conscious about this scourge.
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