[LCN] A Word On Kano's Stance Regarding Bots, Cheating and Scripts

Hi all,

We’ve been seeing a lot of talk recently about bots, scripts and various other methods of cheating, more so than usual, so I thought I would take a minute here to try and address some of these concerns.

It’s an unfortunate and very real fact that cheating is a common concern in all games and Mob Wars: La Cosa Nostra is no exception. We have several checks and policies in place to deal with players who break the Terms of Use, and we deal with them when we find them. We also understand that from a player’s perspective it’s easy to assume that someone playing suspiciously is violating the ToU, but this is not always the case.

There are several aspects of the game that may be prime targets for auto-clickers. The Battle Arena is one and we'll be ramping up our detection in that feature as well as looking to add a bit more strategy to it. We'll be looking for feedback from players on this in the coming weeks.

If you find an outside party promoting a bot or script, please bring it to our attention so we can take the appropriate actions. In almost all cases these forms of cheating are simply a way to grab account or personal information so this puts you at risk both personally and in the game. Installing a third-party script is very dangerous in any context and using them in our games is no exception.

Outside of the accounts frozen for using bots and scripts that are caught by our own systems, we also get reports from players about cheating, but sometimes players don’t have all the information. Support has a variety of tools available to dig down into accounts and find out exactly what is going on and all of our freezes are the result of many hours of investigation. What might look like a violation of the Terms of Use from the outside often has a very benign explanation.

We appreciate players reporting any suspicious activity they see to us, but most of the time these reports are false positives. Players should absolutely keep sending in reports of suspicious activity when they see it, but they should also be aware that in-depth investigations into accounts don’t always turn up cheaters because they’re not actually breaking the ToU.

In summary, please don’t use bots or scripts or anything else because we will find and ban your account. We do not condone the use of any game-altering third-party programs in any fashion, despite what some conspiracy theorists may think. The bottom line is that we want these games to be fun for our players and cheating runs completely counter to that goal.

 

Halleluaj...cheating ruins the game!

 

script? plz define

were using script to help me store and access raids I miss in chat; raid catcher. If I'm not allow to use this in chat, then I might as well quit your game. The links in chat are too hard to define; it's too freaking long

 

Raids?? store and access raids, raid catcher, are you sure you are in the right forum, am I missing something here ? Script and bots are software used to cheat in games , which any online game company worth their salt, will not allow and get a player banned.

 

Kano....you reading this thread?

 

I am, and scripts of any kind are against the rules, so don't do it. Since linyi551 is referring to "raids" I would assume that they play on Kongregate, in which case we have a Raids tab in chat which players can use to keep track of bosses without resorting to third-party modifications.

 

This is honestly a dead issue....

ppl who get caught or are know for bot/script use, get a 7 day suspension, & on the 8th go back to using there scipts/bots... so really whats the point of all this? lol

 

People who use bots or scripts have their accounts permanently frozen. Week-long suspensions are handed out for different reasons. When we say zero-tolerance, we do mean it.