Timeline for How to detect and prevent abuse (botting) of online game API?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:15 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Commonmark migration | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 10:12 | comment | added | miva2 | I agree with the building placement and orientation! That's at the same time a plus for legitimate users and a negative for bots. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 17:14 | comment | added | Random832 | The problem with "move allotment" is that you're telling all your players that they can only play for 30 minutes a day or however long it takes to use that up, which annoys them, limits your ad revenue, and creates a massive temptation to let them buy more through microtransactions. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 13:54 | comment | added | Adam Davis | @Katu You are ultimately right, it can be dealt with, but if you make the effort required large enough then you'll reduce the number of people willing to go to the effort, which may be sufficient. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 13:53 | comment | added | Adam Davis | @Katu Depending on the game, a lot of the UI elements may already be images. Changing the image names, altering the image file hashes slightly, etc will make it more challenging. At minimum you are forcing them to download every element just to figure out what to deal with. They can use javascript to find what element is on top at a given location on the screen, and then try to activate that, but even then you can make it harder by having the javascript client report back mouse click locations rather than element clicks. | |
| Apr 28, 2015 at 11:09 | comment | added | Katu | If its browser game, API change and all that will not matter. Unless you are willing to change all the text in client everytime also (That would be horrible for players. UI changes all the time.. ugh..) and if Texts are not changing, then its very trivial to find the text. Even with just jQuery. When i played Travian and I were just about to attack, i opened huge amounts of tabs, set all the info ready and when time was up, scrolled through everything clicking submit. Not botting, just fast, but your api delays would have hit me hard. | |
| Apr 27, 2015 at 15:51 | history | answered | Adam Davis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |