How to report hacking in a multiplayer game?

[Sovietof17]

I need to know how to report a user that is using hacks to illegally manipulate the game state. In a single turn, he moved an entire stack consisting of 1-move units 1 square inside of my territory [which should have consumed his move], bombarbed the square, and then attacked. Please reply to this thread with the proper e-mail addresses to contact so that I can report this abuse.

 

[GeorgeOP]

Pleae provide proof via save data. Otherwise there is no sure way to know you are 1) telling the truth and/or 2) remembering the game correctly. I don't want to say you're wrong, but posting in this forum would get the attention of important people, I would believe.

 

[CanuckSoldier]

If you have before and after saves and/or screenshots you can email them to me. If there is cheating going on it is likely modified assets at work and a trainer will certainly produce OOS messages. Fortunately with the arrival of 1.61 all players in a staging room will get a file mismatch error when someone joins will modified assests.

CS

 

[Sovietof17]

found another user, Whooracle, I hit his stack of medieval units with about 12-15 catapults and it barely took any damage...

So many goddamn hackers in this game it's no wonder why the multiplayer is dead

 

[IglooDame]

If it is a pitboss game, the pitboss administrator should see a "using mods" warning for the player, too.

But as others have said, saves/screenshots are really the way to go, else your accusations aren't going to be taken very seriously.

 

[CanuckSoldier]

Yes I have yet to see any evidence of cheating in a MP games, particularly the use of trainers to alter game assets. The rng can produce some extreme results at times, but that is not a cheat, it's a rng at work. So this is all fairy tales until legimate prove is presented.

CS

 

[Mutineer]

I got players screaming cheater in MP when I come with Greens agains them having archers. Skill <> cheating.

 

[CanuckSoldier]

Average players tend to scream that when faced with competitive players and there tactics. They think that the AI is actually good :?

CS

 

[azzaman333]

found another user, Whooracle, I hit his stack of medieval units with about 12-15 catapults and it barely took any damage...

So many goddamn hackers in this game it's no wonder why the multiplayer is dead

From my limited MP experiences, the ones who cry "HACK!!!" are normally the people who dont understand the game mechanics. Play some SP, learn the basics, then come back to MP with your knowledge and be competitve.

 

[jorey]

Average players tend to scream that when faced with competitive players and there tactics. They think that the AI is actually good :?

CS

Quoted for truth. I've often had people call me a hacker that are inferior players.

 

[CiverDan]

Unlike Civ 3..I have yes to see any verified report of outright "cheating" in a game. IIRC in Civ 3 there was one case where a guy loaded a scenario with a 27 att/27 def/27 move gallic. Of course, he did it once and was caught.

A couple of people are able to on occasion reduce the 6 sec wait time to double move, but it requires selecting/moving single units then selecting the stack and is tough to pull off and is essentially a non issue in MP game due to the difficulty of finding and selecting a single unit within a large stack.

 

[OverloadUT]

In my Pitboss game, I just lost a battle that I had 99.6% odds of winning

Some people just get lucky.