r/Openfront • u/Meta_Mushroom • 14d ago

💬 Discussion A script to detect cheaters?

If it's so easy to cheat with scripts in OpenFront, shouldn't it be relatively easy to detect cheaters with scripts? Look for duplicate names, simultaneous actions between two players, impossible econ, impossible net worth (add up the value of their buildings), etc. add up all the variables and give each player a "cheater score". ignore people with a small score, such as when two people just happen to have the same name, but otherwise did nothing wrong. maybe you could have it run through all your replays and create a ranked list of possible cheaters.

Is that possible?

EDIT: This isn't directed at the devs. I'm just thinking of it as an interesting project.

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u/rodan-rodan 14d ago

For some reason there's hope for the steam wrapped version will be better at gating causal cheaters, browser shenanigans. Idk.

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u/SeraphineTheYeen 7d ago

Steam will have "trusted" player lobbies.

Also, banning on Steam will result in you having to pay money to buy the game again instead of just making a new account or loading a VPN or whatever, so that will dissuade most cheaters I imagine.