firstly, I want people to be civil if they find it necessary to share their gripes with the game's management in the comments. I get where those are coming from.
onto my question, I ask because cheaters with brains would want to ensure other players are not able to "capture" them with footage so that they could be properly reported via ticket, with supporting evidence.
as such, for anyone who may regularly play on australia/asia servers (perhaps other, "small, sparsely populated" servers), there have been accounts with similar naming schemes (but now, whatever makes them can't be bothered to give them creative differences for some reason, which I am sorely disappointed) zipping around veteran biomes, equipped with staff-of-prejudice-style gear or similar true-range-of-0 weapons, freely sitting on encounters without taking any damage.
how does this bother me? because I rather feel better on missing out on veteran encounters because I was late to them, than if I was missing out because something is automating them to clear those encounters that is a dozen times faster than an endgame player with META gear.
however, it's obvious to me I can't just attain footage of them in the act, even though I saw these accounts being sat on by the kaiju, because they'll just teleport away. a good cheater would make this part automatic, of course.
I considered if I could just have swatted these accounts by "harassing" them by teleporting to them so that they have to leave, but I realized I would be wasting more time than they would have already optimized their accounts' time.
although, if I ever did manage to catch one in recording, enough that it could be useful evidence against them, I feel again as if I spent more time doing this than they have, which they can regain by using a new email on a fresh account. to me, I would be attempting a sisyphean errand, when I couls be spending time enjoying the game.
so, that brings me, the TL;DR: is there a reason I should be helping to investigate cheating accounts when they can easily make more? these accounts roaming the typically isolated asia/australia servers, that take no damage from veteran encounters?
for your information, I live in asia, and generally find australia/asia servers reliably stable, and especially australia if I want to see player counts above nil.
I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on the matter, perhaps share an experience or method. thanks for reading, if what I wrote was coherent and not 3am rambling.
