Fixing the anti-cheat might be rocket science, but that doesn't invalidate the fact that the server's anti-cheat is nothing but garbage. It doesn't matter how hard it is to fix the anti-cheat, or how easy is it to code a crack. If you're running a server with 4M registered accounts, you've to take the accountability. There's a reason why you hired a team of dedicated and passionate developers to work at Pika-Network's development. The development isn't done by a bunch of 16 year old teens coding for fun.
If the network's anti-cheat requires updates, if it's getting bypassed & if there're tons of cheaters ruining experience of a wide amount of regular players, the developers have to take full responsibility of it & look for a fix as soon as possible. Players do have full right to say "Just fix the anti-cheat", they've been promised an enjoyable environment while exploring the server. They're investing their time as well as money on the server (if donator). All they're asking for is fairness & an enjoyable environment. I see nothing but constructive criticism in that. Something the network owners as well as the developers have to listen to.
stop acting yall know anything about programming anticheats and saying JuSt FiX iT, there is too much to explain to you 500iq heads
I'd like to add here, stop acting like a bigger dog. If a person opens his browser, looks up for "Cracked minecraft servers" & log into the #1 ranked minecraft server world wide or even decide to spend on a donator rank, he/she is NOT willing to see 2-4 cheaters cheating their way in every single game. He didn't search "How to code an anti-cheat", he looked for a minecraft server. Your point is totally out of the context here, not everyone needs to know everything that's happening in the backend. As a person/customer/player, I'd only and ONLY care about my OWN experience, NOTHING else.
If the developers present on the network doesn't possess the ability to provide the network with an efficient anti-cheat in time, they're always open to purchase an anti-cheat or pay an expert to code one. The anti-cheat should be prioritized on top of everything. EVERYTHING.
I wonder if anyone would care about the anti-cheat unless their experience is ruined, it's not necessarily about the anti-cheat, there're a lot of ways to reduce the amount of cheaters in the network but they fail to achieve it too. It's not like they're not trying to, but I just don't see enough efforts myself.
The server being a beehive of cheaters could be easily reduced via various measures which includes hiring efficient individuals on the staff ranks. I'm no one to complain about the staff team, nor I'm trying to feature them here. But it'd be great if they could prioritize hunting cheaters while being in-game over anything else. Hope they're already at it.
If you're willing to take support of the community in-order to keep the server clean, then you must provide incentive in a way or another but the server COMPLETELY fails giving that too. To begin with, reporting a cheater is a really messy & complicated process. You've to report a user after recording and uploading a video to youtube & then hop on forums to cast a report & hoping for it to get accepted.
All of this takes a good amount of time and dedication, not to mention that a regular user has to do all of this just to help cleaning YOUR COMMUNITY. They get nothing in return tho, do they?
On reaching 150 reports, you can claim a FORUM ONLY tag called "Great Reporter" which is essentially a complete joke. They won't even make a discord role for it simply because an ex developer who resigned 6 months ago mentioned 2 year ago or more when the tag was firstly released that it's for forums only. Wonder what was so difficult to change that and make a discord rank for users who put enough efforts to report 150 players.
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The environment this community currently have, you'll get called a "snitch" if you even get the forum tag. For now tho, it's quite reasonable as all the reporters currently are staff wannabes, a bunch of teens sitting in practice or other servers mini-moding the chat. Not necessarily users who're reporting cheaters with a video.
There in-fact should be more ranks to reporting users, and even in-game rewards. They can also filter and add reward for reporting hackers & hackers only. And give coins & items if someone actually records a video and gets a cheater banned. I don't think if that's too hard to implement. Why aren't there more reporter ranks, why there's no incentive to reporting cheaters is something I'm really curious about.
People who just come on discord chat/forums & ping the developers or staff and ask them to fix the anti-cheat are certainly cringe, there's nothing changing that. But ignoring their problems with "anti-cheat is very hard to fix uwu" is even worse. Take responsibility.
Lastly, I'd like to say, Just Fix The Anti-Cheat!
