i think its been ignored lately the new way of hacking seems to be to "crash game" ive been around aoc a long time and there are things that happen now that NEVER happened before in zone, and i am convinced they are a hack. however it seems some are the type of thing that happenes naturally sometimes, but other times are VERY suspicious. a
1. "AoC error" ur game closes and windows tells u "Age of empires expansion has stopped working" in the little popup box and it shows in game that u dropped. THIS ESPECIALLY never ever ever happened in 10000 games i probably played in zone, NEVER, there were plenty of hacks in zone but this never happened. i remember it first starting about 2 years ago out of nowhere.
2. the game just closes for everyone.....wtf? its different from the other because it happens to everyone and has no "error box" this seems to happen in 175+ LN games alot recently, and just happened in a long game where my team was winning after a huge comeback, there were 2 suspicious unknown players with low games and good record/streaks ATOM_ and _skyfall_ * or something, and COINCIDENTALLY atom and i were going back and forth talking **** RIGHT before it happened. i know it was one of them, they teamed and were the only unknowns, not to mention the fact that atom and i were talking **** RIGHT before it happened. obviously i cant prove it but everyone in the game agreed, including their team.
There are a couple reasons i make this post
1 is to address this issue! it seems it happens and the ppl in the game talk about it for a second and thats it, it just doesnt seem to be getting addressed in the community.
2. i wonder if anything is being done about 'fixing' it or if it is being addressed by voobly at all? do they even know? i figure they must at least be aware of it to an extent, i mean many voobly people also play the game. i remember when the aoc error first started happening, sometimes it was suspicious and sometimes it wasnt, but more and more it seems its in sketchy circumstance.
im so so so passed the point of accepting this as 'just an error that happens naturally' there is no way, maybe sometimes- or maybe that was true long ago, but there is no doubt in my mind that it is being used as a hack now. IT IS SOOOO PATHETIC that people cheat in aoc - and in these cases usually over just 3 or 4 points! aoc is so old and rating doesnt mean much anymore, i just cannot understand it.
voobly is a great thing, the people who made voobly happen and continue to keep things going are great, we really are lucky. between patching cheats and banning cheaters - voobly is waaaaaaay better than zone in that regard (and in most other regards). in zone there were no mods that gave a **** or EVER did anything, u got cheated - tough luck, nothing would be done by zone, ever. BUT as a community, back then, we exposed cheaters and blackballed them, because that was our only option! and it kinda worked (to an extent). thats one thing i wish the current community was better at doing, banding together against cheaters. its amazing to me that people will let someone sync a game or something like that, and then play with that person later in the week or even later that night! my god, i remember when _Castle_ and Zeitgeist were syncing LN games - it baffled me that i seemed to be the only one (or one of very few) that REFUSED to play with them, i would tell hosts and players not to play with them AND in many cases THEY ALREADY KNEW but would still let them play!!! droppers, syncers, and now the hackers that do the aforementioned style of hacking ("crashers?"), MUST BE BLACKBALLED in the community. DONT PLAY WITH THEM! call them out when they enter a room. HOWEVER there are situations when there is no way to tell who did it, and that doesnt mean to pick someone and call them a cheater, obviously u want to be sure or ALMOST sure who it was before u call them a cheater. keep in mind that falsely accusing someone of cheating is REALLY lame and noob, so be sure. at this point i realize this post is probably ridiculously long and contains a lot of ranting, but i feel this needed to be said and needs to be addressed. i love this game and i haaaaaaaaaate cheaters.
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1. "AoC error" ur game closes and windows tells u "Age of empires expansion has stopped working" in the little popup box and it shows in game that u dropped. THIS ESPECIALLY never ever ever happened in 10000 games i probably played in zone, NEVER, there were plenty of hacks in zone but this never happened. i remember it first starting about 2 years ago out of nowhere.
2. the game just closes for everyone.....wtf? its different from the other because it happens to everyone and has no "error box" this seems to happen in 175+ LN games alot recently, and just happened in a long game where my team was winning after a huge comeback, there were 2 suspicious unknown players with low games and good record/streaks ATOM_ and _skyfall_ * or something, and COINCIDENTALLY atom and i were going back and forth talking **** RIGHT before it happened. i know it was one of them, they teamed and were the only unknowns, not to mention the fact that atom and i were talking **** RIGHT before it happened. obviously i cant prove it but everyone in the game agreed, including their team.
There are a couple reasons i make this post
1 is to address this issue! it seems it happens and the ppl in the game talk about it for a second and thats it, it just doesnt seem to be getting addressed in the community.
2. i wonder if anything is being done about 'fixing' it or if it is being addressed by voobly at all? do they even know? i figure they must at least be aware of it to an extent, i mean many voobly people also play the game. i remember when the aoc error first started happening, sometimes it was suspicious and sometimes it wasnt, but more and more it seems its in sketchy circumstance.
im so so so passed the point of accepting this as 'just an error that happens naturally' there is no way, maybe sometimes- or maybe that was true long ago, but there is no doubt in my mind that it is being used as a hack now. IT IS SOOOO PATHETIC that people cheat in aoc - and in these cases usually over just 3 or 4 points! aoc is so old and rating doesnt mean much anymore, i just cannot understand it.
voobly is a great thing, the people who made voobly happen and continue to keep things going are great, we really are lucky. between patching cheats and banning cheaters - voobly is waaaaaaay better than zone in that regard (and in most other regards). in zone there were no mods that gave a **** or EVER did anything, u got cheated - tough luck, nothing would be done by zone, ever. BUT as a community, back then, we exposed cheaters and blackballed them, because that was our only option! and it kinda worked (to an extent). thats one thing i wish the current community was better at doing, banding together against cheaters. its amazing to me that people will let someone sync a game or something like that, and then play with that person later in the week or even later that night! my god, i remember when _Castle_ and Zeitgeist were syncing LN games - it baffled me that i seemed to be the only one (or one of very few) that REFUSED to play with them, i would tell hosts and players not to play with them AND in many cases THEY ALREADY KNEW but would still let them play!!! droppers, syncers, and now the hackers that do the aforementioned style of hacking ("crashers?"), MUST BE BLACKBALLED in the community. DONT PLAY WITH THEM! call them out when they enter a room. HOWEVER there are situations when there is no way to tell who did it, and that doesnt mean to pick someone and call them a cheater, obviously u want to be sure or ALMOST sure who it was before u call them a cheater. keep in mind that falsely accusing someone of cheating is REALLY lame and noob, so be sure. at this point i realize this post is probably ridiculously long and contains a lot of ranting, but i feel this needed to be said and needs to be addressed. i love this game and i haaaaaaaaaate cheaters.
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