An Update regarding User Exploits *Fixed*!

[Sirius]

Greetings Everyone,

Our Development/Engineering Teams have brought to us some great news that everyone here at GREE is very proud and happy to share with you all today.

We have paid close attention to everyone's reports via support and here as well in the forums regarding players exploiting cheats to try to get a leg up on players that play the game fairly and legitimately (which we appreciate everyone's help in reporting these users). Our teams have been hard at work on finding out the methods people have been using to exploit certain aspects of the game and making sure we close out those exploits to stop and further prevent future attempts.

Below is a brief detailing on just what has been fixed recently:

Skill Point Exploiting

Our Teams have closed down and fixed an exploit in which players were using certain methods that allowed them to inflate their skill points well beyond what was intended and possible. This has been a thorn for many players for sure and you should now see less of this if at all. If you do still see any players abusing this, please report them and they will be banned.

Item/Unit Exploitations

We've implemented a series of fixes that help ensure players are unable to use methods to add unearned units/items to their accounts, such as respect units for example. This should help reduce any new players looking to inflate their accounts with unearned units. As always, please report any players that you see cheating and we will take care of them.


We hope you all enjoy the news and to continue enjoying Crime City.

Thanks!

[Deadwater]

Wow Sirius, a droid user in my syndicate just said he got a data push and bam I check forums to see this...quick response, great to see!

[kingofwale]

what the hell is honour unit???

Gree, if you want me to be able to identify them, you got to tell me what to look for

[Deadwater]

what the hell is honour unit???

Gree, if you want me to be able to identify them, you got to tell me what to look for

Honour units = respect points...honour is MW

Jeez S, keep up with the times

[Tardavic]

what the hell is honour unit???

Gree, if you want me to be able to identify them, you got to tell me what to look for

We apologize for the typo, meant to include respect units as an example.

[PawnXIIX]

The thing I like about this is that there was listening to the support tickets and that it was able to be patched. I hope this means more future security fixes like this one!

[TZora]

thanks for doing the needful Gree

[c00guy]

Awesome stuff GREE!! With all the new content in the form of new events, mods/admins listening & responding to us players and now banning/preventing cheaters, this has been an awesome month! Keep up the good work

[Vito Corleone]

Item/Unit Exploitations

We've implemented a series of fixes that help ensure players are unable to use methods to add unearned units/items to their accounts, such as respect units for example. This should help reduce any new players looking to inflate their accounts with unearned units. As always, please report any players that you see cheating and we will take care of them.


We hope you all enjoy the news and to continue enjoying Crime City.

Thanks!

From when is this implemented? I got hit by a cheather 2 days ago. Called MAXI. lvl210. Had for example the Koralene Crossfire that only Koralene won. And other top1 prizes only tam has for example. Sure I sent in a ticket but if you have a month response time on the tickets...well...

[bald zeemer]

Excellent work Sirius/Gree. Not on the patch, on which I'll reserve judgement until I've looked into it, but on communicating with the public on an issue that has been a massive bugbear for a lot of players.

I hope this is a sign of a new approach to communicating.

[SC4R]

thank you!

[mxz]

These specific fixes were implemented months ago - I'm curious as to why there was such a delay in publicly notifying others...

[MattThomas08]

The fixes are great and the time traveling exploit was the biggest. Still, if only they were retroactive and would somehow right the wrongs of those in the past, that would be fantastic.

[Chica]

Speaking of exploits one of my phone turned back to 1999 then alot of buildings set to upgrading I deleted most but didn't want to sell my icecreamshope for obvious reasons

[Stooboot]

Yea cool so what about the jail broken iphone users who can make a full profile in a few hours that looks like they have been playing since the day the game started? I think those players r a little more important than android "cheaters" who stick out like a sore thumb to anyone who looks at their profile.