Hacking and RoR

[rameden]

This is not a witch hunting thread SO PLEASE DON'T MAKE IT ONE.

I just came back after a break and am amazed at how many and how blatant the speed hackers are. I have seen a few in T4 but mostly in T1. While mounted I am very often caught by people on foot, and no it's not lag cause you can visually see them gaining. I will make a video once I get a good one but I wanted to know if RoR devs are doing anything about it.

[peterthepan3]

record it, and send it to them as proof. it's very important that you do record empirical evidence, as opposed to making accusations, because bad latency/a bad comp can make it seem as if people are hacking (when they're not).

[rameden]

record it, and send it to them as proof. it's very important that you do record empirical evidence, as opposed to making accusations, because bad latency/a bad comp can make it seem as if people are hacking (when they're not).

Absolutely and I plan on doing that if I see it in the future. Was just an open ended question as I have seen it mentioned in general and have seen a few instances of it.

[wargrimnir]

You might also want to check if they have a mount buff. Mounts despawn when entering water, but the buff will persist. This will make them appear as if they're running quickly. If they have a 60% mount, there's also an issue where they only appear to be moving at 50% speed and pop forward every couple of seconds to compensate. Both issues are known and not currently resolvable.

Either way, best to gather evidence and forward it to a GM. Users that are caught hacking are permanently banned on the spot, no warnings.