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Hello guys! ^-^

I'm not sure if this is the right place to write what I want to write.

I think PH has a problem with cheaters at the moment.

Accounts are showing up in the ranklists for the most interactions within 30 days.
So, why do I think this account is used for cheating?
Because there are accounts which made 3,199,789 in 14:11 Hours... which are 12,443 Interactions per minute.
This shows the most obvious use of a auto-clicker/clickbot.

But I think this accounts are used for even more cheating though... for example they have only 7,145 PD, which means the PD must have been traded to someone else...

There are much more accounts like that, just look at the ranklists!

I wonder if there is anything PH could do against except for reporting such users... I mean, there is an possibility to record Interaction Stats.

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The only thing you can do, is report them ^^'
There's a system in place to catch them, but that doesn't mean a report isn't useful in itself.

Though, for the PD, it might've just been spent, so the fact they don't have as much PD as you'd expect, doesn't mean it was traded away(;

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Quote from Tamm

Because there are accounts which made 3,199,789 in 14:11 Hours... which are 12,443 Interactions per minute.

Uh, your math is kinda wrong though. Why do you think the interactions were made within 14 hours? Like you said, it's the "most interactions in the last 30 days".

Means if someone has made 3.2 Million interactions during the last 30 days, it means they make around 106k per day. And that's 73.6 per minute.


But yeah, back on topic - Like CatLady said, we have a very strong cheat detection system in place that frequently spots cheaters :) it has an extremely high accuracy.

Yeah, I was wondering if my math is right x) ty for the correction.

Quote from Riako

Why do you think the interactions were made within 14 hours?

Because the Accounts mostly just have 14 hours of playtime...

I'm okay with reporting users like that, I'll have an eye on such.

Thank you for your fast respond guys! <3

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Ah I see! Misunderstood then.

Well, our cheat detection system sometimes needs a few days to catch the cheaters (it always needs to make sure the evidence is 100% accurate). But I'm confident that cheaters are always spotted sooner or later.
If you've got other solid evidence though, you can surely always send in a report :)

Quote from Tamm

Because the Accounts mostly just have 14 hours of playtime...

I don't think it's accurate to gauge someone's activity on site based off this statistic, because it's pretty inaccurate. I been on here every day playing for over a year now and only have 1102 hours, when factually I've spent a ton more time than that here.

I forget when, but there was an update a long while back ago where you would gain less Game Time for spending time with features. Most notably the interaction system (since there was a big change to it with how it affects your Trainer Level and the nerf really seemed to really affect how much you gain from it I noticed).

Also, it's not only interactors that would be cheaters as well, and being someone that no-lifes this game and has tons. I know how the discrimination feels with people making it out like we just all cheat and even go so far as to harass us about it. There's even other features people cheat with, but obviously it won't be easy to see, but I've heard about such things.

Anyway, there's been a few cheaters that have been banned recently, but not really going to say any names.

The Account I used for my example had been registered on 02/10/2018 (1 Month ago).

The last action on this account happened 19 Days ago. Over 3,000,000 interactions in less than 20 days sound very complicate.

I won't do nameshaming aswell.

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