RSS Feeds and Cheat Protection

iguypouf · May 6th 2013, 4:38pm

Dear all, Game Dev or others,

I read some crazy news on French Board, about the generalisation of RSS Feeds for all players. Its a good thing that some paid features become free, so no problem about this; its for me a real bad feature, but its your game so its not the purpose of my topic.

My question is : if you generalise the RSS feature, did you also update / increase the operating tools for that ? Do the Game Operators having access to logs to detect multi RSS check from one location to several RSS Feeds ?

With this feature for free, I'm sure that centralised feeders will appear everywhere... One player can easily check the activity on all active and inactive players of his team / network.

I post that in Suggestion, just to suggest you to create those logs if you haven't thought about that

Regards

Warsaalk · May 6th 2013, 5:53pm

If they have the passwords to his accounts they can yes.
I suppose the multi-account rules and sitting rules also apply on the rss feature.

But to be sure, can anyone confirm this ?

iguypouf · May 6th 2013, 6:39pm

Multi account I don't know, but its an infraction against the GCU.

But I'm not sure that the operating crew can survey the connections to the RSS Feeds.

benneb · May 6th 2013, 6:51pm

But I'm not sure that the operating crew can survey the connections to the RSS Feeds.

tools of operators can not be shared in public

iguypouf · May 7th 2013, 10:48am

Its not a problem of share, just of information.

FuMAnChu · May 7th 2013, 12:13pm

Where exactly can this news be found ? Link ?

benneb · May 7th 2013, 6:17pm

there is no rule for RSS feed multi

the multi rule is for ingame parts
rss is external

only GA can ask COMA to create a new rule

Warsaalk · May 7th 2013, 8:03pm

Well are there any GA's around here ?

I'll probably ask the dutch GA .

Kramagon · May 8th 2013, 12:39am

Warsaalk wrote:

Well are there any GA's around here ?
I'll probably ask the dutch GA .

Yup!
You should ask your community GA

Warsaalk · May 8th 2013, 9:06am

Already send a email to them !
I saw on ogame's facebook yesterday that they're going to work with notifications on their ipad app?
So how will this work, because how i see it, it's a pain in the deut supplies of fleeters.

How long untill these notifications refresh for instance ?

Francolino · May 8th 2013, 6:57pm

FuMAnChu wrote:

Where exactly can this news be found ? Link ?

There Update 5.5.0

JoKy · May 9th 2013, 9:45am

There is up to 3 minutes delay until this notification appears at the used ipad. So you need to have your ipad in view to see it. It popups one time, where your ipad screen flashed (as every other notification of other apps). When you activate the ipad you see all notifications, from the ogame app and other apps. Maybe google can help you out to answer all questions about app notifications

Just for clarity: You don´t see running attacks. You only get notifications about beeing spied thats all.

RSS is currently not used by many players. Sure it´s a commander feature right now, but they don´t use it as you expact. We should not create a problem, where no problem exists. In the present time, every one has a smartphone and is online more then in the past. I also use commander since years and i don´t have rss feed active.

Warsaalk · May 9th 2013, 10:38am

Thanks for the info JoKy

Yeah i've used the RSS feed for a while, i know how it works.

Ok we'll see how it goes ! And you're right about the smartphone.
Could it be possible to order the seperate feeds from newest -> oldest .

JoKy · May 10th 2013, 8:58am

There will be no change until new message system is there

Warsaalk · May 10th 2013, 9:05am

Ok thanks for the info !

Toxicterror · May 13th 2013, 2:40pm

well one problem with the rss-stuff is, that its not that easy or simple to get it running... especially for non-techy (low it-knowledge) players

TheViking · May 13th 2013, 4:54pm

Toxicterror wrote:

well one problem with the rss-stuff is, that its not that easy or simple to get it running... especially for non-techy (low it-knowledge) players

I made some Tutorials about this in Ogame.de Board. (Of course you know that Toxicterror. You inspired me to make this Thread.

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If someon thinks it would be nice to have those Tutorials, i would translate them and make a Thread here to.
I think the Screenshots are multilingual and it would be a surveyable amount of Work to translate them.

Toxicterror · May 16th 2013, 4:09am

i'd help you with translation for this board here ;)

TheViking · May 16th 2013, 6:42am

Ok. I'll contact you to this Topic.

iguypouf · May 16th 2013, 11:27am

JoKy wrote:

RSS is currently not used by many players. Sure it´s a commander feature right now, but they don´t use it as you expact. We should not create a problem, where no problem exists. In the present time, every one has a smartphone and is online more then in the past. I also use commander since years and i don´t have rss feed active.

I'm sorry, but I have to react on this.

In the French community, we know two teams that use the RSS feeds centralised, publically. How many behinds the scene ?
Why only two ? Because they have, each, to pay the Commander.

This morning, I spy a player and another player of the team spies me directly. I KNOW that the first player is not connected, probably sleeping.

Tomorrow, the only problem (paid feature) will disappear, and so only ONE INTERESTED player by team will be sufficient... He can asks to each player to activate their feeds and compiles all information published on it. The other players are not obliged to subscribe to the feed themselves... Just activate it and furnish the link...

Another use is to activate those feeds on inactive accounts : they can be advised that a fake account, inactive, had been spied; begin the survey... and let's go !

Another use ? If a player of my team make a mistake when choosing his ghost speed... The RSS advised me that his fleet cames back on a period on I KNOW that its an error...

Really, you don't see abuses with this ??

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