Acheivment cheat

Hi once again this is Amgine here to report a possible exploit.

I realized that it is possible to open multiple instances of the game at the same time so you could login with different accounts and get the 25 flag (I suspect lots of people may have been doing this) achievement easily

(What i recommend that should happen is that you put a line in the game that says something similar to the effect of game>2 ( in case if you bug out) close-game essitinly if somone logs in with more then one account with the same ip it displays a message saying that there is more then one instance of the game running and wont let them login)

anyways could you fix it?

cheers, amgine

[Little_Apple]

ya dooonnnt sayyyyy

[sam686]

(What i recommend that should happen is that you put a line in the game that says something similar to the effect of game>1 close-game essitinly if somone logs in with more then one account with the same ip it displays a message saying that there is more then one instance of the game running and wont let them login)

Use of NAT router makes all computers within that network share the same public IP address, don't want all but one users fail to conect to servers. Those players can come from the same network having the same public IP address.

One thing I tried experimenting was to disallow the game registered user from joining the same server twice, combined with the ability to possibly ban any unregistered names coming from some specific IP address, forcing those players to register to play in that server, and to stop from changing names.

Although nearly any website that lets you register may have the problem of one user register multiple times, it is up to admins to try to make sure that doesn't happen. Can't rely on IP address alone to determine how many users is in that IP address, or if the user's IP address changes. This may be a problem mostly on forums, but games that you level up will have a disadvantage trying to switch between multiple accounts.

[watusimoto]

One problem we have is that if the client crashes for whatever reason, it may take a while for the server to realize this and kill the connection. Meanwhile, the player rejoins using the same login. If they were prevented from reconnecting, it would only heighten the frustration.

The particular cheat proposed -- opening multiple clients to get tons of flags -- can be done easily with ChumpChange clients as well.

In the end, there are lots of ways to cheat in Bitfighter. We've eliminated those we can, but there are some that are simply inherent in any game where you can download the client source code. But by keeping the stakes for winning low, and the community engaged and positive, we've kept the number of proven cheats to pretty near zero.