TheoTown

Lately, we added an additional reason for showing the red text This version has been hacked. It lead to an interesting conversation I want to share with you. I'll refer to the sender as Mr. X.

Mr. X wrote:Good day!

Dear developers,
Please, remove the message on top "This version has been hacked" - it
interferes with play. Please remove this message.

Thanks!

Maybe just another hacker. Let's reply in case it's a bug.

Lobby wrote:Have you hacked the game?

Mr. X wrote:No

Ok, in case he's serious that would be bad. Let's try to find a explanation.

Lobby wrote:Where do you have the game from?
May you send me an ingame screenshot, please?

Mr. X wrote:I had it hacked, but long ago stopped doing this, because I am for fair play. And generally remove the graphic, it prevents play, because the game has long been played since its open beta test the first versions. I would not want to spoil the attitude to the game that message, because they do not want to throw the game.

Ok, so he's a hacker after all. The text is either shown if it's hacked copy or if your diamonds come from a "dark" source. So he still has (probably a lot) of "dark" diamonds but calls it "fair play".

Lobby wrote:So I assume you have an huge amount of diamonds from these old days. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t call it fair play.

You have to either spend your diamonds or reset the game.

Mr. X wrote:So I spend them at super-speed, and I bought a lot for real money. Please, remove the message, I beg you.

He still wants me to remove the message, so I assume he has way too much diamonds to spend
Would be great if he spent real money, but do you remember the boy who cried wolf? Let's check this.

Lobby wrote:I want to confirm that you bought diamonds for real money. To do so, I would like to have the order id you got after the purchase.

If somebody would have bought that much diamonds that he would get the hacked message we would be rich. But unfortunately, that’s not the case.

Mr. X wrote:So you can remove this message or not? You just tell me Yes or No.

So, no order id? That's sad

What do you think? How should we handle such people and is there any reason to remove the hacked message?

Add more ads at every corner for the hackers (if that's even possible). Might as well make some money off of them.

Of course, the worse the punishment for the hackers, the worse it's going to be if it happens to innocent players.

Yet. You never know. Until then, screwing with hackers should be fun.

Lobby wrote: ↑

22 Jul 2017, 20:28

What do you think? How should we handle such people and is there any reason to remove the hacked message?

I don't see a reason to remove the message.
I assume the message was implemented precisely for that purpose, wasn't it, to spoil the fun for hackers?
It seems like it's pretty successful in that.

Remove the hacked message and put
"Now you've done it! ;( "

Honestly it's not fun until you get Flashing links of Rick roll flashing on screen 24/7

You should place that text and spam and move it bouncing in the screen. Then the hackers will sure give up.

Someone should send him a Fake FBI Notice about hacking the game.
If he is gullible enough to believe it the results would be amusing.

What if the hacker isn't from the USA?

KINGTUT10101 wrote: ↑

23 Jul 2017, 04:43

What if the hacker isn't from the USA?

Meh, just troll him with flashing lights, messages, spams, memes, etc.

Wow this is awesome add an annoying gif or make the residents into aliens and attack every 1 min
This is awesome again...

Oh yeah baby!

KINGTUT10101 wrote: ↑

23 Jul 2017, 04:43

What if the hacker isn't from the USA?

then we can just rick roll him.

The last message I deleted was too much!

No. There will be no case that an FBI notice will show in your device. Thats the exact thing a ransomware does.

Really same here also. I still remember when my teacher shows a tiny educational movie about pirating and stealing of intellectual property that is PIRATED.

Although there's not much value in it the conversation continued.

Mr. X wrote:So you can remove this message or not? You just tell me Yes or No.

Lobby wrote:We won’t. This text is for people like you who hack the game. I hope you’re not one of those who hack it in order to share the game with others. Surviving in the Play Store is hard enough, fighting hackers makes it even worse.

Normally I don’t care if a single person hacks the game, that’s why the game doesn’t shut down immediately if it’s been hacked.

Mr. X wrote:No signs it was better. And believe me, not only hackers play your game, but many users and some is swing style with money for the content you have very much expensive, and to afford it can afford not all, especially in the strand, where no WebMoney or Qiwi or other services (and Yes, there are, I'm in one of those countries live). I just beg you, remove this message.

Lobby wrote:That’s exactly why we added presents. If you cannot pay for the game you can pay indirectly by playing and watching ads.

Mr. X wrote:Well, I'll watch ads, but please remove this sign.

Lobby wrote:Why? If you don’t hack the game there’s no sign.

Mr. X wrote:I hacked the game for my little brother so he could play, and the more I play go, too, sometimes started because I threw it too long ago, as Donath and currency appeared. This game does not fall in grouse face, as it is now, would be better if it remained what it was in early beta tests. Now really the game was corrupted, which is very bad. Bring back the old beta.

Lobby wrote:So you want us to starve for your own sake :‘(

Mr. X wrote:No, don't want to. And you want to many again threw your game in the mountains of garbage in the play store? :'(

Lobby wrote:If we can survive as developers this way? Yes.

Development of an app isn’t more affordable than for pc, and still most people wouldn’t spend nearly as much money as they would for a pc game.

I there was a TheoTown that you could buy for money on Steam or something it would probably pick up a bit of momentum from people who liked the older SC games and from those who hated the newer ones. On top of that there would also be the community from the mobile game version to help keep it rolling. Of course, none of this will probably happen anytime soon because the game isn't finished yet, so there isn't much reason to port it anyways.

former member wrote: ↑

23 Jul 2017, 13:07

former member wrote: ↑

23 Jul 2017, 10:17

former member wrote: ↑

23 Jul 2017, 09:11

FBI watches out for hacking the games? Wow
Son of Russian Minister of Intellectual Property Protection plays pirated games and Ukrainian government doesn't know what's the internet at all.

Boi, my teachers in school play pirated games and watch pirated movies IN school.

Lol, absolutely the same

We called one of our teachers "Captain" for that reason.