
new guy in the neighborhood.. someone sent me this link.. told me to beware??
said I should ask people in forum to explain it to me?
is this what they are talking about?
BTW replicating it is harder than you think.. it is why they call it hacking.. Auto Botting is against the rules
this is a known widespread problem in online gaming and it is frowned on by most.
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Flash is the 'front end' used to play the game. So, objects like the 'smugglers den' for eg, are rendered on our PC "Clients" and some of this functionality is then available locally at the client. This in turn can be interfered with by unscrupulous tech savvy players to gain advantage. This is hacking at the client, as opposed to the server, which will hold the necessary databases for the game to run.
A server is "secure" LOL behind firewalls etc and hacking the back end would therefore be more difficult, though not impossible to implement. Check out SQLinjection attacks to learn a little about that stuff (for the purpose of understanding what is possible).
Now back at the client side, one could write a script to automate in game functions like pirate, merc, fleet and armada ship building at given intervals. Imagine you were controlling hundreds of bots, harvesting the rss for these activities and channelling those rss into 'designated' havens. In a comparatively short period of time, you already have the resources to build the fleet required to do some serious damage to your enemies.
Imagine unlimited accounts on same person PC or own virtual server farm (different IP's) ?!? They could be automated
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then you can do as suggested above and use it against those who use it against you. But not everyone has the ability to do it. and that is why many feel it is unfair. I am not complaining. But i have done the cost accounting and know I can't afford to play this game in a competitive way..
but I will say this.. where there is smoke there is most likely a fire..
using game bot techniques is fraud as defined across the online gaming world and it is a known issue
that is for real.
anyone who really works in IT knows all about this
I would not think of these complaints as complaining as much as I would call it reporting possible fraud..
that is a serious issue not to be tossed aside lightly.
Many would rather quit than do something we think of as cheating.
sounds like we are being challenged to figure out how to create these game bots..
Might is right?
There is no room for decency or fair play?
Is this the world we want.. My sadness extends to the whole world at this point..
Absolutely agree with you Cigneous. Someone in my house said to me: "If they cheat, you just have to cheat but just against them ..."
But that's not part of my moral values.We do not fight cheating by cheating. We do not play a game to cheat.
If there was anything to gain, that would be known.
No matter the purpose and the way of Shiv and co they know very well of what it returns. If they can continue like that and have the nerve to make the beautiful here afterwards, it shows their level.
In truth, the Ban @ nE Inc. are ignored and avoided to play with real players in accordance with the rules.
If they can not sink our boats on a presidio or a bastion, then they can not do anything.
Our goal of our participation in this post is only to show that it is possible.
Now that we have demonstrated and said it, we let you show your passions and your hatreds here.
We are only players and we intend to remain so.
Many things at all,
LB
I'm not scared, I choose the ones who play with me...
And ridiculous people aren't on my favorite list, as you can see, I'm quite good in maths.. And with your lot of alts who cheat, you can win in a long time...
And I won't do you this favour, I'm most clever than some here...
i dont accept challenge from no name player 
you will need a bit more to start making rules....when i think again you will need a lot more
first of all you must stop being a coward and accept war with us ......big mouths only wont win anything
you are good in math you say...so that means you can count.....ok ...you can count that those who help you will be punished ....bye bye panters you last long enough 
Pathetic!i dont accept challenge from no name player
you will need a bit more to start making rules....when i think again you will need a lot more
first of all you must stop being a coward and accept war with us ......big mouths only wont win anything
you are good in math you say...so that means you can count.....ok ...you can count that those who help you will be punished ....bye bye panters you last long enough
1. only what is pathetic are comments posted by chickens who hide behind alts and talk about cheating
2. @Cigneous i wont say you are stupid , but certainly you are not the smartest guy in the world , you dont even know how much is 2+2

...you dont want to listen ....i said it was photoshop and it was a bad one and you just want to believe in ghosts and keep pointing fingers in us
now....this is third time you pissing me off.....it is time for you and your BH to take consequences ....
Frank Connett said:
WOW ALL the Posturing by RuAL/EURU PUPPETS.
It is Unbelievable, how easily the chickens have become the PUPPETS.
I would never have thought that so many that in the beginning were so against RuAL and SHIV and have now become their mouthpieces. I wonder what else they do with those mouths.
Y'ALL have plumb forgot that this is PLARIUM's GAME. They CAN and WILL do whatever they want. Their only motive in this game for the is PROFIT. THEY ARE RuAL/EURU. They have only allowed this game to get to the point it is at because they are still making too much money with it. (Well Aristocrat now.) That absolute only way to get them to do anything at all is to quite purchasing even the little $1.90 (US Dollars) packages to have a resolve never to buy until they make the game more level.
Other than that you might as well just TURTLE and go find a different game. I'm only continuing to entertain this game to find out what eventually happens to a game that has no end as long as people are spending huge amounts of money which could take several years. Case in Point, look at the Russian server and it is still running after RuAL wiped it out.
To be honest I prefer playing that there is an eventual winner, Then if the game is good enough a new round can started.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DECIDE IS WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME THAT THERE IS NO WINNER AND HAS NO END.
Hello frank,
You seem to think, that everyone who has posted and One presume who you preserve as disagreeing with your point of view is some sort of “ Rual / Euru puppet” Not True!
I have noted your rude and ill-conceived post.
You also seem to be telling, Me how to spend My money!
Don’t do It!
You just lost any credibility you had in My eyes.
Raventor
Some news?
This is the most funny and only interresting topic of the forum here! : come on Ban@ne, let us know what happened...
The arrogant nightmare/Shiv/bots... seems to loose his nerves and is calmed down by a small BH coming from nowhere...
And the revelation that RUAL/EURU/Sorciverdi/Hell Cats... are the same...
And that all the top 10 BH are only servants for those one...
And the "moderators"/players trying to defend their friends... without no conviction..., and soooo poor arguments ^^
Definitely the most funny topic... what after?
FRANK - telling people to leave the game is AGAINST THE ALL POSSIBLE RULES
first we was cheaters ...... now when you find out that there is no cheats for online games we are plarium
....what is next ? cheaters and plarium together joined to beat AoP
....too much X-Files for you if you ask me
for everything you dont understand or you are not able to understand your answer is some conspiracy theory ........AoP loser
i wont be surprised if you start talking about flat earth in your next post
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at the end believe what you want ....