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[KaibaSama]

Wouldnt captcha or reCaptchas also hurt the experience for non-cheaters?

 

Like I would get annoyed/pissed/whatever if I would have to fill out these captchas as a legit player

Yep. Some people would leave, others would try and deal with it, but I imagine most people would either leave or just not try as hard with the cup anymore. 

[Arizaga182]

there will be less players in codex this AC?

[Rainforce]

I wouldn't even bother as a legit player if there were captchas, too much of an hassle I guess Even user lookup avatars are tedious now.

[Arizaga182]

Its easy to some people overthrow  captchas

Edited by Arizaga182, 26 May 2016 - 08:30 AM.

[marcelolek]

Good luck for everyone . The winter is coming ...Terror mountain!

[Arizaga182]

Good luck too! I like winter and cold 

[kanade]

they brought captchas to AC?!

[Clutch]

they brought captchas to AC?!

 

I doubt it. Would cause too much trouble for cheaters and non-cheaters. I don't think anybody would really play if you had to type a damn code or press a box every time you wanted to send a score.

[QuestionOf]

I don't understand how reCAPTCHA would be annoying for legit players... It literally takes 3 seconds.

[kanade]

I doubt it. Would cause too much trouble for cheaters and non-cheaters. I don't think anybody would really play if you had to type a damn code or press a box every time you wanted to send a score.

as if it wasn't tedious enough to begin with. carpal tunnel syndrome in progress

[jasonlumar]

I don't understand how reCAPTCHA would be annoying for legit players... It literally takes 3 seconds.

 

When I was grinding out games the last thing I'd want is a slow score send and a captcha - I could see it being really annoying for the legit grinders. 

[Clutch]

I don't understand how reCAPTCHA would be annoying for legit players... It literally takes 3 seconds.

 

It already takes long enough to actually play the game. Nobody wants to have to spend extra time to confirm they aren't a robot. Trust me, playing legit is already bad enough. The last thing JS would want to do is make it harder for those people.

[Swar]

I don't understand how reCAPTCHA would be annoying for legit players... It literally takes 3 seconds.

Clicking the checkmark? Yes, maybe.

 

Doing the mini-games? Definitely not. Some ask you to keep clicking until there's no more images related to the theme asked.

 

And that's boring as fuck.

[Keil]

One of the captchas told me to select cars.

 

I picked the obvious ones, of course.

 

But then there was an image of a mountain path I was iffy about. It had a car but it was smaller than 20x20 px. I was like, there's no way they would count that and clicked submit.

 

They made me redo the whole thing. 

 

Motherfuckers.

[KaibaSama]

One of the captchas told me to select cars.

 

I picked the obvious ones, of course.

 

But then there was an image of a mountain path I was iffy about. It had a car but it was smaller than 20x20 px. I was like, there's no way they would count that and clicked submit.

 

They made me redo the whole thing. 

 

Motherfuckers.

I had one that asked me to click pictures of milkshakes. There was really only one obvious milkshake. Two of them looked like smoothies instead of milkshakes. I was lucky that I just clicked them hoping they were milkshakes, because they were. Apparently, according to google, drinks that look exactly like smoothies are milkshakes. 

[JustinHoodMusic]

I'm excited to join! This is my first year actually playing <3

[Katya]

I'm excited to join! This is my first year actually playing <3

May the spam be with you.

[Junjie]

May the spam be with you.

 

Hahahahaha, <3 @Katya ~

 

 

I don't understand how reCAPTCHA would be annoying for legit players... It literally takes 3 seconds.

 

Well it might usually take 3 seconds only...per incident, but it accumulates. And imagine if you are playing for ours, trying to hit even the current lowered caps. And the game soon starts feeling tedious, and then every so often this damn thing pops up.

 

It's annoying enough when you want to view a few NP profiles, e.g. to message them. Having to do it regularly over a few hours, every single day, will probably get old after a while.

[KaibaSama]

May the spam be with you.

Neocodex: The Spam Awakens 

 

Hahahahaha, <3 @Katya ~

 

 

 

Well it might usually take 3 seconds only...per incident, but it accumulates. And imagine if you are playing for ours, trying to hit even the current lowered caps. And the game soon starts feeling tedious, and then every so often this damn thing pops up.

 

It's annoying enough when you want to view a few NP profiles, e.g. to message them. Having to do it regularly over a few hours, every single day, will probably get old after a while.

Imagine the annoyance if you had to do it every single time you sent a score for SoSD. That game takes a few seconds tops. It would add more time to the time it takes to send a score, which would make maxing out (even though the maxes have been lowered) a bit harder and much more annoying to do.

[kbexx]

Recaptchas would be super annoying for legit players. Like, they're annoying enough for profiles. I hardly ever bother visiting them now, just because it's annoying. 

 

I wouldn't put it past JS to do it though. They do plenty of things that annoy legit players, like lowering caps and rank requirements, so I don't think that would necessarily stop them adding captchas.

[Xwiint]

If lowering the caps and requirements is all they do, I don't understand how they think that will help...

[kbexx]

If lowering the caps and requirements is all they do, I don't understand how they think that will help...

Pretty much.  I've said a few times that I'm strongly considering just playing legit, and I'm actually kind of annoyed. One of my friends is even more annoyed, since she's a hardcore legit player and has been trying to beat her high score (from years ago with higher caps) and it will be literally impossible this year.

 

I guess they figure that they can't curb cheating, but lowering caps and requirements means it'll make it easier for more legit players to be able to compete with cheating players?

[GetJinxed]

Shhh... Don't jinx it.

You called me?

[jasonlumar]

Pretty much.  I've said a few times that I'm strongly considering just playing legit, and I'm actually kind of annoyed. One of my friends is even more annoyed, since she's a hardcore legit player and has been trying to beat her high score (from years ago with higher caps) and it will be literally impossible this year.

 

I guess they figure that they can't curb cheating, but lowering caps and requirements means it'll make it easier for more legit players to be able to compete with cheating players?

 

Seems about right in their logic. It's very tough to play legit with a full time job/school so I can see their point of view - trying to even playing field.

 

Definitely sucks for those legit players that have the time, it must be a pretty rewarding experience at the end for them with higher caps & great scores/prizes.

[kbexx]

Seems about right in their logic. It's very tough to play legit with a full time job/school so I can see their point of view - trying to even playing field.

 

Definitely sucks for those legit players that have the time, it must be a pretty rewarding experience at the end for them with higher caps & great scores/prizes.

 

From what my friends have said, it can be. One takes a week off work every July for the cup, and plays all day on her time off, and up to 7 hours on days she works, but she feels really proud of what she achieves. I imagine it's like how I felt the year I completed nanowrimo during exam period. Was hoping to get the same feeling from AC, but it's not going to be as much of an accomplishment if they have lowered it too much (and it's pushing me towards considering SSing more than beforehand

 

The problem with this is, though, that they're really not evening the playing field, since people cheat on multiple accounts, not just on the one. Though I suppose JS sees that it's better than nothing (which it probably is). 

Edited by kbexx, 26 May 2016 - 03:47 PM.