[Cheater] tkanerva of HOD

[SkulkrinBait]

Espionage report
from 12.04.2006 22:06
Espionage successful!
Offence Units Gard (15:92:11)
Total Losses
Small Warship 1 0
Defence Units isle_1e (15:91:8)
Total Losses
Small Warship 1 0
Small Merchant Ship 52 0
Spearfighter 480 0
Buildings
Main House Level 10
Gold Mine Level 20
Stone Quarry Level 20
Lumber Mill Level 20
Laboratory Level 1
Barracks Level 5
Harbour Level 1
Storehouse Level 20
Stone Wall Level 20
Watch-Tower Level 20
Research
Spear Level 10
Shield Level 10
Sail Level 10
Resources
Gold 2488
Stone 38337
Lumber 5539

Are all the scoutings yielding similar results?

[Arminius]

Espionage report
from 12.04.2006 22:24
Espionage successful!
Offence Units Ushgarak (15:27:14)
Total Losses
Small Warship 1 0
Defence Units isle_13 (15:37:2)
Total Losses
Small Merchant Ship 40 0
Stone Thrower 1800 0
Spearfighter 1050 0
Buildings
Main House Level 10
Gold Mine Level 20
Stone Quarry Level 20
Lumber Mill Level 20
Laboratory Level 1
Barracks Level 5
Harbour Level 1
Storehouse Level 20
Stone Wall Level 20
Watch-Tower Level 20
Research
Spear Level 10
Shield Level 10
Sail Level 10
Resources
Gold 38232
Stone 38337
Lumber 38337

Mmmh, tough...

[inyati]

wouldnt it be better to use these islands as farms...?

[Arminius]

That looks better:

Espionage report
from 12.04.2006 22:55
Espionage successful!
Offence Units Trorn (15:42:11)
Total Losses
Small Warship 1 0
Defence Units isle_d6 (15:42:14)
Total Losses
Small Merchant Ship 20 0
Spearfighter 100 0
Buildings
Main House Level 10
Gold Mine Level 20
Stone Quarry Level 6
Lumber Mill Level 20
Laboratory Level 1
Barracks Level 5
Harbour Level 1
Storehouse Level 20
Stone Wall Level 15
Research
Spear Level 6
Shield Level 10
Sail Level 10
Resources
Gold 38337
Stone 169
Lumber 38337

[Arminius]

Attack launched to wipe out troops first...

[Natmus]

14:38:23 taken.

All other attempts (3) have failed so far

One strange thing is that a fleet from one of tkanerva's other isles are coming. If I should venture a guess, maybe the script can handle reinforments of stoners, but can't tell if they will get there in time.

Let's hope he hasn't got hundredthousands of stoners hidden on his main isle, and are shipping them out to isles under attack

[Freiegeister]

natmus said:

14:38:23 taken.

All other attempts (3) have failed so far

One strange thing is that a fleet from one of tkanerva's other isles are coming. If I should venture a guess, maybe the script can handle reinforments of stoners, but can't tell if they will get there in time.

Let's hope he hasn't got hundredthousands of stoners hidden on his main isle, and are shipping them out to isles under attack

Any human response?

Talking of script monkeys, I would guess Grover234 runs scripts overnight as he is permanently online.

[ashimar]

Rogerio has a good idea there, farming the lot of them.
Or target practise ;D

I myself am NOT in the market for a new island, although tempting it may seem. I have reached my limits. I will keep building, but I prefer to have my isles so impenetrable that I never get any serious spies and attackers to ward off and I would like to keep it that way, so I'm NOT going to start all over again with those island defenses. It's just not good for my health.

Rogerio, Mads, Oliver, Davids I+II, Gareth and whomever, go ahead.

I'll just take a bowl of chips and relax to watch the show.

[SkulkrinBait]

(15:91:8) is now mine and I've launched a colo ship at (14:60:3) which looks within my capabilities.

Some of his isles are a bit too well defended for me to risk, 1000 spearmen is too tough a cookie for me - or is expecting 100% in my favour too optimistic, with 1200 archers, 250 LWs and 30 Cats I get a 95% chance of success against 1000 spearmen level 10 with 20 wall.

[SkulkrinBait]

What so you think the alliance will say when they find out what we're doing? We've a treaty with them, will they get a bit annoyed?



Do you think the script is being shared among them?

[Natmus]

We will just have to quote this rule to them:

§4 Programs that automate processes in the game, change the surface of the game or generate an exorbitant number of hits are strictly forbidden on all pages of the INSELKAMPF.CO.UK website.

ANd threathen to publish our findings to the rest of the IK community.

One thing I fail to understand is that if they can't be bothered to play this game themselves, why bother writing a script and run it? Why not just quit?

[mmupatton]

Future investment. Spend a little time writing a half-imbecile script, wait 6 months till school's out and play with 100's of islands during the summer vacation.

Of course, the statement above contains some level of prejudice. But the script would be extremely easy to write, including the reinforcement part. I'd of course have put in some handler of messages received. Might even have had it return some random messages containing 'lol', 'm8' or 'dude'.

[SkulkrinBait]

I think it’s to make money, if you have several accounts run by this script then you could make quite a bit of money judging by how much top 50 accounts seem to sell for on Ebay.

I’d agree about the script, if someone has the brains to write such a thing then you’d think they’d make it handle incoming messages better, it wouldn’t be hard to make a random response which would fool people into thinking it was Ringthanes account

Also if it logged itself off every now and then so it wasn’t online 24/7 it might be harder to pick it up and then if it used different names for it’s islands as well it would be harder to detect.

Anyone know how it’s done?

[mmupatton]

Was that a question on how to be a scripter? Yes, I did a test, to see if it could be done. All the communication is done through HTTP and since the interface doesn't rely on any plugins (incl. JavaScript, which is only used to sugar-coat the design), it's really very simple.

It would have been a bit more complex if the JavaScript had been used for some level of protection, but only a bit.

My test script didn't do much, it was a proof of concept for my friends at work. Since we are a couple of guys discussing an online game that we'd make, I would like to be able to protect the system from this kind of accounts. It can be done, but it's easiest if you prepare it from the start of the development.

Travian suffers from the same, but being a more complex game the script would take a bit more work.

You could easily in IK set up a script to run like 100 accounts at the same time, all with one island shipping goods and ST's to a 'real' player's islands. And remember to log out once in a while

EDIT: Added a few missing words...

[Natmus]

Still no reaction at all from our silent tkanerva.

I'm completly certain that we are up against a script now, so let's take what isles we want and then decide if we want to go public with the rest or not.

I'm going to be busy for the next day or so, so if Marc or anyone else with the keys to my account can log in and check up on the events once in a while I would be glad. TIA.