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I actually love in game/lore abstractions of cheaters.
RuneScape once implemented a very robust new system for detecting bots, and when it was enabled, the game was designed to make a dragon spawn and take the cheating character with it's claws. It's not necessary, but for legitimate players, it takes out the frustrating experience of seeing the number of online cheaters and turns into a moment of fun/vengeance.
Is there a video of that online that you can recommend/validate was how it was. Love to see it.
It was removed from the game already, but here's the Wiki page that shows how it worked. There are pictures of the claw, and the player becoming a robot.
Cheaters would also be teleported to a "prison island" where regular players could vote for ways to punish them, with several different animations for each punitive action. Mind you, this is all cosmetic and for the remaining players, because the account itself would receive the official bans regardless of the vote.
Happend to me once. I was lazy so I made a Lego mouse clicker. I went away to eat and upon return my character was killed. Not sure if I was banished to a different place. Sad times for a 13 year old.
In RuneScape's case it was a neat idea, but you basically never saw it happen, at least I never did.
I don't know if this really helps anything? I mean, I suppose it's nice for the players who are frustrated to know that the cheater was caught, but I see this as making for easy abuse, like how games often kick/ban people automatically based on number of reports and a malicious group figuring out just how many reports it takes using this new information provider.
Nothing new, though. Hopefully, I'm just a worrywart and this is a change for the better though I don't think it'll do much in the end.
