My 2 Cents…

[WHYPHY]

So the word that sends shock waves through a cheat user forum BAN or BANNED has been thrown around a lot lately which is starting a widespread panic among a certain amount of users. Now it’s time to settle things down and figure out how to push forward to show WG our true strength, to show WG just who they are truly dealing with as a force.

But let me start off but listing off my current status on the game *will update when needed*:

• Banned: No.
• Using Illegal Mods: Yes (Duh).
• Using Legal Mods: Yes.
• Money I’ve Spent On Game: $3857 CAD (After looking through PayPal | 4 years of play, almost 5).
• Money I’ve Spent This Week: $0 CAD, after this recent s**t WG can suck my left nut.

Now back on track here. 

So how are we going to fight back? Well I’ve already given away step 1 but here are the WHYPHY steps to give WG a run for their money on this s**t:

1. Stop buying s**t from the premium store. Kinda hard to keep funding an anti-cheat department when overall income drops a f**k ton.
2. Protect your python log and make it read only (make it blank, or write this: “Stay out of my s**t WG” if you give zero f**ks like me)
3. Watch your WoT game folder like a hawk. Take screenshots if you have to in order to compare from previous updates, even small updates could mean a file was placed to track activity. Report anything you find to the forum to inform others of your findings.
4. After any kind of update, refrain from using hacks on main accounts and use alternates to test the waters for trackers/reporting files that had been possibly added. I’d play anywhere from 2 to 10 games to be sure.
5. On first launch of update (ex. first time launching client for 9.17 patch) make sure your res_mods folder is clear and play a handful of games, now that WG has threatened the use of trackers we can never be too careful if you don’t want to lose your accounts.

Ok to sum it all up. Don’t buy anything, Cover your tracks, and make sure WG isn’t watching too closely by adding anything new. Now those are the step I’ve been taking, they may not be 100% effective but I’m sure going to try and keep WG out of my s**t.

P.S. I wouldn’t keep recordings of battle or screenshots in the WoT game directory (can never be too safe).  

[Anonymous]

 can you comment also <a href="/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id=929&page=3#comment-8670″ rel=””>here ?? Thank you  

[WHYPHY]

9 minutes ago, Apollo said:

 can you comment also <a href="/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id=929&page=3#comment-8670″ rel=””>here ?? Thank you  

i meant to link that, thank you

[BigMike]

I totally agree with you 100%. People just need to police their WOT folder and stop spending $$$$.

Some more advice:

• Delete the updater.
• Did you download the “ace tanker” mod? If you did and you’re banned now, guess what you owe that ban to…
• Encrypt your replays folder or do the same as you did with you python log. Erase all contents within it, prevent anything from writing to it, and lock the folder (make it read only).

I personally typed F**k you. Eat s**t. with a nice picture to clear up confusion within my replay and python log.

[Sailor]

8 hours ago, BigMike said:

I totally agree with you 100%. People just need to police their WOT folder and stop spending $$$$.

Some more advice:

• Delete the updater.
• Did you download the “ace tanker” mod? If you did and you’re banned now, guess what you owe that ban to…
• Encrypt your replays folder or do the same as you did with you python log. Erase all contents within it, prevent anything from writing to it, and lock the folder (make it read only).

I personally typed F**k you. Eat s**t. with a nice picture to clear up confusion within my replay and python log.

Unfortunately, with my version of Win7 (“Home Premium”), I am not able to encrypt files. If I want to, I would have to use a third party program.

[SRQFlyer]

10 hours ago, BigMike said:

I totally agree with you 100%. People just need to police their WOT folder and stop spending $$$$.

Some more advice:

• Delete the updater.
• Did you download the “ace tanker” mod? If you did and you’re banned now, guess what you owe that ban to…
• Encrypt your replays folder or do the same as you did with you python log. Erase all contents within it, prevent anything from writing to it, and lock the folder (make it read only).

I personally typed F**k you. Eat s**t. with a nice picture to clear up confusion within my replay and python log.

Have you monitored your replay folder to see if anything reads from the folder?  How would having replays help WG, they only contain telemetry data.

[Diugo]

Concerning replays, it is not enough choosing to not save them in ingame setup?

I actually have a replay’s folder empty simply unchecking “save replay” in my preferences

[BigMike]

1 hour ago, SRQFlyer said:

Have you monitored your replay folder to see if anything reads from the folder?  How would having replays help WG, they only contain telemetry data.

You’re right. I forgot about that. It’s been a while since i’ve cared to see a replay. Although, if WG staff were to review your replay and you were using an aimbot i’m sure it’d be easily noticed if a user was abusing it. Can never be too safe bro.

[valdeprovence]

Hi all ! I have a question: what will going on if banned players start to create each one some/many accounts they will never use ? is it possible to saturate E.U servers with that method ?

Piracy is a reason of life !!!!

[blackhawk4040]

Another point… TURN OFF AUTO UPDATES…  That way you will know when there is even the smallest update.

 

[blackhawk4040]

On 12/1/2016 at 4:48 PM, WHYPHY said:

 

1. Protect your python log and make it read only (make it blank, or write this: “Stay out of my s**t WG” if you give zero f**ks like me)

Whyphy they could do something for you modifying their game files… I have found that the best way to protect python is:

1. Back up your res mods directory to a temp folder outside of WOT

2. Delete the res mods directory

3, Delete python

4.  Login to WOT with the empty res mods directory

5.  Log out

6.  Your new python will look like this… 

/——————————————————————————————
worldoftanks 0.9.16.0 (compiled at 19:36:31 Aug 23 2016) starting on Wed Dec  7 05:14:14 2016

2016-12-07 05:14:14.862: INFO: [Config] Command line: C:/World of Tanks/worldoftanks.exe wot_wait_for_mutex
2016-12-07 05:14:16.634: INFO: [Config] Default encoding set to utf-8
2016-12-07 05:14:16.700: INFO: [PY_DEBUG] Release Client – Content Type: sd

2016-12-07 05:14:16.700: INFO: [PY_DEBUG] Checking ./res_mods/0.9.16: mods not found
2016-12-07 05:14:29.123: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/post_processing/__init__.py, 269): The quality = 2 was selected.
2016-12-07 05:14:29.123: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/post_processing/__init__.py, 269): The quality = 3 was selected.
2016-12-07 05:14:40.611: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: LOGIN – 25.7490005493
2016-12-07 05:14:40.616: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/ConnectionManager.py, 221): User authentication method: token2
2016-12-07 05:14:44.136: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: CONNECTED – 29.2740001678
2016-12-07 05:14:45.215: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: SHOW GUI – 30.3530006409
2016-12-07 05:14:52.902: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: QUESTS SYNC – 38.0390014648
2016-12-07 05:14:52.958: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: USS SYNC – 38.0950012207
2016-12-07 05:14:53.022: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: SPACE LOADING START – 38.1599998474
2016-12-07 05:14:53.167: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/game.py, 435): [SPACE] Loading space: spaces/hangar_v2
2016-12-07 05:14:53.170: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: VEHICLE LOADING START – 38.3079986572
2016-12-07 05:14:53.870: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: VEHICLE LOADING END – 39.0079994202
2016-12-07 05:14:54.211: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: SPACE LOADING END – 39.3489990234
2016-12-07 05:14:54.211: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: HANGAR READY – 39.3489990234
2016-12-07 05:14:54.212: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 257): HANGAR LOADING STATE: SUMMARY TOTAL = 13.5999984741
2016-12-07 05:22:41.870: NOTICE: [NOTE] (scripts/client/helpers/statistics.py, 229): HANGAR LOADING STATE: DISCONNECTED – 507.007995605
2016-12-07 05:22:41.878: INFO: PostProcessing.Phases.fini()

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* notice the line that says mods not found

7.  Set your permissions to python according to the How to Protect Python from this site

8.  Restore the backup of your res mods folder back into the WOT directory.

9.  Launch WOT and check python by dropping to desktop and clicking edit… If you did everything correctly it will look just like it did when you created the new file on step 4,5 and 6

10, Play.

If you really want to get sneaky once a day backup and delete res mods and restore permissions to write and launch the game once then restore your directory and the deny permissions… This way they won’t even be able to tell that you have the python file set to deny writes if they do snatch it.

[soulza]

the date ? you would have to alter the date each day…and make time random

[Anonymous]

5 minutes ago, soulza said:

the date ? you would have to alter the date each day…and make time random

why? what is it means?

[soulza]

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worldoftanks 0.9.16.0 (compiled at 19:36:31 Aug 23 2016) starting on Wed Dec  7 05:14:14 2016

 

the date and times is logged / changes each time you log into wot

[tazzie0012]

Look at your Python.log if you are online, you will see that the line   INFO: PostProcessing.Phases.fini()   is not there,  looks like you logged off.

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