No Cheat, No Script

TSK TSK People never learn.

Great Job Guys!

Deleted For Cheating

Another Black Day in Netropolis.
Early in the morning, lot of space went free.
According to rumours, it seems that dozens of comps were deleted for cheating.
Here's some snapshot of the deletion results:


SEATTLE




SAOPAULO



RIO GRANDE



SALVADOR



PARIS



OTTAWA



OLYMPUS



NIAGRA



NEW YORK



MOSCOW



MONTREAL



LONDON



HULL



GLASGOW



WASHINGTON DC



CARACUS



CORK



AUSTIN



BELFAST



ALICESPRINGS



ADELAIDE




We will see if rumours will be confirmed; in any case, most of those places were commonly affected by scripts, while some other are really surprising (their owners always claimed to be nice and clean players...
Oh well, that is Netro after all!

Would You Please....

.... stop scripting in Olympus?







I am trying to do few tranfers and all Netro is terribly slooooooooooooow
Thanks, appreciated

























MUPPETS

Ch-Ch-Ch Cheater!

Scriptamb.... erm, Instambul on fire again.

These two Elly's comps

Smoking of A Big Choc Chip Blunt
Smoking of A Big Blueberry Blunt


firestarting at the meantime.... pomp up the volume!

LA scripted

This poor quality video reporting a very odd (LOL) way of bombing the left side of LA map. Keep your attention on the right side of the fires front:



Bomber was....


ORION888

Counting Headquarters...

Do you remember the wonderful tool to count headquarters on a map?
Well... on saturday someone developed a more refined tool in Hobart...




Very useful to count how many BROKEN HQs are on the map!











LMAO!

Broken Headquarters in Hobart

Sounds familiar uhu?

It's A Kind Of Magic

Quincy Holmes was just back from his holidays in Italy when he was submitted this report:

Melbourne, July 17th, 2008

Dear QH, i was bombing in melly and torched the map as u can see in the following screenshot:




After i finished bombing and the whole place was all on fire, all landholders had negative monthly profit, some of them around -150k.
Around 07.46 netrotime, all comps went online.
These are their stats at 07.55 netrotime:

1) Jubilation £223484
2) Pinnochio £218316
3) Aurevoir £147046
4) Secret Agencies £138566
5) U 1 By 1 £126995
6) Imminent Danger £120312
7) The Mind £53636
8) Lesbos R Us £40092

I submit this to your attention: It's A Kind Of Magic? Or Is It Hands Art?






Regards

XXX



When Dr Watson entered QuincyHolmes bureau, found him rolling on the floor laughing...

Bogota

In the 1990s, Bogota was widely considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. At one point it had a homicide rate of 80 per 100,000 people. Since then, however, Bogota has gone to great lengths to change its crime rate and its image with increasing success. The change was the result of a participatory and integrated security policy, "Communidad Segura", that was first adopted in 1995 and continues to be enforced. In 2005, Bogota had a murder rate of 23 persons per 100,000 inhabitants, a 71% drop from the prior decade. The city today has a lower murder rate than Caracas, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

The situation in Bogota seems to be "greatly improved in terms of security and public safety from five years ago, and the atmosphere is much more relaxed", said Marshall Louis, a spokesman for the United States Embassy.

Mr Louis has no idea on what happened yesterday though:





Profiting of the weekly police strikedays, the streets of the capital of Colombia went soon completely ruined!







Only today, when the men of "Communidad Segura" went back to their work, people patiently started rebuilding their poor lands... here's TinterWeb technique....

QuincyHolmes and the Washigton DC Affair

This the message I received from an old USA friend:




"This 10 mins after 8 nukes landed!"



The pic and the alarmed tone of the letter made me took the decision: Q
had to be informed immediately, there was no time to waste!

I found QuincyHolmes in a little cottage close to the sea.
I thought he should have been surprised to see me invading his privacy without any previous warning, but not as much as i was, when he anticipated my words and stated:"I see that something alarmed you, my old friend... is it related to our fellow on the other side of the Ocean?"
I had not the time to ask how the hell he was aware that his help was needed in the USA, but with the corner of my eye i noticed that his bags were packed close to the table.
The day after, we entered Washington DC. I could not believe my eyes when i noticed the big warning at the door:







but Mr Holmes seemed not impressioned at all.
After a very short siesta at the Melrose Hotel, a luxurious oasis in the heart of one of the world's fastest-paced cities, we received a message by our american friend, inviting us to reach him immediately.
This what appeared to our eyes when we reached the crime zone:







QuincyHolmes invited me with a silent gesture to the closest bar, ordered a coffee ("We're in America, and there's nothing worst than American Tea...") grabbed his notes, and wrote down the following data:


Bombing started at 06.40 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now?

A Trace of Senileness00
A Trace of Senileness01
A Trace of Senileness02
A Trace of Senileness03
A Trace of Senileness04
A Trace of Senileness05
A Trace of Senileness06
A Trace of Senileness08
A Trace of Senileness09



08.05 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?
A Trace of Senileness00
A Trace of Senileness01
A Trace of Senileness02
A Trace of Senileness03
A Trace of Senileness04
A Trace of Senileness05
A Trace of Senileness06
A Trace of Senileness08
A Trace of Senileness09

1) Senileness07 £1707
.
.
.
.
.
110) Senileness04 £-241

112) Senileness02 £-11709
113) Senileness06 £-30234
114) Senileness05 £-47950
115) Senileness09 £-71341
116) Senileness08 £-83793
117) Senileness03 £-91159
118) Senileness00 £-95496
119) Senileness01 £-96352

09.05 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?
A Trace of Senileness00
A Trace of Senileness01
A Trace of Senileness02
A Trace of Senileness03
A Trace of Senileness04
A Trace of Senileness05
A Trace of Senileness06
A Trace of Senileness08
A Trace of Senileness09


110) Senileness07 £-8599
111) Senileness02 £-119829
112) Senileness04 £-135853
113) Senileness09 £-148895
114) Senileness06 £-160203
115) Senileness05 £-177404
116) Senileness08 £-178761
117) Senileness00 £-181520
118) Senileness03 £-201293
119) Senileness01 £-209458

09.21 Netrotime

1) Senileness04 £296203
2) Senileness02 £261473
3) Senileness05 £219949
4) Senileness06 £217573
5) Senileness00 £183739
6) Senileness01 £178492
7) Senileness03 £154893
8) Senileness08 £149841
9) Senileness09 £143005
10) Senileness07 £15407
11) A Force Feeder £14996


On the following page, he just traced this few words:

A Frenchman Among Kangaroos

A nice Kangaroo puts out fires on Goodbye of Aurevoir in Melbourne.
Very very useful.

PhotoArt in Sydney

A positive image is a normal image.
A negative image is a tonal inversion of a positive image, in which light areas appear dark and vice versa.
A negative color image is additionally color reversed, with red areas appearing cyan, greens appearing magenta and blues appearing yellow.








What Photo Techniques can't describe, is the massive scripting by these comps (amongst some others):


The Olympian Zeus
Mount_Olympus

Their names explain it all.

QuincyHolmes and the Philadelphia Affair

Do you remember Mr. Hide?
Well, that needed an extra investigation.
So this morning someone (lmao) decided that it was time to hit Philadelphia.
Bombing started around 4 AM Netrotime, and soon the map went a mess:







Now here's a little detail of my investigation:

Bombing started ar 4.15

05.30 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich (bomber)
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine (bomber)
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville (bomber)
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Milwaukee (bomber)
The Garden of Allah (landholder)
Puddle of Mud (landholder)
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde (landholder)
The End of The Innocence (landholder)
The Heart of The Matter (landholder)


STATISTICS

286) The Matter £-30057
289) Mr Hyde £-40990
290) The Innocence £-43086
293) Allah £-59776
294) Mud £-62436



06.15 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
The Garden of Allah
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde
The End of The Innocence
The Heart of The Matter

(Mud disappeared but belongs to the same set of companies...)

STATISTICS

287) The Matter £-60327
288) The Innocence £-66660
290) Mr Hyde £-70630
293) Mud £-77980
294) Allah £-81651

Here's a pic:








06.59 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
Philadelphia of Flyers007
The Garden of Allah
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde
The End of The Innocence
The Heart of The Matter

STATISTICS

287) The Matter £-84230
290) The Innocence £-90084
291) Mud £-92402
292) Mr Hyde £-98161
294) Allah £-103844

and another screenshot:

*Note: PC clock is set on Italy time, that's GMT+1.

07.33 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville
Philadelphia of Flyers007
The Garden of Allah
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde
The End of The Innocence
The Heart of The Matter

STATISTICS

286) The Matter £-89296
288) Mud £-92977
289) The Innocence £-94518
291) Mr Hyde £-97764
295) Allah £-116791


08.15 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now?
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine
The Garden of Allah
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde
The End of The Innocence
The Heart of The Matter

STATISTICS

284) Mud £-82822
287) The Matter £-88519
288) The Innocence £-89537
291) Mr Hyde £-97870
292) Allah £-100836

Even if it seems that they started doing something, it's not the case: simply, many of their lands went deros, and Irvine started building stalls:

1) Hyatt Regency Irvine £42462
Company: Hyatt Regency Irvine
Director: Hyatt R. von Dehn
Holdings:
£24,773,855
Percent map owned:
28%


09.05 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now?
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich
Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine
The Garden of Allah
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde
The End of The Innocence
The Heart of The Matter

STATISTICS

283) Mud £-70199
288) The Innocence £-80611
290) Mr Hyde £-87656
291) The Matter £-90289
293) Allah £-99812

Despite of what Muppets may say, i can state:

"Elementary, my dear Watson!"

Excuse Moi, Quelle Heure est-il?

Paris, saturday early in the morning.
My map viewer shows me that someone is doing a great job in there, so could I have missed it?

I logged into one of my *cough* 40 or 50 comps in there.
The bomber asked me to join the party, 'couse, he literally said "i smell 24/7 login ".
So i dropped a few bombs here and there, nothing serious, but here's what interested me most:


05.30 Netrotime

Comps online:

Who's online in this city now?

broker of stocks (bomber)
Producer of Hit Records (landholder)
system of fsystemON (landholder)

Stats

1) HitRecord £98760

06.30 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?

broker of stocks (bomber)
Producer of Hit Records (landholder)
system of fsystemON (landholder)
VeniVidiVici (bomber - myself)

116) Hit Records £-162250


07.10 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?

broker of stocks
Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus (starts renovating/cleaning his lands)
Producer of Hit Records
VeniVidiVici (bomber - myself)
Note: system of fsystemON liquidated due to the heavy bombing

117) Hit Records £-213638

07.40 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?

Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus
Everlasting of TheLastEver(starts renovating/cleaning his lands)
Producer of Hit Records

116) Hit Records £-231603

08.00 Netrotime


Who's online in this city now?
Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus
Everlasting of TheLastEver
Producer of Hit Records
Avenging Phoenix of Forgotten Ashes

116) Hit Records £-197990

Note: some of its lands gone deros, now he loses less than before: no fire gone out, none of those not ruined have been renovated yet.
Here's the pic:



08.20 Netrotime

Who's online in this city now?

Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus
Everlasting of TheLastEver
Producer of Hit Records
Avenging Phoenix of Forgotten Ashes

116) Hit Records £-161220



Well, I could not spend all my life watching that blatant 24/7 cheat log in, so I went out for a little shopping. When I was back, around lunch time, it had just finished renovating/rebuilding. But it was 4 hours later. I did hit him a little bit, but had to go away. Will be back, I still have to visit Louvre and see if, at least there, a genuine player still exist.

Oh, Another player said to me that The Hit Record Producer is the same that promote his shit in some other places, as Olympus. I was not surprised. Chapeau, Muppet.

How To Build A Map In A Snap And Other Obscenities

First of all: that you believe or not, I am not against anyone, nor i have been in the game. Sure, I sometimes went pissed off with this or that player, like anyone else. But nothing that could not be managed via the game board.
I was recently accused to point my finger toward a group of people, without having any proof or at least with the aim to make dirty reputation to this or that player, or maybe to have an advantage from this in the game itself.

So i'll try now to tell you a story.

I will provide pics and videos, and try to explain what is running in Netro. Then I'll try to expose my reasons. Make your own idea, trying to start from this point: once again, I am pissed off, but not for my comps destiny, or my game goals.

It has been months that i am investingating netro maps.
Game is a bit stagnant, and even before last minireset, it did not take that much time to look after my lands.
So I started looking at those places that seemed to have more matters.
What I have seen for months, I will try and resume with the most recent events, happened in Olympus.
How you can see even now, that map it is more than half ruined/empty.
Yesterday, I noticed that heavy bombing was running in there, and above all i noticed a message on my mapviewer:

So i logged into a comp I have access to in there, to follow things.

There was a long fight, but bombers were more persistant than current landholders, so the map went 100% deros as shown in the following picture.









I went out to lunch, and when i was back, after 30 minutes, most of the map had been reclaimed, with 3-4 comps building Hot Dog Stands.
"Damn, they're fast", I thought, so i decided to have a closer look.
The following video (it's really poor, and map was really really slow - I can guarantee I am really at least triple faster in loading pages) shows you what was happening: there were 3 comps building hotdogs at the same time. Hot dogs were built row by row on 7x7 square basis: two comps always left to right, the third from right to left. Each plot was built one by one.



Again, I am aware of the bad quality of the video, and how partial can be what it represents... it was impossible to do a better job, so take it as it is, a partial view of a more complex situation.

A couple of personal considerations: any experienced player, having to reclaim bombed lands fast, would not build one plot by one, expecially concidering they were not buildin properly. And we were in a height, so do not tell me they're newbies. Anyone else, would build 10 plots at a time.
Second fact: it is just odd that one player uses that technique, but having three players doing the same thing at the meantime, it not doubious, it's 100% a script.

Ok, let's go on.
Map was rebuilt the way i said, and comps went briefly offline.
I decided to grab a coffee, and when i was back, the 3 comps were back online. I zoomed in the map in various sectors, and what i saw is that they were changing all the hotdogs into proper building.
It was done again in the same way: always in the same direction (left to right), always in 7x7 blocks.
Suddenly, one of the bombers came back online, they had to stop, and the map was massively bombed again.
So i took a look at the way he bombed, above all becouse i knew that comp: i bombed it years ago in Manchester to help Ashley.
For what I could see, the bomber was working the right way: 7x7 blocks, left to right then right to left for alternate rows, sometimes top bottom other times bottom up... in few words, it was 99,9% working manually (for what you can witness looking from outside).
He did a nice job, it took him one hour to wipe the map again.
While he/she was bombing, I went to action a comp in Valhalla, and i found out that there were 40 new comps. Few of them had thrown a few cherries, a friend had helped, so I took back my lands, sorted what had to be sorted, and looked to the sky 'couse i understood that this was related to Olympus... even becouse all comps, both in Oly and in Valhalla, belong to the same player/ group of players.

I left the game in the late afternoon, went home, dealt with daughters, ate some food, washed dishes, then i logged back into the game to find out the same scenery i had seen in the early afternoon: landholders in Olympus were building again hotdogs in the same way they had done in the afternoon.
They had done half of the map when some new bombers came online and started wiping them again!
After a few minutes, i had the idea to take a look in Valhalla and....
There were some of the new comps online, prolly actioning, but not using one of my plot...
So I asked a friend to give a look at Midget's comp events and....
They were fireouting an undeveloped plot (that's the first cheat).
My friend had the idea to take it over, and change to a HTC.
Next serie of pics shows you what went on.







Click >>>>>>HERE<<<<<< to enlarge


Now.
Olympus is still ruined with plenty of free lands.
This would never have been happened in the good old times: lands would have been grabbed by many many people trying to get their little piece of Heaven, and there would have been war for weeks.
Ok, the place is a rathole and so easy to bomb that many of us do not have the courage to face a daily cheap bombing, but it is still clear that this is not the only reason.
Let's be honest: why shoud anyone go to try and grab lands that are managed by poor people blatantly scripting without any self and others' respect?

What pisses me off, is that in this low Era of the game, with no competition at all, or very few, there'd be "no need" to use scripts!
And even if a script is a script and there's no real excuse for those who use them, i can still "justify" and try to understand if it was used in a particularly critical situation, with boss at work stressing you with less important things than your lands, or your lover who wants more when you ran out of condoms.

I hope you can believe me: that's a set of scripts, the same witnessed in so many places and exposed in my previous posts, used by the same people who come here and anonimously posts ridiculous comments about me scripting. Or that writes silly speeches in temples, trying to offend me (their italian is as low as their moral...)
To those I want to say few things: I will go on denouncing your activities, and trying to make your life not so easy at least until I will love this game the way I love it now. I will do this here, on MY blog, where I post and share MY ideas, with MY name signing each and every post.
I wonder how poor people you are, blatantly cheating and scripting in a game. Supposing you will succeed in making all players leave (won't be easy, the microcosm experiment was successful, after all...), what will you do when your wonderful tools will let you manage all Netro?

To those who have the gentlness to read my bad english: I know that we should only speak about how great is the game, trying to make it look unique as it is. But enough is enough.
My denounce has no different aim than to fight the plague. Removed it, the game will be cured.

A prayer to the reps and above all to Tiscali and Alex: I know it seems that it does not worth a single penny, but I know it would not take so much time and effort to implement a serious anti-scripting policy.
With this, you could discover the gold mine in the game and its honest players (there're so many out there...)

Zeus in Melbourne: Will You Ever Stop?

People will never learn.
So I am starting a Name And Shame Campaign on this blog.
We had few examples in the past few days, and I will try to keep infos updated on a regular basis.

Location: Melbourne
Comps scripting:

Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS01
Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS02
Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS03
Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS04

See the pic below:








Evidence:





Facta, Not Verba

Mr Hyde, You Should Hide...

Few days after more than 20 maps went free, Netro life, goes on as usual, more or less.
The week started with Chicago on Fire







and after a busy strike day in Austin, we had a couple of interesting landscapes:
in Quito







and above all in Sydney







The most interesting situation was in Philadelphia.
The map was torched starting around lunch time.
A couple of comps have been continuosly online, in particular
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde
It is still online, and here is a screenshots of its lands at the moment I post:




It is losing
268) Mr Hyde £-58129
but while other landholders are slowly trying to sort their stuff, that one stays there, continuosly logged.
Shame!

I Would Like To Grab Lands....

Bogota: me of busty diane 6





Cheyenne: Fruyburger of Malice Intended








What would you do having few bills onshore in both places?
Grin....

How You Can Detect Zeus (and Other Shameless Gods) At Work

First of all: I never had a copy of it, nor asked to have.What stated below coming from daily experience, looking at several maps on fire.

Simplest way to detect Zeus at work

Let's have a map on fire.
Suddenly you see fires go out very very fast, and no comp online: this means that landowners are cleaning fires, and they do all at the same time.
If it took one hour to torch the map, you will see fires disappear quite completely in 10 mins or less.
I say 'quite' and not 'completely' couse you can notice that last column (on the right) and last row (at the bottom) of the map are still burning: this is the second trace that Zeus and its users leave behind: Zeus works on 7x7 squares (I am not that Tech Guru, so maybe not correct) and this does not allow to deal with those parts of the map, that have to be sorted manually.
Just after fires are out (again, except last column and last row), you will see all landholders pop online, clean manually what still burning, and then starting the renovation task, Zeus aided, obviously.
All will take, again, 10-15 mins.

What else Zeus can do?

This a good question.
It should be able to log comps 24/7.
And according to some private infos, he'd be able to do tranfers for you.
But I think these are different scripts.
I have witnessed fast building according to optimized schemas.
Easy to detect: just take a look at the way they build free plots or bombed plots and see that they do in a way that none, playing manually, would do. And above all, always the same way: one plot by one.
Another feature should be the one to have a comp monitoring the map, and able to auto put out fires as they are lit.
Easy to detect too, fires go out in the same order that they were lit. Being different comps to be fired/firestartered, they cannot say it was done from events ;).
About bombing, i have studied some logs from Galway that, few weeks ago, was screamed to 10% and completely CTOed by ten comps working at the meantime.
Last column, and last row, again, not treated as the rest of the map.
So it seems evident that the tool can be used to attack too.

Where I did see it at work.

Lands affected by this plague were:

Olympus, Melbourne, SaoPaulo, Hobart, Quito, Brisbane, Hull, Cheyenne, Salvador, Galway

Some of them were liquidated, others changed owner, some more could have been affected but i have no evidence. When this post is blogged, Zeus is running in Melbourne again ;)

All the above, again, simply coming from experience.

Tsk Tsk

Chicago, the Cheat&Script City

Here's a zoomed - in view that shows a broken Headquarter... does it remember anything to you?

Tsk Tsk