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Pang Game profile

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Sep 1st 2010, 3:46:48

We've updated the captcha so it won't be displayed while you are logged into your country and being hit.

This should prevent it from showing up while you are walling and being kicked out of your country.

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snawdog Game profile

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Sep 4th 2010, 1:13:29

Update it so that it is actually some combination of words that are easily typed
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Sep 4th 2010, 2:25:30

blame the google vs spammers war :(

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Sep 7th 2010, 5:41:02

Yeah, when I can't read it I can't get it right.
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Ozzite Game profile

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Sep 9th 2010, 10:30:01

Hey Pang,

I have still had this happen to me in FFA...Like I click to go to the market or something and the CAPTCHA pops up. I think it has only happened if I have already delayed it 8 hrs tho....
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qzjul Game profile

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Sep 9th 2010, 15:03:54

hm i think it forces it if you clicked the "delay" button
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archaic Game profile

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Sep 9th 2010, 18:47:40

anyway to make captcha do-able off of a blackberry?
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qzjul Game profile

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Sep 9th 2010, 18:54:34

it should be now, is it not?
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moronic1 Game profile

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Sep 26th 2010, 8:27:53

Is this only supposed to work when you are being hit or anytime when you are logged in?

I was buying from the public market and got kicked out to the captcha a couple of minutes ago. Alliance server.

qzjul Game profile

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Sep 26th 2010, 17:12:14

only when you're being hit
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Ivan Game profile

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Sep 27th 2010, 9:55:58


why not change it so that captcha cant kick you out? it doesnt really make a difference does it?

moronic1 Game profile

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Sep 27th 2010, 18:03:42

Just out of interest, how long is the grace period after being hit until I'm no longer considered being hit upon?

qzjul Game profile

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Sep 27th 2010, 18:36:12

5 mins :)
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Tertius Game profile

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Sep 29th 2010, 19:06:46

Normally it doesn't bother me, but the other day selling tech I was kicked out by the captcha after I had carefully considered all of the prices based on the changing market and average prices. It was a sad sad thing, because then I just sold them again undercutting by hundreds and hundreds of dollars in my angst.

I assume the worry is that bots will stay connected for 24/7 and never have to answer the captcha again, but does that even happen? How big of a deal would it be, if you were never kicked out for it?

qzjul Game profile

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Sep 29th 2010, 20:39:03

hm we may adjust how this works to prompt you on login every 12 hours but only kick you out every like 30 or something.... so as long as you logged in every day you'd get it on login rather than in the game....

something i've been thinking about anyway
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Mad Morticia Game profile

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Sep 30th 2010, 2:16:29

that sounds perfect to me, qz. Very annoying to be in the middle of playing your country and all of a sudden, dumped out into the street and having to type the stupid letters.

BTW, think the 3rd of the bonus turns ones is by far the best. Only have to type 5 letters/numbers. Much much easier and I would think it would accomplish the same purpose, would it not?

qzjul Game profile

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Sep 30th 2010, 15:00:29

Hm well that type of captcha is also much less secure I believe; granted I don't think any potential bot runners are doing all sorts of OCR... but still.. you never know... some of these things you can just download
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Ozzite Game profile

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Oct 2nd 2010, 2:30:05

Originally posted by qzjul:
Hm well that type of captcha is also much less secure I believe; granted I don't think any potential bot runners are doing all sorts of OCR... but still.. you never know... some of these things you can just download


The OCR on those an idiot could break :-P


well an idiot who has taken a machine learning class or learned simple classification algorithms :-P
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Mad Morticia Game profile

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Oct 2nd 2010, 4:12:49

KKKK, fine with me. I've learned how to do nothing but am a class A expert on copying and pasting which is the extent of my computer skills.

Would someone please delete the double posting? Had a lag after clicking on "submit" and up popped two of the same thing.