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What are we doing against cheating, part 2: the Leaderboard
Aloha Soldiers,
we are here to talk about the Leaderboard.
When GoWar first started, in order to motivate users to keep on attacking places, each conquered place made a user earn twice its fame. A sort of a bonus. This led to an important number of your activities (and we are glad) but also gave the possibility to crafty users using fake accounts and other unfair methods to climb the Leaderboard very quickly. More than that, the leaderboard now appears frozen and people being warriors for a long time have managed to accumulate a number of points which is unreachable by anybody else.That's why, from now on, when you conquer a place you'll get the real value from that Place and not anymore the double value. By doing so, we believe the Leaderboard will be more realistic and the game more fun for everyone.
On October 3rd we'll overpass 3 month of GoWar, yeah!! and that when we'll exactly swap the leaderboard to the new calculation method. And do not worry, generals, there's going to be a reward for you! On that date, the first 3 positions on the Leaderboard will win our new official T-Shirt (the Battle Cry T-Shirt) and than you'll all get the chance to prove you value in a fair way. This is one more little step to develop a better game experience for old and new users. Other news will come, so stay tuned! We are sure you'll like it a lot!
Two important aspects you have to know about this change:
1) the new "fame calculation rule" is already in action, but the Leaderboard, till October 2nd, won't change the points already assigned.
2) from October 3nd each user's fame will be re-calculated based only on his empire and acquired badges, missions and challenges, therefore don't worry if you see some changes in the Leaderboard suddenly.
Soldiers, we are really working hard to make GoWar a good game for everybody and "kick the ass" to cheaters. If you see an irregularity just report to us and we will take action against it.
We wish you a lovely virtual war!
