(UPDATED) Investigation: A failed attempt on Kenshy's innocence
ticket ID: misc-1959
UPDATE: I spoke directly with https://app.warera.io/user/681cf480427137e17d2e0ee8 and they provided a more in deep explanation about the facts, adding a IQR (Interquartile Range) to the dataset unfortunately reveals a 35ms IQR which can match an autoclicker, I can't just ignore it and blame Dechi for anything besides transparency and willingness to explain
We now know https://app.warera.io/user/682c5f32296356bc6ad14321 did commit an infraction, yet we still don't believe it deserves a PERMABAN, as he has no previous mutes, nor bans; and is one of the oldest players in the game (Maybe set a STRIKE system instead of permaban?)
I own my responsibility in this chaos, as my objective is not conflict but solutions
I really hope more transparency for the future, maybe a change on how the community is informed of sanctions in general, so problems do not escalate to this level of conflict unnecessarily, as these polemic articles about staff are very common since a long time, and shouldn't be
ALL OF THIS BELOW IS KEPT FOR ARCHIVING PURPOSES AND FOR UNDERSTANDING WHAT WENT WRONG
Sadly the "iqrMs" is consistent with an AUTOCLICKER, 35ms is not normal
Info added by request of: https://app.warera.io/user/695709f595a7333b36597d44 to keep it very clear that Kenshy is actually guilty
The ones that know me, are aware that I value patience and I'm a technical guy before all, I prefer dialogue and reason over dumb insults and fighting, this is NOT my kind of content, I despise gossip and controversy, I'm old and busy enough
This article would NOT exist if we didn't have concrete technical evidence, nor if staff allowed fair defense and gave a little benefit of the doubt. Really stubborn, are ye, uh?
All data presented here is completely open to scrutiny, I have all the .json files, the logs, reports and will share the scripts via ticket, I fear nothing, because this is just the truth, the technical truth.
This article objective is to be a compilation for a TICKET and to be a little cry of "please stop" to the staff
Since I left Colombia presidency, I've been playing daily yet distant, but this issue took my full attention because it makes NO sense
What happened?
https://app.warera.io/user/682c5f32296356bc6ad14321 got permabanned, Kenshy is one of the FIRST Colombian players, one of the oldest in the whole game, WAY OLDER than me, also the Richest and one of the biggest damages since he recently started building for war (He was a full economy drone)
Kenshy has no previous offenses, you can go to his profile and check how he was just permabanned suddenly with no benefit of doubt, first red flag.
The staff member in charge of the case is: https://app.warera.io/user/681cf480427137e17d2e0ee8
I'm unaware if this person was the one issuing the ban in the first place or is just in charge of the ticket, but it will be relevant later
What is the Crime?
According to Dechi, Kenshy made 2000 items in 41 minutes; this was mentioned in their ticket, which Kenshy shared with us because he doesn't speak english, nor he has any technical training
I will not share screenshots of the ticket; staff has been very rude about interceding and helping banned/bullied players
Dechi mentioned it was physically impossible to make 2000 items (all grey items, Kenshy was farming milestones) in 41 minutes!
Dechi says it's impossible and the crafting spacing is of LESS THAN A SECOND! And that proofs he's botting or automating
Dechi claims it's very weird and very "botlike" without any actual proof
This will be very important, because this argument is ALL Dechi has, and all of them are easy to dismantle with data
The Proof by staff
Dechi provided just screenshots of the transactions as proof and claimed that was all. No due process, no escalation, no consulting with someone that actually knows about the technical part of the game
In terms of LAW, there's the idea you're innocent unless proven otherwise; even so, the proof of being guilty has to be provided by the one that accuses
But today we are going to get you proof, he's innocent
So as some may know, I'm an active Software Developer and decided to use the API and my HomeServer with n8n to proof Kenshy's innocence
Here it is
The amount crafted, and total time
I made two workflows, one for craftItem transaction extracting and one for processing the data
I decided to put the argument to test: Physically impossible to make 2000 items in 41 minutes (Because it's impossible to have less than 1s between craft, supposedly)
How many items did Kenshy actually craft exactly?
1950 gray objects in about 2 hours, the objective was to farm the milestone for crafting and disassembling. This is not against the rules.
(Found by getting 3000 Kenshy "craftItem" transactions and then filtering out all NON-gray items on the exact date Dechi mentioned (28 August), then comparing timestamps
The number of items is quite irrelevant tho, Dechi is focusing on the speed and intervals! I'll guess the number of items just looked weird to them
The Intervals
Now the real deal. Dechi says it's impossible for crafts to be less than a second away from each
Dechi of course has no idea on how the game actually works, one funny thing I found out by doing this is that there is NO hardcoded cooldown for crafting, and the UI neither does. Honestly? Vatou should just put one if this is gonna be a problem.
I made a JS script for a simple Coefficient of Variation and to check what was the absolute LOWEST time between crafts between all these 1950 transactions
Kenshy shows 572ms the lowest, this is truly LESS than a second! About 0.5s (almost 0.6s)
You can see the coefficient goes above 31.4% which means he's REALLY inconsistent and not a fast crafter even
Aha! But he did have less than a second!
Ok, good, that's exactly why we COMPARE data
I got 300 transactions from some very well known fellas to compare!
In general chat yesterday lovely https://app.warera.io/user/6999b69dc97b982f5c8ff0c5 mentioned he was faster than that, I thought he was bluffing, but he really is!
Gales lowest MS (milliseconds) between crafts is just 265ms, or about 0.2 seconds! Truly a speedster. His coefficient is just 4.7%! Very fast and consistent. Yet he's very human because the intervals difference is still absolutely random, he has NO pattern.
Love you Gales, I got this idea from you
What about https://app.warera.io/user/681cf480427137e17d2e0ee8 ?!?!
Good question... The answer is really funny
Dechi is of course a Human, this is not "counter-accusation"
But Dechi fastest craft in the last 300 ones, is just 355ms or about 0.3s... Yes, that's FASTER than Kenshy
It happens to be, that... Everyone crafts at the same speed, there is literally NO cooldown for crafting, and we can compare timestamps to find out if someone is a bot
WarEra has no system in place to detect or verify this data, permabans are VIBE BASED, which is... Not good, why are we even doing this? Absurd
As a final souvenir I also wanted to share https://app.warera.io/user/69967c084f89f5df12e5e9fb data as he's a very important Gambling Cult member, and they're famous for crafting! He's not a bot either, no one on this post is, he's just using THE GAME MECHANICS
Gregzuelan: 257ms or around 0.2s, the fastest yet, just a bit faster than Gales
That's all, hopefully it doesn't get deleted, I'm opening a ticket with this article so staff can address the situation directly. I'm really doing this against my will, I'm not a problematic guy but injustice on my community IS MY PROBLEM!