An idea that might work

Last summer I'd go on reporting sprees on Java with a couple dozen a day tops. Maybe two-thirds of them would be acknowledged. The most recent thing I reported wasn't a hack, but rather a bug for infinite shards. It was noted, but unresolved, and still there just tempting me to abuse it a few days later. But then again, what can you do without Devs?

 

I can only talk for Java, bedrock needs a lot more. But bedrock has literally no moderation tools at all, so even basic tools would probably make things 100x easier for Bedrock staff.

People logout, expiry times are low. Reports (when handled) are dealt with by what's in front of us (so, if someone isn't cheating while we're watching, we cannot sit and watch them for hours).

GWEN is doing a fairly decent job, steals a good amount of bans. It could be better, but it's certainly nowhere close to as bad as it was a few months ago.

I mean, currently, there are 0 reports ingame or on the forums (java), I cannot magically find people breaking the rules, we need tools to help find those people. More moderators would just increase the amount of staff (java) wandering around aimlessly without being able to do any tasks. A better timezone spread of staff would probably help a lot though.

All I can really say, is use the current tools to report them, there's a good amount of moderators online 9/10 hours a day trying to do every report they see (@Nuclear™, @AhhElliot to name a couple). We really need to improve tools to notify us, simples.

No matter the tools, until Mojang fixes the alt issue, it'll be an issue, we can only lower it a bit. It's an endless fight.

Lots, and I mean lots, of players think it's titan+ still. The advertisement would help, but the system needs a complete revamp IMO, it's pretty bad. And yeah, staffrequest is a jungle of off-topic, junk reports & widely disliked by the staff team, wish we could make it better or improve /report to the point where people are not using it.

People logout (you'd be surprised how little people stay on 1 account) & reports expire overnight/during eu times when less moderators are online (although, I do try and wake up at a normal time).

Bugs, I have no idea, not my area.

 

What I used to do was hop from CW lobby to CW lobby as a spectator reporting every hacker I saw, almost like a cop with a radar gun trying to nail people to meet their monthly quota. If you have the people to do it, why not seek out cheaters on patrols like that instead of waiting for them to come to you, or people to direct you to them? Believe me, it's a lot of fun helping to clean up the server all while seeing justice served.

 

If mods were as aggressive as I am, and unlike me, they can put a stop to anything in an instant, hackers may think twice about cheating on Mineplex, knowing it would be easier to get away with elsewhere.

 

Because that's inefficient, it'd be a bit of a waste of time, it'd work if nothing else was happening I guess, but that's a pretty slow way of finding people most of the time.

Report them through as many ways as possible, that's all I can advise.

 

Without a working Gwen, the only way things get better for everyone (except the cheaters) is if you're ruthless and let nothing slide.

 

The idea of a functional anticheat is to monitor the server without the need for human intervention, but with that not being something you can rely on, the only option is to tackle the problem piecemeal. Hackers are not hard to find. Out of the hundreds if not thousands of CW Java lobbies I visited over the summer, AT LEAST 20% of them had one or more hackers in them, no exaggeration, and they seem to be even more prevalent on Bedrock. They're not at all hard to find

 

Has there been an update or not? They keep telling us it's the works, and I stopped believing that a long time ago after we never got results. From what I'd heard people say, it's worse on Bedrock, but maybe it has improved on Java. No matter what, considering how much people complain about it, I'm positive it can't carry its weight the way it should.

 

To be honest, I can't remember the last time Gwen did run totally smoothly, if ever. It caught me for flying in 2017, but I was able to get away with it for quite a while. It's never been a perfect system, and it's not up to par now. And it definitely seems to be worse on Bedrock, where you also have way fewer mods patroling way more people.

 

That's good, but why was there no mention of that on the homepage or the forums changelog of this website? They actually do some stuff right and it flies under the radar.