GWEN AntiCheat, what I believe should be done

Greetings everyone!

I am ToonBasic, or otherwise known as John to some and I've came to give my opinion on what must be done to GWEN AntiCheat to not only help improve the experience of those playing on Mineplex, but may also help in a monetary and player-count standpoint.

Here's a quick little background history of who I am to those who don't know:
I have approximately 5 years of Java experience and almost 3 years of AntiCheat development experience. I have learnt quite a lot of how the internals of Minecraft works and figured out a plethora of ways to develop checks by utilizing the literal source of Minecraft's code. Thanks to my knowledge that I have gained overtime, I have been able to detect most forms of combat and movement hacks within 1-2 hits (For combat) and 1-3 moves (For movement). I've also been able to detect other forms of hacks such as, but not limited to: ESP, Crashers, Timer, Ping Spoof, Scaffold, Jesus, the list goes on. I've worked with multiple major servers (That will not be named) that typically average hundreds of players per day, so I think I would be fairly qualified to give my opinion on how I think GWEN should be handled.

Enough of that though, let's begin!

As we all know, GWEN hasn't been in the best state in recent times. A lot of bypasses are being made, people are hacking left and right, people's game-play experience is getting ruined, the list goes on. What people don't realize though is that GWEN DOES WORK (kinda). It's able to detect a decent amount of people in (Most of the time) a timely manner and eliminate usually the blatant hackers, but that doesn't excuse the fact that more and more clients are rolling out updates that get around GWEN, so it's only a matter of time before there's an abundant amount of clients out there being released with all sorts of major bypasses.

What I believe needs to be done with GWEN is a literal "Rebranding". I've spoken to a lot of people over the past few years, quite a few used to play Mineplex, when I've asked them why they won't play Mineplex again, the main answer is because of the AntiCheat, not Mineplex itself. They believe that Mineplex is still a great server with fun games, it's just GWEN is no longer up to standards and highly dated in its methods of detentions, thus of course as stated above causing bypasses. So what I believe needs to be done is get rid of GWEN completely, though before you get on your high-horse and somehow manage to find a way to white-knight me about that, hear me out:
The "Core" of GWEN doesn't have to be entirely removed. Just its functionality and its name.

The name "GWEN" is highly disliked to many from what I've seen, so when a person may mention "GWEN", someone, or themselves could think, or even say "Oh, GWEN? That terrible AntiCheat?" and there's nothing anyone could do about it as it's their opinion. There could be a team of the world's best AntiCheat developers out there that fixed up GWEN, but that doesn't help the fact that the name has already been tainted through years of dissatisfaction from the community, so what I am proposing is maybe a rebranding of GWEN AntiCheat to something else so people can believe Mineplex is giving it a fresh start. so when players hear "Did you know Mineplex is making a new AntiCheat and getting rid of GWEN?", people may get a burst of hope for the future of Mineplex and start playing on the server once more knowing that something is being done to fix Mineplex and its "Hacker crisis".

Of course though, just rebranding GWEN doesn't solve all the issues. The most important thing of all is making sure GWEN is actively updated, worked on and managed by a proper individual, or even team if necessary (Make sure the people you hire are actually knowledgeable of how AntiCheats and Minecraft works. It's super easy to make an AntiCheat with hardly any falses that works on a small server/localhost than it is on an actual large server with many things to factor in, so choose wisely).

To the leadership of development for Mineplex:
When hiring someone who wishes to become an AntiCheat developer for Mineplex, throw them off with some complex questions. Of course, I won't be mentioning them here in case we get any potential applicants reading this, but if you are wondering of some, feel free to PM me and I would gladly give you some nice questions to ask them. They'll truly test whether a person knows how the game works and their knowledge of AntiCheat is legitimate.

Of course though, this is all my opinion! I would be glad to hear what you guys have to say in regards to this, so do let me know!
--- Post updated ---
I believe I could put more information to this thread, so I'll be editing it soon with way more information, tips and tricks for the developers, etc.

So feel free to keep updated with this thread!

 

Highly disagree with the majority of your response, though that's obviously my opinion.

The thing is that what people hear, say, and think is a major contribution to anything in life. If lets say 95% of the world said "Oh Apple is a terrible company! They make terrible phones!", you'll be more inclined to believe them and not utilize their product due to the majority of people not approving of them, same thing can be applied here with players not wanting to join cause of GWEN and the hackers.

Fact of the matter it does have a major contribution to the monetary gain and player-count of Mineplex. Whether you like it or not, Mineplex is a business. It's meant to make money. The best way to make money is to provide what's needed and properly execute actions to get the most out of everything which I believe "Investing" into a rebrand of the AntiCheat may help tremendously as it gives a fresh start for Mineplex once more and people to believe that a change for the better is happening, thus causing more people to return with high hopes.

In response to the guidance though, it was just some tips to ask people. It's not necessary, though could be very useful to lure out any person attempting to apply with a lack of knowledge (As trust me, a lack of knowledge can cause tremendous issues, especially in a large server such as Mineplex).

Finally in response to the former development team of GWEN:
Konsolas, while yes, he is decently knowledgeable is not entirely a good AntiCheat developer. The main issue with him is that he never bothered to learn how Minecraft fully works, nor did he bother to interact himself with the client community, thus causing a lot of client developers to go against him and not provide support on what's causing a bypass (And trust me, making yourself friends with the client community is tremendous help). Whether you want to believe me or not is your choice, but I've personally spoken to Konsolas and provided my support to AAC and provided code for AAC to utilize for some of their checks to further improve it. I've also given them suggestions on what could be done to fix it even more. It's just whether Konsolas decides to return and make the change or not at this point.

I've heard there was another AntiCheat developer aside from Konsolas, but I do not know of who he is, so I can't speak for him.

If you have any other questions, or concerns do let me know.

 

Thanks for your response! I've personally already applied, though I won't go too much into detail, nor do I want to talk about it any more to possibly ruin any chance of acceptance.

As of right now, GWEN hasn't been actually improved in a while, it's been at a standstill with not really any updates from what I've heard aside from maybe a hotfix here and there.

 

1. The quality of an AntiCheat is a major contributing factor to the quality of a server. It doesn't matter how many of the best games you have, it doesn't matter how beautiful the builds are, it doesn't matter how amazing the staff is, if there's hackers out there ruining the game due to an AntiCheat that's performing less and less as the days go by with new bypasses being made constantly, it's gonna get to the point where people will just give up trying to play. I am by no means talking bad about Mineplex, I actually enjoy it more than the competitors honestly, but you need to realize that a proper AntiCheat is one of the most crucial factors to the quality of a server and the gameplay for the players.

2. I honestly don't mind that you believe GWEN's name should remain, I am all for it if that's what the people want, though of course I did speak out my personal opinion on what I think may be best ^.^.

3. No need for a response there

4. No need for a response there, but thank you for your response! I apologize if I ever came out rude by the way, I just wanted to express what I think may be best.

As said above, I completely don't mind keeping the name GWEN, I just think it would be best for maybe a breath of fresh air and for people to return with hopes of a better change for both the community and Mineplex itself!

It must stink though the current situation happening in Bedrock! I hope it gets resolved soon!

I honestly love that this thread hasn't been trashed yet and instead, proper opinions are being said!

 

Haha, I completely understand where you're coming from, no worries!

I thank you for the compliment, means a lot! I actually plan on making a video soon for Mineplex on how to catch hackers and also show a bit of coding in the video to showcase what the client is doing and how it can be patched (Of course, no methods will be provided, but a way to give you an idea of how it can be patched).

^.^.

 

As of right now, I actually have none, though I am in the process of making one just to showcase for you guys.