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There are literally people who will invest months of their time to infiltrate an alliance, gain trust, rise in the ranks to then inflict the maximum amount of d
by this_user 13y ago
There are literally people who will invest months of their time to infiltrate an alliance, gain trust, rise in the ranks to then inflict the maximum amount of damage possible (a practice known as 'awoxing' after a character who made it popular a long time ago). This has lead to a level of paranoia among certain people that it would probably be easier to get a job at a Fortune 500 company than one of those groups.
Furthermore, the biggest coalitions [of alliances] consist of thousands and tens of thousands of players. Some of those operations could be considered at least semi-professional with extensive IT infrastructure and dedicated HR and financial teams.
- cdash 13y agoThey also have implemented anti-spying features into the communication channels such as hiding watermarks on forum pages that identify the user account of the person logged in. That way if you took a screenshot and distributed it then they could identify who the leaker is. http://onebit.us/x/i/IxuCXyZK8m.png http://onebit.us/x/i/IxuCXyZK8m.png http://onebit.us/x/i/cAk6RKogxR.png http://onebit.us/x/i/cAk6RKogxR.png I think they also used unicode characters as another method, so they would catch you if you copy and pasted text or took a screenshot.
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoI'm sorry - what? Tens of thousands of people in an alliance, logging In daily, with dedicated support teams? Is this a description of the future of corporations or just not supported by server logs?