10 GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters

3. Letting Other Players Publicly Execute Them - Eve Online

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If there's one thing you can't deny about Eve Online, it's that those who play it take it super seriously, and above all else won't abide the efforts of anyone treating it like a joke.

Developers CCP Games also haven't taken lightly any attempts to undermine their meticulously constructed space sim, and in 2018 even organised a public execution of cheating players.

One of the most common methods of cheating involves using a bot to farm in-game currency all day long, providing offenders with a substantial advantage over honest players who have to, you know, leave the computer to work, eat, exercise, and actually deal with other human beings.

Between this and the potential for mass botting to destabilise the game's fragile economy, CCP typically offers cheaters a warning before banning their account on a second offense.

But five years ago, a series of spaceships owned by cheating players were teleported into neutral space and players en masse were invited to show up to give them one hell of a shellacking.

And boy, that they did.

By the end of the massacre, more than 150 players had assembled to destroy the fleet of ships trotted out by CCP staffers, and when the ritual was repeated a week later, more than 700 strong showed up to obliterate a cheater's Titan - one of the most powerful ships in the game. Glorious.

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