IAxiiYourMother;n7466570 said:
I don't think trackers should be allowed period. It is something that players should be expected to do in their heads. They need to encrypt the games data at all stages. Without encryption it would be very easy to make cheating scripts for this game. No one will want to play this when the top 1000 players are there because they are using software to help them make decisions/cheat.
The logic behind your argument doesn't hold up. “...players should be expected to do in their heads.”, if I use a pencil and paper to track my cards I am no longer strictly using my mind to do this, the only difference between this and a 3rd party program carrying out this process is one is analogue and the other digital, they both achieve the same end of empowering the player to make an informed decision on their gameplay.
Sure you can make the argument that the onus shouldn't be on the player-base to be required to download and use a 3rd party program for a perceived game play advantage but then what's to stop themselves doing it physically with a notepad?
In regards to programs using scripts to cheat I wholeheartedly agree that these should be curtailed and chances are they already have a client to server process in place that scans incoming communication from the game's client and flags anything suspicious that wasn’t included in the games engine by CDPR themselves.
Established titles such as Hearthstone haven't had any issues with 3rd party programs enabling cheating through malicious communications via the game client and i'd assume the client to server transfer process is based on a universal code library CDPR were already aware of when they were at the software planning stage of development with the game client.
IAxiiYourMother;n7466570 said:
Also, programs like these are a huge security risk. Running it once is enough to install a persistent key logger on your computer that will do a lot worse than just steal your GOG credentials.
This applies to any software from an open source that you or anyone else chooses to download and comes down to personal diligence of their own PC's security, to suggest that every & all deck trackers carry key loggers is at best disingenuous.
Koaalar.424;n7475020 said:
I hope CDPR finds a way to prevent deck trackers from working. imho it's just a way of cheating.
Could you expand on why you believe keeping track of the cards one plays is strictly cheating, as mentioned above if I do this myself with a pencil and paper am I now cheating?