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[Alpha Waffle]

I've noticed for the past little while that the used market in R0 is consistently empty.

 

More alarmingly, when the market resets each day, I open the page to find a selection of used aircraft for sale -- and then when I refresh (or try to buy something), the entire stock is gone. Instantly.

 

This will happen within the first minute of each in-game day.

 

Unfortunately it seems that someone might be using a bot to automatically purchase the entire used stock at the beginning of each day. Very unfriendly.

[Alpha Waffle]

The airline is Warren Air, run by user Warrenslo. They are using a bot to purchase every available used aircraft at the start of each day, within the first two minutes.

 

I have opened the used market and taken note of which aircraft are available. By time I refresh the page -- every single time -- every aircraft has been purchased by Warren Air.

 

Here are some of the IDs of aircraft that have been snatched:

 

49835
49833
49822
49828
49824
49841
31422
50363
50377
50378
50366

 

It's not clear to me if this is a violation of the rules, but it certainly should be.

[Alpha Waffle]

I have checked at multiple points throughout the day, in three-hour intervals. No matter what time I check, the same behaviour persists. There are three cases:

 

1. This user is so committed to the game that they wake up every 15 minutes to purchase aircraft.

2. This airline is run by users in multiple time zones that are so committed to the game that they open the used market every 15 minutes to purchase everything.

3. The user has deployed a bot to automatically purchase used aircraft every 15 minutes.

 

1 and 2 seem extremely unlikely. Hopefully there are logs that can confirm that this user is indeed buying used aircraft every 15 minutes at all hours of the day.

[Amagi]

that’s also the case in r5 rn lmao

i thought that was just a regular occurrence 

[Alpha Waffle]

This is the first time I've seen this happen. It's clearly automated.

[Alpha Waffle]

I suppose nobody is going to do anything about this blatant cheating, then?