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@sbchamps17_NSW this post wasn’t in response to a personal loss. It was in response to looking at the top 50 leaderboard and it being impossible to have over a .700 batting average in ranked on legend difficulty. Averages absolutely indicate cheating when the ratings are that high and the games are played on legend.

@manu__sds_mlbts hi Manu! Anything going on with the app? It’s running pretty slow, lots of fetching data screens. Thank you!

I really do appreciate the communication and all the work, @manu__sds_mlbts

The bots are back to pre-restrictions levels sadly.

@manu__sds_mlbts Hi Manu! Thank you for working so hard on this. Market is still heavily botted at the moment. It seems as if any cards with positive margins is affected. Just providing current feedback

@Manu__SDS_MLBTS thank you Manu! The app has worked fantastically tonight and you can tell the difference with the marketplace margins. I had a couple of error messages earlier today but after signing out and back in that cleared them. Appreciate all you do!

@SDS_JoeK_PSN That's good to hear. Hopefully the leaderboard will reflect that soon. Just ran into a cheating account in a legend ranked game. This person then boasted about cheating in my messages as well. I reported him in game, but I feel like a lot of in game reports go by the wayside considering how many offensive logos and team names get through. Hopefully action is taken asap against this account and others.

Yeah I think at this point the restrictions are hurting the human market activity more so than limiting the bots. I think the bot activity is down 50% or so on a card to card basis. But, the cards the bots are actively on are just as bad as ever.

@Bridge-Piece_XBL bots are definitely still present. Not as consistent. Not every card. But I am aware what bot behavior looks like versus human behavior. You can see in this video that bots are still present as of 8am CT this morning: https://drive.google.com/file/d/174rG8peFll0IJ8BWzaVJRHfqlh9fqGXM/view?usp=drivesdk.

I’m very very thankful SDS is attacking this problem and communicating. And the issue is better, but not completely resolved. @manu_sds_psn

@Onix_Savage22_PSN appreciate the heads up. It has been removed. Did not realize that

Agreed with the above. 3-4 felt too restrictive. But 10 felt like a decent medium ground if that’s the strategy moving forward. Because the bots are back in full force

Yeah the bots are as worse as they've ever been right now

@manu__sds_mlbts bots are as bad as they have ever been. I think we would love to hear an update before the weekend if possible.

@Beaterrr_XBL I don’t think this is true at all. At least when it comes to player cards. More bots means the margins get smaller and smaller as the bots repeatedly underbid/overbid the human offers. Plus it’s really easy to see how active the bots are right now. I can send proof on any card with a positive margin right now.

I just got hit with the error “please wait 20 minutes before sending another marketplace request” which seems excessive

Now it’s 40 minutes. All I was doing this morning was casually flipping player cards. But now I can’t place an order at all even after waiting the allotted time @manu__sds_mlbts

I’m now at 2 hours before I can use the app again even though I haven’t used it since 10am.

@manu__sds_mlbts market felt great from my experience last night. This morning I can tell the bots are back and have changed their approach. On a lot of player cards with margin the bots will slowly put in multiple orders anywhere from a quantity of 11-18. They do this slowly as to not get detected At an interval of every 30 seconds or so. Every time they are outbid the same process happens, every thirty seconds the bot will delete their old order and create a new one that is exactly one stub above/under the buy now/sell now price. This would not be suspicious with one card, but this same exact behavior is prevalent on at least 20 cards that I’ve witnessed and likely much more.

@manu__sds_mlbts hi Manu! Bots are back as aggressive as I’ve seen them in awhile. Definitely not as fast, but the pattern of behavior is there. Just slower to avoid detection I’m assuming. Seeing the bot like activity across a number of player items