Hiya fellow chefs! Some time ago, I started reporting cheaters on Cafe World. These are people that are using bots and programs to hack into the game and "modify" it to allow them to do all kinds of things to increase gold coins, cafe points and food without having to DO anything.
My biggest complaint were some of my neighbors that are using Cheat Engine 5.5 to hack into the Cafe World program and create a setup where your dishes automatically prepare and cook themselves. Known as a Cafe Clicker, the program is the ultimate in gaining HUGE Cafe points in a very short period of time. Of course it can do that, it's a computer software system, far more effective than any human can ever even think of playing the game.
I removed several neighbors that were using this cheat. One of them went from level 44 to level 173 in about 2 months. Just go ahead and try to do that on that game without cheating, GOOD LUCK. I started searching the net for answers to how this guy could possibly be gaining that many points without cheating and ran into the Cheat Engine program. I filled out a complaint form 4 separate times to Zynga - this cheating was making the game not much fun. I don't like to cheat to beat other players, why should these people be allowed to engage in such?
Well, here's Zynga's statement concerning this - they FINALLY are effectively addressing the problem:
Cafe World Unfair Play Deterrent!
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Hiya chefs,
In an effort to clean up some issues affecting the performance of our game servers we detected several programs or sources trying to access the application to change the normal game play experience. These programs, modifiers, bots, cheats, hacks, etc. are a violation to Zynga’s Terms of Service, see Usage Rules, and have been affecting all users ability to connect to our servers.
We have implemented code to detect users enhancing their game experience by using programs of this type. Once an account has been detected it will be disabled until the end user contacts our Customer Support team. Accounts disabled may be reset to “normal” game play conditions and be noted for potential suspension if other violations occur.
Our intention is to keep our game world clean of modifiers and enhancement programs as well as optimize the performance for all of our café owners. If you experience any trouble with your Café World account and need assistance please contact our Customer Support team.
Our desire is that everyone that plays Café World have an enjoyable experience and we thank you for your continued support.
The Café World Team
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Okay, well I just stumbled upon that, however, I then looked at the date on that statement. It was made January 6th of this year. That was 6 months ago!! So what's the answer here? People are still cheating, obviously. I can confidently say that because all of these cheaters I have removed as neighbors were ALL AFTER that statement was made by Cafe World/Zynga. Either their detection software isn't working too welll - or more likely - there are TOO many people cheating for them to keep up with it.
I simply advise you that if you see a neighbor cheating, turn them in!! Complain loudly and often to Zynga. The guy that went up to level 173? His account has been removed from Cafe World entirely. The others? I haven't checked on them recently - they are still Facebook neighbors so I can still look at their cafe points and see what is going on with them.
Look, any of us can engage in cheating. It's easy. It's the easy way to win, right? What's the point? It only serves to make the people that are haivng some fun playing the game to make them/me mad. I hate cheating. How can you tell if a neighbor is heating? One obvious sign is that they were way behind you and all of the sudden in a week's time they have not only caught up to you, but passed you waving bye-bye in terms of Cafe points. Go to their restaurant. Do you see hamburgers cookings, but no hamburgers on their counters? Good sign there. One guy had NO dishes on his counters, yet he was racking up huge Cafe points every day! How do you cook massive amounts of food but have no food on the counters? By cheating, of course!
That guy had all of his stoves set up to cheat, not everyone does that, so they will still have food on their counters. They might set up 4 or 5 or however many stoves to do the cheat and still play the game normally on the rest of their stoves. One woman was doing that - a former neighbor I should say - I just took her off of my neighbors but occasionally look to see how far ahead she is. I reported her, so perhaps today I will go see if all that nonsense has stopped.
Anyway, to all the honest chefs out there, happy cooking!
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