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A recent update in the game's interface during matches will hopefully detour people from cheating the game.

Through the years Splinterlands developers have been neutral in regards to bots playing the game. This may have lead to people finding loopholes to other ways of cheating the game's rewards system when bots seemingly are acceptable in the game.

However as users grew on the platform the same amount of rewards were being distributed to more and more players.  This lead to overall smaller rewards for long term players while new players could not earn enough to keep their interest in playing.  All the while the developers were also trying to keep the who platform and ecosystem they built sustainable.

A recent upgrade in the game is the hidden opponent during match setup.  In the past when players have the rank battle in play they see who their opponent's are and would have 3 minutes to setup their own formation.

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This had lead to some players finding a loophole in earning rewards. What would happen is the player would have several accounts in the same league and whenever they had accounts matched against each other they would make the dummy accounts forfeit their matches leading to the main account taking the win and yielding DEC rewards.

Now players will not know who they face until they have their formations setup making it very difficult to determine what course of action to take for the player/s who have multiple accounts and trying to forfeit losses to yield more rewards.

<h2>Conclusions</h2>

It is great to see that the Splinterland developers are trying to combat the cheaters.  This is strengthening the value of the game and holding up the value of the assets.

It also appears that the developers are focusing in on bots and now allowing those that try to leech rewards. With the reduction in rewards for bronze leagues meanwhile limiting ranking for those who actually do not have the correct amount of collection power to be rewarded for the specific league's ranking battles.

All this work is leading to the right direction for the game to be sustainable. At the same time keep all assets prices relative high compare to where it was even a year ago.

Until next time thanks for reading!!!

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