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by lucb1e 2237 days ago
Without horizontal scrolling (annoying on desktop, let alone mobile view: https://snipboard.io/yJ8Lfo.jpg):

> - Cheaters will eventually find a way, but you can always reduce the quantity and quality of them.

> - All information on how to write a cheat for your game eventually ends up in public forums. Keep an eye on those and learn how most people are writing cheats and target those methods specifically.

> - Obfuscation (new detentions, new anti-reversing measures, new countermeasures to cheating methods) buys you time in the immediate term and invalidates existing online information in the long term. They're like antibiotics--they increases the barrier to entry and pain factor of cheating only if you continue adding/changing it.

> - Obfuscation will never be adequate to prevent cheating entirely. Human monitoring, skill-based pairing, and full visibility & control over hardware the game is executing on are probably the next generation in terms of cheat prevention.