[Foxhole] Implement server-side behavior detection and alt-detection to combat cheating

Foxhole is a great game and I deeply enjoy playing it, however the recent wars (especially during the whole *Blue Haven/Heaven* mess) have shown how bad cheating and exploiting abuse have become. Aimbots, night hacks, API abuse, scripts, overmodding (something that gives too much advantage), and most of all, **alts** are now so common that they’re affecting normal gameplay. **Alting is so normalized that many partisan groups treat it as part of their standard toolkit**, giving them huge advantages over any single player, facility or hex they target. Meanwhile, mass-reporting abuse, false bans, and the lack of visibility on enemy activity make it extremely hard to gather evidence for reporting such exploits. The old in-game moderators are gone due to past abuse, and the current ticket system isn’t enough based on what the majority of players say. So, what can be added to the game that doesn’t require devs to manually check everything? **Some practical solutions:** * **Server-side behavior detection** for impossible & unnatural aim corrections, suspicious firing outside vision like night-hacking, repeated bot-like movement, or inventory actions etc. * **Shadowbans** for suspicious players so they only interact with other flagged accounts. Instead of instantly banning someone on suspicion, quietly move them into a “suspect pool” so false positives can be avoided and moderators can immediately see who are frequent violators * **Alt-detection & new-account restrictions** to stop throwaway sabotage accounts. Detect multiple accounts from same hardware (MAC address or IP or some sort of private/public keys). * **Invisible reputation system** so false reporters lose influence. Completely hidden from players (to avoid drama), the game tracks valid vs false reports, friendly-fire, sabotage attempts, and suspicious behavior patterns. * **Report weighting** so mass-report spam becomes useless. A report shouldn't be treated equally if the reported didn't witness the event, has a poor history of violations/reports, or the accused has clean behavioral logs. * **Automatic short replays** triggered by reports or suspicious kills. I don't know if the current system in place records something when a player reports someone. But it would be great if once report is issued, a 20 to 60 seconds of data is included when someone is mass reported, anti-cheat detects an anomaly, or suspicious trend occurs (like when the reports came from same regiment), * **Limited community helpers** who can tag issues but not abuse power. Bring back helpers, but with zero punishment power. They can tag suspicious players, highlight griefed areas, mark likely exploits. They cannot ban, spawn any object in the game, or view enemy intel. * **Stronger API rate limits** to prevent intel scraping. Limit the max requests, block unusual query patterns, restrict sensitive endpoints for new accounts and remove from public data sensitive information like the accounts of enemy players in a hex. * **Weekly Transparency Reports -** Even a tiny anonymized report like how accounts were banned, exploits attempted, or mass-report abuse prevented can definitely help improve the community's trust and greatly discourage the people who are using any type of cheats or exploits. I believe with smarter systems in-place, it would make cheating harder, alt abuse less effective, and mass reporting irrelevant. With the right tools, the community’s experience can improve dramatically without overloading the dev team. With this, I would love to hear what the devs are planning to overcome this issue coz honestly, the cheaters/exploiter/griefers are growing more confidently everyday as they think they can getaway from doing such things without any repercussions or consequences. **PS.** Photo is a reference to a **"blue haven/heaven"** supporter/regiment member (that was caught and recorded in a clip shared in FOD), giving havoc charges to a collie alt account to destroy a warden Town Base to delay the war 128.