So I found out what classifies you as “Dishonorable” in this game. It has nothing to do with completing a game because I would complete the game until it said “Continue” at the bottom. As soon as you click that continue an advertisement begins. Once the advertisement is done you can select the option to close the ad or follow it. Once you close it you go back to the main screen.
I didn’t want to waste my time watching the same stupid ads after every game. So as soon as the ad began I would close the app and reopen it. It saved tons of time, but I learned that THIS made me become labeled as dishonorable. I even deleted my account and started fresh to find the same result. So there is no reason to use the Honorable Retreat flag if you know the game is over. Refusing to watch the stupid ads is what makes you dishonorable. The app developers told me once before that the honorable retreat flag prevented the dishonorable tag but that was a lie.
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Developer Response
Thanks for the review Woolf1219. As you might imagine, I play our game very often. I always have a win rate of 60% or higher, not because I'm cheating, but because a lot of players use very easy to guess fleet setups and some use inefficient shot patterns. The honor status reflects unfinished games, because we had problems with players, we call them "vanity cheaters", that will leave a match, when they think they're losing. You always have the option to use the white flag button (honorable retreat). Then you earn a loss, but your honor status is untouched. Why not use that option? I ask the following question for years now and not once I got a good answer: if cheating is so easy in our game, why not point us in the right direction? The internet must be full of working cheats, right? EDIT: People underestimate probabilities. For the first 5 or 6 shots, the chance to hit a ship is always higher than 20%. If you play Yahtzee for example, it can happen, that you roll 3 or 4 Yahtzees in a row. It's the same with our game. Sometimes crazy games happen. I had games where I won in 5 turns. Rare, but it happens. Same goes the other way around. Your example of putting ships next to each other is something I also use, it's a good strategy. But I have countless times "felt" that this is, for example, the carrier next to the cruiser and destroyed these ships in one turn. There's no cheating involved, just luck and experience. And no, I never admitted to cheating problems (exception as told above: vanity cheaters and leaderboard cheaters, but that's a different thing and we have that under control). We use a very good anti-cheat tool. We see each cheat attempt (memory hack) and we know for a fact that the normal cheat engines out there won't work with our game. And these engines are what 99% of the so called hackers use. No hard feelings. You can probably imagine how it feels to have to explain the same things 5 years in a row and whatever you say, some people will tell you, that you don't know your own game etc. I assure you, we love our game and we care about it. If we had a cheating problem, like opponents seeing your fleet, we would ask our players for help and not denying it. Take care! EDIT: we haven't blocked a player in along time. Only thing we do block is the chat (if we get lots of reports of a player being insulting). Best write us an email at support@smuttlewerk.de so I can check your account. EDIT: thx for the updated review! :-) We once thought we add custom grid sizes and fleet sizes, but we abandoned the work on it, because of the overhead this would have caused. Sometimes it's better to keep things simple. EDIT: ok, I tested it here. I played a match and tapped on continue on the end screen. As soon as the ad was there, I closed the game and restarted it. No unfinished game. Then I started a new one, used the "white flag" to restreat. Ad came up, I closed the game and restarted it. No unfinished game. I don't know what you're doing for this to happen. I have tested only on Android, might be an iOS specific thing. I will test it later on my iPad and let you know. One thing: if what you tell me happens, it is not on purpose.
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