Has Microsoft E-Tree Been Exploited?

Anonymous
2023-02-15T21:57:00+00:00

A handful of new users jumped to the top of the leaderboard with round-number points in the millions. Disconcerting to legitimate and dedicated users. Suspicious and conspicuous. Current number 6, Yggdrasil, was in clear first place, at least for the last few months.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-17T21:05:14+00:00

    Microsoft should be able to determine why. They should have logs of who earned >10k in a day and via which actions. If these exploiters figured out how to modify earning amounts for any actions or something similar, MS would have the cause and a potential fix.

    (P.S. I think everyone is completely okay with MS paying for these thousands of extra trees to be planted, but the users should be removed from the leaderboard.)

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-17T19:21:04+00:00

    Hi Toki,
    can you please let me know how can get point # 06 points I hardly get 130-140

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-17T15:11:51+00:00

    Some of the people on the current leaderboard weren't on their until the last couple of days and some how got millions of points in those couple of days. Yggdrasil who has been first for months now has dropped from first and has been the only person that reached the 1 million points mark. Top 3 currently have over 4 million points. They have somehow found a way to give themselves how much ever points they want, without doing the necessary daily tasks for points

    I did notice there were a bunch of new people in the top 50 and I'm not disagreeing with the notion that they might be cheating. My question is more...how? Even on a really good day, I get 7000 points. How are these people getting so many more?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-17T14:07:14+00:00

    Some of the people on the current leaderboard weren't on their until the last couple of days and some how got millions of points in those couple of days. Yggdrasil who has been first for months now has dropped from first and has been the only person that reached the 1 million points mark. Top 3 currently have over 4 million points. They have somehow found a way to give themselves how much ever points they want, without doing the necessary daily tasks for points

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-17T14:01:45+00:00

    How many points have you all been getting?

    I get 2120 or so each day:

    1. 600 points (200 points, 3 times a day for clicking the bubbles)
    2. 500 points for logging in
    3. 140 points for doing daily tasks
    4. 500 points for using the E-tree sidebar
    5. 90 points for doing the E-tree sidebar tasks
    6. 290-300 for finding "hidden energy" in the maps.

    I also get bonuses when I plant a new tree.

    I don't see how they can be "cheating" to get more energy though.

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