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Silkroad · Anti-Cheat
2024 · 5 months

Silkroad Origin

Designed layered bot and hack protection for a vSRO server, cutting confirmed cheating by 92% in the first month.

92%
fewer confirmed cheats
<1%
false-positive rate
+38%
active players

Overview

Silkroad Origin's economy was being wrecked by gold-farming bots, speed hacks, and teleport exploits — the classic plague of vSRO/JSRO servers. Player trust was collapsing.

The challenge

Client-side detection alone was trivially bypassed, and the team had no visibility into how the cheats operated in production against their emulator core.

Our approach

  • Moved authority server-side for movement, targeting, and resource state.
  • Built a statistical layer flagging impossible inputs and botting patterns.
  • Trained behavioral models on labeled account telemetry.
  • Orchestrated coordinated ban-waves with an appeals workflow.

The results

Confirmed cheating dropped 92% within a month, gold-farm accounts collapsed, and the legitimate economy stabilized for the first time in the server's history.

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