Origina Connect 4 (6x7) is "important" to me because it is one of the very few game which is both:
* Extremely well known and popular, with hundereds of players
* Deceptively complex (allow skills level up to 700 elo without solvers)
I would agree with most posters that if really we need to "punish" the game rather than the cheaters, it would be enough to remove the Arena seasons and the elo/trophies. Don't force everyone to play untimed (as in training mode).
Once again, this is just my opinion, in general I appreciate your effort to improve the abstract games implementations and to implement measures against cheaters.
* Extremely well known and popular, with hundereds of players
* Deceptively complex (allow skills level up to 700 elo without solvers)
I would agree with most posters that if really we need to "punish" the game rather than the cheaters, it would be enough to remove the Arena seasons and the elo/trophies. Don't force everyone to play untimed (as in training mode).
Once again, this is just my opinion, in general I appreciate your effort to improve the abstract games implementations and to implement measures against cheaters.