Countering Exploiters

Overview
Exploiters have always been a problem in Anomic. There are fly hackers that fly around the map, constantly killing people, noclippers that noclip through walls and into people's stores, and more. There are not enough moderators to ban all the hackers, and normal players don't have the ability to ban people. Here are a few ways to do it yourself.

In A Store
Exploiters will most often go into an advanced car dealer's store, ask for a hyper car, then use their exploits to kill the shop owner once they take out the hyper car. The exploiter gets an easy hyper car and the car dealer loses $8900 (because they bought the hyper car from the team shop but didn't sell it for anything). Remember that when dying, you drop the item you are currently holding as long as it is not a team item (NOT an item bought from the team shop, but given for free when you join that team). This way, they can get an easy hyper car. Here are a few ways to prevent things like that from happening.

Offsale Items
So if you lose a hyper car to an exploiter, not only do you lose a hyper car but you also lose $8900. An easy way to counter this is to make expensive items offsale. You may choose the price, like $3000+ items offsale or something else. This will discourage hackers from targeting your store, and if all stores do the same, then maybe the hackers will leave the server! While this is a very effective strategy, it heavily affects the players that are not hackers since the items are offsale for everyone, unless you make it so that the item is only offsale for bacon hair avatars or something.

Profile Check
The profile check is a very effective but time consuming process that is better than making an item offsale. Basically, when a player walks into your store, you check their profile (either on a second monitor, second device, or just switching from the Roblox window to Google Chrome) and collect proof whether they are an exploiter or not. For example, if they are very new to Roblox, have no friends, and have a bacon hair avatar, then you may not sell them anything. You might have some fixed standards, like your account must be 3 months old before they can be sold anything. Nonetheless, the profile check is more effective than offsale items but is very time consuming.

Decoy
IMPORTANT: THIS ONLY WORKS WITH CAR DEALERS

The decoy is a smart strategy however you will still lose some money off of it. Since car keys are used to spawn cars and all car keys look the same, regardless of the car, when someone asks for an expensive vehicle, for example the hyper car, then you may want to pull out the car keys of a hatchback WITHOUT A HYPER CAR IN YOUR HOTBAR. If they are an exploiter, they will kill you hoping to get a free hyper car only to find out that you were actually holding a hatchback or some other cheap car and not a hyper car. This method will make you lose some money, however you will be glad you lost only a hatchback and not a hyper car, which is over 10x the price.

Unarmed Purchase
Currently, this is the most effective strategy. With the new update that introduced the Gun Detector, some stores started to use this strategy. Basically, to buy an expensive item (like any item $4000 and above) you must be unarmed to purchase. To make sure the player is unarmed, they must go through the gun detector. If they try to store the weapon into their inventory to avoid getting detected, then it won't work, as when storing a weapon in your inventory makes it have no ammo so when they equip it again they'll have to reload it, giving it away.

Let's Stop Hackers!
If everyone decides to do these countermeasures to exploiters, maybe they will stop hacking on Anomic! Everyone should contribute not only for their own good but also as a community. Let's stop hackers!