Talk:Void Relic/@comment-50.4.55.89-20160730080205/@comment-25593327-20160801072042

And how exactly do they place it somewhere obvious? If you data mine, you must check all files in the game. Not only are there no obvious places, since, well, it's a lot of written data, not a nice 3D gallery of the game's files. If you were to perform a full check, you'd inevitably find both fake and real stats. Of course, you could put the real stats under the heavier encryption, but, first, that ought to make it obvious where the real files are, and second, you'd have to mask fake stats to make them seem believable, and that means you'd have to create coding discrepancies, which is generally not a good idea when the development team consists of more than one programmer.

Besides, if there is such an easy solution, why doesn't everybody do it, hell, why did DE only start doing it now? It's not like they've been fighting data miners only recently.