Ultimate Tutorial: DefQuee... The "non-bug" invincible mechanic

🚨 DefQuee is the “invincible mechanic” Gameforge can’t agree on 🚨

Disclaimer: According to CoMa Prongs, this mechanic is allowed and not considered bugusing.

Some CoMas call it a bug; others say it’s a valid feature. Even Game Admin Yohdh, who works in both OGame.PT/BR and OGame.ORG, is stuck between two bosses issuing opposite directives.

Players run this mechanic with no addons, no scripts, nothing external — the game itself auto-refreshes and produces artificial activity and instant fleet updates. When this mechanic is combined with illegal tools (like Tampermonkey scripts that send attack alerts), it results in near invincibility: any incoming attack is detected instantly, and the player can react very fast, often before the fleet even lands.

How can the same mechanic be punished in one community and legitimized in another? It’s time for Gameforge to answer: bug, exploit, or official mechanic?

What this post covers

1. A clear step-by-step explanation of how the mechanic works.

2. A legality discussion, given Gameforge’s contradictory stances across communities and CoMas.

Step-by-step tutorial

1. Choose a moon.

2. Build Shipyard level 2 or higher to unlock Rocket Launchers.

3. Create a defense build queue with multiple Rocket Launcher units.

   • Here lies the essential part of the mechanic: instead of creating a single large order of defenses, you must split it into very small groups (1/2/3 units).

   • Why? Because it is the short construction time of these tiny batches that will force the window to refresh.

4. Recommendation: use groups of 1 unit each — this will maximize the number of automatic refreshes triggered by the game.

5. Leave your browser open on the moon where you created this queue.

   • It can be on the overview or directly in the defense tab.

6. Every time one batch of defenses finishes, the game window will automatically reload, without any human interaction.

   • With each reload, the game also refreshes fleet movement data, so you instantly know whether you are being attacked or not.

7. The mechanic requires no addon at all — it is native to the game itself.

   • If you do use any addon, the mechanic will still work in exactly the same way.

Example: https://ibb.co/g5tDBG6

❌ The contradictions✅

• CoMa Prongs (ORG and many other): declared in an official ticket that DefQuee is not a bug or exploit, but a mechanic.

• CoMa Pinky (PT): declared the opposite — that it is a bug/exploit. Quote: "Here in OGame.pt, we apply the Terms & Conditions, specifically section 6.4, points a) and b)."

• On servers like Thuban.EN, even Team members use it, showing that in ORG it is treated as a legitimate feature.

📖 What does section 6.4, referred by CoMa Pinky, actually say? (Witch i agree)

Terms & Conditions

6.4. The user is obliged to refrain from any form of manipulative intervention in the Gameforge Services. In particular, without limitation, the user is not permitted

a) to perform actions or use tools that may impair the intended function or the program or game flow; this includes in particular the use of cheats, mods, hacks, bots (and similar programs and functions that automate actions to be performed manually) and data mining tools,

b) to deliberately exploit any existing program errors (bugs) in order to gain advantages over other users,

⚖️The Yohdh paradox⚖️

• Game Admin Yohdh is part of the staff in both OGame.PT/BR and OGame.ORG communities.

• However, a Game Admin is still below the CoMa in the hierarchy.

• This raises a crucial question: if a player uses DefQuee in one of those communities, what will Yohdh do?

  • He answers to two different CoMas with opposite views on the same mechanic.

  • Which rule applies? Which CoMa’s interpretation should prevail?

This highlights the absurdity of the situation: even high-level staff cannot enforce a consistent policy, because none exists.

Final Discussion

The DefQuee is not just a minor technicality — it’s a mechanic that reshapes gameplay and undermines balance. It generates artificial activity and auto-refreshes fleet data without any player interaction. If that is not considered an exploit, then what is?

This contradiction leaves players in a paradox:

• In some communities, it’s accepted and openly used.

• In others, it’s punished as bug abuse.

• Even Game Admins are trapped between two CoMas with opposite interpretations.

How can players trust the game if even staff leaders contradict each other? How can a Game Admin enforce rules when his two direct CoMas disagree?

👉 Gameforge must define, clearly and globally:

• Is it a bug?

• Is it an exploit?

• Or is it an official mechanic?

Until this answer is given, the OGame community will remain in uncertainty — and competitive integrity will continue to be compromised.

Quote from Soundwave

Can we just ban obvious ChatGPT generated posts please

I see that u are one of those who use the DefQuee... dont be mad...

Quote from tesparG

h yes, the legendary DefQuee. Some say it was first carved on stone tablets by the earliest OGame players. Glad to see it finally got its own ‘Ultimate Tutorial™’. Only took, what, two decades?

So what’s the point of all this? Just an excuse for not being able to catch targets on Thuban (if there are even any left)? 🤔

Off-topic though: this mechanic has been around forever, and most people always considered it just a game tactic and not some illegal trick.

Very simple, peole are using DefQuee with atk alert script, witch makes impossible for anyone to do anything against it

Quote from Apostle

Leave that method to serve it's purpose - creating activity..... BUT updating the status of moving fleets only refreshes though manual clicks.

Well, this can be a good idea indead