Talk:Infamous/@comment-216.45.228.131-20120410183641/@comment-5007270-20120412233750

It is impossible to prove that it was a spy attack, it is, however, possible to prove that it could not have been anything else and once one removes the impossible, whatever is left however improbable, must be the truth. Unless of course, there's a bug, which can not ever be completely discounted. Also, it seems unlikely that 1000 attacks in 48 hours is actually the requirement, as that would require an average of 5.2 successful attacks per game day recharge (15 minutes) over said 48 hours. Possible, but extremely hard to carry out.

My news feed, the lack of overlap is due to being in a hurry and taking it for my personal reference, both for who the recurring spy was and how active my guildies were with their thugs, I didn't expect to pull a full-out proof from it, hence the missing 30+ hours ago feed and no overlap: http://imgur.com/a/LIPYz

Only the first two parts are actually relevant anyway, assuming that one of the three assumptions that achievements are granted immediately, on next game-day, or on next log-in is true, as all three happened during that three-hour time period. Proof is by contradiction.

If we assume the statement spy attacks do not count then anyone who has earned the achievement must have had a non-spy attack be successful as the 1000th successful attack and thus trigger the achievement award. As both failures and successes are recorded in the news feed of any attack except spying this implies that sometime between the previous log-in and the one where the user recieved the achievement or during the log-in of which the user recieved the achievement there must have been a successful non-spying attack on the user. This attack would therefore be recorded in the news feed. As there is no news about a thug attack outside of unsuccessful spies in the given news feed, the result is a paradox. Therefore, one of three things must have occured to satisfy the statement that spying attacks do not count, under given assumptions: 1: A successful thug attack that either vandalized, stole, or intimidated was not logged in the news feed, 2: For some reason the achievement was not granted until well after it was earned (24 hours at a minimum), or 3: For some completely mysterious reason of my own I have mocked up a news feed which never existed in reality and/or went to the trouble of deleting at least one news message from it solely for the purpose of confusing other players on this one achievement.

If none of these are satisfied, no possibilities were forgotten and the other assumptions hold, then the statement must be regarded as false.

Note: Assumptions are as follows: 1: All successful vandalisms, intimidations and burglaries are shown in news feed, 2: Achievements are granted immediately, on next game-day, or on next log-in, 3: Achievements are shown in news feed upon completion, and 4: Achievement is for successful attacks only.