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A Fame Train is an organized group of players that will run around the border of the godlands, killing gods along the way, in order to get Fame efficiently and quickly.
An alternative to using Fame Trains is running the Lost Halls dungeon instead or doing other dungeons such as the Parasite Chambers or The Nest under 1.5x XP events to gain fame.
Fame Trains are usually unliked by the community. The fact that a lot of people on leaderboards abuse this in order to get to the top rankings makes it even worse. Using fame trains are significantly safer and faster compared to doing endgame dungeons or other content for fame. It’s also hated since it’s suspected that some of the top players use “Ghost Realms” or the term “Boating” (creating inaccessible realms to gain a significant amount of fame in a short period of time.) in order to get into top leaderboards with little to no effort.
If you happen to stumble across a fame train in the Realm (or you’ve joined a server that is organizing a fame train), there are some common courtesies one can follow to help the train’s effectiveness and to avoid inconveniencing both other players and yourself.
Until early 2013, most players used the roads of the realms in an effort to level up faster. These “EXP Road Trains” eventually gave way to fame trains in the godlands, and are now not really seen today.
Until 2018-05-30 Hotfix X.26.1.0, where pausing in Realm got disabled, Fame Trains had “Pausers” (Players that Pauses in the Realm for Fame Trains) around the Godlands. These were used to prevent Gods from spawning in the center of the Godlands in order to increase the spawn rate on the outer sides, where the Train would run into. These were incredibly effective, but it was found that most, if not all fame trains, used Bots/Alts that aren’t a real person as a “Pauser”. This was clearly against the ToS of the game, and DECA decided to disable pausing in Realm ever since.
From 2018-09-12 to 2020-05-02, many methods were used to replace “Pausers”. The most popular method was to use “Idlers” (Players that AFK in the Realm for Fame Train) around the Godlands. Idlers were usually setup on third-party software to enhance the survivability of the account while idling in the Godlands. In March of 2019, Idlers were optimized to be set up in specific areas in the godlands to create massive god walls (usually 100-500 gods). These trains surpassed legitimate fame gain and would average 40-50 FPM (Fame Per Minute) or thousands of fame in just a few hours. (For comparison, a normal train would average 8-12 FPM) Many top players abused this new method, new accounts reached white star within just a few hours, however, this will soon come to an abrupt end. On June 16th, Valsined (Deca Employee) entered the train secretly and watched as many top players exploited. Valsined immediately closed the realm and a public statement regarding Idling was made on Reddit.
It is also worth mentioning, after the crackdown on Iding, many players resorted to creating “Ghost Realms” using unofficial, third-party clients in order to have a consistent source of fame train. These Ghost Realms were completely inaccessible by any means to normal players, and only the people using the unofficial clients would be able to access it. This allowed idling to continue with a small group of players without a risk of being caught. However, DECA Games soon took notice and banned any exploiters as quickly as possible.
Below are some helpful resources if you want to learn more about fame training in general. Note that some of these resources may have become outdated over time.
