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What do you think needs to be done, 2 members have already openly complained that he has too many (and too high of) high scores, and it’s no longer fun for people to compete for first place.
Personally, I wouldn’t doubt the fact that he’s cheating, simply because I understand the technology and how easy it is to do if you understand it. But I’m not going to point fingers because I obviously can’t prove that. (I am, however, entitled to my own thoughts thank you very much :D)
What do you think we should do about this sice two of our members have openly expresssed concern?
(See the New Arcade Games thread in Site News & Announcements)
FYI: Here are the current standings:
3D SuperBall – MrEggsalad
Aski – den44057 2588
Asteroids – den44057 35680
Breakout – MrEggsalad 13320
Bugz – den44057 366
Chopper Challenge – den44057 4440
Crazy Sleigh – den44057 13500
Curveball – den44057 25530
Defend Your Castle – MrOats 51000
Disc Dash – amy_d_g 73509
Eskiv – den44057 110
Flash Poker – Fancy 3135
Flashbert – den44057 17600
Frogger – den44057 836
Fun Santa – den44057 1620
Hexxagon – Anna 41
Iceberg – den44057 21500
Monkey Lander – den44057 28795
Pacman – den44057 65530
Ron North’s Jewels – sarahtowny 79210
Simon – Anna 27
Snake – den44057 2202
Snowboard Slalom – den44057 33159
Sober Santa 2 – den44057 1038
Space Invaders – den44057 416460
Stans Ski Jumping – Spike 35
Tetris – Anna 35689
Yeti Sports 1.5 – Spike 1434He’s the high score for 17 games.
I gave up on the ‘contest’ we were having because of him — and I still don’t like the fact that he only comes here to play games. I told him if he wanted to be part of the contest, you must be part of the community, and therefore I set a post count of a minimum of 40. He exceeded that and them some talking back and forth with Leapy Leo about the arcade. EVERY post about it has his name all over it. I’m sick of it. You cut him from the arcade, he has no reason to be at BBB.
I have added a small fix that may help with some of the cheating, disabling the “extra” Flash options when you right-click a game (options like “pause, rewind, play”).
I suggest we reset the scores, watch him, and if he pulls the same crap again, we ban him from the arcade.
I will reset the scores tonight before I go to bed at about 11PM Central, so if anybody needs to save the scores or what have you, you’d best do it now. 😉
Anyone know how to cheat? how about we out-cheat him until the score is so ridiculously high that it couldn’t possibly be real?
There is one of two ways as far as I know for the end user to actually “cheat”:
– Edit your system RAM to change the score (not recommended method, i’ve tried, it’s hard).
– Sniff your traffic to find the data packet that’s sent to the server with any post data, etc. intercept and modify it, changing the score; or make a call to the submit score PHP page, although this second method may not work. vBulletin checks the referrer of the page, so it must come from within the site (i.e. you can NOT just type in bigblueball.com/arcade.php?submit=true&score=32457&gameid=32 (that was made up), instead that can only be called from within another page in the arcade.But, we’re admins (go us). We could manually insert scores into the database. 🙂
you can’t just sniff the traffic, there is much more to the scoring method to that, there is a trigger in each frame… and there is either a checksum or multiple calls while the game is being played.
Either way, I knew about the methods, just not how to execute them, I thought maybe someone else had… but yeah, we can just setup a dummy account and give him fake scores.
Two calls I discovered:
arcade.php?sessdo=burn&id=17810&gametime=1180064492µone=1180064497%2E4600
and
arcade.php?note=961740&sessdo=permrequest&id=17810&score=27&fakekey=2&gametime=1180064492
called consecutively in that order. Somehow I doubt he’s manipulating network traffic, so it’s either memory or… he’s legit and just has too much free time to play our games.
Dummy account made.
Username: TwinkleToes405 (i r creative :p)
Password: bbbarcade
Posts: 21 (for legit arcade access)
User ID: 86014 (?)Enjoy. 🙂
The thing is that I’m sure some asshole wrote a program that does it all for you, and thats what he is using.
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