meeeeeeeeee Posted:

tl;dr; (ok not really, but lets stop woman's genitalsing about)

Quang cheated, there’s really no question – he ran Faux News over a 2 month period achieving times that were impossible otherwise, even under optimal conditions (optimal character build, fast connection, FW server under light load) Reports were made, he wasn’t banned, and his alt was not marked as a cheating alt. So my question is – why not? He still hasn’t supplied a decent explanation, and neither has anyone from CZ about their lack of action. From all the evidence we have available it looks like he both cheated, and managed to bull**** himself out of any consequences for it. No magic required.

I’ve talked to him about it multiple times.

While it is fishy that he is beating it so quickly, I don’t have any direct proof, and the reports came in during a time when I was bum deep in EP2 development. Really, the only way I can test the cheating aspects is by profiling a player, and I was way too busy to set that up.

While for some, having incredible times is proof of cheating, I’d feel bad banning someone just on that.

^^^ Maybe if it was during the final couple of months, yeah.

Honestly we only have so much time. How would you dedicate yours if you were getting close to launch another episode and people started reporting ONE guy on the leaderboard? Would you take days to profile and hunt down the cheating? or finish what you’re working on first?

I think it is a situation similar to this one:

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except is was more like

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I was a fairly decent DML speedrunner, and my best times were something like triple quang’s.

Orb Posted:

I would recommend amending the rules so scripting is not considered a bannable offense. That way, no one is technically cheating.

Scripting isn’t a bannable offense per se, only pwning forums with bots is. I’ve bugged Bingebot to clarify the rules about scripting, without results so far. Allowing pwing with scripts would have a mbumive impact on domination and not a good one…

Leechbait Posted:

you dont have to unlock second wife

or any of the top few community forums

Yes, but you will get your bum whooped hard until you’re in 5 level range of Second Wife.

Evil Trout Posted:

^^^ Maybe if it was during the final couple of months, yeah.

Honestly we only have so much time. How would you dedicate yours if you were getting close to launch another episode and people started reporting ONE guy on the leaderboard? Would you take days to profile and hunt down the cheating? or finish what you’re working on first?

I don’t see any problems with priorities. The problem is when the cheating problem is forgotten after your first priorities are done. If players didn’t remind you of what happened back on EP1, would you still remember what happened? Just because a new episode was released, doesn’t mean the problem would be lifted. Most people would embrace that as “I can do it as long as CZ is busy with other development stuff”.

That sounds like Devil’s Advocate, but stuff like that is more likely to happen then you think. I’m a pessimist, and I always believe will take every opportunity to cheat, if they have said opportunity open to them.

Orb Posted:

I think that’s rather harsh, Fran. Of course no one wants people banned without evidence.

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Zombie_Apocalypse Posted:

Now that I have the e-peen, after much consideration, I give you permission to take that board down. Carry on.

No, shut up, after next rollover.

Zombie_Apocalypse Posted:

Sorry, I’ve already made my decision.

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Why not just give people the “most cred” epeen as soon as they hit the cred cap?

After all, it’s kinda disappointing that it’s not available anymore.

expect some funny numbers again when ep.3 come up

people will be spending every visit on geronimo when the leaderboard goes back, to get the e-peen.

anyway. We’ll have another mbumive tie. I can see alts dominating the max cred board (because they don’t play dom).