WIN TRADING possible exploit - Page 2

On October 03 2010 08:49 deth2munkies wrote:
When Blizzard is doing things like inviting people to Blizzcon due to ladder rankings and presumably using them to run their tourneys in the future, exploiting the ladder IS a big deal.

On October 03 2010 09:47 kojinshugi wrote:
Pretty sure Blizz is gonna strip the achieve and temp ban them for this.

Kinda clever though.

On October 03 2010 09:53 hayata2.0 wrote:
so...they just throw so many games their MMR gets abysmally low, then win-trade with someone else who's done that?

Pretty harmless, seeing as you're going to be rotting with 0 points at the bottom of bronze league...

What's the difference between this and just worker rushing every game and auto-leaving against terran? They're just achievement farming...and abusing the league system/MMR to do that. (One to get opponents bad enough for worker rushes to work, and the other taking it so far you actually consistently get your friend)

On October 03 2010 10:00 Biochemist wrote:


How can this possibly work, even at bronze? So I worker rush you, sending 6 (soon to be 7) workers to your base when the game starts. By the time they get there, your opponent is going to have at least twice as many. Am I missing something?

On October 03 2010 08:29 Mutaahh wrote:
really, who gives a crap about people abusing the ladder.

It's way worse when you play vs someone that is cheating.... (maphack or something like that)

if players want to have a high rating just for the kicks, let them have their fun, it doesnt affect you anyway.
So ignore them please.

Hacks, that have an impact on your games, that are the ones you should post about

On October 04 2010 18:00 Mozz78 wrote:
Hello everyone ^^

That's kind of funny, I googled "Win trading Starcraft" to see if Blizzard had said anything about win trading, and found that topic with my name in it (I'm the "Mozz" Happycakes is talking about in his spoiler).

By the way, excuse my English, it's not my mother tongue.

Basically, what happened is I was worker rushing very slowly at the bottom of bronze league to get the 1000 random wins achievements (at 16 wins per hour approximatively). As I was farming, I met someone who was also farming the achievement (he had the hybrid portrait). Curiously, he was leaving the game constantly when facing me. So I was kind of happy "yeah, this is going faster". Then, at the fifth time, he said to me "Why don't you leave the game this time ? I gave you 4-5 wins already". So I thought to myself that it would only be common courtesy to give him a win.
An so it started like that (at least for me because some people were doing that for at least one day before that). The next game, he gave me a win and the next game, I would give him one. And so on...

I think that kind of win trading is bound to happen because we are all worker rushing at the bottom of bronze league, we know each other, and there's really no point in worker rushing each other because that would be a guaranteed loss for the one rushing. So, to gain time, it would be better for us to just leave the game instantly. But then, which one of the rusher should leave ? So, as civilised people, we naturally ended up giving each other wins taking turns.

After that, it appeared to us as we were leaving games constantly that we were regularly facing the same people again and again as we were winning/losing against him. When you think about it, that makes sense because we keep getting the same "virtual ranking". And that became an improvement to the worker rushing method. So now, some people don't even waste their time worker rushing anymore, they only win trade with another achievement rusher.

That's the end of the story, which began probably 2 days ago (at least for me). I would like you to understand that that system emerged naturally among people doing the exact same thing, and not wanting to waste time cheesing each other, as we know how to avoid that kind of cheese. And of course, there's no hack involved. We don't want to be top diamond players for the time being, we just want achievements

Have a good day !

On October 03 2010 09:56 Deathstar wrote:


Temp ban them for? It sounds like you're jealous if you believe they should be punished for doing something that isn't cheating or hacking.