[UMS] Not The Blizzard Ladder - Page 18

On July 06 2011 12:48 Completley wrote:
Whats preventing people simpy playing a lot of games, deleting their losses and then opening up client, so that it only sees wins.

On July 06 2011 12:48 Completley wrote:
Whats preventing people simpy playing a lot of games, deleting their losses and then opening up client, so that it only sees wins.

On July 06 2011 13:17 GrapeD wrote:
This looks awesome. My one concern is you seem to be using the replay files to determine the ladder? If thats the case why not use a custom map flag to tell the server the winner directly that way if the replay save screws up or something its straight from the game.

On July 06 2011 12:32 ObserverSix2One wrote:
don't hype it up man - just don't do it.

On July 06 2011 06:19 angrybacon wrote:
First question, we hash the replay data into unique id's to prevent dupes.

On July 06 2011 13:46 Xapti wrote:

Oh, that's not good.
Well, it's sufficient to prevent the very same game to be uploaded, it isn't enough to prevent replays from being spoofed.
While it's impossible to completely protect this system... I think one which requires 2 people to both upload a game at the same time would work pretty well.

(the issue with that is that you can have 2 people both simultaneously spoofing replays, but that is more complicated, and not common)

Oh I just realized a way to not exploit the system (any more than how the innate mechanics of the ladder can be manipulated), but it's rather problematic with the hiding of stats of players without knowing their friend code. Anyway, it would involve looking at the game history of a player to verify that the game was played.

On July 06 2011 14:05 angrybacon wrote:


We also keep replays so we can watch / ban people we think are cheating.

On July 06 2011 17:59 ObserverSix2One wrote:

Personally I couldn't care less about the ladder points, the things I care about are being able to choose my opponent, play the match up that I want to play, not being forced to play mirror which IMO is completely boring, being able to challenge a rematch.
I think all of those things are much more important than the ladder points, and add much more fun to the game.
let's assume someone does manage to hack the system and gets tons of points, do you really care? I don't, I still have all of the other features which make the game 100% more fun then playing the normal ladder. [I don't really have NTBL yet, I assume based on what guys said on the forum.]
Actually I really don't understand why people in EU don't just log into the channel and play themselves.
=/ Meh,

On July 07 2011 01:15 jackalope1234 wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +

Once this becomes a reality I have no trouble seeing this overtake the blizzard ladder for more serious players who actually want tournament practice. Just gotta get the people playing it.

On July 07 2011 07:07 blade55555 wrote:


This is what I am hoping for. I really do hope all players playing competitively switch to this. Would be like iccup again :D