World high scores

[Freddy]

@ Vern:
It is not the most important thing in the world. But I wonder if it is possible to remove all scores of a certain Denis from the lists. I can't believe that it is possible to finish any of the included mansions in 12, 8 or 5(!) minutes. These feels like a kind of hacking-work. And is not honest for the players who did it in a fair way.

[izdale]

Does anyone know how it is possible to get more points? I just finished Nightmare Mansion on Easy and I posted my score to the high score list. 7 of the 10 people have the exact same score with 100% secrets. The high score has almost 5,000 more points with only 60% of the secrets, and the 2nd high score has about 175 more than the rest with only 10% of the secrets!! How did they get those other points?

[Freddy]

When you check all the world high scores, you will notice several odd scores. I asked the Big Boss to remove all the impossible ones, created by hackers. It feels too unfair to players who try to get into the top ten.

[VernJensen]

Part of the problem is:

1) The high score lists used to be unprotected, so a couple of years ago people could easily hack it. I'm not sure if they stiill can, but obviously people like Denis can probably change their system clock or somethign like that while playing in order to mess with the elapsed time.

2) Secret counts were fixed in some mansions. But old high scores weren't changed. So maybe some people had 100% secrets, but their high score only shows 88% or somethign like that.

I've tried to remove the obvious offending high scores, but honestly I don't want to waste much time

policing

the high scores list.

What do you think.... should the high scores be

reset

sometime, at some specific date, to give new players a chance to get on? Maybe reset once per year?

[brell]

VernJensen wrote:
What do you think.... should the high scores be

reset

sometime, at some specific date, to give new players a chance to get on? Maybe reset once per year?

That could be an idea.

[Semi-Native]

Yes.
8-)

[Wingy]

To make it even better, have a timer of how many days aprox. till reset.

[Freddy]

ABSOLUTELY ... NO. :o :o

In my younger days I succeeded in arriving in the top-ten of 22 of the 24 included mansions. And to say it with brell:

must brag

. I am still multiple world record holder. I don't know any sport where world records got removed each year.

BUT

The weak point NOW seems to be the time. I don't know anything about manipulating computerclocks. But it made me think about the build up of the high scores.

If there should come a completely new WORLD HIGH SCORES TABLE I should suggest first to take the % secrets in account, only then the dollars and third ... the lives left ?!?!

Just an idea.

[izdale]

See it already did no good... the player Denis has already posted new high scores on the mansions where his scores were removed from, and they are with impossible times. Something needs to be done.

[Freddy]

Indeed. Cleaned up today.