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Author Topic: Stats inflation through connection dropouts?  (Read 696 times)
Orv
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« on: April 11, 2010, 20:40 »

Played a game recently where I got a network timeout during the first property grant round.  It wasn't my connection; I could ping every IP I tried, except that of the player hosting.  However, this was counted as an abandoned game on my end and a win on theirs.

This seems ripe for abuse, since someone could make it look like they won every game just by starting a game and then blocking packets from the other player(s) at their firewall.

Now, I'm not gonna say this particular player was taking advantage...but their stats do show them with a 100% win percentage.  Just sayin'...

Game link:
http://www.planetmule.com/hi-score-game/game?game_id=23064

One possibility would be to refuse to rank games that don't finish with at least two human players.  Currently it seems a game only has to start with two humans...
« Last Edit: April 11, 2010, 20:42 by Orv » Logged

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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2010, 14:05 »

There are several players doing this now.

Akire1
Ushci
Eumel-123

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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2010, 16:24 »

http://www.planetmule.com/forum?topic=1177.msg6175#new
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