mapvoting hack? 768 votes for a map?!?!?

[Ironcheese]

Hi ppl, the headline says it all.

On some servers a map vote ends up with crazy amount of votes. Like 534 or somethin, single persons are able to give 47 votes at a time.... WTF?!

Are these sob's using hacks? Can TW fix this?

-Mod

This is a Feature of the Game System allowing the Admin of the Server to switch to Score Mod Voting, which gives every Player a Vote Power equal to his/her Score

 

[gonzman]

http://www.redorchestragame.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1159

 

[worluk]

OMGWTFHAX

you guys really need to chill.
Something is not going as you like it, run around and scream hacks.
Its a bug, its been there for a while and the most ridiculous thing is people
thinking someone manipulates the votes.

 

[SiFi]

I remember some servers running a mutator or mode where your score is the number of votes you contribute, as well.

 

[Ironcheese]

"thinking someone manipulates the vote"

well..... someone DOES manipulate the vote (by using this bug).

and i dont run araound and scream hacks, it was a question.

 

[Witzig]

Yes there is a System which can be easily turned on in the Voting menu, which turns a 1 Vote / Player to X Votes/Player, where X is the current Score.

Not anyone might like it, but the Voting Menu should show that Score Mode is enabled in the Headline.

EDIT
Edited it in to the First Post, to avoid confusing people

 

[LordKhaine]

Makes me think back to this bug in the old mod

 

[perato]

I remember some servers running a mutator or mode where your score is the number of votes you contribute, as well.

I don't get the idea behind this. In most of the maps, defenders end up scores 50 points under attackers, cuz they have no objectives to capture or, the beginning when the capturing is possible, it is just almost impossible to hold 2 objectives. So this makes attackers able to make more effect on vote result, than defenders.

 

[Ironcheese]

@Witzig: Hehe, man lernt nie aus....

okay thanks for that information, i really didnt know that such a option is in the game. And i really agree with Witzig that this should be shown.

And i want to excuse for my first post, cuz some ppl might find it offending or insulting.

 

[Valac]

Also, this "bug" that has been talked about I have seen.

Sometimes if someone votes for a map and then leaves the server, it shows a crazy number of votes for that map. What is even crazier, the server doesnt recognize all the large number, it still tallies the actual votes.

How do I know this, I have seen a map with 5 votes beat one with a couple thousand.

I cannot be exploited and therefore is just a silly visual bug.

Like witzig said, they may have had the score equals vote thing on.

My experience with the "bug" aspect of this was in the mod, not ostfront.

 

[DAVETIZZLE]

I remember some servers running a mutator or mode where your score is the number of votes you contribute, as well.

this is by far the coolest thing. It gives more credibility to the scoring system in RO.l

 

[Arete]

Also, if both scoring and accumulation mode is on, vote points will be accumulated over maps.

 

[EscAz]

this is by far the coolest thing. It gives more credibility to the scoring system in RO.l

it's just something to select on webadmin. Our serveur (No Way clan) is running with it. You voting with your scores.


Webadmin -> Default -> Map Voting -> Score mode

 

[mbrooksay]

I don't get the idea behind this. In most of the maps, defenders end up scores 50 points under attackers, cuz they have no objectives to capture or, the beginning when the capturing is possible, it is just almost impossible to hold 2 objectives. So this makes attackers able to make more effect on vote result, than defenders.

Good point, although I still like the idea of your score being your vote count numbers as well.

 

[Remo]

well i just saw that today, and i find it off balancing 1 guy kept choosing every map, so why bother having a vote?

also i must add that while he was voting for 96 votes at a time no one else had more than one vote,.

also he voted 4 times with 96 votes per vote so the end total was in the 400.... even if its a mutator or whatever , it feels like a exploit to me.

I took a screen shot but for some reason, only the image appeared no ingame text i used prntscrn.

Anyways i came here to post it as a possible hack,after a searched i saw i didnt need to but... even if its not a hack... if it looks like an exploit, smells like a exploit, its an exploit, even if its an official mutator one. Its being exploited.

If the mutator said to the victor go the spoiles, score highest and choose the next map, then i would have no problem with it.

 

[PsYcH0_Ch!cKeN]

There's a bug that's been around since always (see the screenshot posted above me) where people vote and then leave the server (I think) and suddenly the number of votes for a given map appear to skyrocket. That only happens occasionally though, so if you're seeing a problem occur on every map then it'll be the alternate voting mode posted earlier.

 

[Ironcheese]

Oh man, lol, i just clicked on this thread, and the first thing i thought was: ha-ha, take a look at that noob, making a thread about this.... then i was like: WTF?! when did i posted this crap?! ...oh.... 2006.... well, thats a long time ago..... ^^

anyway, why do you dug this thread out? Let it rest in peace, its intimidating enough for me xD because no one looks at the date -.-


cya

 

[Jank]

^^^funny lol

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You can tell it's usually just a minor bug because often the map that suddenly got 57 votes still loses to the one with 16 votes. It's a stutter in the dataflow or sumpthin' which messes up how you see the vote results.

 

[Remo]

lol, sry about bringing up the dead and making you blush with newbi memories ..

I didnt even check the date, just serched to see if anyone else had started a thread on this.