Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
Originally posted by: bunnyboy
If you are expecting a perfect system where there are no cheaters or grinders, this isn't it! There are multiple integrity checks but many cheat paths or gray areas can only be seen with a video recording. The NA friends system is tied in, and there will be clans/challenges/etc later, so you can pay attention to only who you want to. In the extreme cases scores can be wiped or users banned.
For most of the grinding games, the "max no-grind" score is readily calculable, so it's at least possible to detect when something illegitimate has DEFINTIELY happened (i.e. if you grind the rooms in POW for instance, or the baseball bat ghost in Double Dragon).
But that doesn't prevent a person from grinding to some threshold and then playing it safe through the rest of the game, of course.
Not suggesting that Scoreboard would know and calculate these things.
Just that the community, if we cared to, could build up the calculation of what is theoretically possible for certain games, and have that information available to those who cared to know.
One of my thoughts.
And, of course, good players will know what a legit score should look like, and the community has enough knowledge to determine each games legit score. but then it's going to turn into,well that guys first place score is suspect , this and that yadayadayada.
Back to your point of pressing just enough to look legit. like gyruss. You could potentially Max the score on the first stage. That's where you would see tied first place perfect scores.
I presume there wont be any games with broken max points though. It would be clearer cut that way.
But I like this. I will post some scores
And I think the community here on NA are pretty legit. I don't think there are a bunch of wana bes who would fudge a score.
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