1.9 billion???

Discussion in 'Dungeons of Dredmor General' started by geddoe, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. geddoe

    geddoe Member

    Has someone been cheating?? The top score for Going Rogue + Permadeath can't be real . . .
     
  2. afterstar

    afterstar Member

    Yes someone has been cheating with changing values from memory or changed the rules in the XML files.Both very easy to do.
     
  3. MikeW

    MikeW Member

    Yes, people have been editing files to make monsters give more XP/Points. A anti-cheat for the leaderboards is being worked out the last I heard, so don't worry about it. :)
     
  4. Profanity

    Profanity Member

    Yes, some wanker like dirty play.
     
  5. dbaumgart

    dbaumgart Art Director Staff Member

    We'll reset the highscores at some point soon, with a balance patch I imagine, and look into making it a touch less convenient to cheese the numbers.
     
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  6. geddoe

    geddoe Member

    Thank you for the response, that would be great :)
     
  7. afterstar

    afterstar Member

    The problem is that unless you have a side-program to check for the game's memory while its running for changes made by 3rd party programs your leaderboard won't be able to know if this guy cheated or not.
    Blizzard Entertainment uses a hidden application named "Warden" that monitors their games' memory but making such a program efficient could be hard work and may also cause privacy concerns from users.
     
  8. Patchumz

    Patchumz Member

    Yeah, clearly it's impossible to completely stop, but at least it'll stop the dumb people that find the highscores file.
     
  9. Tekvorian

    Tekvorian Member

    Whenever people have a chance to cheat, they will. Just because they can.

    Sad story but true.
     
  10. Serith

    Serith Member

    The same guy has 1 billion on another difficulty. It really is impossible to stop this kind of thing from happening though...
     
  11. ArchoX

    ArchoX Member

    Hehe sorry for this question but where is steam leaderboards?
     
  12. swal

    swal Member

    ArchoX:
    Open up Steam, go to Community, Search for Dungeons of Dredmor, click on View Stats, then click on Global Leaderboards. From there you can choose difficulty also.
     
  13. Paidprinny

    Paidprinny Member

    @afterstar
    There's also the stdout file that could be used to help with this. After a bit of meddling, the stdout file says that I've gotten 9001 exp from killing a single diggle. Quick, easy to notice problem.