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tomorrow... I was happy to send 100 friend requests.

Actually I'm not really interested in the whole competition, but I'd really like to know how many stads padder or hacker were in the top 100. Probably none?

(26-10-2011 07:14 PM)Sforek Wrote: [ -> ]Kardredren is right, he ment the number of kills and the number of flags
(Kills + (Flags * 4)) * 50

Indeed, although for the purpose of this contest the *50 is redundant because the simplified equation delivers the same sortable result

Some people read far too much into my posts, take my screenshot in this very thread for example, although completely legit and relevant, it was only supposed to be a light hearted jibe (as was my previous post), I didn't expect it to turn into the quote/debate fest that ensued. Practically everything I post on this forum is with tongue in cheek.

@Silvanoshi I honestly pity your position, having to cover for those slackers back at Easy HQ. I know it's not your fault, you're just doing your job

@splitek Median filters could identify anomalies such as cheats and stat padders instantly, it's not rocket science, but in this case, I think they're checking the top 100 manually as to not exclude a legitimate "skilled" player Which seems like a lot of hassle to me over such a small prize!

They should save themselves the trouble and just give me the full 100k BattleFunds...

(26-10-2011 08:32 PM)splitek Wrote: [ -> ]

(26-10-2011 06:30 PM)Kardredren Wrote: [ -> ]kills+[flag caps*4] for the competition duration == difficult number crunching that requires several members of staff, an abacus, a ream of tractor feed paper, a felt tipped pen, a steady supply of coffee and many full working days to work out!

Or 30 seconds in a spread sheet (assuming someone saved a copy of the database at the start and end of the competition...)

But the spreadsheet must be verified. For example "kills per minute" (incredible count means aimbot or statpadding), rounds with high scores from "flag take" with very low number of kills (statpadding), high number of kills (like in screenshot before) also cheating... and so on.
Anyway it is not that easy.

And dont forget that end of competition came out of nowhere

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now is tomorow! And the half of the day is over... And still no list... But we have time!

(27-10-2011 12:16 PM)Akantokiller Wrote: [ -> ]now is tomorow! And the half of the day is over... And still no list... But we have time!

The day just started for me!

(26-10-2011 11:26 PM)Sad.Panda Wrote: [ -> ]They should save themselves the trouble and just give me the full 100k BattleFunds...

THATS OVER 9000!!!

(27-10-2011 01:21 PM)Sad.Panda Wrote: [ -> ]

(27-10-2011 12:16 PM)Akantokiller Wrote: [ -> ]now is tomorow! And the half of the day is over... And still no list... But we have time!

The day just started for me!

where do you life? In australia?

it would surprise me if the first 100 Players will be announced on friday and not next week

(26-10-2011 08:32 PM)splitek Wrote: [ -> ]

(26-10-2011 06:30 PM)Kardredren Wrote: [ -> ]kills+[flag caps*4] for the competition duration == difficult number crunching that requires several members of staff, an abacus, a ream of tractor feed paper, a felt tipped pen, a steady supply of coffee and many full working days to work out!

Or 30 seconds in a spread sheet (assuming someone saved a copy of the database at the start and end of the competition...)

But the spreadsheet must be verified. For example "kills per minute" (incredible count means aimbot or statpadding), rounds with high scores from "flag take" with very low number of kills (statpadding), high number of kills (like in screenshot before) also cheating... and so on.
Anyway it is not that easy.

Doubt they would be that thorough.. but even so, that would take maybe two hours.. I make spreadsheets and analyze data all the time.. it would be very easy to do that quickly.

Tomorrow ?

friday friday gotta get down on friday

(27-10-2011 03:48 PM)Infil Wrote: [ -> ]

(26-10-2011 08:32 PM)splitek Wrote: [ -> ]

(26-10-2011 06:30 PM)Kardredren Wrote: [ -> ]kills+[flag caps*4] for the competition duration == difficult number crunching that requires several members of staff, an abacus, a ream of tractor feed paper, a felt tipped pen, a steady supply of coffee and many full working days to work out!

Or 30 seconds in a spread sheet (assuming someone saved a copy of the database at the start and end of the competition...)

But the spreadsheet must be verified. For example "kills per minute" (incredible count means aimbot or statpadding), rounds with high scores from "flag take" with very low number of kills (statpadding), high number of kills (like in screenshot before) also cheating... and so on.
Anyway it is not that easy.

Doubt they would be that thorough.. but even so, that would take maybe two hours.. I make spreadsheets and analyze data all the time.. it would be very easy to do that quickly.

Spreadsheets? I would hope with the amount of data they collect from players that they'd be using something like Oracle though the quarries (not the syntax) shouldn't actually be much different in SQL. Assuming they used a logical indexing approach by splinting the data in half each time finding the top 100 wouldn't be difficult... finding the top legit 100 is a different story.

(27-10-2011 05:08 PM)Sad.Panda Wrote: [ -> ]

(27-10-2011 03:48 PM)Infil Wrote: [ -> ]

(26-10-2011 08:32 PM)splitek Wrote: [ -> ]

(26-10-2011 06:30 PM)Kardredren Wrote: [ -> ]kills+[flag caps*4] for the competition duration == difficult number crunching that requires several members of staff, an abacus, a ream of tractor feed paper, a felt tipped pen, a steady supply of coffee and many full working days to work out!

Or 30 seconds in a spread sheet (assuming someone saved a copy of the database at the start and end of the competition...)

But the spreadsheet must be verified. For example "kills per minute" (incredible count means aimbot or statpadding), rounds with high scores from "flag take" with very low number of kills (statpadding), high number of kills (like in screenshot before) also cheating... and so on.
Anyway it is not that easy.

Doubt they would be that thorough.. but even so, that would take maybe two hours.. I make spreadsheets and analyze data all the time.. it would be very easy to do that quickly.

Spreadsheets? I would hope with the amount of data they collect from players that they'd be using something like Oracle though the quarries (not the syntax) shouldn't actually be much different in SQL. Assuming they used a logical indexing approach by splinting the data in half each time finding the top 100 wouldn't be difficult... finding the top legit 100 is a different story.

what? I undertsnad no word...

Wow still not up i see.If its taking this long there must be some ? on some of the players.Good maybe they will find and get some of the no skill players out .And get it over and get on fixing the game damit.Some r good but i think the bad is over riding the good.So get the list out and get started on fixing it.Thank you

Players haven't bought enough boosters yet so there is not enough BFs for rewards

I was thinking on buying some BF but i am going to wait for now
Well i might still get some save it .but thats should not have anything to do with the contest
should it?????