Online Highscores about ssvopenhexagon HOT 4 CLOSED

I was thinking about this earlier today. Consider the fact that everyone can edit/create levels - how would the scores be validated?

An idea would be using the level files as 'validation keys' for the scores, but that would mean having to update the whole level file every time you upload a score, and ignoring the fact that scripts and events can be changed too.

Another solution would be to simply use the level name as a 'validation key', and hope the players will be fair and avoid messing with the scores, but that's very unlikely.

Or maybe have some default, hardcoded levels for scoring, which cannot be modified?

I would like to hear your thoughts :)

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I think the best way would be to use the level name as a 'validation key' and don't let a player upload a level with an already used name. But this way you always have to compare the level files of the level when you make a new score, because you can edit the name of a level. ;)
I'm not very familar with programming, so I don't know how possible this is. If not, there is your third idea with the unmodified default, hardcoded levels. I like that too, but I prefer the first version.

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Well, this is one of those situations where being an open source project is sort of a pain. The best way to do this would be to just make it a long and painful journey to manually send scores.

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You cannot prevent cheating offline game. What you could do is make it harder: In order to get scores uploaded you need to play "online" game, i.e. create a server which will regulate the game.
But... we all know "Fallacies of Distributed Computing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing ) so I'm not sure how "doable" is this (lag)

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