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Toutouf
17th November 2006, 06:55 PM
There can be a problem with DCVault points and rankings.
I don't have any "solution" yet, but may be someone will propose a way to avoid this kind of things to happen...

Let me show you an exemple :
1) Today :
At DCV, project Muon-DPAD,
Team-TNT is ranked #15/53 = 7358 DCV_Points
and AnandTech is ranked #2/53 = 9811 DCV_Points
2) Stupid idea :
Suppose I create ten new teams at Muon with only one member and one result. This would take me less than a couple hours.(*)
DCVault stats would show after this :
Team-TNT ranked #15/63 = 7777 DCV_Points
and AnandTech ranked #2/63 = 9841 DCV_Points
That would give TNT more 400 points and AnandTech only 30.
When you know how hard it can be to get 400 DCV_Points sometimes, you can see how this is a cheat !

As I said at the top of this message, if anyone has an idea on how to avoid this, please post !

(*) : Don't try it today, stats are actually broken at Muon. :D

wyles
20th November 2006, 06:20 AM
Somehow I think Rusty would be on top of that before it happened :)

Thanks for the heads up though, we'll try and be alert for it.

russkris
20th November 2006, 08:34 AM
Thank Wyles... Indeed I would notice if someone decided to do that.. I hardly add a new team if they dont have multiple teams