I am sorry but I found flaws in the system I think
first, when I search my name on dcss-stats it can not be found unless I specifically specify the game version, set it to any and it will find nothing.
then, my stats actually got mixed with someone else’s. While I don’t mind sharing the same stats with others, I will not be able to keep track of my true merit. Same names All accross the servers will all get mixed up so a unique name does not solve the problem at all, If you get what I mean.
filtering stats by servers might be a good idea. Thanks.
Yes, you need to make sure to register under the same name on every server in order to ensure your name is yours only. Obviously this isn’t possible if someone already took the name on one of servers. I’d suggest making a new account and making sure to register it on every server.
Edit: Oh yeah, caps don’t matter as far as name uniqueness goes. Could name your account something like TheRealOblivion or something like that
So you can select your server and only see stats from that particular one (or multiple). Although I would still recommend to make an account with unique name and register it on all servers, so other stat pages work by default for you (like highscores etc).
IMHO it would be better to remove the illegitimate game listed as the highscore on the scoring site. It’s not a huge issue but I do think it causes some confusion and negative sentiment for what’s basically a party trick haha
It’s not only the bug in one of Wizard1ke’s game, there’s also a bug in a game of edsrzf from a 2016 game. Both lead to a false (and incredible high) score.
I’m not familiar with the databases but I’m surprised that these problems obviously can’t be solved.
I very much would appreciate if these two games were removed from CAO scoring as well as from DCSS stats - or, even better, if both games showed up with their correct scores.
If you look at (active) players ranked by total score you will find edsrzf ranked as 33rd with a total score of 2.2 billion points (1.8 billion points just because of this bug.)
If his game with the incorrect score was removed he would be #359 instead of #33.
To me finding and exploiting a bug is also a skill, and it would be a bit weird if you remove all bugged games that score >1.000.000.000 points but leave in other bugged games because you don’t notice them.
