How to recognise score cheating on cocoslive or simply iPad vs iPhone udid?

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How to recognise score cheating on cocoslive or simply iPad vs iPhone udid?

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Started 1 year ago by heyapps
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heyapps
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Hi all,

we have a little issue about a new score just posted on cocoslive for our Game iShear:
the score is HUGE, and the question is:

- is the user cheating somewhere?
or maybe and more simply....
- is he/she using an iPad (which we don't have to test our game...) and this allows him/her to get this huge score for touching our sheep?

This is our first game so we do not have any experience in terms of scores cheating (and never cheated ourselves :).
Any help/experience about that with cocoslive? How to recognise a fake score?
How to recognise an iPad UDID vs iPhone?

thanks!
heyapps

Posted 1 year ago #
heyapps
Member

....or...if some of you is MORGESON please just tell us how you did 100425 scores in Herd ;)

it would be a good answer too ;)

Posted 1 year ago #
riq
Key Master

there was a similar thread a few month ago...
As far as I know it is impossible to avoid cheating in these kind of score systems.
The only solution that I know of, is that the player sends its movements to the server and the server evaluates the score based on those movements.

Posted 1 year ago #
klicktock
Member

What riq said. And even then movements could be faked.
In Super Search 60 some people were getting really high scores. Turned out it was 2 people playing at once dividing up the screen so they could find things faster? Cheating? Probably. But that's OK.
Put in a few simple defenses. If you're keen, do movement tracking. You can also flag scores that you feel are cheating and hide them somehow from the general public.

Posted 1 year ago #
heyapps
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thanks for your replies! That's really incredible to me, I thought that the secret key and the md5 encoding of cocoslive were enough to prevent cheating!

Anyways, concerning iPad/iPhone UDID, any way to distinguish among the two?
That could also introduce a bias in the scores, being two completely different supports...but to confirm this we need a way to check which users are on iPad.
Is there any "iPad signature"?

@klicktock: we tried to play our game with 4 hands (which is ok for herd :) but still we were under 50000 :)

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