Thanks for the CnC , appreciated
So I've been thinking about something:
I love hacking replays. It's a lot of fun and not enough people do it, try it out sometime.
Hacking is extremely easy to abuse though. Look at this replay for example, who of you would be able to tell that it's hacked without a closer inspection. Not many, as the only good way to detect a hack like this is to open the replay file in and text editing program and look up the frame where the potential hax might be, then look at all the numbers to try and tell if it's hacked or not. Who the hell goes through that effort anyway?
This worries me. I'm getting paranoi-ish thoughts when I think about how many of the communities skilled players, who I've looked up to for a long time, actually have the possibility to hack their replays, without anyone ever noticing it. Now I'm not saying there ARE people who enhences their replays by editing them in notepad/textedit without telling their fans/the rest of the community, but the possiblity is surely there. And this frightens me.
Hacking is not hard to learn, and the possibility to learn it is there for EVERYONE. With minor effort a semi skilled player could make replays considered extremely good.
Note how I'm not talking about hacking DMs, because that's really easy to detect.
With easily earned power comes great resonsibility.
Last edited by jisse; Oct 31, 2013 at 02:46 AM.