Pacman Cheaters! Going To Have To Try Harder Now!
Anything put online ...
.. will eventually get attacked or abused. Especially if its something cool or fun!
Seems that a few users, @kwonn and @truthism, or are they the same user, have decided it would be super profitable for them to try and bleed a free game dry of its measly Steem holdings. I wonder if they actually wrote a script to try to scalp payments or if they are full time playing Pacman, nonstop. (I want to imagine it is the latter)
I wanted to test to see if I could allow unlimited daily payouts, but it seems that I will have to leave the restricted at a maximum of 0.100 Steem per 24 hours. This will not effect 95% of the users that have been playing Pacman, however, it should thwart the abuse of the payouts.
If users want to pay for multiple accounts so they can abuse the max payout, so be it.
If users want to write a script to send payouts to random people so they can drain the payout fund, so be it.
Either way, you WILL have to work a little harder now.
Shoutout
Shoutout to @felixx , @maxg , and @jamzed for their work in encouraging me to go ahead and patch some of these security holes. They are helping to ensure everyone gets a chance to have some fun!
Hi @netuoso,
I hit level 91 following the rules and I didn't get paid out because it came in after you implemented the new rules, now I am a little sad.
https://steemd.com/@steemretro?page=1
custom json
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required_posting_auths []
id pacman-live
json {"username":"joshua-golbuu","highscore":"133230","level":"91","timestamp":1513305136356}
31 minutes ago
Thank you for making the game for all of us!
@joshua-golbuu
Upvote for Outstanding contribution to the Steemit Fun Culture and Environment.
I still Wish I get to see the recognition in my wallet?
So if I hit say level 200 or 300 tomorrow or the day after, I won't be paid as well like I wasn't paid at level 91 > 0.1
Can you change the code to say payout >0.1 only 1 time a day for high level scores?
Hi @joshua-golbuu
That is a great idea. It does still allow for abuse, but it means it gives people an incentive to really push past the 0.1 limitation and play as much as possible
Currently the max payout per a 24 hour period (based on start of day to end of day in UTC) is .1 steem. this should be fine since one of the highest scores i have seen is around 100k.
You can play as often as possible, but the payouts will cap at .1 steem. I have been playing around with making it more secure, I am sure I will keep changing stuff around.
Have an upvote instead! Glad you enjoy the game.
Wow, you had something like 30 Steem in that account, IIRC, and someone wrote a script to try to drain that...
I'm awestruck, not just because it's a such a small amount to drain, but because they could so easily be putting those skills to work doing something much more valuable.
This is why we can't have nice things.
You're doing an amazing job of saving the rewards for those who deserve them! Keep up the great work!
I told you the other day you are underestimating the desperation out there. It wouldn't surprise me if people were playing all day 😮
Interesting !! Now how do we capitalize the desperation into something productive ?
Well if they are using a bot they made they should put a tutorial on utopian so we can all scam netusoso, :p Thats a good question I feel like if these people put that much effort into writing a post they could probably make way more money!
Ahh, you beat me to it! (Smurf, here)
I think I'm still going to make a video post of this. Pretty cool project.
Hey,
Just transferred 2 Steem into the steemretro account. I really like what you're doing with this, and giving steem more visibility will only be a really good thing for us.
That's very cool of you. Thanks!
I didn't know Steem Packman was a thing. That Steem ghost looks so cute!
Hey, this is cool! Thanks for putting it together. Are there other Retro games available? My go-to game was Phoenix :-D
Are the high scores reset on a daily basis? I've made 2nd place with 142000 points, but it's gone now and didn't get a reward for it either 😔
Nah it was just using Steemd for the history can that limits to 1000 results. So scores are rolling currently.
I'm going to switch to SteemData and it will go back to showing all time high scores. Your scores aren't lost.
I just got to second place after the highscore list was reset, but guess what! The score didn't save! I showed on the second position on the highscore list after I finished the game, but when I returned later, I was no longer on the list and I did not receive any payment.