Tilt to Live 2: Redonkulous

[Kamikaze28]

(05-13-2013 10:20 AM)Phyresis Wrote:  my problem with that, is that some days on TTL 1, i find myself getiing nothing over 2,000, and the next day, im beating my highscore by 100,000 on every other game. There is really no way to know what is a legitimate score or a hacked score, unless there was code to detect the hack.There is also the possibility of other people playing on your account, who could be much better than you.

You are certainly right about personal score distribution which is sparse, prone to outliers and pretty much useless.
But combine all scores together to one distribution and you get a pretty nice curve. My original point is this: Hackers exaggerate their fraudulent scores by an absurd amount - just to show that they can. But by doing so they are attaching a big red neon sign to their score that screams "I AM NOT LEGIT!". These are extreme outliers which can be detected by a machine and purged before they are ever a visible nuisance. The only course of action left in such a system is to fake scores which are just barely above the current high score and possibly flooding the scoreboard with loads of fake accounts to skew the distribution.

Okay, basically this is a hopeless pursuit.