[Posting] Re: PHP Abyss incident
From:streu
Thread:PHP Abyss incident
Forum:Just a Second
In reply to:Re: PHP Abyss incident
Date:Thu, 2013-02-28 17:35 GMT

I have just a small question: How many races are played by you? A holiday takeover is not a problem, especially if you have a full level alliance. It is a very tricky issue because how can i join into an alliance with one player against another if they are played by the same person and i do not know about it.

Please watch that issues is saw a lot of rounds collapsing because of issues like that.

Right now I have no reason not to trust Cherek. Innocent until proven guilty. And my log files don't show anything conspicious.

I know about this problem. That's why I made the "holiday replacement" feature in a way that it's obvious to everyone. And that's why I'm hesitating to make a "hey, you're playing with another player's key" warning, because that would help the tricksters.

I still have no idea how that problem could occur. I have now played around with Winplan32, and it behaves as expected. In particular, it generates turn files with the expected key from REG.KEY.

A few facts:

  • Cherek has been submitting his turns with the same reg# all the time
  • Knut has been submitting his turns with the same reg# all the time
  • Snouka has been submitting his turns with the same reg# all the time -- but this very turn, it changed to be the same as Cherek's. Although Knut is now listed as replacement, Snouka still did that turn.

This would leave it to Snouka to clear the problem up. But he's on a business trip.

Question to everyone: Assuming the reg# problem has been sorted out, how do we proceed? Do you want me to re-host turn 15, or proceed with turn 16?

--Stefan