[John]

Originally Posted by Detomah

Ok, so you've built a cool hack, which your obviously proud of and you've done tests which have brought up no problems, yup, that's cool...

It doesn't neccesarily mean you CAN'T possibly have overlooked something though. :/

I'm no spring chicken and have been around the internet and programming scene for a fairly long time, I'm not just a newbie with a low post count.

There is obviously some kind of problem with this score submission system, which for some reason you seem to think can not be anything other than installer error. Now probably like every single other person who's installed any hack, I checked and double checked every character of code and the installation went perfectly, the games all work smoothly (except Maede which still has that exploitable bug), every other feature is also working smoothly, including the mini-stats hack too. There has to be some kind of problem with the score submission system though as it is happening repeatedly and it's ruining an otherwise great hack.

Looking now, there are at least 5 different installed arcades showing this same or similar problem. Can't you just have a good look into it and see if you can find anything? I don't normally ever bleet on just for the sake of it, i've done my checks, uninstalled and reinstalled, done the updates, etc.

I'll even take a screenie the next time it happens and show you what is going on...

Oh, I too am interested in finding out more about netplay, even if it is a pay to use hack or something.

Right then, now we get to the point which I knew would come up sooner or later.

First of all, I got nothing for this hack. I did all the work,and released it to the community for no reason other than wanting to share something. Yes, I've offered to give support for this hack. But my life is not solely dedicated to providing support for people who want everything handed to them on a plate.

I'm not saying this is you, but you have to realise - 90% of the people with problems simply didn't read the instructions, although they claimed to be experienced webmasters. Another 9% of people didn't bother looking in the first post for a fix before posting their problem. After looking through the changes people had made there was nearly always a mistake in their code - regardless of their attitude as a master of vB hacking.

Now, if you've really been through everything properly and there is no fault with the code, there's a problem that I'm willing to help with. (The remaining 1%, which I guess you fall under.) But people say to me "there's a problem with the scoring system", and ask me to fix it. Do you see the problem here? Not only am I unable to replicate the problem, the only information I'm given is that "it doesn't work for some people on rare occasions".

If there's no more information that you can give me, the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that this is affecting people with slower net connections. As a result, Flash is taking longer to communicate with the server, causing a higher ping and invalidating the score.

To see if this is the problem, open up the gamesessions table in phpMyAdmin and sort all records by the "ping" field. Check to see what your highest ping is... if you have a lot of records with values above 4500, that's likely to be your problem. To fix it:

In arcade.php, find:

	// pings greater than 4500ms don't count
	if ($difference > 4500) {

Replace 4500 with a number greater than your highest ping. I wouldn't recommend going above 15000.

I hope this helps, let me know if it doesn't.