Attention: Resource Center being flooded by duped cheat maps

FiveAces · Post by **FiveAces** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:51 pm

Mister Edward Khil is at it again: The Resource Center has been flooded with 1:1 recreations of popular maps.

-The difference? They all have the same custom ruleset that allows for a bunch of stupid cheats, such as spawning 20 mammooths, invisible flamers, revealing the map or getting 50.000$.

-How to find out if it is a duped map?
If you are joining a game on a map that came with the release or has already been on your hard drive, but you have to install the map again for the game to start, it is 100% duped.

Kudos to whoever gets EdwardKhils IP-address!

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Post by **Sleipnir** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 7:34 am

The next release will give a warning when you join a server with a map that has custom rules. This will make it easier to spot cheat maps before the game starts.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:45 am

FiveAces wrote: ↑Mister Edward Khil is at it again: The Resource Center has been flooded with 1:1 recreations of popular maps.

Unfortunately my "Oil islands 3" is not at all popular. I think it plays quite well for a 3 player map however.

I'm of course not happy about this misuse of it.

deniz1a · Post by **deniz1a** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:23 pm

How about this: Make map names unique. So there can be only one map with the same name.

FiveAces · Post by **FiveAces** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 6:46 pm

The next release will give a warning when you join a server with a map that has custom rules. This will make it easier to spot cheat maps before the game starts.

Great to hear! This will solve the cheating issues.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:53 am

FiveAces wrote: ↑
Great to hear! This will solve the cheating issues.

It will help.

But what if someone is copying a map that already has custom rules? Then it could just appear to be a normal version of the map in question.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:55 am

I did report one of the maps on the resources site but the maps are still up at this time.

deniz1a · Post by **deniz1a** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 4:01 pm

zinc wrote: ↑
FiveAces wrote: ↑
Great to hear! This will solve the cheating issues.
It will help.

But what if someone is copying a map that already has custom rules? Then it could just appear to be a normal version of the map in question.

What do you mean? The new map would have to have a different name.

zinc · Post by **zinc** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 8:19 am

deniz1a wrote: ↑
What do you mean? The new map would have to have a different name.

That's a different suggestion. I was responding to something else.

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