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2018-08-02 23:35

hedning

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4732

Release id #166930 : Yoomp!64 +3PD

Moved the discussion to the place for discussions. :)

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Submitted by hedning [PM] on 2 August 2018
Backup board is invoked if one of the main boards is down during the whole 24h. How would it make sense otherwise? If Reflections was down one hour 03 in the morning just when you tried to upload your crack, the rest of the groups wouldn't notice, and lose just because one board was down for some time during the 24h. 24h rule must mean 24h. If one board is gone for 24h, the backup board goes into effect. That is logical to me. Especially as the race isn't over until 24h have passed.

If two or three (our four?) boards all have hickups during the 24h you mean there are no boards to be counted? Your view of the rules does not make sense. I will count the boards and the releases after 24h have passed. That will show who won the race.

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Submitted by Jazzcat [PM] on 2 August 2018
We were first on all boards and sites initially. During that time both Antidote and The Hidden were down, according to the rules, the backup site RapidFire is then invoked and we were first there (and Reflections) thus we were first on the majority of boards using the 24 hour rule. Regards. Note: you cannot re-invoke downed boards. When they are down, backup is in play.

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Submitted by hedning [PM] on 2 August 2018
Antidote and The Hidden were down for some time, but came up within the counted 24h when we tried to upload our crack, and we were able to be first on both. We also went with Reflections and the backup BBS Rapidfire, even if the latter is a bit redundant, as we already were first on 2 out of 3 counted boards within the counted 24h. Cheers!

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2018-08-10 00:56

Tim
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Registered: Mar 2002
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Quote: Perhaps you guys should get a dishing machine to clean your dirty dishes :-P

Anyway: about how CSDb should handle cases like this, my 5 cents: either both or none of those two releases should get "first release" flag and explanation could go into the "trivia" field. Just copy'n'paste this discussion. Cases like this are quite rare in the end.

For me personal ONS would deserve "first release" this time, just because common sense tells me "first" means "first". But on the other hand you dug your own grave with making up some rules that make second releases first or first releases second, depending on how someone interprets those rules.

I must admit, it's quite interesting to watch defenders of those rules that I never really understood arguing about them.

I'll second the CSDB suggestion.. either both or none, and leaning to none as preference because;

1. First on csdb in theory would be an option too, but would mean having to reset a hell of a lot of historical flags.

2. There's a conflict now with 2 mags, in theory (if Didi reboots his mag) there are 3 with 3 potential outcomes, and future proofing there might be more at some point.

IMHO based on previous statements CSDB is a database logging releases, so using all or none in case of conflict seems the most logical indeed.

2018-08-10 01:12

Raistlin

Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 688

Just to say while someone’s talking about the rules being broken before... the Vandalism rules were updated following this release to define it in a way that, of course, would give Onslaught the first. If a BBS is down, they go to the backup.

What’s not clear to me though is:-
- how long does the BBS need to be down? A second? A minute? An hour? 24 hours?
- how is the BBS being down verified?

To me, just saying “you can use the fallback if a BBS is down” is just open to even more cheating... it’s not clearly defined. It’s STILL a broken rule. This stuff isn’t rocket science... choose a rule and stick to it.

Propaganda’s rules, to me, make sense. 24 hours means 24 hours, down means down, etc. This is what’s needed: hard and fast rules that don’t allow cheating.

Jazzcat claimed that groups may cheat by making BBS’s go down to their advantage... this seems very odd to me - if you can’t trust the 3 BBS’s that you list as the mains, you have the wrong BBSs. Surely you NEED to be able to trust them to be fair? If you can’t, it’s not just them being “down” that you should worry about - you should worry about traffic priority, transfer failures and all sorts of dirty tricks that could be used. Trust them 100% - or not at all.

Also, wow, if what Hedning says is true, which i’m sure it is, feeding releases to a crack group against their will is an amazing way to make sure you’re not publisher more from that developer.

2018-08-10 02:54

Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1045

Quote: My 100 cents,

If any group releases a version of a game not based on the release version in my view it's a beta, preview, 0.999% or what you would like to call it even if there only were small changes.
Else suddenly all groups can say our not final version is only lacking that or that, but has everything else claiming a 1.0 version with first release tag.
A game that is not based on the final release can surly be a First Release, but with a proper tag for example Preview, 0.9 version or what you would like to call it.

Else it can get pretty funny..
Our version only lacks gfx, else it has everything... :-)

Don't forget to have fun!

Total agree.

2018-08-10 03:05

Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1045

Quote: I'll second the CSDB suggestion.. either both or none, and leaning to none as preference because;

1. First on csdb in theory would be an option too, but would mean having to reset a hell of a lot of historical flags.

2. There's a conflict now with 2 mags, in theory (if Didi reboots his mag) there are 3 with 3 potential outcomes, and future proofing there might be more at some point.

IMHO based on previous statements CSDB is a database logging releases, so using all or none in case of conflict seems the most logical indeed.

Agreed, leaning towards removal of the first release flag on CSDb completely (as this is managed outside of CSDb).

2018-08-10 03:20

Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1045

Quote: Just to say while someone’s talking about the rules being broken before... the Vandalism rules were updated following this release to define it in a way that, of course, would give Onslaught the first. If a BBS is down, they go to the backup.

What’s not clear to me though is:-
- how long does the BBS need to be down? A second? A minute? An hour? 24 hours?
- how is the BBS being down verified?

To me, just saying “you can use the fallback if a BBS is down” is just open to even more cheating... it’s not clearly defined. It’s STILL a broken rule. This stuff isn’t rocket science... choose a rule and stick to it.

Propaganda’s rules, to me, make sense. 24 hours means 24 hours, down means down, etc. This is what’s needed: hard and fast rules that don’t allow cheating.

Jazzcat claimed that groups may cheat by making BBS’s go down to their advantage... this seems very odd to me - if you can’t trust the 3 BBS’s that you list as the mains, you have the wrong BBSs. Surely you NEED to be able to trust them to be fair? If you can’t, it’s not just them being “down” that you should worry about - you should worry about traffic priority, transfer failures and all sorts of dirty tricks that could be used. Trust them 100% - or not at all.

Also, wow, if what Hedning says is true, which i’m sure it is, feeding releases to a crack group against their will is an amazing way to make sure you’re not publisher more from that developer.

Regarding BBS downtime. I think that can be discretionary. Obviously a minute or two is a bit awkward. People would just retry. But for a whole day (during business hours the case of Yoomp) then this is an obvious fallback rule. It is a race, not a waiting game. Will review this when I am looking at all the rules together with Bordeaux (Tim). The goal being that we need the rules and their gaps ironed out so that people can have fun and not be bogged down in debates. Also to correct you, they are not my rules. They are heavily based on existing rules set by Psychobilly for The Pulse magazine in 1993. They have been added onto by myself, Vengeance/Success+TRC and Taper/Triad and at times with the consensus of others.

2018-08-10 07:37

hedning

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 4732

Wait. What? So the cracking scene and its rules should be made to fit people’s working hours? Why is that even a factor in this?

2018-08-10 08:19

Raistlin

Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 688

Will overtime points be awarded for releasing cracks outside of office hours? 2x points would make sense. And 1.5 at peak times.

2018-08-10 09:17

Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1045

Quote: Wait. What? So the cracking scene and its rules should be made to fit people’s working hours? Why is that even a factor in this?

no, but if a bbs is down, peak or off peak then fallback should be used for a majority ruling.

2018-08-10 10:54

Raistlin

Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 688

Quote: no, but if a bbs is down, peak or off peak then fallback should be used for a majority ruling.

That's possibly the craziest thing I've heard on this thread so far... it makes no sense. It opens the whole system up to a huge amount of abuse and cheating.

As I said before, choose BBS's that you trust and that are well maintained. They shouldn't normally be down for long - if they are, they shouldn't be on the preferred list.

2018-08-10 11:03

Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1045

Quote: That's possibly the craziest thing I've heard on this thread so far... it makes no sense. It opens the whole system up to a huge amount of abuse and cheating.

As I said before, choose BBS's that you trust and that are well maintained. They shouldn't normally be down for long - if they are, they shouldn't be on the preferred list.

it hasn't done so far. but will go over this and other rules as previously mentioned.

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