Antarctica@Xoza I don’t think you’re in the right place. This thread is for when moderators are inactive or unreachable, not a place to contact the mods of a game.
You’re going to want to contact CovertMuffin in the forums for SW:TOR or reach out to him on social media (he’s active on Twitter). Also, as a side note, @ ing someone here doesn’t trigger any notifications, it’s mostly only used to inform someone/others of the specific user you’re talking to.
If you’re on a budget, just get a gv-usb2 to capture composite/s-video. A cheap upscaler like that $20 one you mention will most likely result in terrible quality and a ton of delay between console and capture (which will be unplayable if you’re not splitting the signal to a TV too).
A gv-usb2 is excellent SD quality and is only around $40 USD.
Whenever this point comes up it always reminds me of why every teacher in any writing intensive course always tells you to have someone else read your papers - our eyes are prone to glossing over mistakes because we knew what our intentions were.
Same can happen in a run. You can make a mistake and accidentally break a rule of the category, but you won’t notice because your mind knows/thinks you’re following the rules. That other set of eyes can catch mistakes like that. When people mention that having another person watch your run is the ideal way to go, it’s not to imply you might cheat, it’s so that honest mistakes can be caught.
^ that. As a regular user I went to the game and nothing seems out of place. My name autofilled the “Player 1” box like normal.
Well of course it won’t work, NintendoSpy is for real hardware and doesn’t have a way to hook into emulators that I know of (maybe it does and I never knew about it).
I know some NES emulators have a setting you can enable to show the inputs on a built in viewer, but I’m not sure about SNES. What emulator are you using?
For personal gain yes, of course having splits helps in that aspect.
For submission or sharing purposes, my previous point stands - sharing splits with others without a video is pointless because you’re providing no context, strats, split start/stop points, etc. They help nobody but yourself without a video.
Everybody’s opinion on what is a low quality game will differ - that is why this site doesn’t get everyone’s viewpoint on the matter.
What is considered below the quality standard is up to the admins to set. Unfortunately, this means many games won’t get on here despite the fact they have a community behind them. It’s up to the admin’s discretion because they are the ones who are maintaining this site.
That second part is true when splits are presented in conjunction with a video. Splits without a video are still useless in that regard - they add no reference points for comparison when you can’t see what a runner did to achieve that segment time.
You can edit your own run to correct the time if you submitted it incorrectly. Just click on the 3 dots to edit your run. It’ll have to be re-verified though.
I mean turbo controllers are used frequently in runs of JRPGs so it’s not that uncommon to see them used in games like this with heavy text.
But hey, your LB, your rules, so I’ll have to deal without using it.
Since this game has a ton of text and it's very JRPG like, is a turbo controller allowed?
@starsmiley [quote=Timmiluvs in his last post]This is why mods often say that for slower runs, they might not watch them in full or as closely, but for top level runs they always do. This is often a nice compromise.[/quote] What you just described for SMO is exactly why communities of mods have this compromise. If you’re not closely watching a run that’s 155th on the LB or a run that’s 9 hours long, that’s okay because that game gets a lot of runs and for runs that low on the LB it’s understandable. But you should absolutely be watching top level runs all the way through. People don’t usually splice runs at 155th on the LB, they splice something for a top time. That’s why those runs need complete focus.
This isn’t saying that slower runs don’t matter btw, but it’s the same reasoning behind some games not requiring proof until a certain time. When games get a lot of runs, watching every single run fully is unreasonable, but the mods should still pay close attention to the top level times.
[quote]Let's be honest, moderators won't be able to watch all the submitted runs in full, and paying attention to all the details during the full run.[/quote] The amount of times I see this terrible excuse for lazy moderation is incredible. If you can’t watch runs closely, then don’t be a moderator, it’s as simple as that. If you don’t have the time to watch runs in full, then don’t be a mod and let someone who has the time take over. No shame in being busy and not being able to fully watch runs, but you shouldn’t be a moderator.
This is why mods often say that for slower runs, they might not watch them in full or as closely, but for top level runs they always do. This is often a nice compromise. But to say that mods don’t have the time to watch a run in full is just an excuse to let lazy moderation slide.
I just went through this with a community I’m a part of - the moderation team made this exact same excuse and I warned them it was lazy moderation. Guess what happened - spliced runs made it through. Don’t be a lazy moderator, watch the run in full and pay attention to some details like loading, audio, etc. especially for top level runs. Sometimes splicing is incredibly hard to catch and a mod won’t see it during verifying, and that can’t be helped. That’s why some spliced runs are caught years later, when another set of eyes catches some obscure detail that gives it away. But the main point is that not watchning a run in full isn’t normal, it’s lazy and bad moderation.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to accomplish. What you’re describing makes very little sense.
Your example above shows proper sorting by RTA time - where the fastest RTA is first despite the IGT all being the same. But then you say you don’t want to bump those who only submit IGT to the bottom. But you have to do that, you can’t have it both ways. If RTA is priority and someone doesn’t submit RTA, then they won’t be sorted properly.
With your example, it wouldn’t make sense for anyone to ever submit RTA. Everyone would/should submit only IGT because that would tie everyone for 1st instead of doing this weird double comparison that won’t make sense and result in people getting weird positions on the LB. If anything, what you’re describing would result in inaccurate rankings sine you’re essentially using two completely independent ways of ranking times.
Can you say “SQL Injection”? (Although technically it wouldn’t even be that since you’d give the users raw access lmao)
This feature is a massive no-no for security on any site. You never give your users direct access to your DB. The second you give people access to do that, hundreds of requests will start pouring in attempting to drop every table. Even with sanitizing the inputs it would be a nightmare and someone would succeed relatively quickly.
What you just described is comically insecure.
I think I reported that issue when it first happened after the forums broke for that one night. I don’t remember if anyone ever responded or if they said it wouldn’t be easy to fix. I’d have to re-read this thread to find it.
Lmao at that scenario. If you’re a moderator and you splice your own runs and then you approve someone else’s spliced run then you should probably not be a moderator at all.
In that scenario, the user who splices should be banned and you should never allowed to be a moderator again on any game for your incompetence. Or if you posted your own spliced runs, you should be banned too. I’m seriously not understanding that scenario, it has to be a joke.
I can’t believe that there are people who think splicing isn’t a bannable offense. Splicing requires complete malicious intent because it takes time to do and you know the whole time what you’re doing is wrong. There is no sliding scale here - you either knowingly and willingly cheat or you don’t. Passing a spliced run off as an RTA isn’t a mistake, it’s a choice made. If you make that choice, suffer the consequences and take your ban.
As for the global rules thing, I don’t have much comment on that other than the site has been wary of things like that in the past because they want the communities to be in control over their own rules for as much as possible. Not saying some things can’t be site wise rules (like banning those who cheat), but something like that would require thought.
Also, I think this thread deviated a bit from the original point of banning those users who splice to test moderators, not those who splice in general (although both are bannable in my opinion and that of others).
