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is it cheating to just put some javascript into the console to check the button timer and automatically click it when you want it to click?
by kremlin 11y ago
is it cheating to just put some javascript into the console to check the button timer and automatically click it when you want it to click?
- kremlin 11y agoI just read somewhere that they have something that detects cheaters. how does that work?
- kremlin 11y agoapparently the naive solution for a script is to press the button when the desired second hits, but because the timer doesn't reset immediately, the button is pressed many times automatically. The server can tell that the button was pressed more times than a human would do it, so can mark that person as a cheater.
- danappelxx 11y agoYou could easily avoid that by stopping the script as soon as the button is pressed a single time.
- kremlin 11y agoindeed. The problem, I think, is that most people implement the naive solution before they realize that it's the naive solution. As each person gets only one click of the button, a lot of people don't get the chance to implement that easy fix -- they get it wrong once, and don't get to ever get it right later.
- nilleo 11y agoHow effective could it be to set up a prep program that you can use to record both the time between two clicks and the duration of each click? Then take a few runs with at that to get some average case scenarios and implement those times into the auto-click script? Then depending on when the server counts the press (first click or second click), account for the difference in time between your target time and when to execute the double click.
- kremlin 11y ago(i know i'm just responding to myself over and over again but) apparently its the opinion of quite a few that the experiment doesn't have any rule that states that you can't make a script for it. that's fully in line with the parameters of the experiment, the parameters just being 'here's a button and a timer; do what thou whilst'.