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[Swift]

Hi, it has been a long time since I have visited this community but I am glad I am still a member

I am hoping someone can help me.. I have had cause to delete a player from all lists but whilst doing this another player was playing unbeknown to me. Therefore, when I returned the edited file all the scores gathered by the player didnt count - he actually lost 500,000 points.

Although he isnt bothered about losing these, I feel i should try and return them to him but cannot find the file in which the scores are kept.

firstly am I actually able to change scores? If so, where do i find the file to edit (eg name, where is it etc)

I hope you can help me with this -- many thanks

[willyw]

[Swift]

Hi

Thanks for the welcome back

sorry, I wasnt very clear... i was editing files whilst the trivia game was still running in my chat room so when I uploaded the edited files his scores werent recorded -- they were just sent off in cyber space somewhere lol

Yes, I doubt Spike will remember me, but he helped a lot when we first had the bot -- it runs on knight.irc... i am sure i have altered scores before, or it may just have been the guest list i have edited before... Its been running now on knight since 2013 before that it ran on DarkMyst as far back as 2006

Any help I can get would be appreciated...

[SpiKe^^]

All BogusTrivia player stats are stored in the /scripts/t2/t2.users file.

That file is not intended to be manually edited, but if you are careful it is possible.

It is best to kill the bot before editing any of the BogusTrivia data files.
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[Swift]

Great to see you again Spike ... hope all is good with you

Thanks for the information - I will consider very carefully whether it is worth trying to change anything before I look

I think it might just be safer to leave things as they are - the player concerned didnt seem overly bothered about losing 500,000 points lol

Take care

[Swift]

Just to clarify why I was editing the users in the first place, we had a guy playing who we suspected of cheating big time... seems totally pointless in a small game like ours but, nevertheless, he seemed to be doing so. I received many complaints from others about this and when I investigated, it transpired he had been using at least another 20 names when playing. (how that helped I will never know)

He used to make sure his scores were at least 8 million each day after playing for 7 to 8 hours and would always end on a whole number somehow, like 80000000...

I asked him if he would please go to another of our rooms where not many people played - i dont like banning people for playing hard - but he abused my "kindness" and i had no option but to stop him coming in

I have no doubt he will be back at some later date (he did actually play in our room some 8 years ago so was a returnee) but hope he has learned his lesson

thanks again Spike

[willyw]